As I think you didn't miss, I made that very point. As I said, it's likely a bit of both. I think he really did at one time expect and desire that Rus...
That is a very weird response. I showed you the courtesy of presuming you were actually interested in a discussion. But anyway, I was really just usin...
Agreed. I thought it was worth putting it in context anyway, because it's thrown around so much by people who seem to have little knowledge of Russia ...
I agree. I'd guess that Street and Benkei pretty much agree too (though they may have something to say about "criminal"), but their focus and prioriti...
It might be a reasonable expectation. If your girlfriend's family unexpectedly fell apart and disowned her, she lost her job and had a mental breakdow...
Same here, and I similarly assumed from the title that a pict was some kind of implement. They didn't teach us about the Picts at school. We got the W...
Is the Shoutbox becoming the place to discuss the invasion of Ukraine for people who don't want to get embroiled in the unpleasantness of the Ukraine ...
I think the argument is more like this: we might have prevented the Russian state from becoming such a bad actor if we had understood its deep sense o...
Referring to the availability of medicines in Russia, Roszdravnadzor, the federal health care supervisor, says it "sees no problems with their availab...
Even self-criticism from the American establishment admits the arrogance of the US, as in this article from last year: Grand Illusions: The Impact of ...
Inspired by Tom Storm, I'm just having black coffee this morning. I've made the discovery that abstaining from bacon, sausage, haggis, and eggs reduce...
I think it's a conceptual metaphor. Another example is talking of time in terms of space: move the meeting forward to next week. In calling these conc...
I'll quote myself from earlier in this thread: In other words, the 60 or 70% figure for Latin/Greek is misleading because it includes lots of words th...
I couldn't get on with French either, and yet Spanish was pretty comfortable, despite being on the same branch as French. So I guess it's not all abou...
Yeah, English and German are on the same branch of Indo-European, whereas English and French are not. Finnish and Hungarian are on different branches ...
They're in the same language family, so it's possible they have as much and as little similarity as, say, Russian and English, which, like Finnish And...
I see what you mean. But a propagandist aims to do more than get people to agree with him; he wants to make you do something, or go along with somethi...
Yes I did call him garden boy sometimes. He didn't seem to mind. He called me rat boy, because it was my job to catch the rats and remove the dead one...
I got my garden boy to sort it out so I'm not sure. I think he put some objects in the water to prevent breeding and kill the eggs or larvae. When I s...
I don't think presenting only one side of the story, or trying to influence behaviour and gain support for a cause, are always bad, and in that sense ...
Ideally, education equips you with a wide range of knowledge and opinion, allowing you to make up your own mind. Propaganda is always one-sided. Of co...
The Asian tiger mosquitoes I've had dealings with didn't travel far from their pond, so if you found that and annihilated them, you'd be free of them ...
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