Russia was already engaged in a war with Ukraine in 2014 (so ALREADY destabilising the territorial and political integrity of Ukraine!). However this ...
I gave you my reasons. And if you don’t feel like counter-arguing them in ways that make sense to me, I don’t care. From "US cheerleader" to "US fanbo...
We have been through this already. Your way of understanding the burden of proof in a debate is hardly intelligible to me. There is something off even...
Indeed, your cognitive dissonance helps better understand your views about the relation between the geopolitical dimension and the moral dimension, th...
Kommersant reports G. Friedman claiming "Russia calls the events of the beginning of the year a US-organized coup d'état. And it really was the most o...
Whose accuracy has been questioned by George Friedman himself. If you prefer to believe the Russian source over George Friedman's feedback, that's all...
Geroge Friedman's quotation is misleading, due to opportunistic editing (something Isaac himself and others like-minded participants are prone to do) ...
How would you rephrase those expressions in more objective terms? All right, then what were you referring to when you wrote “If there was any, it was ...
This is a random objection. The hearings entitled “Debate about NATO enlargement” concerns NATO enlargement about Central and Eastern Europe including...
The Budapest Memorandum, the hearings entitled “Debate about NATO enlargement”. Mersheimer’s article "The Case for a Ukrainian Nuclear Deterrent” (199...
You can not say that NATO enlargement doesn’t have to do with threat from Russia, because I brought you evidence that that’s the case. You would also ...
See how you are dodging again: there was no "threat" (which you who are not a geopolitical agent measure on a single metric) or there was no "perceive...
You keep dodging my objections. Notice I never claimed, nor implied, nor suggested that NATO expansion wasn’t in the interest of the US, or to extend ...
The repurposing of NATO post-Cold War from the American perspective doesn’t exclude the fact that Russia, along with Germany (especially after the reu...
Then your terminology is misleading: Hard power encompasses a wide range of coercive policies, such as coercive diplomacy, economic sanctions, militar...
I summarised my argument for you, so no need for you to suggest any other answer: “In conclusion, the EU can’t just blindly rely on the US support in ...
Why did you chop my quotation like this? My claim wasn’t about the war in Ukraine, it just drew a parallel with it. To clarify once again my point, I ...
If it wasn’t for the fact that: 1 - Europe is still far from turning into its own great power: existing military deficiencies and “strategic cacophony...
If that below is the piece you are referring to, then ok, I missed it and I would basically agree. But then I totally disagree with your following com...
Yet you cited Mearsheimer (along with Sachs and Chomsky) to support the idea that the US has provoked this war, didn’t you? And you did that to imply ...
Any deterrence can also have the opposite effect. Anybody trapped in a security dilemma can likely see defensive measures of its opponents as offensiv...
First, I didn't even understand what assumption you are attributing to me. Since you have a poor understanding of what I write better to avoid rephras...
My recent discussion about human rights was just reviewing a narrowly scoped argument of mine inspired by Isaac’s claims . Anyways, the shortest and m...
Of course, I don't exclude that possibility either. My point is that Ukraine may play a key role in the Western security system for future challenges,...
You are confused (as usual). I'm not trying to sell my guesses more than what they are. In any case, the problem is not the lack of support from the e...
My understanding: Ukraine must be part of the West security system (inside or outside NATO may have pros/cons for Russia too!). Russia gave the West t...
Brzezinski is definitely one of the most influential experts to understand US geopolitical strategy (far more than Mearsheimer, Chomsky and Sachs are ...
I agree. Focusing on the EU, while there is lots of literature out there about the problematic interplay of domestic factors and foreign factors showi...
As usual, you need to caricature my views to score a point: 1 - The word “improve” is misleading, but since your objection revolved around it, you nee...
Not “improve” for the reasons I already explained. Not exactly. First, I didn’t talk about “improvement”, you did. Secondly, also those post-Soviet re...
Oh, you just went back to complaining about the metric. The charts caption says “Based on the expert assessments and index by V-Dem. It captures the e...
So you morally ought to do nothing to have people abide by your moral principle, except engage in dialogue perhaps. So I guess nobody else morally oug...
Side comments to this otherwise misleading summary: "literally arguing that Western influence" yet the starting point of my views is not "Western infl...
I disagree. Notice that the reasoning was focusing on “human rights” only (e.g. we didn’t talk other benefits: economic, security etc. which may also ...
But my hypothesis is not that joining EU improves human rights because: 1. when you roughly reached the top (the range is between 0-1) of course there...
Concerning claim (1), my reasoning is about the likely fate of human rights institutions in Ukraine once they join EU/NATO as other ex-Soviet republic...
Where did I do that? Here all the stats you want: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/physical-integrity-rights-fkr?tab=chart&country=RUS~CHN~IRN~DEU~I...
I gave you the chart: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/physical-integrity-rights-fkr?tab=chart&country=RUS~CHN~IRN~DEU~ITA~ESP~POL~LTU~ROU~BGR~SVK T...
I don’t mind to review my past arguments once again (for the thousand time?), however it wasn’t the reason why I quoted them in the first place. The p...
I find Eisler’s names more appropriate: - “ingroup” is expected to be the antonym of "outgroup" while in your name convention is unexpectedly contrast...
There is no contradiction between those extrapolated claims, because I made both moral claims (like "I actually support the military aid to Ukrainian ...
It wasn't a waste of time because my wall of text is very much part of the "why" i think military supporting Ukraine is morally right. What I describe...
If that’s an objection to the quotation, it doesn’t make much sense, because the quotation is not even talking about moral requirements. If that’s a m...
How could a government govern if it does not have the means that allow it to govern?! Governing in compliance with some moral commitment still needs e...
Your question is misleading. To understand my point one needs to get one step back. Moral rules like legal rules do not grant compliance by themselves...
Your example is misleading. First, I’m talking about moral imperatives for governments, not moral imperatives for ordinary citizens. Maintaining contr...
Briefly, I take national security to be the moral imperative of legitimate governments of sovereign states. If the Ukrainian government is legitimate ...
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