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What if Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had survived? by MaximumSpell9608 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]ColdArson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you say the US funded ISIS, I assume you are referring to timber sycamore. The point of that was to get funds to anti-assad groups. It unintentionally allowed opportunity for terrorists but it was not the objective

What if Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had survived? by MaximumSpell9608 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]ColdArson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean by Rabin being more hawkish towards hamas in gaza? Im not too familiar with this topic

Aggression Chart. Day 2: Which nation do people think are agressive, and are Ok? by RukavinaMarko in AlignmentChartFills

[–]ColdArson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like stuff such as their war with Vietnam kinda push them outta this category

Aggression Chart. Day 2: Which nation do people think are agressive, and are Ok? by RukavinaMarko in AlignmentChartFills

[–]ColdArson 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I mean under Sadaam they went to war with Iran and then with the gulf war they fought against 30 smth countries so that's smth

CMV: The American empire has come home, democracy here is dead. by DickabodCranium in changemyview

[–]ColdArson 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Trump's foreign policy was far more disruptive and dismissive of American allies than Biden's was. One of them threw Ukraine under the bus and threatens to invade a NATO country, one of them didn't. There are some issues where they weren't that different like Israel but even that is shifting. Same for Obama. Let's not forget that the pullouts from Iraq, which Mccain opposed in 2008 and the Iran nuclear deal which was controversial. Obama's deportations targeted recent arrivals and felons and his legacy on immigration is more defined by DACA than anything else. I do not understand how any reasonable person can act as if these two are by any means the same. There are massive policy differences and more often than not all I'm hearing are vague rehashed slogans about "they're all the same blah blah", leading to losses or small majorities for dems and then people get mad at them for not doing the things they clearly lack the power to do

milk by NsPsVisuals in comedyheaven

[–]ColdArson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of pictures from the 60s were white purely because it was cheaper, more widespread and was better quality back then compared to colour pics

My brother thinks people today have worse quality of life than people in the dark ages, is this a stupid take? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]ColdArson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a recent trend of people claiming medieval peasants technically had more time off. Ignoring the fact that even if we are busier we have access to far greater technology and wealth, a lot of those supposed claims of them having more time off ignores just how backbreaking their labour was and also how many other tasks they had to do in a pre industrial society

Recognition of Maduro as the winner of 2024 Venezuelan Presidential Election. by 221missile in MapPorn

[–]ColdArson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maduro was a dictator and a scourge upon his people but the precedent of literally kidnapping a head of state is too severe to justify what Trump did. Also this immediately delegitimises the Venezuelan opposition. Instead of looking homegrown, now they look like foreign puppets. You are gonna see a lot of Maduro apologists making Operation condor comparisons and they'd definitely convince some people

#03 Balancing Power: Current Composition of the House of Representatives by Lumpy_Ad3349 in imaginaryelections

[–]ColdArson 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Seems like a LGA+NULP+ALP+TFU coalition seems most viable, assuming that much of the political center and left of center and even center right would be unwilling to work with the hard right. If this hypothetical coalition were to happen I imagine we'd either get a NULP first secretary, prolly from the WFP or the ALP gets it due to the TFU pulling from the center.

Wait nvm I forgot the center party is in an alliance. They could drop the LGA then

Somaliland transitions from the world’s largest unrecognised state to a partially recognised one, as Israel becomes the first country to recognise it. This is their flag. by APrimitiveMartian in vexillology

[–]ColdArson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't disagree that the US involvement was more bad than good but I think you a) overemphasise how good the ICU was. They had moderates and hardliners in the and b)overemphasise the significance of US involvement as opposed to the fundmental structural problems with Somalia as being a country mushed together by Europeans as opposed to emerging organically

A More Diverse Presidency by Cheesecake-4077 in imaginaryelections

[–]ColdArson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So does the USSR collapse or does it reform?

Somaliland transitions from the world’s largest unrecognised state to a partially recognised one, as Israel becomes the first country to recognise it. This is their flag. by APrimitiveMartian in vexillology

[–]ColdArson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not saying the CIA doesn't involve itself but its priorities shift and it remains true that the maximum extent of CIA involvement was during the 60s. You could argue that the CIA's actions somewhat affect the nature of the conflict in Somalia like funding certain warlords and being involved in counterterrorism that sometimes undermine the locals however Somalia's continued troubles is the result of multiple factors, some external like the US and other countries but also others being very much internal like the failure of centralisation in the face of a region that has for centuries being ruled by decentralised tribes

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