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So part of it is racism or xenophobia?

The FRA (a European human rights watchdog) says labor suppliers need to be registered and employers punished for using unregistered migrant suppliers....

At the worst end of the exploited labor spectrum are those who are forced to work, often dangerous work without normal safety measures, live in squali...

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But my explanation for why the US doesn't take the problem more seriously doesn't explain why exactly the same problem exists in the EU. Migrants are ...

I'll give my two cents worth. The Civil Rights Movement was driven in part by national security concerns in the context of the Cold War. There was int...

Thanks for the info. I was trying to give a fair hearing to the idea that the Ukraine invasion was provoked or partially provoked by the US. The more ...

Per the ACLU: " Migrant workers pay the price when the U.S. lags in international standards. For example, under the U.S. guestworker program, foreign ...

In some cases it's old fashioned slavery, but not state condoned, so the enslavers are subject to prosecution. I say it isn't condoned, but since litt...

And now I don't understand why Ukraine didn't join earlier.

I agree, except I'd add that the setting for this is the age of high tech warfare, so we aren't shuffling millions of men off to die in a trench somew...

I remember that earlier discussion. For Finland and Sweden, the benefit of joining NATO is deterrence. So will they join now?

And there was that time the Dutch committed genocide against the French. Terrible.

If Putin pulled out of Ukraine now, how long would it take to normalise relations with Europe?

So the US and Russia haven't been fighting over Ukraine for decades.

Supported with oil dollars and conscription? Will that just hollow out the Russian economy? More than it already was?

Wow. That might take a while.

How long is this war going to continue in your view?

Yep.

I just meant your belief that NATO was threatening Russia isn't based on what's most probable. It's something about Mexico.

I just don't think you're focusing on what's probably true.

Right. There are two things I'd like to get you to see about the USA-Mexico comparison to Russia-Ukraine. 1. In the USA-Mexico scenario where Mexico w...

In this scenario, why is Mexico interested in a defensive pact with China?

But they'd been proposing to be less corrupt. The idea is dangerous to Putin. That made Ukraine the best candidate for empire building. Unfortunately,...

In Russia? That's expected.

Yes. I think the anti-corruption-democratic activities that went on in Ukraine were seen as a threat to Putin directly. He needed to squash that and t...

Ok.

That doesn't really make a lot of sense though. Economic ties usually go hand in hand with political ties. Now I'm confused. Weren't you arguing that ...

They could invade Ukraine and blow a bunch of stuff up, kill a bunch of people, try to take the Donbas region, get bogged down, kill more people, blow...

Russia would allow Ukraine to integrate into the EU?

Remember, people are often blind to their own bigotry, clothed in self righteousness as they are. I'm not saying you're a bigot, but I know what Tclar...

People are never separable from the environments they inhabit. The ruthless wacko who bathes himself in blood might have been a fairly normal person i...

Could Ukraine reestablish economic ties with Europe after the war? Or would that be a provocation?

:rofl: Well I thought you could research a topic. I might have been wrong. You can start with learning what's meant by "superpower." I'm not continuin...

I think you're capable of doing a little research.

Russia isn't a superpower, Issac. Read some contemporary political science and get yourself up to speed.

Ok.

I don't think there are any yet. They're looking since the Russians already threatened to use chem weapons and they have a history of using them.

Confirmation from multiple sources is usually given weight.

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You could just notify a mod if you have a concern. You post this in order to be a pompous ass. What's worse is you're crap at philosophy as well.

There's a gigantic oak tree in my neighbor's yard. I sit and stare at it sometimes because it's so beautiful, but at the same time I worry that my nei...

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I've been interested in futurology for a while. In a way it's related to trying to understand history. :nerd:

I agree it's too late to aim for zero anthropogenic global warming. I mentioned before that a significant chunk of accessible hydrocarbons have yet to...

That's an odd attitude. The Chinese are getting there. . The rest of the world will catch up. Have a little faith, Peter.

If we could limit the change to that, it would be a win for humanity. The high projection for change is about 8 degrees. One way to avoid that would b...

No, but a happy outlook for next century is dubious since there's a delay between CO2 emission and the associated effect.