Roughly speaking, you think that Western governments are morally objectionable for their support to the Ukrainian resistance against Russian aggressio...
My point is that, if we talk strategy, nobody can specify a unique and accurate account of "victory" and "loss" during wartime the way you seem to exp...
The US and Russia are reluctant to offer a clear definition of "victory" and "loss". There are plausible military (e.g. keep Russia military engaged o...
Your questions suggest some shared understanding/assessment about what constitutes "becoming deeper, more thoughtful and more in touch with themselves...
A series of non sequiturs. What one earth does “The aggregated views of {all the people who live within that border} has no meaning” even mean? The ag...
It's a choice. Precisely because admins care to preserve or boost forum quality they do not need to sacrifice good contributors for failing to abide b...
I don't know what happened. In any case, even if rules is rules, sanctions for transgression are discretionary. So admins can still reason on case by ...
But why a definitive banning instead of a temporary or a progressive banning (e.g. do it once and I'll ban you for one week, do it twice and I'll ban ...
I don't see the reason for a permanent banning for long-term positive contributors that violated the netiquette on occasions (compare Bartricks vs Oli...
The scientific method of natural sciences may be said to go "beyond personal experience" but not "beyond experience". Indeed, "experience" is key in e...
Not only the idea that “national identities” are not natural groupings is pointless because nobody is arguing otherwise, but it is also fallacious to ...
Who is "we"? We are not a natural group you know. The idea that an arbitrary string of characters like "we" on a forum post encompasses a unique ident...
Do you mean that once they get their heads around viewing Zelensky (net worth $20 million), Putin (net worth $70 Billion), and Biden (net worth $9 Mil...
Sure. Yet, so far, you just happened to offer recommendations in support of all Russian "legitimate grievances" and deal-breaker demands perfectly in ...
Listing random examples from a dictionary is pointless if they do not clarify what "legitimate" in "legitimate grievance" is supposed to mean. Here so...
What did you just write?! If the “concept” (intention or extension) of “legitimate grievance” needs to be negotiated then you yourself can not claim a...
. Here you are no longer delving into hypothetical thoughts, you clearly state as a matter of fact “war is totally provoked”, “these are definitely Na...
Here the problems I see: First, I asked you “how can we possibly justify (in your terms) our position to others if they do not share our values or we ...
Here the problems I see: First, legally speaking, the UN resolution is a legal justification for national policies, it has legal consequences, it’s no...
That’s my claim: "My understanding how the chess game is played by a couple of players is one thing, my siding with any of them is another.” In other ...
First, it’s not “my” endgame. Making it personal would be misleading even if there was no intellectual dishonesty involved, because it may confuse my ...
. By comparing these 2 quotations, anybody can immediately notice your conceptual confusion, typical of a militant mind addicted to reasoning through ...
. I made my google search before asking you to do the same. Now I see that the problem is not the exposure to an unfamiliar jargon but, worse, your co...
In “normative legal force” the expression “normative” refers to the fact that laws are norms and “legal” is a specification of “normative” since there...
Probably these feature requests were already made by others, but it's worth reminding: I would like to filter out threads based on the category (e.g. ...
There is no post goal shift. The UN resolution expresses the majoritarian will of its voters (the West/US among them) as much as a democratic election...
I do. Indeed none of the articles I quoted (nor even Macron himself) is likely adopting some hyperbolic notion of "leadership" given the European poli...
I'm referring to what is more extensively discussed here: https://www.capital.fr/economie-politique/emmanuel-macron-mario-draghi-olaf-scholz-qui-prend...
The focus is not making peace with Russia but under what conditions. Macron is expressly making a point about anti-NATO security guarantees for Russia...
I deeply disagree with that too. Even if “somehow, somewhere, he is right”, as Gérard Araud (ex-diplomatic adviser to Emmanuel Macron) twitted: En pol...
Russian nationals fighting for Ukraine vow to resist Moscow’s forces ‘until the end’ https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/05/europe/russians-fighting-for-u...
Really?! Macron's quote is extrapolated from an interview where the interlocutor reports that 85% of patients in reanimation were non-vaccinated and t...
Sure. But his moves do not seem effective in building consensus. To work in that direction I would expect Macron to pursue bilateral accords with othe...
Then, that’s not an objection to what I said, but an objection to a caricature of what I said. Indeed you can not quote the claim you attribute to me....
Sure that's my point about Macron too. But I don't see much consensus around his views. My impression is that the gap between his dreams of leadership...
then I don't know what statement of mine you are objecting to. Calling "speculation" statements of mine which start with "My guess is" or "Here is my ...
Not directly related to Ukraine, yet still related to Western security concerns: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/beijing-s-long-arm-china-s...
Here is my counterfactual: had the European leaders understood the need to take into account Western security concerns earlier, in say, 2014, this ent...
Speculative to some extent. After all "Unfortunately, the French president tends to come up with abstract ideas , but never develops them to a level o...
I agree. Yet he keeps talking about discussing anti-NATO security guarantees for Putin, “the rapist” - to recall your analogy - while still raping. Wh...
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