Personally, I think sympathy is controlled by narrative, exposure, and proximity rather than racism. There was plenty of sympathy in Europe for Bosnia...
An inability to abstract out a concrete ethical position from an embedded perspective makes reality counterintuitive. This allows e.g. Boris Johnson t...
I agree with this, particulary with regard to the aggressors in the most notable conflicts we've had over the past twenty years or so. We should recog...
He's never not been a piece of shit; e.g. never shied away from targeting civilians in Georgia and Syria. What's remarkable to me though is how he's t...
Positive side> bump in approval ratings; negative> country destroyed and probable assassination by Putin's goons. A quick cost-benefit analysis tells ...
+"There is nothing to say about Putin’s attempt to offer legal justification for his aggression. Its merit is zero. Of course, it is true that the U.S...
:point: "It’s easy to understand why those suffering from the crime may regard it as an unacceptable indulgence to inquire into why it happened and wh...
I admit I stopped reading your posts in detail and saw that as being as it was written without the question mark. I understand what you meant now but ...
No one flagged this (or any of your other outbursts) and I didn't mod you for bad language because it's politics. So, stop being a hypocrite please. I...
Actually the game is two-fold; there's Russian blame NATO and there's Western blame NATO critics. So, when you give reasons for the conflict that invo...
On the one hand, you claim to be looking for solutions, on the other you focus on attributing blame. Let's suppose, for arguments sake, this is 100% P...
Understand why you feel strongly about this, but a solution will come from a sober analysis. If you don't try to understand your opposition's perspect...
They have some cover now and I expect they'll print/borrow more money for more subsidies, spreading the additional inflationary effects out to the bro...
The sanctions stuff is really complex. The original sanctions were typically toothless but the Putin-as-Bond-movie-villian narrative is dominant acros...
Things aren't going all that well for Putin and he may fear that his agreeing to talks look like weakness. The nuclear rhetoric is just a way to count...
Generally, what we try to do here is analysis, which involves reason and evidence. If you're not here for that, don't post in the thread. You can do r...
It astounds you that posters here are trying to analyze the situation from an objective perspective? Daring to look at both sides of what has been a c...
I suppose (though I have no way of knowing) the way he presents himself is calculated; and appearing angry or unhinged in conjunction with the invasio...
Sounds like you don't want to give a fully objective analysis because Putin is a bad guy. What are your criteria for him 'winning' and for him 'losing...
@"frank" Still... "A spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry has warned that the accession of either Finland or Sweden to the defence alliance N...
Granted, but the danger for me is the focus on psychology rather than strategy. Putin comes across as "mad" in some ways but then maybe that's what he...
By the way, you would think that Zelensky being basically ready to surrender and give Russia what they want would be being more widely reported in the...
Is Saddam Hussein mad? Is George Bush mad? Is Donald Trump mad? Is Boris Johnson mad? ... Is The Guardian mad? One way to guarantee you don't understa...
He also claims he's invading to "de-Nazify" the Ukraine. Never mind that their President is Jewish. :lol: Maybe you're just a complete naïf. Hard to t...
There is no evidence because it's pure propaganda. You inserting it here as if it's somehow a matter of reasonable debate is part of a pattern of you ...
@"NOS4A2" shows up with the sole aim of spreading an utterly baseless "genocide" narrative. Show one iota of evidence for this or we can just presume ...
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