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People seem to think that the UN is a military force that is supposed to go in and secure democracy around the planet...

It's basically a chat room for all the countries to talk for everyone to hear. That's 99% of its job. And it does it quite well.

The problems occur when individual members decide "nah we don't give a shit about the UN right now" and usually it's the big ones that ignore it. Russia, US, UK, etc

Honestly there isn't a legitimate reason.

Tldr "tradition" and insecurity, probably.

There was once a issue with Cuba a long time ago, but that got resolved and the US just decided to keep punishing Cuba as, in my opinion, a warning to other neighbors who would dare oppose it. "help out our opponents and get smothered"

The only reason it's continuing is because of weak administrations thinking that admitting people who ran the country in the past were wrong somehow makes them or the country look weak.

Honestly the only thing that seems weak to me is continuing to kick someone who's been down for decades but still manages to find areas to flourish and be better than the "superpower" that's kicking it.

It's a simple case of "if we hold this, the opposition will have no issue ordering their soldiers to blow it to shit and causing a major disaster that will affect countless people for generations to come" vs "Eh. You go ahead and 'hold' it for us. We will be back when you run away trying to catch up to your retreating front line

I have a WILD idea on how to reduce the growth of that statistic to 0.

What if, and bear with me here....

What IF.... We stopped sending Israel weapons and armor.

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life." - Jean-Luc Picard

You make valid points. I know I've heard enough people who start off with "the nazis sure were bad, BUT..." and proceed to fangirl over every technological achievement made by Germany, even those that came after the allies.

There's certainly a line where it goes from "fantasy parody of real life" to "someone wrote a fan fiction about the fourth Reich and clearly has a crush on Hitler whether they want to admit it or not"

Literally the only way they would have conquered the world is through the wonders of "Sci Fi Magic Bullshit" ™️

Wasn't trying to call you out for being wrong or only partially correct, just think it's neat all the stuff they considered when designing and testing it.

Indeed, they made plenty of mistakes, otherwise they would have won the war.

But it's less about whether they could have sustained their empire afterward and more people trying to say that portraying them as such is "glorifying" them or propping them up in some sort of idealistic way.

The Abrams can run on just about anything liquid and flammable. It's not gonna be happy about it, but it'll go.

I think it was designed by pakleds...

Honestly if MILITARY applications are what kicks renewable energy and mass storage into high gear, I won't be surprised, but I will be disappointed.

But hey, improvement is still improvement and if a military organization sees renewable as the future, they're gonna try to make sure they get there first. As long as whoever gets there shares the progress with the rest of the world, I'm okay with it.

But who am I kidding, it's gonna be China or the US and the rest of the world won't see shit for decades due to suppression of research and technology that would allow for similar specs to be achieved privately...

... How credible is my aluminum foil hat guy?

I must admit though, it'd be cool to see an armored combat battery sliding across a field to quick charge a tank that died mid-battle. 10 seconds of charging to get it up and running, and the battery moves to the next low power thing. I'm imagining a semi-autonomous hot-swap of a battery compartment and eventually recharging like modern airplane mid-air refueling. Insert Rod A into Slot A and wait a little bit. The faster they want it to charge, the more they'll dump into R&D.

Murder is a crime. And it’s bad. (crime doesn’t necessarily mean bad, see Robin Hood for more details)

Nazis don’t count, all you’re doing is cleaning up the trash.

I've heard plenty of people try to say WOLFENSTEIN glorifies nazis

I've had one idiot tell me ANY media that paints them as competent or successful is glorifying them. And setting anything in a world where they succeeded and progressed technologically instead of collapsing is basically saying Hitler's world view is valid.

I still don't know how to respond to that beyond "if you think the nazis were incompetent you don't know history, and if you think showing a future where fascism took hold is unrealistic I have some bad news for you"

It's fantasy, and specifically a fantasy in which you get to go on a massive killing spree against some of the worst people in history, how you can somehow pull "this game is making these guys look good" from that, I'm not sure.

Murder?

I think not. Murder is a crime. And it's bad. (crime doesn't necessarily mean bad, see Robin Hood for more details)

Nazis don't count, all you're doing is cleaning up the trash.

You can't murder a nazi. You can certainly kill them though.

It's an important distinction, in my opinion.