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Culture War Roundup for the week of August 12, 2024

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I don't consider Israel's assassination of the leader of Hamas on Iranian soil a big escalation. It seems like just the normal thing to do with terrorist leaders.

Would you consider a Chinese assassination of an individual they believed to be a Tibetan separatist leader living in the USA to be a hostile act? Is your belief that international borders do not matter, or that only Iran's borders do not matter?

In addition to the example of India assassinating a leading Sikh separatist in the core American province of Canada with absolute impunity, China doesn’t typically employ overseas assassinations because it doesn’t have to, there is no genuine Tibetan threat to Beijing’s rule of that territory. In addition, they’re happy for dissidents to leave. Russia is more scared of ex-FSB types defecting to the UK or US with mountains of intelligence, so they use assassination more.

If the Tibetan was a terrorist leader responsible for an October 7th attack then that would be the same. But the US Government would probably never shelter someone who committed an attack like that against China.

India did that to a Sikh leader in Canada, and other than it being very embarassing that our government is unable to prevent or dissuade it, Canada isn't exactly going to war with India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardeep_Singh_Nijjar

Since Iran could not protect its borders, yes Iranian borders do not matter.

When China starts openly sabotaging American military infrastructure and assassinating people on American soil with impunity, it would be clear that US superpower days are over and it is now just ordinary third world shithole country.