Incidentally, I know some Russians who make excuses for the rape of two million women in Germany by Soviet troops at the end of the war. To make excus...
There may have been Marxists who believed this, but Marx certainly did not. "Marx held a consistent view that our human nature was expressed in a driv...
Is the motivation for defending Britain's deliberate bombing of civilians that giving even an inch to those who condemn it would be seen to moderate o...
Judaka is right: It's been entertaining but let's stop being silly. I'll start deleting anything that's not a serious and thoughtful contribution to t...
I did not dispute his personal enrichment. But I was trying to explain what is important to Russian people. I explicitly said, he is, or has been, gen...
Listening to Scotland vs Serbia on radio 5 live. Whoever wins will go through to Euro 2020. It's been 22 years since we (Scotland) made it to a major ...
Thank you for explaining your position. I don't think I sang Putin's praises or justified his leadership. I just want to understand what's going on. Y...
@"SophistiCat" could probably give better answers than me. Before I married a Russian I knew about Russia from 1890 to the 1940s, but not much else. S...
No, of course it doesn't. I don't understand this black and white thinking, on a philosophy forum of all places. Are we just slaves to propaganda, or ...
Among the people I know and their parents, there's a lot of nostalgia and affection for Soviet times, but WW2 still leaves scars, because most familie...
Darkness is briefly mentioned in the colour entry on the IEP when discussing dispositionalism. It seems to suggest that unlike naive colour realism (p...
By the way comrades, we currently have $144 USD in our PayPal account, and that's after the monthly $49.99 came out on Nov 1st. So we're doing all rig...
On the other hand, I could interpret you as saying that the parallel case is true, namely that Putin is both corrupt--the top silovarch who has used h...
Talking to these cold warriors is like this: silly person: Hitler invaded Poland and the Soviet Union so he could kill more Jews and steal their gold!...
Yes. Many Russians repeat Putin's half-truth that he reasserted state control over the oligarchs and took back the country's assets, but of course, th...
You list some truths, but your comments about Russia's "imperialistic ambitions" and defence spending don't fit my understanding at all, and your last...
Putin is a ruthless authoritarian who (1) sincerely believes that what he's doing is best for Russia and is dedicated to the Russian state, which he s...
Cartoonish, pretty much everything. Mainly, the idea that Putin is merely a gangster out for himself, bleeding the people dry so he can build more pal...
Right, fair enough. I thought the analogy was designed just to show that reality is messier than we can know from the outside, and that your own inter...
The same thing happened to me. I was bitter about the experience. Yes, in fact it's a nicely concise way of saying what Marchesk and I subsequently sa...
This is an excellent point. In terms of global authority, and even moral authority, the US doesn't have it all its own way, certainly not these days. ...
Okay, so one answer to my question is that unlike the analogy, the possible costs often outweigh the moral imperative--costs in terms of, say, peace a...
But this is difficult to swallow. For both of you, apparently, silent genocide victims ought to be ignored even by countries in a position to help. As...
Yes, good point. In fact, I was just thinking that I'm not quite clear on what the "liberal" in liberal imperialism and liberal intervention actually ...
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