Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said that, while the protesters’ complaints and demands were “legitimate”, “violence and vandalism that threatens citizen tranquility” would not be tolerated.
FWIW,
Richard Nixon [Republican] 1968 Campaign Ad “Law and Order”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV_14O5wuDM
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Harris got a >50% more votes in California than Trump, or over 3 million more.
If 3 million Californians who voted for Harris instead voted for 3rd party candidates, or stayed home, she still would have won California.
If 500 000 Texans who voted for Trump instead voted for Harris, she still would have lost Texas.
Over 4.8 million Texans voted for Harris, and she still lost that state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election#Results_by_state
I think American bombing was a significant factor in Japan’s surrender, both conventional and nuclear; and allies destroying its navy and air force (or much of them);
but it was quite a cost to the US in terms of people and money.
Iran didn’t attack the US, much less a Pearl Harbor attack. Iran has partners, it borders countries that aren’t big fans of the US, and is over 4x the size of Japan.
I agree with your main point that taking Iran and occupying it wouldn’t be easy.
It’s still a minority government.
I doubt many who are going to Iran are teenagers, much less impressionable ones.
They’d probably be more useful if taken alive.
Well, Iran is almost 5x the size of Vietnam;
it’s government has been in existence for almost 50 years, or maybe almost twice the time that Vietnam was independent in 1975;
there is no “South Iran”;
and Moscow and Beijing have been getting along for these past few decades;
unlike boomers and those older, young men haven’t been drafted for 50 years;
oh, and LBJ dropped out of the 1968 primaries before his 70th birthday, and Nixon resigned at 61, after he went to China and signed a SALT treaty with the USSR;
but aside from all of that, it will be pretty much like Vietnam.
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314 posts in another site I’m on.
https://www.musicbanter.com/current-events-philosophy-religion/100047-its-news-29.html#post2245499
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Spanish is an American language (as is French, and lots of indigenous languages, also the Amish might disagree with her).
That image is kinda small, so …,
Article 15: The state is to fully promote the spread of the nation’s common language and script. Citizens’ learning and use of the nation’s common language and script must not be obstructed by any organization or individual.
Schools and other educational institutions are to use the nation’s common language and script as the basic language and script for education and teaching. The state is to promote preschool students’ learning of Mandarin, so that youth who have completed compulsory education have a basic understanding of the nation’s common language and script.
State organs are to use the nation’s common language and script as the official language and script. Where it is necessary to use minority languages and scripts to issue documents in accordance with laws and regulations, a version in the state’s common language and script shall be concurrently provided with the minority language version.
Where state organs, social groups, enterprises, public institutions, and other social organizations need to concurrently use the national common language and minority languages, they shall highlight the national common language in terms of position, order, and so forth.
The state respects and protects the learning and use of minority languages and scripts, promotes the regulation, standardization, and digitalization of minority languages, and supports the protection, organization, research, and use of old ethnic minority books.
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Article 46: Religious groups, religious schools and religious activity sites shall carry out publicity and education on forging a strong sense of the community of the Chinese people, persist in the direction of sinicization of our nation’s religions, guide religions to adapt to socialist society, guide religious professionals and believers to carry forward the tradition of patriotism, and promote ethnic, religious, and social harmony.
Will children be punished for speaking languages other than Mandarin in schools?
Doing nothing might have its merits.
Let the Islamacists and American imperialists fight it out.
Work to cushion yourselves. Spring is 6 days away. more sun for solar and gardening—better cycling weather too.
Bush had a stupid war in Iraq about 20 years ago.
Trump is having a stupid war in Iran.
Perhaps when stupid Americans vote another idiot as GOP President, in 10 to 20 years (we might even have a President Vance), America will get it’s ass kicked by yet another country fighting asymmetrically.
Trump’s Humiliating War Miscalculation Exposed
and Trump not going to Vietnam is a good thing: if only more Americans got out of going.
wp:David Ellison#Personal life
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Ellison and his father are close associates of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[6] His father’s first wife has described Larry as “an ardent Zionist” and he hosted the prime minister on his Hawaiian island in 2021.
Okay, but it doesn’t say much.
It’d be a bit like Caspar Weinberger (US Secretary of Defense back then) saying similar about Grenada in 1983.
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