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Okay, what's your plan? You want Germany to roll over when Putin attacks? Germany should double that military budget :)

False. Exhibit A: China from 1980-Present. QED.

1. Opaque interview process with no feedback. Recently two interviews I attended went this way; After 5-6 rounds of tech discussion, the process ended with the recruiter not responding to my email requesting an update or feedback. 2. Coding interviews where you're expected to give the "perfect" solution. I can solve problems of reasonable complexity, but apparently that's not good enough. 3. Recruiters not understanding the spirit of the requirements and rejecting my profile based on unknown factors. (I only apply to jobs in companies I know would match my experience.)

"Attempt"? You'd be in violation of The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Protection of Aboriginal Tribes Act of 1956. "Just doing it" is fine as long as its not outright illegal.

Iran is a special case for Israel. Israel isn't directly threatened by Pakistan having nuclear weapons.

What would prevent Russian authorities from taking action against local employees anyway? The buck stops at the government. The only options for private companies in these type of situations are: comply or exit.

Start from here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Storm-333

(Hint - It was the Soviets who went with their guns blazing to Kabul setting off a series of events causing instability.)

Beyond that, your reading comprehension isn't good enough for further arguments.

Where did I say that any of the events in Afghanistan is justified? My point is, the reality in Afghan has many sides, and none of them look good. Blaming one party is stupid. Also America didn't "create" Taliban - again you make inaccurate points. One faction fighting the civil war eventually became the Taliban and then were supported by ISI. The US had no role after Soviet withdrawal (until 2001).

"Reconciliation, reparations and justice" - yeah ideally. But how many years will you go back? And who exactly will accept their mistakes and fix? I mentioned China, US because these are the powerful entities now, along with Russia. If these countries can't accept responsibility for the issues they created, then no other country will because its politically infeasible.

Identity doesn't relate to my points as such. But you are simply blaming the "west" for all troubles and ignoring the acts of others in these conflicts. I mentioned "South Asian" as an addendum to point out that I am not merely defending my region.

First understand the complexities involved, rather than making absurd statements such as "America created Taliban". Then argue your points.

For embedded and system programming roles, try applying at companies which evaluate you only on generic coding skills, and then learn on the job. Typically these companies use C, C++, or Rust for low-level software and perhaps Golang or Java for middleware. Assuming that you're familiar with one of these languages (or any other statically typed language) and concepts such as multithreading, event multiplexing API (epoll in Linux or libraries such libevent), you can start applying right away.

What exactly do you want to do with past events? At least in the west (I am a South Asian) they document it and possibly learn from it / incorporate it in studies (Germany). Would you rather have the Chinese method of whitewashing or completely censoring past (bad) events? There is pretty much no empire in history which hasn't tried to expand, coerce, or otherwise influence weak states, so going back hundreds of years is pure uselessness. Take China for example - Do you think the current generation of Chinese bother about failures of CCP during the cultural revolution or would they be happy about what the CCP has achieved in the last 30 years?

Also, learn about what happened in Afghanistan from 1975 - You'll find that it has evolved into a proxy war between many parties, but was started by an Afghan president seeking help from Soviets.

I almost died laughing at your comment. You have to understand the ethnic divisions that exist in the region before arriving at opinions. Taliban (Pashtuns) don't give a damn about "others" such as Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazaras (in Afghanistan - read about how they slaughtered Hazaras around Bamiyan during 1996-1999 when they were in power). Do you seriously think they bother about Uighurs? Even if they do bother, China is unfortunately not stupid - they are capable of making deals with anyone if it benefits them. China also doesn't care about democracy, nation-building, and other impossible to attain goals in Afghanistan. You (and I) may dislike the authoritarian policies of CCP, but they know how to deal with religious authoritarians.

Yes, they are self goals too. It doesn't mean you got to score more of them.

If any given area produces more people than they can handle, then it should be their problem. The dominant ideology in middle east is religious authoritarianism. If you're a liberal democracy, then its a self goal to get immigrants from there.

They have a spokesperson now. Say reasonable stuff, do whatever you want; Just like every government or corporate with PR.

One man's journalist is another man's .... ;-)

Where exactly is the so called tech talent shortage? I would certainly like to immigrate there. (Australia is out of bounds now, but which parts of Asia are you referring to?) Also all "tech" is not equal. Are you specifically referring to back-end web development?

Tangential but genuine question - can you please provide examples of such countries?

I think you and the parent commenter don't understand the ground realities in such countries. A lot of stuff will remain "on paper" or in "official" communications. There is no way any government here is going to pay $5000 to so many people. Either they will claim fewer numbers or will make an argument in court that they can't pay. Also, the availability of free vaccines is much lower than paid ones, so your claim is inaccurate.

Not that I agree with the root comment, but China is not that large without Tibet, Xinjiang, Qinghai, and Inner Mongolia. These provinces also have the least population densities - the terrain doesn't support it.

In a liberal country that is. I am sure certain single party dictatorships can regulate any company of any size within a day.

Yes. These are the major reasons not the "only" reasons. Sure, there will be a few percentage of people who are irresponsible, but we have to look at the big picture as well. Mass gatherings are far more responsible for the spread than a few people not wearing masks.