morshu9001
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- morshu9001Oh also they didn't even set up that pipeline during all the time we were there
- Ok, to put it this way, we'd have gone into Afghanistan with or without the possibility of a pipeline.
- They don't pay us anything to sell their oil. We have a relatively small partnership with them, but that's about it. And they're part of OPEC, which is deliberately designed counter to US interests.
- Ah, I understand. Well having dnsmasq fully automatically run DNS isn't crazy at all if you're using DHCPv6. If you're not, it sounds unreasonable for you to need to spin up your own DNS server.
- Except that didn't happen in 2022 or later, so something in this story doesn't add up. And there's no reason to ignore that Ukraine kept expressing interest in joining NATO, that's actually a big deal.
- Oh it's fair game there. I love vi/vim
- I'm not the one who brought up nukes and legit don't understand what they meant by that. To answer the other question, yeah I can generally see some valid reasons to remove a foreign leader from power. Not sure about Maduro.
- They need the military either way. There's no country that just has nukes and nothing else, except for North Korea, see how that's going for them.
- He didn't say not to attack. It says in there that he told Bush that Iraq was a threat, but that he shouldn't occupy Iraq or try to build a democracy there because it won't work. The rest of the article is 2007 hindsight.
- Redo all your addresses and routes, reconfigure or replace NAT and DHCP, reconfigure firewall, change your DNS entries at minimum. If it's a home or small business and you don't want to fight the defaults, you go from NAT to NATless.
- What's the implication here, we're supposed to threaten to nuke them instead? It only works if you're willing to follow through.
- I know about this one, it's eh. There are pipelines everywhere and no smoking gun.
- We did fund Iraq under Saddam during the Iraq-Iran war. By the 2000s, Israel absolutely wanted us to attack Iraq, for example https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-to-us-dont-delay-iraq-at...
- I'm not convinced that this is a good or bad thing yet
- Afghanistan has no oil. Iraq does, but the US showed no interest in taking it for decades. It was most likely pushed by our "greatest ally" there who also has no oil.
- Nobody considers Afghanistan part of the Middle East
- If you imagine that there was no US involvement and Ukraine's leadership did not in fact repeatedly state its intentions to fully join NATO in the 2000s, sure. I won't claim that the US materially supported the Maidan uprising, because there's no evidence.
Now going with that, it means Russia invaded Ukraine in an act of pure aggression. Instead of the halfway support Biden gave, we should be directly fighting Russia over this. Putin won't start WW3 over us stopping a totally unjustified expansion, unless he's already intent on WW3 anyway.
- There isn't one, the third option was to do nothing. But there wasn't a fourth option.
- I wasn't even thinking about the drugs. Is that a real thing? North Korean nuke isn't a real concern.
Iraq had no goal. The stated reason was WMDs and 9/11, so bogus and unrelated. Stability wasn't our concern either, I mean we funded Saddam Hussein to begin with. US companies did set up oil drilling, but I really don't think the driving motivation was oil, otherwise we'd have gone to Venezuela first.
- Nothing, I wasn't including Afghanistan in "Mid East"