It seems you are both saying that NATO is putting nuclear missiles in countries bordering Russia and this is not public knowledge. That seems to be ra...
Because the economy is in war mode. Russia is spending a lot of money to make new weapons, ammunition etc. Therefore its industrial output is steady, ...
Sure, if you ignore all the differences between certain countries, then they are exactly the same. I am pointing specific issues which make Russia's s...
Your argument was that depreciation of ruble was great for Russia, because it boosts exports. While in theory that is correct, in this particular case...
Let us see about that... Yes, that is exactly what I wrote: 'No, because Russian problems with exports have little to do with prices.' Russia had to p...
Sure, it all might be possible, but we do not believe that, we conclude that it is likely other people are conscious and that aliens would be consciou...
But how can we know what they say and do? Only by perceiving them physically with our senses. We have no way to get into immaterial mental communion w...
No, because Russian problems with exports have little to do with prices. Due to its huge official (and probably even bigger unofficial) deficit Russia...
Here are two charts: https://i.ibb.co/sFSqRVc/WG-Russian-Ruble.jpg As can be seen, almost half of Russia's exports are made in rubles, but only one th...
The exchange rate of ruble against all major currencies (USD, EUR, CNY) is climbing very fast. That means that all imports are more and more expensive...
I have specifically argued why your chosen course of action is unlikely to bring the positive consequences and likely to bring about the negative cons...
The example is silly, because it completely ignores the consequences and their probabilities. I have already given you the better suited example: we d...
So which of the two options you presented Charap's plan is more compatible with: Given that Charap supports further counteroffensive and military pres...
No, what Putin does to his people is not an indicator, it is a factor affecting the indicator. You are just confused. I did not down play the relevanc...
You have given no examples how those factors affect HFI. As we have seen, there are factors which barely change the indicator (like rising authoritari...
'Crippling' is rather subjective, but they did have debts, most of which were cancelled by the economic oppressors. Why think with Ukraine it would be...
The issue you missed is that if we are to talk about the IMF and US economic capitalistic oppression, then the transformation of the former EE countri...
It seems you are still not familiar with how EE economies were restructured ('given away to the West', as some said) after the communism. Everything i...
That was your claim: Additionally, you have flatly refused to consider aspects of the current Russian situation that would counter that claim, arguing...
Your argument was that HFI can move significantly and positively without consideration of any particular factors (as they could be offset by other fac...
I begin to see a pattern. No. You have made an argument that it is perfectly possible, if not likely, that occupied Ukraine will be able to increase H...
Poland had a substantial debt to the Western countries and then to IMF which was to large extent cancelled and restructured and yet it has much higher...
Because we know current score for Russia, Ukraine and, say, Belarus, and we know current scores for countries which are no longer in Russian sphere of...
When they were communist states, they were more like Russia, so when they stopped, their HFI would increase (if it was assessed then). I think it is q...
So in fact their freedom increased? And now their HFI is quite high, much higher than Russia's. Thus is it reasonable to assume that if Ukraine stoppe...
You wrote specifically: After the communism Eastern European countries were in a rather poor state, with rather poor infrastructures, inefficient, ser...
Let us check then the one sufficient indicator of human freedom there is: the Human Freedom Index. How those poor Eastern European countries opressed ...
This redefinition has even less to do with the conflict in Ukraine. Sure, if the war is short and indecisive. Then the conflict will still not be reso...
You have literally went from: to: Because that is how you have decided to define authoritarianism/tyranny based on the HFI index. The problem is that ...
No, I have explained for many posts before that relying on a single datapoint out of many is incorrect. I have talked about it over and over. You did ...
I have described very specifically why your support is inappropriate and have quoted the Wikipedia article only after you have shown that you simply d...
Yes, that is why I took a lot of time to point them out - I carefully examined each charge of fallacy and explained why it might and why it might not ...
I have given your four articles about the fallacy you commit. You either understand them or not. If not, then nothing can be done about it, as they ar...
I understand it quite well, but my accusation is not that 'there's no evidence for X', but that the evidence is cherry-picked. So joyously acknowledgi...
Great, so you finally did some reading. So: is using a single outlier to support your argument is a fallacy or not? Of course, I have already acknowle...
Oh my, you still have not read the article, which clearly explains why this approach is incorrect. Errare humanum est, in errore perservare stultum. I...
No, cherry-picked support does not disprove anything, which you would know if you read that article. An argument based on a single cherry-picked point...
Your whole argument was first based on clearly ahistorical claims, when that did not pan out, on cherry-picked data (or opinion in your view) AND by s...
We can modify the description of the experiment to remove the recurrence: the printout is not read by Ned, but by his colleague, Ted. Ted reads that N...
Except you did not do what you now say you do. You have given one source (cherry-picked after your ahistorical claim that Ukraine turned around in a d...
I have considered it in view of your argument that peaceful regime change in Russia is likely. It does not show it - at best it shows that some indice...
As I wrote I do not dismiss it, I just point out the possible shortcomings (like you did with Freedom Hourse) and point out that it should be consider...
I certainly did not expect you to ignore all the data that contradict your thesis. Assessing more data does not get you closer to truth than carefully...
Yes, of course, not all of them. When we use the collective nouns, we rarely mean every one of thing represented. Still, the support for the defensive...
We care about Ukrainian sovereignty, but not enough to die for it. Sending weapons has the advantage of us not dying. Ukrainians, on the other hand, d...
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