Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr...
by 7952 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @01:52PM
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I think it had an effect on public mood in Vietnam, which is why press coverage was restricted in later wars. Who knows how it could have played out in a modern connected world.
Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr...
by vkou on Thursday March 03, 2022 @01:51PM
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Eventually, it pushed approval from a hair above 50% to a hair below 50%, and contributed some to sinking the presidential bid of John 'Hundred Years of War' McCain. [1]
Perhaps if an incredibly comprehensive package of sanctions could have been part of the package, it would have changed more minds faster.
[1] He's rehabilitated his political image, somewhat, since then, but man, oh man, that was quite the foreign policy plan.
Re:ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia fr...
by minimal-o on Friday March 04, 2022 @06:53AM
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relevant regarding Iraq: http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/iraqkuwait.html
The only losses televised were American soldiers. People are nationalistic to the bone.
> The Iraq Body Count project documents 185,000–208,000 violent civilian deaths through February 2020 in their table.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
> About 241,000 people have been killed in the Afghanistan and Pakistan war zone since 2001. More than 71,000 of those killed have been civilians.
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/af...