cant the factory owners just cut production by 56% to break even?

liberated through saturation bombardment maybe

so what do you do with them? hold them indefinitely?

and then what? terrorists cant be reprogrammed. just arrest them and then… what?

regrettably they’re closed at this hour

as the global population increases over time, so do deaths. a small conflict like this may not even be statistically significant.

i love getting cleansed - so much so that I do it every morning (irish spring is the best soap ever). seriously though - no one here participating in this discussion/argument/whatever has ever been in even the remotest danger of being ethnically cleansed. what we say doesnt matter. you and I, any anyone who views these comments now or in years to come, we dont make policy. our opinion is meaningless in the grand scheme of things.

you say “oh no, it’s bad!”. ok, great. it’s good to have a position. my position is that our positions dont matter. the news doesnt matter. you think policy makers actually care what nonsense the journalists say? queue my endlessly contagious derisive laughter.

if it’s so common that literally every country in recorded history is guilty of it (and they are if the accepted definition is so broad) then it’s just another part of governance - unworthy of discussion even.

eh… using a definition that broad would mean that most asian countries are guilty of ethnic cleansing. a lot of african countries would qualify too, as would many european nations (other than, you know, germany).

is forcing people to go anywhere else actually “ethnically cleansing” though? to me, that terminology is best described as rounding everyone of a certain ethnic background up, shooting them all, burying the bodies, and then moving on to the next group.

this isnt that.

per they article they’re being forced to leave & go anywhere else. that’s not genocide.

ah, a pipe dream then. gotcha. yeah, caliphates arent going to make a comeback.

that’s their endgame? how does that work when they’re surrounded on all sides (counting the sea)?

I wonder what percentage of their rapidly diminishing military might is being used to block foreigners from leaving? seems like a poor allocation of resources… unless there’s something they dont want the foreigners to tell the outside world?

how is a protest march in a city, on an island, in a different continent going to do anything in Gaza?

the world has never truly been at peace though - maybe prior to the evolution of bacteria, but I doubt it.