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We have two ongoing conflicts one in Ukraine and another in Israel, and many in the Rest and in West (including in the US) are blaming the US for one ...
April 04, 2024 at 20:27
Again with your piece of pro-Russian propaganda? Ukraine couldn't join NATO because Russia had ENOUGH Western/NATO complacent parties and issues (corr...
April 04, 2024 at 09:25
The problem is that as long as the US is leading a military alliance , the US will have greater influence on the foreign policies of such alliance in ...
April 01, 2024 at 19:35
I limit myself to point out that Europeans can’t give for granted the U.S. partnership, if that means equal partnership, especially in matter of secur...
March 31, 2024 at 20:29
I gave you the evidence I have. Besides the founder of Azov Battalion is natively Russian-speaker (as Zelensky) and comes from Kharkiv. The same goes ...
March 30, 2024 at 13:18
Hum... Paradoxically—at least for purveyors of Kremlin propaganda, which holds that Ukrainians have been oppressing ethnic Russians—most Azov members ...
March 29, 2024 at 18:59
Sure. But maybe you didn't get the sarcastic intent of my comment.
March 29, 2024 at 17:19
Palestinians should surrender before they lose whatever they have left. What a shame it didn’t happen years ago. So many lives could have been saved. ...
March 29, 2024 at 07:23
I find your scenario questionable on two grounds. First, I doubt that it’s the more likely than a frozen conflict scenario where victory and loss rema...
March 28, 2024 at 13:21
Yes, I would argue that. However, differently from the British empire, Israel is fighting for its own nation state in Palestine, not to preserve an em...
March 28, 2024 at 13:20
I get that the conflict in Ukraine is of primary importance for the EU and Russia, but if you are focusing on the swing of power between China and the...
March 25, 2024 at 13:41
Security Council Fails to Adopt Resolution on Imperative of Immediate, Sustained Ceasefire in Gaza, Owing to Vetoes Cast by China, Russian Federation ...
March 25, 2024 at 09:21
Notice that I didn’t take my 4 points as individually sufficient reason to consider Hamas an existential threat to Israel. Some of my most basic assum...
March 24, 2024 at 09:23
You have introduced the distinction between “pivotal” and “distraction”, without clarifying its implications, at least to me. As far as I’m concerned,...
March 24, 2024 at 09:18
Here is the problem, if the quantitative element is totally irrelevant than that definition sounds good also to claim that Hamas’ massacre on October ...
March 21, 2024 at 06:41
After double-checking the list of alleged genocides on wikipedia (I don't know how many of them are "legally" proven to be genocides) https://en.wikip...
March 20, 2024 at 07:32
As far as the propaganda battle is concerned, I made my arguments already. For each propaganda there is a counter-propaganda. However the circumstance...
March 19, 2024 at 16:02
Sure, I get it. But there is also a moral hazard in this, since people can form their opinions without adequate legal competence and investigation, re...
March 19, 2024 at 06:50
What are your evidences that Israel is responsible for that? Notice that international law doesn’t prohibit sieges and blockades as long as they are m...
March 19, 2024 at 06:49
I don’t know what you take to be “pivotal” in geopolitics. It is claimed by many analysts that, among the major geopolitical competitors of the US heg...
March 19, 2024 at 06:49
The problem is that even if one believes that human rights are universal and they apply to everybody, the capacity to enforce the respect of such huma...
March 17, 2024 at 17:29
Sure, but it looks more reasonable to expect that the stronger party imposes its conditions on the weaker party than the other way around. So if it wa...
March 17, 2024 at 17:21
The plausibility of such distinction (not its actual validity, which remains to be investigated) comes from the “principle of distinction”, which Hama...
March 15, 2024 at 09:45
Well, it depends on what you mean by "do the right thing". Ordinary citizens should act according to laws, regardless of the reasons why they have tho...
March 15, 2024 at 09:43
You mean that since Israel is disproportionately stronger than Hamas and can erase Hamas from Gaza, then Israel must yield to Hamas’ demands? Or that ...
March 15, 2024 at 09:06
So what? War is neither a beauty contest nor a fair play contest. War is as shitty as it can get. Precisely because there is an asymmetry of forces it...
March 14, 2024 at 14:06
:up: Yes the Russian forget to mention that before the Great Patriotic war there was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact An...
March 14, 2024 at 10:17
Among other issues, there is one which I find philosophically deep and troublesome: namely, the notion of sovereignty as it is shaped by the Westphali...
March 14, 2024 at 09:53
No less than the Palestinian population is expendable in the pursuit of Hamas’ objectives, right?
March 14, 2024 at 09:15
You keep framing things in a way that I find rather questionable. To me, “the West” refers to a political strategic alliance between numerous democrat...
March 13, 2024 at 15:59
I watched your 4 out 5 videos (one is not available) and I couldn’t find what I expressly asked: your evidence to support the claims “they have no hes...
March 13, 2024 at 15:58
Maybe that depends on where and what you are looking for. As far as I’m concerned, the Middle East, Europe, the Pacific, Africa, South America are con...
March 13, 2024 at 09:04
BTW The cruel irony of Hamas’s onslaught, which alongside the scale of bloodshed, shocked Israelis with the barbarity of the terror group’s torture an...
March 11, 2024 at 15:57
Russia deepening ties with global axis of evil, Israel charges at UN https://www.jpost.com/international/article-789156 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
March 11, 2024 at 15:03
You keep repeating that: “such as nazi groups doing their best in the Donbas to trigger the current larger war, and explicitly explaining to Western j...
March 10, 2024 at 14:19
A part from unnecessarily caricaturing Bush’s administration attitude toward Pakistan, your views seem to overlook Pakistan’s agency in dealing with t...
March 10, 2024 at 10:41
Then it’s not about facts, but what one wants to legally/politically infer from that. For example, if the numbers of Palestinian and Jewish Nakba are ...
March 10, 2024 at 10:41
If it’s a problem of security concerns more than racism, then Israelis may be more open to solutions that address their security concerns in satisfact...
March 10, 2024 at 10:40
As far as I know the Bush administration had a hard time to diplomatically/financially solicit Pakistan to fight the terrorist network from their side...
March 08, 2024 at 14:41
“Property” as a legal term presupposes a legal system. Israel doesn’t acknowledge the Palestinian legal system. But it acknowledges to some extent the...
March 08, 2024 at 14:37
You are neither rude nor impolite to me. And I’m fine even with rude and impolite objections as long as they are on topic and sufficiently argued. In ...
March 07, 2024 at 09:52
I do not have a neutral position. I’m partial, interested and pro-Israel, to put it bluntly. But that doesn’t mean unconditional support for the Zioni...
March 07, 2024 at 09:50
And where did I make such extraordinary claims exactly? Can you quote me verbatim? Sure, if you suspect a disagreement between us over the notion of “...
March 05, 2024 at 14:05
It sounds as if you are making an objection to me, yet I didn’t claim nowhere that unconditional surrender should happen automatically. Indeed you can...
March 05, 2024 at 12:47
Dude, really? Is that the most you can do? You mean that the burden of proof is all on me and you have to do nothing other than making claims? You did...
March 05, 2024 at 12:46
Agreed with the first point. It must be taken into account for the possibility of reaching durable peace. But why do you believe that if Hamas surrend...
March 04, 2024 at 16:41
Not sure what your point is: - Do you mean that Israel aims at exterminating Palestinians? Israel has the means to exterminate the Palestinians in Isr...
March 04, 2024 at 15:51
Nicely put. Does what you are saying imply that horrors of the war (like the ones we see in Gaza) or demand for unconditional surrender constitute a s...
March 03, 2024 at 20:53
I do not believe in God. Only in Goddesses.
March 01, 2024 at 12:51
Dude, you forgot the 2 nukes. Nuking countries apparently is a good method to obtain peace, sure. First, nuke, than show mercy (you can always nuke ag...
March 01, 2024 at 11:28