RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
November 4, 2019 at 12:27 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2019 at 12:29 pm by GUBU.)
(November 4, 2019 at 9:30 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Russia treating Syria and the Kurds better than we did? They've already employed chemical weapons. The point of getting us out of there was to further secure turkeys allegiance by removing a significant obstacle to ethnic cleansing. They must have been ecstatic when the president decided to tell the world he planned to violate the geneva conventions and loot a warzone.
There are rumors that this change in policy was, itself, the product of political blackmail. Hopefully that's just the mill..but as a sign of the times we live in and the admin we're suffering under....when you hear it, your first thought is "ofc, why not".
Wasn't so much to secure Turkey's alleigance as to ensure Dumbfuck Towers Istanbul wasn't nixed. Erdogan has being holding that one like the sword of Damocles for a while now.
(November 4, 2019 at 10:52 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Socialism is not regulations, social programs, and strong social safety nets. The Scandinavian countries are capitalist countries. Their economic system is capitalism.
Actually Scandanavia is social-democratic. It has large state and private sectors with significant capital controls and regulations.
A capitalist society would have no constraints on capital uasge or control.
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