(March 2, 2022 at 10:38 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: In fact it is well justified. This is unlike any of the invasions the US conducted after WWII, Except the 1950 invasion of North Korea and 1991 invasion of Iraq. But those two, while justified, were less well justified than the current Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Of all the invasions the US conducted or planned to conduct after WWII, only the planned 1962 Invasion of cuba would have been equal to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine in necessity and justification, if the Soviets then had been inflexible and refused to withdraw the missiles from cuba.
But the Soviet were flexible then, as the US chose not to be now. So the Soviets saved the US from having to conduct the justified and necessary invasion, The US, through its total inflexibility this January. force Russia to conduct the necessary invasion.
That seems like nonsense because there are intercontinental missiles that can be located anywhere, not to mention nuclear submarines, so Ukraine is useless for that.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
