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Re:War Is a Racket (1935) by nonethewiser on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:03PM (#36076193)
No one is antiwar. Its a non-sensical position. There are just people who want descalation in a subset of cases.

Antiwar doesn’t really make any sense because you can’t end wars without fighting in wars. Or surrendering but that proves the “doesnt really make sense” point. It also just encourages more wars in the future. There can be diplomatic solutions but you still have to embrace the war until then.

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Re:War Is a Racket (1935) by mindslight on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:37PM (#36077294)
"Anti-war" is a sensible coherent position relative to the country making war. It only seems ambiguous these days because Russia is trying to tap into existing anti-war sentiment against the US (caused by elective wars the US created), to undermine western support for Ukraine in a war that Russia created.
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