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Couldn't we buy from Taiwan? Or better yet, build our own devices with Taiwanese processors. It's much harder to spy if the supplied components are simpler and the device is opaque to them but transparent to us.

It just came out recently that wealthy Americans and Russians came to the Balkans during the Yugoslav war to hunt and kill civilians for fun.

I'm feeling we'll end up going over it whether we row or not.

When the USSR came to Hungary, they literally exhausted the syphilis medicine supply of the country for two years with the amount of rape, and the country has had collective PTSD from it for generations.

I'm sure others can bring up other countries, I'm more familiar and am more in touch with the culture of specifically Hungary. It is widely researched and not debated actually that it was so bad, suicides and misogyny spiked in the aftermath, as the people who couldn't defend their loved ones from often repeated often gang rape either committed suicide, or just internalised that "rape is not so bad" to cope.

600 thousand people were also kidnapped (from a country of less than 10 million) and forced into labour camps for decades, with a third never coming home. This also specifically targeted the local German-Hungarian population (which had nothing to do with Germany, it was a diaspora dating back long into medieval times), so it can also qualify as genocide.

There were also examples of brutal torture, keeping people in cells small enough they couldn't even sit down, and so on. Had nothing to do with communism, some of the direst things were actually done against communists who wanted to be free from Soviet occupation. It was pure Russian imperialism.

And truth be told, we got off easy compared to some other countries.

And finally, colonialism being "western" in an inherently racist way to view the world. East Asian empires also had colonies, so did most empires around the world.

In case it's not just a joke, basically if you press the entire pedal, that's rudder, and if you push with your toes and "rotate" the pedal forwards, that's the wheel brake. If you apply the wheel brake, your ankle stays in the same spot, but your foot tilts forward.

At least that's how it is in most planes, I've never flown a 737, only small ones and an A321 simulator.

(at foot pedals) “Push both to brake (after you land), push one or the other to turn”

Doesn't the 737 have toe brakes?

I mean in the current dictatorships, where it's a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie by Marxist terms, it is usually one dictator and the setup is fairly hierarchical.

Why is it called a dictatorship then?

without ever having colonies or engaging in imperialism

That's only because the USSR lobbied hard in the UN so that colonialism is defined as having overseas colonies. The "near abroad" is/was a colonial empire.

The USSR was definitely imperialistic, see Hungary 1956, where it crushed a revolution which was not against communism, the revolutionaries were in fact communists, they just wanted to be free of Soviet occupation.

Not debating the accomplishments of the USSR though, it was definitely and improvement on the Russian Empire.

Well, in the USSR it was Ukrainians. Every authoritarian system find its outgroups.

There is also the possibility that it's a principled stance towards executive authority. Like they don't want the precedent of the courts and the system in general successfully protecting people from them.

With Trump crying in the background?

US style open corruption is illegal in the UK and the EU isn't it?

That said I don't trust them, I'm just saying if we want to rail against the thing, we should know exactly what the thing is.