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  • toastboy79@kbin.earthtoMemes@lemmy.mlIsrael’s imminent fate
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    5 months ago

    Mmm that’s a pretty fair point. Even back then being the President that ended a war only got you so much political good will in the States. Not sure how it worked for Churchill.

    I kinda wonder what if any good solutions there were for this. Doing the moral thing but losing your job doing it and potentially seeing the work you did undone by your successor would suck hella bad.

    Well thank you for indulging my questions this has been really fun chatting with you!



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    5 months ago

    It won’t solve the problems of today but sometimes it can be interesting to see what people of today think for problems and crisises of yesterday. I was in model UN and that was a fairly frequent conference idea.

    I also enjoy talking to people because it’s easy for us to say “that’s a colonialist action” and even though it’s true the question becomes (for me) ‘alright how could we have done better’ and discussing that thought experiment

    and I appreciate the call-out, I definitely didn’t assume you were calling me one.

    Maybe for a better question we ask “what could I have done as Winston Churchill or (I think it was) Truman.” While they were singular people they did give the diplomats their marching orders when it came to the peace resolutions.


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    5 months ago

    Bit of an idealistic answer but I like it.

    Points for consideration, there were a handful of ships full of Jews during WW2 seeking asylum. It’s widely believed that world leaders knew of or suspected that the Holocaust was murdering Jews around the time those boats were rejected for asylum.

    Additionally, even after people knew the details of the Holocaust people still didn’t really like Jews.

    how would you account for those points?

    also thank you for engaging with me on this. I’m genuinely enjoying our conversation!