Ok grandpa. Let me explain how inflation works. At that time minimum wage was $4.85/hr. Meaning the costs of goods in purchasing power from earnings were pretty much the same.
If you're going to defend the nuking of Japan, you might have a better time with this anecdote: in preparation for the invasion of mainland Japan, the US government printed up so many Purple Heart medals that we are still issuing them to this day, and that was only a fraction of what they expected to need for the long haul.
The Russian constitution limited a president to two consecutive terms, so he instead sat out a term as Prime Minister and put a puppet in the office while waiting for his eligibility to be reset.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev
Don't forget the fact that the American government literally murdered a man's wife and son because he wouldn't let them entrap him, or when they mentally tortured a bunch of religious nutjobs. America does not have a clean rep when it comes to caring about its people.
Well, sonny, back then you could walk into a job making $12-$15 an hour in a plant or in a shop with nothing more than a GED and a good word from a friend already there. The only folks working for minimum wage were burger flippers and back then they were all high school kids and not elderly women who can’t afford to live off their Social Security checks alone.
Sanctions on Russia are useless unless the US stops taking in Russian oil. Increase oil production here and oil dependency on Russia goes down. Russia makes way more money from oil than they ever did vodka
It’s more complicated than that.
I can see why Ivan loves to rape and loot.
Former Miss Grand Ukraine takes up guns to fight off invading Russians
Anastasiia Lenna is using her Instagram story, where she has 40,000 followers, to rally support for the war-torn nation.www.dailyrecord.co.uk
Pls send me her location so that me and my ruskies can capture her and do stuff.
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S'why they are being used this way. Don't need to be good soldiers to simply lock down every road coming in. That just needs basic checkpoints, and a bit of recon to make sure nobody sneaks through.
I would prefer that the US not engage in retarded gambits like Ukraine that would never work in the first place. Its a directionless Neo-Liberal looting project that is getting thousands killed and likely the destruction of infrastructure across an entire country. Even brain damaged uncontacted tribal peoples have the sensibility to understand that you immediately work to cut down an opposition tribe if they're suddenly arming themselves, first by diplomacy then by overt force before the opposition tribe gets too strong. Anyone who has studied great power politics in the 19th and 20th century knew exactly how this Ukraine situation was going to play out once they started talks about taking in large amounts of Western arms and spoke about joining NATO. Now the US and Europe once again look like feckless bastards who abandon allies in need, right on the heels of the Afghanistan shit show.
It's funny how every happenings thread, regardless of topic, eventually works its way back to Waco, Ruby Ridge, and the fact that the ATF should be abolished.
Don't forget: jobs were being shipped overseas by the tens of thousand every month. Dozens of plants were closing each month. Entire towns on the West Coast had become poverty stricken due to the collapse of the timber industry.
Always looking forward to an economics lecture from someone with a cartoon profile picture
Forgot the most important: be a winner.It’s more complicated than that.
Just war theory - Wikipedia
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Basically, you can avoid being a “war criminal” by:
1. Fighting for a “Just Cause”, like fighting to protect civilians and not just to annex or puppet.
2. Fighting the war with restraint. Not using weapons that would be unusually harmful or be uncontrollable. Poison gas is bad for the latter reason, once the wind takes it the cloud of death can go wherever. Enemy trenches, your trenches, that town with civilians across the way. It’s irresponsible.
3. Ending a war justly, which is a lot of legalese and basically means not just executing everyone because they lost.
Obviously there is a lot of idealism here and a lot of ways to dindu nuffin, but 90% of the time it works.
I'm gonna guess that if you survived the Tokyo fires, inhaling all that crap wasn't so good for you, either. Overall, any sort of city-destroying munitions are pretty horrible.
