As usual, the people who like war are the people who've never gone to war.

They cower behind their the comfort of their home, AC, keyboards, western paycheck and standards of living while trying to be (seen) as "rational" and "stoic".

They talk like there is good sides and bad sides in war, right sides and wrong sides.

Most of them are these small powerless men who dream of power fantasy.

I wonder, will today's children who is seeing this spectacles of war in 4K, all gore and guts and destruction, will grow up to be better leaders for all?

Or are they going to grow up just like their parents, small powerless trigger-happy men filled with mid-life crisis.

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blakehawkins 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

False dichotomy final boss

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nailer 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Iranian regime is a the bad side. I’m not sure how you would think otherwise. Speak to some Persians.

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omeid2 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The new generation is far more anti war than the 90s hippies. The social media might have set society back on some fronts, but on some fronts, like cross-border understanding and humanisation, it has been a blessing.

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boxed 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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pembrook 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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vincnetas 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

counter argument GDP of Baltic states has gone up by hundreds percents since 1990. But we are now closer to war thanks to our "great" neighbor (russia) than ever before. By the way GDP going up has not saved Ukraine from war either. So i would not discard moral superiority so fast.

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pembrook 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Russia is a poor country and definitely does not have a western standard of living for the majority of the population.

	▲	vincnetas 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It takes two to tango. same goes for war. Hence my remark about "moral superiority". By the way, russian GDP was also steadily increasing.

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kubb 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The US is at war all the time and has high GDP per capita.

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pembrook 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I also know a guy who drives drunk all the time and has never been in an accident.

Does that invalidate the fact that drunk driving leads to more road deaths?

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kubb 9 hours ago | parent [-]

It just a counterexample that helps me point out that your simplistic and unsupported claim should not be taken at face value.

There is a lot to be said about the practice of overusing the GDP metric, but in this case reminding everyone that the burden of proof is on you should be enough.

I don’t appreciate your analogy, and it strikes me as false.

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pembrook 7 hours ago | parent [-]

The point is outliers in a dataset do not negate a trend line. They are already included in the trend line.

	▲	kubb 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You haven’t established that the trend line exists or is applicable in this context. I don’t expect you to admit this.

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rizky05 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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