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Nor that Arab neighbors fear Hamas hiding among Palestinians (who cares about the Ummah!): https://allarab.news/egyptian-president-el-sisi-evacuation-...
February 13, 2024 at 09:08
Question: is there are reason why this thread nor the thread about Ukraine do not seem to appear in https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussions ? Is it...
February 12, 2024 at 16:37
Yet, as far as I’m concerned, your argument is pointing less to a specific problem of Ukraine than to a more general problem for democracies in war ti...
February 12, 2024 at 16:33
If your point is just about making a generic optimistic claim based on a counterfactual (indeed, THEY HAD THE CHANCE, unless by “if that chance would ...
February 12, 2024 at 16:32
I’ve lost you. What is the alternative reasoning that doesn’t add up? You didn’t bring anything that questions my views. My reasoning goes beyond the ...
February 11, 2024 at 16:34
To my understanding this is not a yes/no answer. According to some index, Ukraine is considered a hybrid/transitional regime (so neither a consolidate...
February 11, 2024 at 15:29
More good news ;) Trump 'encourages' Russia to attack NATO states not paying 'bills' https://www.euronews.com/2024/02/11/trump-encourages-russia-to-at...
February 11, 2024 at 13:49
But I was not arguing based on a counterfactual: namely, a fact that didn’t happen, but could have happened. I limited myself to argue for a possibili...
February 11, 2024 at 09:32
So I'll stop reading the rest of your post.
February 11, 2024 at 07:49
Even if direct and conventional confrontation between major powers as in WW2 must be avoided (for the reasons you suggest and also because the nuclear...
February 10, 2024 at 10:23
The promise wasn't to the Palestinians nor explicitly/specifically about Palestine, if you are referring to the Hussein-McMahon agreements (whose actu...
February 10, 2024 at 10:23
. You misunderstood. I was simply pointing out that in Ukraine, as in other democratic countries, presidents are entitled to hire/fire commanders-in-c...
February 10, 2024 at 08:41
Dude, you made all this effort to flood this thread with your self-serving pro-Russian ruminations from the start till now, you might as well finish t...
February 10, 2024 at 08:41
Zelensky's choice can be questioned and is controversial, given Zaluzhnyi's popularity, but that has nothing to do with totalitarianism or democracy: ...
February 09, 2024 at 13:52
Holy shit: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraines-zelenskiy-says-time-has-come-changes-top-military-2024-02-08/
February 09, 2024 at 06:28
Despite your joke, Luxembourg has tried and is trying to play some diplomatic role in Europe and directly with Israel, though.
February 09, 2024 at 00:06
I doubt that Luxemburg bears a sufficient diplomatic weight on both sides, compared to the Saudis which might benefit from stepping in and: - get cred...
February 08, 2024 at 23:59
I was referring to the kind of grievances the Arabs/Palestinians were voicing against the British since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. You ask...
February 08, 2024 at 22:52
Sure, trendy as all historical grievances are everywhere (while the contrition for such historical grievances seems particularly trendy ONLY in the We...
February 08, 2024 at 14:02
The "Logical problem of evil" can be enlightening in politics too: P1. If an omnipotent, omnibenevolent and omniscient X exists, then evil does not. P...
February 07, 2024 at 11:31
In what follows, I'm indirectly commenting to your last post too. If all those countries would just opt for peace, stability and prosperity in the reg...
February 07, 2024 at 10:37
Can you provide your evidence of Ukrainian Nazis who “have no hesitation to explicitly say their goal is a war with Russia and to destroy Russia”? Can...
February 06, 2024 at 15:38
I don’t find this image particularly enlightening. To me the power relation between the US and Israel isn’t best captured by the image of a wise fathe...
February 05, 2024 at 15:32
So you agree that denazification was basically Putin’s propaganda to dupe the Russian masses and the pro-Russian “useful idiots” in the West. All righ...
February 05, 2024 at 15:26
Hum... you are commenting my quote but "you" refers to Boethius, I guess.
February 04, 2024 at 08:43
Yes denazification and Russian-speaking population, and blah blah blah from Putin were cosmetic, political seasoning. But such Russian propaganda argu...
February 02, 2024 at 17:11
Sure, but I’m more interested in ALL other alleged errors, though. OK if you wanna put it in these terms, let’s test your reading comprehension now: c...
February 02, 2024 at 10:15
That’s a problem indeed. But this problem may also depend on some implicit assumptions that mislead our understanding of the problem itself. For examp...
February 01, 2024 at 16:23
First, I do not trust your telepathic powers to read into other people’s mind, so when you claim “ that Russian ‘can't be trusted anyways’, is not som...
February 01, 2024 at 10:14
To me that’s just a straw man argument: first, you didn’t provide evidence that relevant Ukrainian, Russian, American politicians take “ ‘guaranteed’ ...
January 29, 2024 at 20:04
All right. I would still add that for both Palestinians and Israelis the problem is not just the idea of being historically wronged and dispossessed b...
January 29, 2024 at 18:24
As I said, I’m more into conceptual analysis, so I can be very picky about semantic ambiguities depending on how claims are worded. In your case, it s...
January 28, 2024 at 10:06
In other words, a big step toward nothing but enough for pro-Palestinians to claim there is reason to believe Israel may be is actually planning and/o...
January 28, 2024 at 08:11
Again this pro-Russian dude is forgetting EVERYTHING ELSE the people he cites are saying: security guarantees from the West and Bucha. And that the Is...
January 28, 2024 at 07:34
Do you mean that the pro-Palestinians can be happy for such ruling? It didn't demand an immediate ceasefire nor it condemned Israel for committing a g...
January 27, 2024 at 17:16
BTW, remember when the pro-Russian in this thread were rambling on how vital was Crimea for the Russian Black Sea Fleet ? And how obsessed they are ab...
January 27, 2024 at 16:41
Like for Russia, "security" is the fig leaf for illegal land grab, right?
January 27, 2024 at 15:32
Ukrainians and Russians settled the points ("a protocol of intentions") for a negotiation between Zelensky and Putin, but these points involved necess...
January 26, 2024 at 12:43
The complaint from Tzeench is completely idiotic since this proposal from Ukraine and Russia was STILL TO BE DISCUSSED WITH PUTIN, and needed a third ...
January 26, 2024 at 09:00
The best argument in favor of slavery and imperialism. Those who do not accept this obvious truth are submissive idiots or coward exploiters. As Pro-R...
January 26, 2024 at 07:00
I’m quite skeptical about your last claim. Whom/what is “modern civilisation” referring to? Why does “modern civilisation” have a duty “for global sec...
January 25, 2024 at 14:46
By “mystification”, I simply meant referring to the intellectual obfuscation over core notions that are taken to be clear, obvious and shared. But may...
January 24, 2024 at 15:01
The first thing I would do, it's not to give for granted my understanding of their meaning. So I will ask myself: how would I identify and discriminat...
January 24, 2024 at 08:35
This issue (the word "genocide" was coined by a Jew and arguably an ardent Zionist http://www.aapjstudies.org/index.php?id=110) touches on several Wes...
January 24, 2024 at 07:58
People in such political threads, even mods, often forget that we are in a philosophy forum and at the very least philosophical investigation goes alo...
January 24, 2024 at 07:10
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/22/germany-far-right-afd-leader-alice-weidel-eu-exit-campaign
January 22, 2024 at 16:50
Not all Zionists agree with what Netanyahu is doing in Gaza: https://readerwall.com/zionists-in-tel-aviv-protest-to-topple-netanyahu-administration/
January 22, 2024 at 16:05
How can we call "the good Jews" and "the bad Jews"? They are both "Jews"! Very thorny philosophical problem. In the literature it's known as "the hard...
January 22, 2024 at 15:05
Thus spoke the self-deprecating Westerner. You shouldn't feel alone though: Mikie is so excited to invite you to his information bubble, you lucky boy...
January 21, 2024 at 07:49
frankly, not as terrible as your arguments. Ba dum tsss.
January 20, 2024 at 21:57