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Scenario for WW3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5EiVP-rT14&list=PLkq77zgeVLZMJzGFOZeafke31i-ijHBAY

The Soviet Union wasn’t imperialist

They just loved oppressing worker's revolts like in the GDR and CSSR and invading Afghanistan. Totally not imperialist. Russification of Siberia and Ukraine totally not Imperialist. Deportations and ethnic cleansing of millions, must be anti imperialism. A war against communist China to conquer outer Mongolia? Just a friendly visit of working class solidarity.

tactics used

assist[ing]” another in committing an internationally wrongful act—armed force included—is complicit

There are rightful causes to lead a war. For example to defend against an agressor. Then delivering arms is allowed under aid for self defense.

Well in the case of the places Trump wants to invade Canada and Greenland a war would very likely be a short special military operation. The US can easily blockade both land, sea, and air, so they don't get any external supplies. After a short air campaign and ground invasion, the Canadian armed forces would have to retreat north outside the main population zones. They would run out of supplies pretty quickly. An ensuing guerilla war is possible, but unlikely to repel American forces any time soon.

The diplomatic fallout would be pretty bad though.

“higher economic prosperity” in the global north is because of imperialism.

The Soviet Union was just as imperialist as the Russian Empire it inherited. They ruled puppet states across half of Europe on top of that.

If you had ever read the Lancet you would know that not everything in there is peer reviewed.

The piece you probably mean was published under correspondence, meaning letters from readers, which is explicitly not peer reviewed as per the Lancet itself.

Correspondence - Our readers’ reflections on content published in the Lancet journals or on other topics of general interest to our readers. These letters may be published as exchanges with authors’ replies.

It's not a peer reviewed article.

Article - Peer reviewed reports of original research that are likely to change clinical practice, policy or substantially change thinking about a disease. These include interventional clinical trials, observational studies, modelling studies, and meta-analyses.

Delivering weapons is explicitly not taking part in hostilities according to international law.

Marxism is a good ideology if you want to stay in power and radically transform a society and economy. That kind of revolutionary transformative power also means huge mistakes are in store as well. Sure the workers remained fed by taking away the food from the peasants and causing famines. See the Holodomor and cultural revolution for examples.

Some of the socialist planned economies made big progress initially industrializing, providing education, and health care. They hit a wall at some point though.

Have you looked at the newly independent countries from decolonization in Africa and elsewhere? How did they fare compared to others?

You act as if unions and labor movements are unheard of in liberal capitalist countries. Their activities and the higher overall economic prosperity lead to workers in the west being overall better off than in the socialist block.

Trump like the military because he does like everything powerful and strong. I think he truly is opposed to long and costly wars. So far his actions track that pretty well.

Trump is looking for deals to enrich himself or become more famous and powerful.

Marxists will always have a wall of text full of theoretical facts and logic to point to. Practice looks very different. It means no diversity of opinion, oppression, secret police, gulag, millions of deaths.

Contrary to you I actually know people who have lived in socialist countries. I even have a former high ranking party member in my family.

lifting billions out of extreme poverty

Industrialization did that, not Marxism.

I have also been to a few protests while employed. I have organized protests and got laid by activists while unemployed.