• Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Of course. But a mature adult likely wouldn’t have injected the term “disarmed”. Like we were enacting an arms embargo, which we do to dozens Of countries around the world.

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      2 hours ago

      Okay, so let’s discuss the level of armament withdraw you think would be appropriate, and the affects varying levels might have.

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        Sure, complete adherence to the Geneva conventions is a baseline requirement for any future military aid.

        No aid that would affect the long-term health of human habitants such as mines or depleted uranium munitions.

        Independent war crime investigations to be performed concurrently and concluded concurrently with internal investigations until some bar of accountability is established. With outstanding penalties to aid for proven falsification in these investigations.

        If I had my druthers I would also like an end to mossad spying inside the US and AIPAC funding of our politics.

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          47 minutes ago

          I pretty much agree with your positions 100%, in broad strokes, and will continue to send letters to that effect to elected officials.

          I also believe that there are likely a slew of very complicated and interconnected factors within geopolitics that I’m unable to consider or include when formulating my opinion due to the classified nature of much of the world’s foreign policy. For that reason I also try to reign in the part of my mind that tells me I know best what should be done.

          The world is so intensely complicated and I struggle to not allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, as I did in my 20s and 30s. It’s very difficult to do when we’re talking about death and destruction no matter what path is chosen.

          The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know.