re: #318 engineer cat
i don’t agree with invading other countries even if the reason is to “fix” them. they’re sovereign countries, they should fix themselves
we wouldn’t like it if some other country came over here to “fix” us
as for the rest, alternative outcomes depending on what might or might not have happened are, essentially, incalculable, so i don’t believe much in speculating
Serfs, slaves, chattel of a despot are not sovereign. It’s monsterous to use that word in such a context.