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He already signalled his demands at the negotiating table: he wants Ukraine to be recognized as neutral. He wants it demilitarized, and he's probably ...

I use Walmart.com these days. Best way to get my cheap Chinese goods.

Oh good. So join me in condemning Putin for doing the same thing the US has been doing to South and Central America for years. :up:

I think you just let the US off the hook for every atrocious thing it's ever done. "You guys shouldn't have threatened us. You should have backed down...

Question: One of the Dutch posters on the forum was saying NATO should have "abandoned" Ukraine earlier to avoid war. Surely he wouldn't say that abou...

Do you watch PBS? At some point Frontline will have a show where they explain more deeply what Biden was thinking through all of this. I don't have a ...

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If Russia did invade would you come to the US? Or what?

We just didn't know those were real countries. We'll be right over.

Don't watch any of those. It will rot your brain. Just read newspapers.

I see what you're saying.

This is in line with what I've been reading. I thought maybe taking Ukraine was part of a plan to revitalize the economy?

Just for the record, if you grew up in America, you know good and well that this is about Pollocks, not slavs in general. I have no idea how the dumb ...

In terms of behavior, we aren't blank slates. Biology would suggest that some hinge propositions are genetic in origin. But we can't reasonably say th...

You're probably right. I'm calling all Soviets Russians. Thanks for the heads up.

An estimate from a British historian who spent two years in Russia looking at records is that there were about 37 million unnatural deaths from 1917 t...

Nope. So Isaac has owned up to conscious intellectual dishonesty. All you lack is the admission.

If you're saying capitalism=neoliberalism, then we aren't talking about the same thing. I'm talking about Hayek. If you don't employ psychology, then ...

It's one little US government and a whole world to exploit. It's all much more dynamic and rough than you're making it out to be. And this brings me b...

But that stuff comes from neoliberal think tanks. The average American senator voting for mitary aid to Ukraine or Poland doesn't understand any of th...

Yep.

What?

Someone said that if you read comments from the Chinese Pinks you'd think the US just invaded Ukraine.

I don't think Europe or the US has ever seen central Europe as some great prize. I think at least one element of encroachment in Russia's sphere was f...

My point was that expansion of NATO started in the 1990s with a cold war mentality. Inertia carried it forward into the 21st Century.

You didn't see the ones from the 1990s?

That was interesting. A fair amount of that criticism was from the 1990s when American politicians were still thinking in terms of the cold war. I thi...

It was the Mongols last time. China this go around? Could be. :up:

He can't lose an election. They're rigged. A political realist would say there aren't any international laws. I lean in that direction.

Why do you think that? He really has been though. Russia had to reinvent itself in the 1990s. There was no recipe for how to do it. Putin did a great ...

I see. Yes, at base, the nervous system doesn't deal with truth because there's no falsehood at the level of reflex. Falsehood is a resident of passiv...

Then he should attack Ukraine as hard as possible now. Obliterate Kiev. The problem there is that he'd have to then occupy Ukraine (with American troo...

Yep. Remember, Russia already has logistical challenges to a prolonged military campaign in Ukraine. Their industrial capacity is already maxed out, a...

Yes. So you see language use as secondary to actions that are the real hinges. :up:

I don't think he wants that though. I thought Russia's debt would keep this from happening. He helped give us 4 years of Donald Trump. Now half the gl...

The ruble is worth less than one cent. This shit is getting real.

Remember Biden already promised to fuck up Putin over interference in American elections. This would be the time to do it. It's making me wonder why P...

They already have weapons with more on the way from Germany.

They're getting aid from several countries, so it will be a while.

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Then you need to read a history of the USSR.

If you widen your time frame to a century, you'll find this really isn't true.

My favorite cheese is NY style extra sharp cheddar. Food of the gods.

This is also true when the bad guy is the USA.

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Oh yeah! Plus I never showered during the whole war and you always ate those limburger cheese sandwiches. Boy what a stink.

But would he become a martyr?

They used it in chemical warfare during WW1. I remember those days. It was harsh.

The Jacobin article said it wasnt orchestrated by the US. So will they kill Zelensky and his family?