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"Ukraine’s special services ‘likely’ behind strikes on Wagner-backed forces in Sudan, a Ukrainian military source says" :chin: https://edition.cnn.com...
September 20, 2023 at 17:30
Bad news for Ukrainians: A Pole about the tragic situation in Ukraine. "They have no one to fight" https://wiadomosci-wp-pl.translate.goog/polak-opowi...
September 12, 2023 at 13:12
Putin ain't gonna like it: "Joint US-Armenia military exercise to be held in Armenia on September 11-20 " - https://tass.com/world/1670475 "Armenian P...
September 10, 2023 at 19:47
More "deadly drug" from pro-Western-hyper-neo-pluto-crypto-capitalist-colonialist-warmonger-satanist-LGBTQ-freemason-nazi-zionist-mic-bigpharma-&-what...
September 03, 2023 at 16:10
It seems you are suggesting 3 alternatives: naturalism, platonism, or nominalism. But I don't think these alternatives are the only ones available. I ...
September 01, 2023 at 20:11
And yet: In an interview published in Germany's Zeit magazine on Wednesday, former German chancellor Angela Merkel said that the Minsk agreements had ...
August 30, 2023 at 17:54
Yeah until someone again pointed at the actual signs of NATO falling apart: Emmanuel Macron warns Europe: NATO is becoming brain-dead https://www.econ...
August 30, 2023 at 14:49
Interesting, never heard that before. January 11, 1986 Requiem for the American Empire “Empires are restless organisms. They must constantly renew the...
August 30, 2023 at 13:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYgIIhMoNAs
August 30, 2023 at 10:04
You weren't the only one to bring this up:
August 30, 2023 at 07:48
"Built-in" is a figure of speech. We are talking semantics. Let's apply MY reasoning to mortuary "A mortician is concerned with preserving bodies so t...
August 29, 2023 at 19:06
Apparently you disagree with yourself. Indeed you yourself wrote “Currently our central criterion is validity, where the truth of the premises ensures...
August 29, 2023 at 18:54
https://www.ansa.it/nuova_europa/en/news/sections/news/2023/08/28/on-crimea-a-political-solution-is-possible-zelensky_4be0a5dd-780e-43a6-9a7c-e2117614...
August 28, 2023 at 19:04
"Built-in" is a figure of speech, we are talking semantics. So the point is that the notion of truth is semantically built in the idea of correct infe...
August 28, 2023 at 08:52
Notice that quote of mine was questioning the notion of “true logic” if applied to different logic systems or different sets of logic rules which are ...
August 27, 2023 at 13:39
All right, I think I got it now. In my own words, your summary amounts to pointing at 3 ways of approaching the question “what is logic?”: 1. The form...
August 25, 2023 at 14:56
The question remains: if Prigozhin, Utkin and other prominent wagnerites are dead, what is the future of the Wagner mercenaries considering their pro-...
August 24, 2023 at 14:41
Not sure if they wanted us to believe he is dead but he isn't, or that he's only presumed dead but he is, or that he was supposed to be in Russia but ...
August 23, 2023 at 19:44
Neverending Russian feints: https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/23/wagner-mercenary-chief-yevgeny-prigozhin-killed-in-plane-crash
August 23, 2023 at 17:59
Certain logic formulas are tautologies e.g. "( P ? Q ) ? ( ¬ P ? Q )" in the sense of being always true whatever is the truth value of the variables P...
August 23, 2023 at 08:53
. Your way of talking looks confusing to me. If you say in the latter statement that there can be many formalisms mapping on the same rules, then form...
August 20, 2023 at 18:28
Crimea is important also for its underwater resources: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/world/europe/in-taking-crimea-putin-gains-a-sea-of-fuel-rese...
August 18, 2023 at 21:17
To me, this is the best starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_questioning
August 17, 2023 at 18:04
I think you didn't clarify much what you mean by "formalism". As a starter, I take "formalism" to be broadly speaking the symbolic codification of a s...
August 17, 2023 at 11:39
Some thoughts: maybe the coup in Niger (after the coups in Mali and Burkina Faso), will make France less hesitant against the Russians now. So either ...
August 16, 2023 at 15:35
Here one major problem "Ukraine is burning through ammunition faster than the US and NATO can produce it": https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/17/politics...
August 16, 2023 at 13:38
You should write “I thought you were making an inference” or “I still think you were making an inference”. Unfortunately you are wrong as a matter of ...
August 15, 2023 at 18:45
The fact I’m stating is nothing other than my understanding of your views. As I repeated many times, I’m not sure to understand your claims, so I’m ex...
August 14, 2023 at 22:54
Then I don’t know what else went wrong in my quotation and I don’t mind to correct it. If you wish so, just tell me. This incident is however irreleva...
August 13, 2023 at 14:54
First, your name in the quotation came from the quotation function not from me. Second, you are right. I didn’t formulate my question appropriately. I...
August 12, 2023 at 10:20
The reason why I talked about “accusation” is that in the passage you just quoted ssu is arguing about a link between Putin’s motivations and what he ...
August 11, 2023 at 21:39
Where did he say it? Can you quote him saying this verbatim? By distinguishing imperialist acts and imperialist motivations, are you suggesting that n...
August 11, 2023 at 14:00
on the Russian foreign currency stash: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-01/russia-s-rupee-trap-is-adding-to-147-billion-hoard-stuck-abr...
August 11, 2023 at 11:28
If you accuse others and then claim why are you so confidently expressing the following? OK let's not talk about Putin's, Biden's, Zelensky's, Macron'...
August 11, 2023 at 08:25
It depends on what you take to be a resolution of such claims. For sure there is enough disagreement. The rule here is that positions ought to be repe...
August 10, 2023 at 19:44
Yes, you are repeating claims that have been repeated already many many times in this thread.
August 10, 2023 at 19:12
Precisely. Moral conflicts can as well lead to war.
August 05, 2023 at 07:28
Yes they are. That's the whole point of "sovereignty". The state has the legitimate monopoly of force within a territory. And that's a moral point too...
August 04, 2023 at 20:34
Russia meddling in Africa for Macron's joy: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/regional-global-powers-decry-nigers-coup-countrys-future-10...
July 30, 2023 at 15:43
"Just give them your handbag, it's not worth your life" well it depends on what is in the handbag. Besides, as Holy Guru Mearsheimer spoke, in the int...
July 30, 2023 at 15:36
I doubt that negotiations will lead to conflict resolution IF Russian annexations won't be acknowledged by Ukraine and the West. And I find this ackno...
July 30, 2023 at 15:24
You must have realized by now how full of sophistry, incoherence and self-defeating conclusions his arguments are. Many of the points you have raised ...
July 27, 2023 at 08:18
As far as I’m concerned, you (and others) keep arguing based on background assumptions (on morality, propaganda, geopolitics, etc.) that I do not shar...
July 26, 2023 at 21:57
The usual intellectually miserable tactic of framing opponents’ views. Apparently, on matter of facts we can’t prove anything, if we happen to believe...
July 24, 2023 at 13:28
That alternative sounds foolish after so candidly claiming: ANY government (ESPECIALLY AS AUTHORITARIAN AS RUSSIA !) can VERY EASILY claim foreign int...
July 23, 2023 at 00:20
It's not about possibility and necessity. It's about "more likely".
July 22, 2023 at 18:42
And assuming that Bennett's account is reliable: https://theintercept.com/2022/03/23/ukraine-russia-peace-negotiations-israel/ (BTW one key issue in t...
July 17, 2023 at 20:34
Juicy fruits of the no-limits alliance between the peaceful China and Russia against the greedy Nazi pro-LGBT Neocapitalist imperial vampires which ho...
July 17, 2023 at 14:01
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1680499284611932160 "Gerasimov and Shoigu should be held responsible for the genocide of the Russian people...
July 17, 2023 at 12:39
Saying that moral norms are innate "to our universe" (what do you mean by "our universe"? "universe" in the sense of "all existing matter and space co...
July 17, 2023 at 10:50