Biden calls mass killing of Armenians a 'genocide' in break with previous presidents
Source: Washington Post
President Biden recognized the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as a genocide Saturday, a designation that U.S. presidents long avoided for fear of damaging the U.S.-Turkey relationship. The decision follows a lengthy lobbying campaign by members of Congress and Armenian American groups eager to see the White House use a term embraced by many scholars of early 20th century history.
Historians estimate that 1.5 million Armenians were killed in a campaign of forced marches and mass killings born out of Ottoman concerns that the Christian Armenian population would align with Russia during World War I, abetting an arch-nemesis of the Ottoman Turks. Turkey has acknowledged that many Armenians were killed in fighting with Ottoman forces in 1915 but disputes the larger casualty counts, denies that the events constituted genocide and considers such claims a slander against its founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
The move comes amid worsening relations between the United States and Turkish President Recep Tayyip over Turkey’s purchases of Russian military equipment, human rights abuses and interventions in Syria and Libya. Biden called Erdogan on Friday, but a White House readout of the conversation did not mention the 1915 massacres. Biden conveyed his interest in a “constructive bilateral relationship with expanded areas of cooperation and effective management of disagreements,” the statement said.
The Turkish readout of the call said Erdogan raised his objections about U.S. support for Kurdish forces in Syria, whom Turkey considers terrorists, and the case of Fethullah Gulen, a religious leader who lives in exile in the United States. It also did not mention the massacre of Armenians. Biden’s recognition comes on April 24, the date Ottomans seized Armenian dignitaries in Istanbul in 1915 in what many scholars view as the opening phase of the first genocide of the 20th century. Armenian American groups hailed the long sought move.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/armenia-genocide-biden-turkey/2021/04/24/b0f2394a-a46a-11eb-8a6d-f1b55f463112_story.html
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was pass legislation to allow immigration from Vietnam to the U.S. after the war, where with several generations, there are over 1 million here now.
There is also this (recently updated) - https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-vietnam/
Bilateral Relations Fact Sheet
Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
April 9, 2021
Vietnam remains heavily contaminated by explosive remnants of war, primarily in the form of unexploded ordnance (UXO) including extensive contamination by cluster munitions dating from the war with the United States. The United States is the largest single donor to UXO/mine action in Vietnam, contributing more than $140 million since 1994, and the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding on continued unexploded ordnance cooperation in December 2013. U.S. efforts to address legacy issues such as UXO/demining, MIA accounting, and remediation of Agent Orange provided the foundations for the U.S.-Vietnam defense relationship. The United States and Vietnam are committed to strengthening defense cooperation between the two countries as outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding on Advancing Bilateral Defense Cooperation in 2011 and the U.S.-Vietnam Joint Vision Statement on Defense Relations signed in 2015, giving priority to humanitarian cooperation, war legacy issues, maritime security, peacekeeping, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for my 40 acres and a mule.
since this is just breaking. 
for posting. Thank you President Biden. 
in our own fucking streets, to beat up peaceful protesters. Maybe send out the Secret Service with some baseball bats.......
Although something tells me he ain't gonna try that shit again.... Until the next 'Puke "administration" that is.
"Honey badger doesn't GAF" was a meme several years ago. Honey badgers are fearless bad-asses (think bees stinging them while they get that honey--but they don't even seem to notice).
I believe the intent was to imply that Biden's actions here show that he is also a bad-ass. He does what needs to be done, not minding the stings of the irrelevant "bees" trying to stop him.
Here's the video that started the meme:
Love the honey badger. Reminds me of Biden. Maybe more Dr Jill than Joe but definitely both of them. 
Armenian this acknowledgement from President Biden, is something that Armenians wanted to hear for a very long time. Truth, facts and history wins out right. Thank you President Biden.
The pogram 20 years earlier was a sign of things to come. When Abdul Hamid II was overthrown in 1908, many Armenians had hope for better treatment. Mistake.
How hard is it to accept that people in your history, maybe famous important people, did awful things? Terrible things happen everyday. I know one reason leaders fail to admit past wrongs is the fear that reparations will destabilize their governments.
What Rambo said about war and genocide:
...we're like animals! It's in the blood! It's natural! Peace? That's an accident! It's what is! When you're pushed, killing's as easy as breathing. When the killing stops in one place, it starts in another, but that's okay... 'cause you're killing for your country. But it ain't your country who asks you, it's a few men up top who want it. Old men start it, young men fight it, nobody wins, everybody in the middle dies... AND NOBODY TELLS THE TRUTH!
