Japan and South Korea hope to be friends again
Japan and South Korea hope to be friends again
The new president of South Korea, Lee Jae Myung, and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba have tried to leave old feuds behind and look to the future at a Tokyo summit.Martin Fritz (Deutsche Welle)
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U.S. Government Starts Pushing Economic Data Onto Blockchains as 'Proof of Concept'
The U.S. Department of Commerce said it issued its gross domestic product data via nine blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto-world pathways.
archive: archive.ph/RDgRJ
Yay, decentralised and immutable!
Data integrity at source: If the BEA’s initial data is wrong (as sometimes happens with revisions), blockchain only makes the error permanent until corrected with new updates
Oh, so... Like previously just publishing a pdf on a website, then.
I guess it means they can't hide revisions. Which is what archive.org (and the us government equivalent that archives government sites) provided when the government just published the pdf.
At least it's decentralised!
Over-reliance on oracles: Chainlink and Pyth are powerful, but their centrality creates new concentration risks. If they malfunction or face attacks, critical data feeds could be disrupted.
Gotcha, still has centralised services.
Quotes taken from ccn.com/education/crypto/gdp-o… which seems to have the best technical info I could find
Still not much information. I'm presuming an "oracle" is something that gives you a hash of the "immutable" data, so you only have to pay to get that hash recorded on a blockchain instead of however many kB of PDF.
Yes. I was laying on the sarcasm heavily.
I presume that's what these oracle services provide.
Essentially hosts the us governments GDP NFT, so you can right click and download it just like every NFT crypto bro hates you doing.
Whether its actually the US Government hosting the file, or these oracle services hosting it... It doesn't matter.
Why not just host the files on a government website with appropriate file hashes (so users can verify the file is still the same), let the internet archive and the national archives take a snapshots of the files and pages and hashes etc... ? That's a well regarded site archival system, and the governmental archival system. Has redundancy, pedigree and public acceptance.
Fuck it, publish just the hash on some block chains so the "fingerprint" of the report is immutable. But call it what it is.
The report isn't "published on the Blockchain".
It is linked from some blockchains.
There is still a file hosted by some servers.
You can't download your favourite blockchain, take it to the top of Mount Rushmore with no internet and inspect the US GDP figures without first downloading the file linked in the block chain.
Blockchain oracles are entities that connect blockchains to external systems, allowing smart contracts to execute depending on real-world inputs and outputs. Oracles give the Web 3.0 ecosystem a method to connect to existing legacy systems, data sources and advanced calculations.
What is a Hard Fork? A History of Bitcoin Hard Forks
What is a hard fork, and how have hard forks impacted Bitcoin?trustmachines.co
DW chief condemns 'unacceptable' attack on journalists
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I remember DW as super conservative from way back when. Either that changed or they're very steadfast, journalistically uncompromising. In any case, hearing good stuff about & from them all the time. Go DW!
edit: OK that came across fanboish. I respect DW for making proper journalism that isn't necessarily aligned with my political views. It's one of those channels I pay attention to in addition to my main ones.
DW is funded and run by the German government to improve Germanys image abroad. It is not a public broadcaster as those are financed through a government independent but obligatory system.
In regards to Palestine it ran a terrible hack job of Israeli propaganda until about earlier this year, when they realized that this is harming the image of Germany abroad much stronger than at least pretending balanced coverage.
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* Announce he's brokered a peace deal between the parties
* Then tell the parties to just stop fighting right now
* Then demand a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in stopping the war
* Then sulk when the fighting doesn't stop because the underlying conflict is centuries old and he didn't even bother to figure out what the fighting was over let alone talk to the parties in an attempt to negotiate beyond just tweeting at them
* Then Wonder why his Nobel hasn't arrived in the mail yet
Barrier being built around besieged Sudan city, satellite images show
El-Fasher: Barrier being built around besieged Sudan city, satellite images show
The earthen berm is intended to trap people inside el-Fasher, Yale University research shows.Anne Soy (BBC News)
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Zelensky gives tragic update on Russia's Kyiv strikes
krainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 23 people were killed in the Russian strikes on Kyiv on Thursday, August 28, including four children. Eight other people remain unaccounted for.
Why It Matters
The Russian strikes on Ukraine come as President Donald Trump pushes for peace in Ukraine, urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet Zelensky and agree on a settlement that ends the war after his recent summits with the two leaders.
The Russian attacks risk stoking Trump's anger. He has threatened to take firmer action against Russia, likely in the form of secondary tariffs against its trading partners if it does not make peace with Ukraine quickly.
What To Know
Zelensky said in a post on X that rescue operations at the site of a residential building that was hit, where all but one of the confirmed fatalities occurred, were now complete.
"The youngest girl was not even three years old," he said.
Zelensky said 53 people had been wounded in the strikes, which had also damaged buildings belonging to the European Union and the British Council.
Zelensky Gives Tragic Update on Russia's Kyiv Strikes
The strikes come as President Donald Trump intensifies his efforts to find peace for Russia and Ukraine.Robert Birsel (Newsweek)
The lack of western media reporting on the state of Ukraine leads me to believe they will make concessions to end the war soon.
Part of how propaganda works is not reporting on things that make 'your side' look bad. In other words, "no news is bad news."
Yeah, newsweek.
Where's CNN, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo? Radio silence because there's nothing good to say, or we get some kind of opinion piece trying to paint Ukraine's losses as wins and Zelensky as some hero.
The copium among you people is palpable. You're incapable of recognizing when you've been taken for a ride or believed something that isn't true.
Propaganda works both ways. If you have trouble accepting this, then it's probably because you've fallen for it without realizing it and can't admit it.
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- CNN has an entire section on the frontpage for Ukraine.
- CBS is reporting on Trumps apparent doubts that a meeting between Putin and Zelensky will happen soon.
- ABC has two stories on Ukraine on the front page, one regarding Ukraine's counterintelligence efforts regarding the assassination of a lawmaker and one on Trumps doubts regarding a meeting.
- MSNBC seems very intent on reporting on every fart Trump does or does not let out, they have a World section but honestly there's very little in there anyway.
- NYT has an entire section on the war on the front page
- WaPo seems to have the least. You need to go to their World section to find an article from yesterday on families who lived in Kursk when Ukraine invaded there, mentioning that Ukrainian soldiers generally treated them well and how much of an embarrassment that invasion was for Putin.
But all of this I can hardly describe as radio silence. Besides, it's only US media. I can assure you that there's plenty of articles in European media too.
Tired of arguing with you people.
That doesn't mean he's correct or has a point, which he doesn't.
But hey man, you do you. Let people waste your time.
He's 100% correct, and his point was to demonstrate that you were wrong. Which you were.
Hope that helps!
US Navy SEALs killed North Korean civilians during botched mission: Report
US special forces killed several North Korean fishermen diving for shellfish after encountering them by accident.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/aljazeera.co…
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Has Netanyahu made slip-up in case against Karim Khan? - Israeli PM's allegations against ICC chief have never been mentioned before
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The Israeli leader made the comments during an interview with Breitbart News, a video of which was published on Wednesday.Netanyahu said that Khan faced sexual assault allegations by a “female staff member”, before adding: “And since then, there have been four other women who came to the fore and accused him.”
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"In the circumstances, it is therefore both extraordinary and deeply troubling to Mr Khan that a serving head of government, and one who has been openly hostile to both the ICC and the UN, and who is indeed the subject of an arrest warrant, should purport to have knowledge about other such allegations or individuals, or about an ongoing confidential investigation of which Mr Khan is the subject."
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Has Netanyahu sabotaged his own campaign against Karim Khan?
Karim Khan has questioned whether Israel is "interfering in and attempting to manipulate" a UN investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him, following comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
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Well they have to pay 200+ million. So im not sure if "get away" is the right word. But I get the sentiment. Its a tragedy.
"It took the jury less than a day of deliberation to find Tesla 33 percent liable for the crash and responsible for $243 million in punitive and compensatory damages."
Almost 100 billion revenue last year.
250 million of 100 billion is what… 0.25%?
Yeah. That’s nothing to them.
Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy
Tesla has changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, also known as “FSD”, to give up on its original promise of delivering unsupervised autonomy.
Tesla changes meaning of ‘Full Self-Driving’, gives up on promise of autonomy
Tesla has changed the meaning of “Full Self-Driving”, also known as “FSD”, to give up on its original promise of...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
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Richard Wolff: US Empire in Collapse, China Builds Rival System
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Belgium eyes using army to fight Brussels drug violence
The Belgian capital has been plagued by a spate of drug-related shootings.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/politico.eu/…
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Trumps says Venezuelan jets will be 'shot down' if they endanger US ships
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says "differences" between the countries do not justify a "military conflict".
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Israel’s army chief pushed captive deal but Netanyahu dismissed it: Report
Former Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire deal that would have freed all captives in Gaza before last year’s Rafah assault, but the premier rejected it outright, according to a report by public broadcaster Kan.
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Newsom’s support surges among Democrats ahead of 2028: Poll
Friday showed 25 percent of Democratic primary voters saying they would support Newsom as the nominee, a jump from the 12 percent he received in a similar poll conducted in June.Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg received support from 16 percent of respondents, consistent with what he received in June, while former Vice President Harris’s support slid from 13 percent in the June poll to 11 percent in Friday’s poll.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5475487-newsom-support-democratic-primary-surge/
The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business
The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business
Though time will tell if $20 a share is good.James Bentley (PC Gamer)
MAGA is going Socialist! Maybe there is a silver lining here.
They should go after Starlink and Space X next. After all, we paid for ALL of it, it really belongs to us.
He can keep Tesla. It will be bankrupt in 2 years anyway.
Proving the German Media Bias Against Palestinians
German reporting on the Middle East has long been criticized as one-sided. Our exclusive analysis of 5,000 headlines from leading German media outlets since October 7 shows the bias is even worse than suspected.
They don't feel guilty, they're afraid of ever having to actually be held fully responsible. The colonization of Palestine was done with public collaboration with the Nazis, and Palestinians have no obligation to pay for Germany's crimes by surrendering their homeland.
Germany got a very sweet deal, the Jewish question answered itself and they washed their hands if it.
So the former Nazis feel (rightfully) guilty about their Genocide of Jews and the current Nazis say committing Genocide is part of the Jewish identity, so the former Nazis have to feel guilty for and thus support the current Nazis? /j
(Joke as in not a serious question but a cynical attempt at simplifying in a humorous way)
I don't hold any individuals accountable for their countries past. I'm German Russian (as in my parents are both ex-soviets from Moscow, but I was born and grew up in Germany and still live here).
Why would I hold any Germans accountable for what their (great)grandparents did during their attempted Genocide against most peoples of eastern Europe and destruction of the USSR, as long as they don't expect me to feel sorry for the (Wehrmacht) oppressors, rapists, pillagers and thugs my great-grandparents rightfully shot and took as POWs to build Siberian land bridges and what not LOL.
Holding current generations accountable doesn't make much sense, but it is their legacy and how they deal with it is not crucial, but essential.
(Like Japan und Turkey also come to mind as strong negative examples; Japan much more so though)
I was more talking about societies from a macro POV. And there is a distinction IMO between a society rising from the rubble of a destroyed past (like in Germany, tho arguably the FRG never properly denazified) and still upholding that legacy and keeping it alive and well like in the USA.
The USA served as one of the primary inspirations of German fascism BTW, "Manifest Destiny" became Lebensraum, their concept of racial segregation was to be admired (and brought to its logical conclusion) and their exploitative industry to be emulated (said industry also funded the hitlerite fascists; e.g. Henry Ford was awarded the highest prize available to foreigners by Hitler himself)
The USA is built on the corpses of genocided peoples and as long as this grotesque concept exists in that form, justice will be waiting. The least they have to do is to give the land and equal rights back and establish commissions to remedy the societal legacy brought by centuries of racial oppression, reparations are not enough. (a lot of it applies to former empires and existing colonies as well)
The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software
The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software
A few days ago we brought you word that Google was looking to crack down on “sideloaded” Android applications. That is, software packages installed from outside of the mobile operating …Hackaday
Yep. There's no such thing as competition any more.
Tech companies are just gas stations across the street from each other.
UK Home Office ‘backdoor’ seeks worldwide access to Apple iCloud users’ data, court documents confirm
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/50665455
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/33877538
A court filing states that a government order against Apple would give it the capability to access communications and metadata of customers using the iCloud service anywhere in the world
It would seem like that when reading news, but it's really not that bad. Enshittification is an issue though, but mostly being driven by the us oligarchs worldwide. A lot of the outrage/opinion manufacturing "media-news" never becomes reality on the ground.
The issue with nonsensical invasive surveillance tech is, logic and facts usually and eventually prevail, for instance backdooring systems for one group is backdooring for everyone, it just puts a huge target on your system and is ultimately ineffectual in its purpose, because the people of interest will adapt almost instantly (see examples "war on drugs", "ending piracy"). In the end it is a losing battle, akin to trying to legislate wind to blow only in one direction.
AI Safety Camp Outputs
AISC10: Virtual (2025)
Many teams participated and worked on the following projects:www.aisafety.camp
[JS] Shell to pay: Crims invade your PC with CastleRAT malware, now in C and Python
From CastleLoader to CastleRAT: TAG-150 Advances Operations with Multi-Tiered Infrastructure
Insikt Group reveals TAG-150’s multi-tiered infrastructure and CastleRAT malware—an advanced threat actor evolving rapidly with stealth and scale.www.recordedfuture.com
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Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features
Among the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories.The second most popular discussion – where popularity is measured in upvotes – is a bug report that seeks a fix for the inability of users to disable Copilot code reviews.
Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features
: Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting optionsThomas Claburn (The Register)
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Something to Think About this month
As well as everything else, each month I offer you something to think about and get the brain working. This month …
Actors pretend to work.
#blog #logic #thoughts #zenmischief
Formation en 2 temps :
- un sur la conduite à tenir en cas d'arrestation et Garde À Vue
- un plus ciblé sur les soins face à gaz ou blessures (ce n'est pas une formation médics mais quelques bases nécessaires)
Against Narcissistic-Sociopathic Technology Studies, or Why Do People *USE* Technologies?
Against Narcissistic-Sociopathic Technology Studies, or Why Do People *USE* Technologies?
Why and how do people USE technologies? This question should be at the center of any thinking about human life with technology. The ways in which people use technologies, after all, determines the social, economic, etc. effects they have.lee vinsel (Peoples & Things)
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la sedia sfaldante che ti rompe la mente
Lo so che ormai, nelle mie condizioni, non dovrei più minimamente stupirmi di nessuno spacc, ma… boh, quest’ultimo qui (che in realtà si manifesta da qualche mese, ma in certi momenti di più ed in altri meno, vai a capire perché) è proprio zamni, perché sembra non aver avuto mai un inizio né tantomeno una […]
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la sedia sfaldante che ti rompe la mente
Lo so che ormai, nelle mie condizioni, non dovrei più minimamente stupirmi di nessuno spacc, ma… boh, quest’ultimo qui (che in realtà si manifesta da qualche mese, ma in certi momenti di più ed in altri meno, vai a capire perché) è proprio zamni, perché sembra non aver avuto mai un inizio né tantomeno una fine… la mia sedia si sta letteralmente sbriciolando, oltre i limiti dell’umano. E pensare che ormai non faccio nemmeno più tanto gaming, su quella sedia… e ok, alla fine dei conti anche il non-gaming ammonta solo a premere la tastiera e muovere il mouse, ma mi pare strambo. 💔
Il fottuto rivestimento di finta pelle o quello che è — che a questo punto francamente potevano evitare di mettere proprio, se dopo appena 6-7 anni scarsi doveva rompersi in questo modo indegno — ha iniziato lentamente a sfaldarsi, a fare i frammentini, che spesso finiscono direttamente per terra come merdini neri a far sembrare la stanza sporca… quando non rimangono solo parzialmente staccati sulla sedia, creando una superficie lievemente irregolare che da lievemente fastidio all’anima (o beh, a volte si staccano del tutto ma non cadono subito a terra, ancora peggio); strofinando con la manina come in video poi cadono effettivamente. Come dovrei fare io a non essere costretta a cambiare questo affare prima dei prossimi 100 anni di uso, se già ora fa così??? Da non credere… 😿
#danni #gaming #sedia #usura
Titolo: Non Basta un Sciacquo! I Segreti per Frutta e Verdura Veramente Pulita
Frutta e Verdura: lavarle bene non è un optional, è salute! (I segreti per una pulizia efficace)
Introduzione: La tua salute inizia... dal rubinetto! Ben sapendo la provenienza della frutta e verdura , acquistata al supermercato o nella...Giuliano (Blogger)
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Firefox Nightly now lets you access Microsoft Copilot from the sidebar
Firefox Nightly now lets you access Microsoft Copilot from the sidebar - gHacks Tech News
Mozilla is testing a new feature in Firefox Nightly, which adds Microsoft Copilot to the sidebar. Cue the pitchforks! ADVERTISEMENT That gecko's up to something. Firefox already has 4 chatbots: Anthropic Claude, […]Ashwin (Ghacks Technology News)
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MDB II -2025.52 – O mais belo e justo dos destinos #podifusão
II -2025.52 – O mais belo e justo dos destinos
Psicodelia Malafaiana no Metrópoles; Bolsonaro passando mal; Luiz Foda-se e o Careca; O mais perseverante dos pastores; Ainda sobre instituições.Castbox
Non è cane, non è coccodrillo. Sa soltanto quello che non può saziarlo a dovere - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Non è cane, non è coccodrillo. Sa soltanto quello che non può saziarlo a dovere - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
È una questione largamente acclarata nel campo della paleontologia che le balene attualmente presenti all’interno dei nostri mari, in origine, discendessero da creature ungulate di terra risalenti ad un periodo di 50 milioni di anni fa.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Of course he does. Putin needs to sell oil. It's a major Russian export earner. If US demand for oil and gas drops, so do global prices for those commodities. Less money for Puto, less ability for him to murder Ukrainians.
And unlike low-cost producers like the Saudis, Russia needs a moderately high price just to break even on their production.
NEW WAR on DRUG CARTELS: Just begun in the Caribbean Sea /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Steve Jermy
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Driver films ACT leader David Seymour undertaking
Seymour said the car in front of him was driving erratically, speeding up and slowing down in the right lane.
AI in Education: Doomed?
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Piracy on campus WiFi
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in reply to Lembot_0004 • • •Japan and South Korea have similar political systems and similar human development indexes, which implies relatively similar sets of values. And they're fairly alone with those in their corner of the world. They both have to deal with being adjacent to Russia, China and North Korea, which aren't exactly the best neighbors. And they face similar social issues, e.g. extremely low birth rates.
In short, it would be very beneficial for them to be friends.
Lembot_0004
in reply to rumschlumpel • • •It doesn't work this way. At all.
Russia and Ukraine have many similar things. And what?
Half of Afrika shoots each other while being indistinguishable from an outsider's point of view.
USA despises Canada while Canada helped USA many times and the last war between them wasn't even between them but between metropolias.
Want me to provide another hundred of examples?
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in reply to Lembot_0004 • • •Most of these have actually quite different political systems. e.g. Putin's Russia is a dictatorship, while Ukraine is a somewhat imperfect democracy that has been on the road to become more similar to EU countries. Trump might despise Canada, but is that true for Biden and other prominent Democrats, too? Was that true for pre-MAGA Republicans? Either way, Trump's USA is a rightwing dictatorship while Canada is a democracy.
Also, even if a set of relatively similar countries isn't actually friends, it would still be very beneficial for most them, certainly more beneficial than going to war with each other.
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in reply to rumschlumpel • • •That makes perfect sense if you have no sense of the historical context of relations between Japan and Korea or the major factors of racism and historical revisionism at play.
Since the end of WWII, Japan has actively downplayed and minimized its own historical atrocities against Chinese and Korean civilians. Mass rape, torture, and indiscriminate massacre aren't things a proud culture like Korea are gonna just "get over" on a short timescale. The fact that racism against Koreans in Japan is still rampant is just icing on the shit cake.
One of the other articles linked to from the OP article mentions that, while two Japanese companies (Mitsubishi and Nippon Steel) have voluntarily offered reparation payments to "forced laborers" from WWII recently, this has actually inflamed tensions because they have also notably not offered apologies. The money is seen as a dirty bribe to shut up about the whole "nearly a million people pressed into slavery" thing.
This is happening now because both of these countries have relatively similar political values and are being squeezed by both sides by China and the US. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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in reply to rumschlumpel • • •Yeah, that's an interesting point. Perhaps there are cultural difference that makes it more difficult to let go of old grudges.
Or maybe Europe is just more used to fighting eachother and becoming friends again once it's over.
I mean, I'm Swedish, we may joke about the Danes and talk shit about them. But if something serious were to actually happen we'd stand behind them no questions asked. And I'm pretty sure we have the record for most wars and battles fought between two nations.
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in reply to Atomic • • •One issue is that Japan was treated with kid's gloves after WW2 unlike Germany, the Germans were made keenly aware of how much they fucked up and the allies spent some effort to "denazify" the country - even if it was incomplete, it was still a lot more than what was done in Japan.
Now that I think about it, it probably also helped a ton that the EU wasn't just two countries, but pretty much from the very beginning a round table of more-or-less equals. Really takes the edge off animosities between any two countries in a way that's probably impossible when all you have is bilateral relations, even when there's a guarantor like the USA that would prevent any active hostilities.
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in reply to rumschlumpel • • •in fact, those who are most similar often fight the most
consider dogs. typical dogs are pretty chill and get along with practically everyone, except other dogs. at least that's my impression. when they see another dog, they start barking like there's no tomorrow, because they sense competition. somebody who's completely different than themselves is no problem because they occupy a different niche, so they're not competition.
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in reply to Davriellelouna • • •I suspect what we’ll see is an anti China alliance between Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, and Vietnam as Chinese influence grows. Probably won’t be something official like NATO but it does seem to be in their strategic interest to make this happen. Especially now that US support is iffy.
And my understanding is that the current generations have less animosity.
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in reply to icelimit • • •vietnam was scorched earth razed by the us. that wasn't "just business" at all.
they haven't actually fought china for many decades, and have been talking a lot of big deals lately.
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in reply to kgrnd • • •if i recall correctly you haven't been on conflict with china for decades though, right? that's despite some territorial disputes.
do you think vietnam would realistically be on an official anti-china alliance?
kgrnd
in reply to ☂️- • • •If you mean something that would be called a war then the last one was in 1979. I heard from some on the internet who had people from their family deployed that there were still smaller conflicts in the 80s.
The territorial disputes in the recent 20 years were worse than you think, soldiers died, fishing ships were sank and there were protests. However, the Vietnamese government kept it down to not lose on the economic front. The past 2-3 years the government got on better terms with other sides and got more aggressive when it comes to the islands lol.
For the alliance, I think we have a policy in national defense that says we won't be in any military organization, so nope. There might be others that are related to economy and security which tends to be against China's wrongdoings though.
gandalf_der_12te
in reply to Davriellelouna • • •now that is commendable
how was the situation till now? japan, korea and china all hate each other for some reason?
k0e3
in reply to gandalf_der_12te • • •I don't mean to be a dick, but it might have something to do with the Japanese Empire having massacred them in the past.
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