South Korea fires warning shots after North Korea soldiers briefly cross border - CNA
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Oh hell no, we don't need THREE major active conflicts!
Three??? Pssssshhhhh, those are rookie numbers son! Yo Mexico! Canada! Lets throw hands! Fuck it!
That would be 4, no?
Myanmar? Did I miss some news?
The country has been in civil war since the army forcefully took power.
Well yeah but that is iirc over a decade ago already
A few years. About 1 more than the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, if I remember correctly
Noooooh, that has been going on for much, much longer than that. The one that happened before Ukraine was just the nth time that there was a coup and mass murders and what not.
I remember Rambo 4 being there and showing actually quite well the horrors that were happening there in the years before that movie, andni remember thinking good on Stallone to shine a light on that in his own way
Yes, there have been problems for a long time there, but then Myanmar was apparently on a path to democracy, but then the coup happened, so now there are problems again. It's the current civil war I'm referring to.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/06/10/africa/sudans-al-fashir-main-hospital-shut-intl
Sudan is pretty globally involved right now. Does Myanmar have foreign backing too?
Not that I know of. I understand you wouldn't consider it a major conflict, in this regard.
Basically the man-child that runs that place sees others getting attention and got jealous.
Sure is brave of you to call for escalations of war an ocean away.
Yes, it is compassionate to oppose a war. Even if you personally don't feel one side is human, you must understand that both sides are going to suffer massive casualties right?
And even if you don't consider either side human, you know we spend billions on keeping South Korea militarized right? We're still paying for that war in rotting infrastructure and schools even if it's not our blood being spilled.
Then again, if I had a nickle for every time I heard someone extol how much they care for the Ukrainian people also say that the war is a wonderful way to kill Russians without spilling a drop of American blood, I'd be able to afford a house. I suspect that you don't care about either side's people or your own beyond how their lives can be spent to defend western hegemony.
Opposing war doesn't equate to supporting a dictator.
You literally have no argument.
Allowing aggression to go unchecked is the opposite of opposing war - it literally encourages more.
Opposing war doesn't necessarily equate to pacifism, either.
The user they're replying to is a tankie. Dictator support is baked into the ideology.
Yes it does, when the war you're opposing is one intended to bring consequences to a dictator. Unopposed dictators continue to dictate and empower other dictators. You don't stop a bully by turning the other cheek. That just gets you punched in both sides of the face. You stop a bully by bringing them consequences to their actions. When there are no consequences, the actions continue.
If you'd like to read more about this, please check into the entirety of human history.
Literally nowhere in any of my responses have I alluded to me being an absolute pacifist. In fact, one of my replies implies that I'm not, I'm just against war (because, you know, it's fucking atrocious for all involved), because you can absolutely oppose the act of war while still being down for some violence yourself.
killing two soldiers doesn't solve anything. They should invade north korea and fill it with a thousand McDonalds. Its the only way to restore freedom(tm)
damn, where the marksmanship at?? Authoritarians everywhere getting brave and bold, almost time to remind them what happens when the rest of us pick up arms against the nazi/adjacent fucks
Last time we bombed them into the stone age. Maybe we send them back. It's impressive they still have the balls I'll give them that.
Huh, I wonder if murdering 20% of their population could inform their current hostility towards the US and its puppet states.
Nah, must just be that they're bad evil authoritarians who don't like freedom democracy.
What if they really are just evil authoritarians who don't like freedom and democracy? There is a reason they were bombed into the stone age in the first place. That reason is because they were evil communists who don't like democracy. They messed with our "puppet state" and they found out quickly why it was a bad idea. The puppet state now prospers because democracy is the best.
If north Korea invades south Korea its not like they're gonna kill any kids.
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I believe it's a reference to Korea's plummeting fertility rate, which currently sits at the lowest birth rate in the world, at less than 1 child per woman.
Yea the fact that you had to spell that out is troubling in this community
Like bickering children