If (or rather when) trump chickens out, it will be a triumph of democracy, even if a bitter one. C.f. #iran where elites seems to be willing to sacrifice the whole nation just for a chance of regime survival.
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@chris__martin I think I found the source, it was his 2002 "latter to America"
> So the American
people are the ones who fund the attacks against us <..> This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all the crimes
So it was not about democracy per se. I.e. even if you are taxed without representation, you are still not innocent.
@chris__martin Though I don't see how the same argument can't be applied to non-democratic societies. Assuming he meant moral responsibility, and not legal one (valid military targets is a legal term, but I guess it's just an unfortunate choice of words.)
@chris__martin Does it means he acknowledged that US was a functioning democracy? I think it contradicts some of his other claims.
> A Scientist's View of War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI9NG068TwI
Physics is not the only science there. 20 min episode on science and war and not even mentioned the bargaining theory of war.
War Is A Bad Idea
(unrelated to the #vim vs AI drama)
What if we send each keystroke to LLM and let it guess what user wanted to do? Just imaging such a bright future! Each keystoke will take 5 sec to process! ...wait... what?
What if we send each keystroke to LLM and let it guess what user wanted to do? Just imaging such a bright future! Each keystoke will take 5 sec to process! ...wait... what?
And Iran might got scared enough by the possibility of China's approval, and decide to yield. Not a given of course, but definitely a possibility.
The choice for China would be between US invading Iran bounded by UNSC resolution, and US doing that bounded by tramp's morality (i.e. nothing.)
China would have strong incentive to agree but impose as many conditions as possible. 2/2
China would have strong incentive to agree but impose as many conditions as possible. 2/2
> The United States and Israel did not seek, and would not have obtained, a nine-vote majority at the United Nations Security Council. <..> they know they would not have received the votes necessary to pass a resolution even in the absence of a veto.
Interestingly enough it's not true, they even had a non-zero chance to get China's approval to deal with #Iran. That's the usual power struggle in UNSC - the choice was not between US invading Iran and US not invading Iran. 1/2