While I agree that the Soviet Union took too long to enter the fight against a clearly genocidal, expansionist and fascist regime in Japan, going to war with them isn't something to be taken lightly or done on the drop of a hat. ESPECIALLY when you're already losing millions fighting another genocidal, expansionist and fascist regime in Europe! I'd drag my feet, too!
Indeed, one of the most ironic things about the "Buy Canadian" movement is that the only way we know how to resist fascism is through consumption of differently branded products.
That doesn't stop me from buying Canadian of course, but it shows how few options neoliberalism gives us to protect our sovereignty.
This is ahistorical, while the Soviet Union wasn't at war with Japan until the late stages they provided critical support to the Chinese Communists and Nationalists who had been fighting the Japanese since 1937 and forced the creation of the Second Unified Front against Japan (the Nationalist-Communist coalition that eventually drove Japan out of China). The Nationalists were so against uniting with those dirty Commies against Japan that Chiang had to be physically kidnapped and kept on house arrest until he would agree to form the Second Front!
There's a lot you can criticize the Soviet Union for, but their fight against fascism during the first half of the 20th century was not one of them.
We lifted all the tariffs on the US as a "gesture of goodwill" to Big Daddy Trump and yet keep these stupid tariffs on China that are crushing our lumber and agriculture industries into dust out west, in order to protect some token auto industry jobs building gas-guzzling American cars. Feels like we're already the 51st state and Trump is just going to make it official.
I'm wondering how this will affect Linux support. Steam client on Linux depends on very old 32-bit libs from Ubuntu 12.04 (!) and is a major reason for distros keeping their 32bit support
This isnt even a unique or uncommon type of guy Lol you find these dudes everywhere at Hypebeast stores and corner store vape shops