Sure, that too. About this I read a study of 2005 (https://international-review.icrc.org/sites/default/files/irrc_859_5.pdf) reporting: There is great...
In this case the next foreseeable concern for US/NATO would be - as it was for Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union - the Russian nuclear ar...
It looks more shit is coming: https://news.usni.org/2022/10/18/accelerated-chinese-timeline-to-seize-taiwan-raises-questions-on-pentagon-priorities ht...
My 2 cents: As long as one must address the solution offered by Putin (his non-negotiable demands) to end this war without knowing what the existentia...
Again, for the third time, what kind of statements and actions would demonstrate to you an “imperialistic bent”? Statements should be like "Me, Mr. Em...
Sure "expanding", also because "an imperialist bent on contracting" doesn't sound right, does it? I'm asking you what constitutes evidence for "an imp...
No it implies that I couldn't find anything to support otherwise from the available resources. The point I was making is simply that as long as the ex...
Right, I changed the word without realising it and your objection as well as our equivocation are understandable. I can grant you that much. But my cl...
No it doesn't help. What is an "imperialist bent"? What kind of evidence proves an "imperialist bent"? Mearsheimer hinges on his own version of realis...
What premise is false? Why would it be clear that Ukraine would never join NATO? Neither NATO open policy nor the Ukrainian willingness to gain its me...
I'm talking about a very specific military threat (i.e. nuclear bombs), not about demilitarization, NATO membership, Ukrainian annexations (Crimea or ...
And precisely because the Americans failed they had to deal with the fact that Cuba was lost under the Russian sphere of influence. The red line was t...
The US didn't annex parts of Cuba nor obtained Cuban neutrality/Cuban demilitarization/regime change. And US reaction was against an actual nuclear th...
I’m responding only for my arguments. If you want to talk about “imperialism”, you better clarify what you mean by it in a way that is clear what you ...
I didn’t mean that you were blaming this war only on US/NATO. But as your line of reasoning goes (“do you think Putin would have annexed Crimea and/or...
You are convinced that the issue is whether or not Putin is lying b/c probably your line of reasoning looks something like this: since Putin honestly ...
There is a deep-rooted assumption here that we have to clarify beforehand. You seem to take your claim in bold as a justification of your other claims...
It’s like me saying: I can enjoy pizza and still recognise the awful amount of calories it contains. In other words, there might be a strong link betw...
I don't know what you mean by "reviewed by the organization". The article clearly states: Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establi...
Then you did not read me carefully enough. And I agree with @"Olivier5" As an avg Westerner, no of course. But that's not your situation, right? Nor t...
Sure, but here you are failing to understand at much deeper level. I’ll try to summarise the main points in the simplest way I can: It doesn’t make se...
The subject is you not the refugees. "I asked you for clarifications: the idea of being "forced" suggests me the idea that you can not free yourself f...
Well, I’m not measuring anything myself. I rely on public stats one can easily find online from official or credible sources. Surely it’s difficult to...
I find your observation pertinent but not enough to support the claim “the central geo-political question of this war is the challenge to Western mora...
Hello, indeed I never heard people being forced to flee their homes just “as a result of political malpractice”: usually people are forced to flee the...
I’ll give it another try then: "no 'local warlords, oppressive police, environmental pollution, poverty' are causing the level of economic, infrastruc...
I asked you for clarifications: the idea of being "forced" suggests me the idea that you can not free yourself from something which you find undesirab...
What you are talking about is at best a propaganda battle (which you are deeply engaged in, by the way, given the way you are caricaturing it), not th...
Unfortunately there was a typo: "no 'local warlords, oppressive police, environmental pollution, poverty' are causing the level of economic, infrastru...
Oh, you see “Putin is the biggest threat to civilisation because I reckon he is” as equivalent to "no 'local warlords, oppressive police, environmenta...
Oh, you see “the war in Ukraine is the single highest toll of avoidable deaths and misery in the world right now” is the same as "no 'local warlords, ...
I’m not convinced that “the war in Ukraine is the single highest toll of avoidable deaths and misery in the world right now”. But if your imagination ...
There are no "local warlords, oppressive police, environmental pollution, poverty" causing the level of economic, infrastructural, human, political da...
Who is "We" ? Who are those who make "sweeping generalisations based on very tangentially related situations in the past." ? Why "sweeping"? Why "very...
That's a crappy (N.B. not ridiculous just crappy) argument. Russia is failing this war but it was able to cause lots of damage at different levels to ...
Show the incoherence. At any point of history one can claim that bot that the world is changing and that we are living the consequences of a failure t...
Justin Bronk (Senior Research Fellow for Combat Airpower and Technology at RUSI) on Russian nuclear threats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojlCO8yyY...
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