At which point the US copies a ton of European IP and floods the world market with less expensive replacements.

There are very good reasons why in general we recognize IP rights

No?

Im trying to figure out why make this free then.

Cool, I guess but kind of surprising given the recency of the release. Are they planning DLC?

Is there an anti-capitalist business simulator? Just wondering because that could be interesting

The odd time when Brett Stephens has a point of view I agree with.

Ukraine didn’t cease to exist when the administration was removed. Why would you think that would be the case? They still go by the same name and hold to all their relative treaties other than those involved in their invasion.

We have all sorts of agreements with Ukraine including ones that provide military responses which seems to be a fairly significant sign they are an ally. They are not any more now that the USA is aligned with Russia once again.

Why would you think the Ukrainian government isn’t an ally of the USA? Why would you think the treaties and agreements made by previous administrations aren’t still in place?

Yes but your source has an inherent bias against the subjects they are talking about.

Im looking for you to provide someone that backs your claim that isn’t anti-Western. If you claim has validity you should be able to find an less biased source or at least one that isn’t inherently biased against the West.

And Im asking for you to establish that those quotes are legitimate by backing them with a source that theoretically does not have a built in bias.

Im asking for you to back your claim with a more valid source because People’s World is equivalent to Fox Cable News when it comes to built in bias

No, because we actually have negotiated signed treaties with Ukraine. Are ypu confused as to what an ally is?

Still looking for a valid source on your claim…

The ISI being the go between for almost everything does mean those groups the ISI paid are not allies of the USA. If anyone in the Mujahideen needed help we would not have provided it because we are not allies. If the ISI needed help we likely would help depending on the circumstances (we wont fight India for example).

I used to sell wine in retail and for the most part only at nationally recognized stores. My favorite thing to do with French people is talk all about the culture that didn’t invent wines but perfected them as I brought them over to the Italian sections

It’s lonely not being Italian American in NJ. I was psyched when Korean and Japanese kids started moving into town in the 1980s because suddenly it wasn’t me and 25 kids who all shared a common culture.

It’s funny because in my great great grandfather’s journals he hopes his kids would be Americans and not his former nationality, or at least that’s what I have been told it said as I cannot read his primary language.

IDK try pointing out to a French person “I know nothing about France but why should that matter after all it is just France. It’s not an important place like America or The UK” they love it.

Yes and the ISI were the intermediary for almost everything. The wiki link they provided even explains this.

What did you think I was missing or am I supposed to think a handful of CIA guys made all the decisions vs taking input from the ISI would would know all of the players involved.

I know you are a communist and not a huge fan of the USA, but are you one of the people that actually believes America’s intelligence agencies were good at spy-craft? We weren’t.

From your link I have added emphasis to the part you seemed to have missed:

“ The distribution of the weaponry relied heavily on the Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who had a personal relationship with Congressman Wilson. His Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was an intermediary for funds distribution, passing of weapons, military training and financial support to Afghan resistance groups.[40] Along with funding from Saudi Arabia and the People’s Republic of China,[41] the ISI developed a complex infrastructure that was directly training 16,000 to 18,000 mujahideen fighters annually by early 1986 (and indirectly facilitating training for thousands of others by Afghans that had previously been recipients of ISI instruction).[42] They encouraged the volunteers from the Arab states to join the Afghan resistance in its struggle against the Soviet troops based in Afghanistan.[40] Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq also directed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to establish contact with Israel’s Mossad.[43] Intelligence offices were set up at both countries’ embassies in Washington, where the ISI, MI6, CIA and Mossad jointly ran the operation.[44] During this operation, Israel supplied Soviet-made weaponry (seized from Palestinian militants) to the Afghan mujahideen. Pakistan and Israel cooperated very closely during the entirety of the conflict and the Pakistani military which was engaging Soviet aircraft and providing the mujahideen with funds and weapons—received a generous amount of Israeli armaments and aid as a result.[44]___

So how didn’t it work like that? It really seems the ISI, who would best know the parties involved, did the heavy lifting.

And MI6 and the CIA giving info about mutual enemies doesn’t make them an ally.

Again the CIA gave money to the ISI who gave money to fixers who decided who got money. The US soldiers training them doesn’t make them an ally of the USA.