Jamal

Are you gonna start that thread or not?

Whoever is reading this thread will see the category pre-selected when they click on the big "Start a New Discussion" button. There's no mystery. Unle...

Thanks. Yeh, flash non-fiction.

Please find the category and add your own OP, or start a discussion and select it from the drop down. When you've done that I'll delete your post here...

Thanks Amity :smile:

Ask away, Eugene. So far I'm just not inclined to write about that stuff, and I don't speak Russian anyway so it's difficult to know what's going on. ...

Indeed, and my troubles are nothing compared to hers.

I actually stopped reading as well, on February 24.

It's more like the way that constant physical pain can obliterate the personality.

I haven't written anything since Plum Pie, and it kinda feels like the recent uncertainty and disruption that's going on around me is making it harder...

I prefer the neutral definition of propaganda, under which it is not necessarily about spreading falsehoods, but is primarily meant to change minds, i...

Propaganda promotes a political view or a movement, and not all of those are nationalist or patriotic, so the term commonly also refers to the art, sl...

Ah, appeasement. I did take objection to that, yes, because it seemed to be part of the simplistic and hysterical likening of Putin to Hitler that I’d...

Not me, as far as I recall.

Account deleted at his request.

The Warsaw Pact was an alliance between the USSR (aka the Soviet Union) and several countries that were never in the Soviet Union, even if they were e...

What goes around comes around.

For International Women's Day, March 8.

When I was browsing Canadian art (in Canadia, I might add) I saw more birches than maples. But again, birch trees are not unique to Canada. They're al...

That is everyone's on the forum's Achilles's heels's.

What country were you in when these Russians financially abused you? EDIT: Hungary, I assume. I know nothing about the Russian presence in Hungary in ...

Indeed, although I'm sure that would have brought a certain excitement to the discussion.

I am sorry about your mistreatment and your continued bitterness, but I have no idea. I know one Jewish Russian family and I see them quite often. The...

Yeah, I noticed that. Maybe they'd forgotten. Otherwise, it's just an hour about geopolitics so it's inevitable it'll be somewhat superficial and make...

Much appreciated :smile:

Yes, but I'm not going to leave my wife, and for her it's more complicated. For her it means leaving the business that she runs day-to-day in the main...

Can't complain really, but I just want to leave.

No problem. I await your wonderfully immersive and entertaining story with great anticipation.

So I guess if we're to look for a reason why your own posts are such garbage, we have to look at something aside from bias?

Worked for me!

We must confront Russian propaganda – even when it comes from those we respect I don't always agree with George Monbiot but I think he's right here. P...

Looking forward to that

I was fat too, and after being quite svelte for a few years, I am now quite overweight. This means, first, that I can empathize with your plight, and ...

Yeah I've seen that before. I think they're Chechen sufis.

I have a feeling this is where the real story lies.

Good luck.

I'm interested.

Stay on-topic please, or just come out with a point, if you have one.

I think this is right. I just saw a tension between that and the following:

The purpose of the NATO expansion was surely always about the Russian threat, no?

Since the war, Russia has put a lot of money into Chechnya to re-develop it (Grozny, at least) and to enrich the local elite, thus buying the support ...

The latest episode in the Conflicted podcast is very interesting on the history and geopolitical background. Borderline Post-Soviet Disorder Incidenta...

Talking of the French, Putin's friend Gerard Depardieu, who has been a Russian citizen for a few years, has just declared his opposition to the war: h...

:up:

Yep, was mainly just making the point that those numbers apply to the Soviet Union as a whole, that very large numbers of them were not Russian.

I think you mean Soviet citizens, many of whom died in the famine in Ukraine. I don’t think there’s a consensus on whether that was genocide.

Well, I thought that comment of Isaac's was fair, and not unprovoked, but what do I know?

You're very welcome. It should also be understood that the conditions for the possibility of such naked military aggression were to an important degre...

None of that makes the denazification claim valid, because those neo-Nazis are not representative of the people, of the elected government, or even of...

Good stuff, thanks.