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Because this is a thread about the war in Ukraine, so I take to be pertinent to talk about the Western involvement in this war as much as the non-West...
October 08, 2023 at 13:30
. PIGS, OF COURSE. You? And why is this the question I should care about? I’m living and lived in several Western countries, and am pro-West, not spec...
October 08, 2023 at 06:45
I don’t talk about tourism, I don’t talk about giving a chance. I talk about living your life as an avg person in Western countries vs in one of those...
October 07, 2023 at 19:26
No. The American intervention in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan can be questioned from the American national interest point of view too. Yet the US has...
October 07, 2023 at 17:32
Dude, again, you didn’t read much of what I wrote in this thread. I never claimed to be not partisan. I never claimed to be impartial. I am pro-US, pr...
October 07, 2023 at 12:47
Why “virtually inevitable”? Why do you keep calling it “coup”? If Washington supported a coup, who else organised the coup? So the Russian fears are t...
October 07, 2023 at 08:01
So you are not partisans and yet you have identified the US as the bad guy and the fact that the interest of EU and the US diverge. You constantly rep...
October 06, 2023 at 21:54
For some reason firefox doesn't let me see the links to twitter I made in this forum :chin:
October 06, 2023 at 20:13
C'mon dude don't be so sensitive.
October 06, 2023 at 20:01
I don't need any educated(?!) guess, just an educated factual acknowledgment of the fact that Putin has committed himself to two notions of "victories...
October 06, 2023 at 19:45
https://twitter.com/den_kazansky/status/1709823704241246305
October 06, 2023 at 18:49
What does "winning the war" mean exactly?
October 06, 2023 at 17:20
And she is not the only one: 'We are defending you,' says Zelensky on EU visit https://www.lemonde.fr/en/european-union/article/2023/02/09/zelensky-ad...
October 06, 2023 at 13:14
Terminology: A coup d'état, or simply a coup, is an illegal and overt attempt by a military organisation or other government elites to unseat an incum...
October 06, 2023 at 09:12
Putin: “This is not a territorial conflict or even the establishment of a regional geopolitical balance. The question is much broader and more fundame...
October 05, 2023 at 16:19
The main problem I see in debating with people advocating pro-Russian views in this thread is that they seem to over-confidently rely on keywords like...
October 05, 2023 at 07:27
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_annexation_of_Donetsk,_Kherson,_Luhansk_and_Zaporizhzhia_oblasts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Cri...
October 04, 2023 at 20:18
The argument that Crimea has always been Russian is often grounded also on the idea that Crimea is ethnically Russian. What that remark seems to forge...
October 04, 2023 at 08:54
Some more shameless self-serving delirium.
October 03, 2023 at 21:32
Indeed I claimed/argued that BOTH the following arguments of yours are non sequiturs: 1 - “Because Russia had stated, for years, that NATO membership ...
October 03, 2023 at 20:39
I already countered such pointless remarks: 1 - “I’m not here to make a survey about your beliefs, I’m here to hear your challenging arguments to supp...
October 03, 2023 at 14:09
Why someone would refer to Mearsheimer to deny Russia' hegemonic ambitions over Ukraine, even prior to any NATO expansion further east, remains a myst...
October 02, 2023 at 16:19
OK since you know, for the second time, tell me what “non sequitur” is supposed to mean and prove from that definition that “Because Russia had stated...
October 02, 2023 at 14:23
“Non sequitur” is a Latin expression not English, Russian or Spanish. In logic, “non sequitur” refers to a deductive fallacy. Understanding if this cl...
October 01, 2023 at 22:13
So are you denying that “non sequitur” means “it doesn’t follow” or that it is used as a label for a “logic fallacy”, prof? What else do you think it ...
September 29, 2023 at 14:43
“Non sequitur” is a Latin expression literally meaning “it doesn’t follow” and that would be already enough, if you understood my charitable objection...
September 29, 2023 at 10:30
02.01.2005 Interview with Sergej Lavrov (Foreign minister of Russia) by the German business newspaper Handelsblatt: Question: Does the right to sovere...
September 28, 2023 at 13:23
This is a non sequitur. At most you can argue that there was a “very strong” reason NOT to do so (Russia’s strong opposition). Not that there was NO r...
September 28, 2023 at 13:23
. Why stupid provocation? If the premise of the Bucharest Summit was “We recall that the NATO-Russia partnership was conceived as a strategic element ...
September 27, 2023 at 18:34
Russian history? That’s like arguing that we should surround the nation of Germany because, you know…stuff that happened 80+ years ago. Yes it is, ind...
September 27, 2023 at 14:32
:up:
September 26, 2023 at 18:27
Well it depends on what you take to be relevant evidences to fix security dilemmas in geopolitics (have you ever heard of Mearsheimer's offensive real...
September 26, 2023 at 18:27
I joined this thread a while back and discussed this too on several occasions. The Russian threat doesn’t consist in attacking Spain out of the blue y...
September 26, 2023 at 16:07
I can’t decide for the Ukrainians which world they want to be part of, nor their motives to do so. They have chosen the West (and it’s not the first t...
September 26, 2023 at 13:25
If I could see the point of asking myself this, maybe I would. Because Ukraine is not threatening to the West, it wants to join the West. Not the same...
September 26, 2023 at 11:05
It was cultural and identitarian too. Read Paine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense And then the US allied with the British archenemy, the Fr...
September 25, 2023 at 19:45
And yet American fought against the British empire for their independence, despite "the same pillars of each nation". Sure, Zelensky has definitely fa...
September 25, 2023 at 15:50
And likely the reason why apparently the Ukrainians prefer to be called "Nazis" instead of "Russians", go figure.
September 25, 2023 at 15:21
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/jewish-ukraine-fights-nazi-russia-zelensky https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-zelensky-adviser-40-j...
September 25, 2023 at 14:20
Pro-Russians: "And what about Vietnam war and the Hyper-imperialist Great Satan? And what about Vietnam importing more 70% weapons from Russia?" Vietn...
September 25, 2023 at 09:17
Meaning? What is bothering you exactly?
September 24, 2023 at 17:17
Probably I wasn't enough clear. I was referring to the perceived security threat by Russians due to NATO meddling in Ukraine, the Russian backyard, wi...
September 24, 2023 at 17:11
Which sounds kind of suprising given that NATO has been so rightly perceived as a growing unbearable threat against Russia at least since 2008, right?
September 23, 2023 at 16:55
Sure. In this case I was also interested in reporting the views of a sober pro-Russian Russian geopolitical analyst on the current situation (others i...
September 23, 2023 at 16:28
Not as much desperate as you are to repeatedly frame your opponents as being addicted to "deadly drug" or “hopium” of Western propaganda. Besides ther...
September 23, 2023 at 16:11
So if Russia will require demilitarization of Ukraine (a radical reduction of its army), neutral status for Kiev (and a mechanism to control it) and t...
September 22, 2023 at 20:43
Earlier I cited a pro-Russian Russian analyst claiming: The conception of our victory is clear: We still need the demilitarization of Ukraine (a radic...
September 22, 2023 at 19:38
ok thanks, I'll have a look into it.
September 22, 2023 at 18:25
What are the textbooks in which you studied it?
September 22, 2023 at 17:25
Yours is just vacuous rhetoric with no sense of human affairs. One can devise a plan and then revise it. There can be plans A B C D... Z and beyond. I...
September 22, 2023 at 06:57