Wait, I'm confused. So the history of the Ryukyu Islands is that they were claimed by China until the First Sino-Japanese War, at which point they fell to the Japanese. Then, after WW2, the US takes over jurisdiction of the islands as war reparations under the Treaty of San Francisco (which China, naturally, wasn't invited to and received basically nothing from).

So, today, the Americans have a bunch of military bases there, China claims a few small islands there, Japan claims the entire chain, and the people of the island themselves want independence.

Fuck, eh?

You mean that "Hamas tunnel" that turned out to be a water reservoir? www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/11/8/investigation-disproves-israel-claim-of-hamas-tunnel-under-gaza-hospital

Israel: cuts communications

Israel: why would Hamas do this?

No evidence, only renders someone drew up in a few hours in Blender.

This is the bar for evidence we have? If the IDF had evidence, they'd publicize it.

I'm sure this was an "accident" and that the IDF isn't targeting journalists.

Odd how many journalists, journalist families, aid workers, and medical personnel have died in this conflict, though.

It's probably Afghanistan's best shot of recovering economically given the absolute devastation that the Soviets and Americans inflicted on the country. Infrastructure works.

Ziad Shehadah, a medical doctor and resident of Gaza, tells Al Jazeera from the Gaza Strip: “What’s happened is terrible because those people, all of them, are civilians. They fled their homes and reached a place that they believed was safe – a hospital, which according to international law, is a safe place. “People left their homes thinking they were more dangerous and they moved to our schools and hospitals to be safe. And in one minute, all of them have been killed at a hospital. “The death toll right now is more than 500, but we believe that number will reach more than 1,000. It is a massacre."

Obviously. No civilians are in the North to strike anymore.

Damn hexbear and lemmygrad really became the new "commie"

It's really shone a light on how little the West actually understands communism tbh

Y'all are talking past each other because you're operating on entirely different assumptions about what the same words mean

Everyone knows that journalists are all secretly Hamas

Maybe you should take a look at a map of Gaza. This isn't some field in Ukraine where you can just not be near the use of WP.

Are you forgetting how the Americans funded the American Revolution against Britain?

When living under constant suppression, inequality, and a state of war (and a blockade IS a state of war), are you really looking for a peaceful solution?