Superpowers never have to pay reparations because they can (broadly) do whatever they want. Only "defeated" opponents pay reparations. instead what is likely to happen here is that sanctions will exist for years afterwards.
in my opinion.



The Taiwan news story today was created by Taiwan, not china, from what i gather. therefore my position remains the same on this issue. i.e. that china are likely not to invade. dunno about Serbia and Kosovo have not read up on that.

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 20 2022 07:23am

They will not. Are they paying reparations to Libya , Iraq, Vietnam and Serbia ? I guess not. So why should the Syrians be paid.

We did major reparations in Iraq. Donald J Trump turned over all American assets in Syria to Vladimir Putin as his vassal.



All those weird yachts with the custom leathers and woods will be auctioned to help out. Western nations will use this as an excuse to rob the Russian oligarchs of their football teams, castles, islands, and super yachts.

It will be of no benefit to the common person for sure. Butchers, carpenters, masons, etc, from Russia and Ukraine have no reason to be fighting each other.

But in short "The strong do what they will, the weak endure what they must". Russia is much weaker to NATO here and they underestimated their commitment to defending democracy in Europe.



You said one thing and quoted another thing.

This post was edited by Skinned on Apr 20 2022 07:25am

On the other hand Iraq just completed her reparations to USA for the 1990 Gulf war.

Iraq has completed payment of $52.4 billion to compensate individuals, companies and governments who proved damages due to its 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait, the United Nations reparations body said on Wednesday.

"With the final payment of compensation made on 13 January 2022, all compensation awarded by the Commission has now been paid in full," the Geneva-based body said in a statement following a closed-door meeting of its Governing Council.

Reuters.

to be clear: invaded Iraq under false pretenses, killed men women and children, still doing gods knows what war crimes to this day and no reparations in Iraq.
this is of course a crime perpetuated by the america government then and now, and not the american people.

the same principal should be applied to russia. i.e. government bad, not its people.

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 20 2022 07:28am

I'm not defending American war in Iraq.



I was in Serbia and Kosovo, seen mass graves, no need for reparations for what we did there.

This post was edited by Skinned on Apr 20 2022 07:30am

i made a slight edit ( you know me and my edits ). i.e. that the russian people could to something about it. so rather i changed it to russians are not bad, just their government.



whats this whole starlink and elon story? sounds daft at first impression. i cry bullshit.

This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 20 2022 07:35am

I was referring to the point you made that USA paid reparations to Iraq. Which from my knowledge they didn't.
If I misunderstood your point please pardon me.

But on the other Hand Iraq made reparations and completed theirs.

i think he was being sarcastic there, i was just helpfully teasing it out for some users that might have misunderstood him

correct me if thats wrong

So this means that Ukrainians will send me a dishwasher all wrapped in red stripe with big ribbon on top as a reparation?

This post was edited by Norlander on Apr 20 2022 07:34am