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Did Imperial Japan recognize the Geneva conventions? A lot of their policies and practices re: POWs were pretty flagrantly in breach of it. I don't think the Nazis ever issued a statement tossing it overboard, but their official policies re: Soviet POWs were also just way beyond anything that was considered remotely acceptable. I mean, tons of nations have breached them at one time or another, but there are a few that stand head and shoulders above the others for having policies that just completely ignored it, even if they never officially issued a press release saying that they weren't abiding by it or something.
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Japan did not ratify the geneva conventions until the 1950s. Maybe Friedman is still stuck in the 1940s?
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mlmp08 posted:The Wu-Tang Killer Bees. This is true.
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Not a fan of their “sewing buttholes shut” policy
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One of the provisions of the Hague Accords was that it only applied to signatories. So France and England agreed not to use certain weapons on each other, but could use those weapons natives of their colonies.
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With Trump straight up pardoning murderers the US's de facto adherence to not doing warcrimes seems to be kinda hanging by a thread rn
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mlmp08 posted:Japan did not ratify the geneva conventions until the 1950s. Friedman is stuck up something, not stuck on He's the guy who last thread wanted to end all these wasteful subsidies to USAF bases. A few weeks later, the same time of the Houthi refinery attack and TUMP betaying the Kurds, he wrote a op-ed on how quiet the mideast was
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Cyrano4747 posted:
I'm at a Jiffy Lube and having trouble finding reputable sources supposedly the Soviet Union did not sign the Geneva Convention by WW2 [1] and Nazi policy during the war was, "they didnt sign gently caress 'em". Theres a claim that 5% of Eastern Front POWs survived whereas 95% of Western Front POWs survived.[2] I bet the math isnt so clean, but German commitment or lack of to the various war laws is fairly fascinating. [1] https://honorflightaz.org/2014/08/signing-the-geneva-convention/ [2] http://ww2f.com/threads/eastern-front-vs-western-front-a-comparison.23068/
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Have a little Demon action for a snowy/sleety/rainy day: Pour one out for another of the Westinghouse J40's victims.
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mlmp08 posted:The Wu-Tang Killer Bees. Wu Tang Clan ain't nothin' to gently caress with.
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Kesper North posted:Wu Tang Clan ain't nothin' to gently caress with.
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Kesper North posted:Wu Tang Clan ain't nothin' to gently caress with. 
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Friedman was a joke 15 years ago.
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Arglebargle III posted:Friedman was a joke 15 years ago. The only good thing about Friedman is that Matt Taibbi reviews his books. https://delong.typepad.com/egregious_moderation/2009/01/matt-taibbi-flathead-the-peculiar-genius-of-thomas-l-friedman.html https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/late-is-enough-on-thomas-friedmans-new-book-109962/
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Arglebargle III posted:Friedman was a joke 15 years ago. Friedman was a joke twenty years ago. some of his greatest hits
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Phanatic posted:The only good thing about Friedman is that Matt Taibbi reviews his books. I don’t know if you’ve read Matt Taibbi in recent years, but he’s a full-blown Trump apologist. It’s like being a Hugo Chavez fan because he was rude about GWB.
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Top Hats Monthly posted:I love how all declassified WARPAC plans always start with “NATO totally surprise attacks us first” I don't remember what the plan was called, but I once got to peek at the attack plans for my country, Denmark. Turns out they wanted to nuke Roskilde and Frederecia, two cities I personally don't give a poo poo about, for morale reasons. They figured we really loved Frederecia because of it's commercial port, and Roskilde for it's cathedral, where 21 of our kings are buried. It makes a twisted kind of sense, but they really don't know Danish people if they thought losing a port and 21 former kings would be somehow worse for us than sitting in a tiny countryside between two nuclear bombs 
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drgitlin posted:I don’t know if you’ve read Matt Taibbi in recent years, but he’s a full-blown Trump apologist. ??? ?
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drgitlin posted:I don’t know if you’ve read Matt Taibbi in recent years, but he’s a full-blown Trump apologist. That’s utterly ridiculous. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/taibbi-trump-2020-be-very-afraid-872299/ “Ten years ago, an African American won the White House in a landslide; today, the president is somewhere between a Klansman and Jimmy the Greek. The media legend is that Trump succeeds because he’s a racist, but this undersells it. Trump is 50 years behind the worst elements of the Republican Party, which spent decades carefully stuffing race under bromides like “states’ rights” and “free stuff.” The GOP now is in an all-out bucket brigade to rescue the dog whistle.” If you think that’s apologia, I don’t know what to tell you. Taibbi, like Greenwald, has criticized the media for lousy reporting and failing to understand why Trump won. That’s not at all the same thing as being a fan of Trump.
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That's a hell of a tangled metaphor.
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Phanatic posted:That’s utterly ridiculous. If you’re stanning for Greenwald too there’s absolutely no point in us continuing with this.
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PURITY TEST ROUND ONE DRGITLIN vs PHANATIC FIGHT!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA
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Just the fact that it's not named for a politician alone is a blessing. Frankly I think the rule should be no naming ships after people at all. While this gentleman deserves it, many people who don't will inevitably get on the list.
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bewbies posted:https://news.usni.org/2020/01/18/next-ford-class-carrier-to-be-named-after-pearl-harbor-hero-doris-miller gently caress yes.
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It's a little strange as that kind of thing was always for new destroyers, but it's a hell of a lot better than another president. There's not much rhyme or reason to the naming conventions at this point either way.
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CVN-82 Floaty McPlanewagon
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Carrier names should be limited to battles, dead admirals and generals, and words like enterprise. Ships should never be named after politicians unless that person is also a dead admiral or general.
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bewbies posted:https://news.usni.org/2020/01/18/next-ford-class-carrier-to-be-named-after-pearl-harbor-hero-doris-miller On the other hand, Trump will probably have it changed to the CSS Franklin Buchanan.
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FuturePastNow posted:Carrier names should be limited to battles, dead admirals and generals, and words like enterprise. Ships should never be named after politicians unless that person is also a dead admiral or general. Traditionally dead admirals get destroyers too.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Traditionally dead admirals get destroyers too. What about non-traditionally dead Admirals?
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A.o.D. posted:What about non-traditionally dead Admirals? Glorious death in battle - destroyer. Autoerotic asphyxiation - no destroyer
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We're saving the names of the auto-erotic asphyxiatiors for when we start building diesel-electric subs again.
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FuturePastNow posted:Carrier names should be limited to battles, dead admirals and generals, and words like enterprise. Ships should never be named after politicians unless that person is also a dead admiral or general. Disagree, they should be states.
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So what should the USN name after Nixon?
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If they ever name a ship after Trump Iran and China have my personal permission to shoot it with an ASM.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So what should the USN name after Nixon? Naval Special Warfare Command comes to mind, you want to really capture the essence of Nixon in today’s navy your gonna need the Eddie Gallagher’s and Chris Kyle types.
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I've always thought the Royal Navy had way cooler names. Dreadnought, Victory, Indomitable, Nemesis, Inflexible, Indefatigable, Warspite, Iron Duke, Black Prince, Conqueror, Thunderer gently caress yeah. George H.W. Bush? not quite as terrifying
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