He was advocating refusing military help to Ukraine which would most likely result in Ukraine's loss of further lands and quite likely its independenc...
Yes, but the main problem is that the machine cannot predict an outcome that depends on that prediction. 'Pick an option opposite to what you would ha...
The point is, as I have repeated for a long time now, that you base your whole argument on a single metrics, which you admit is quite prone to variati...
Suppose that we want to program a computer (a machine that is known to be deterministic) that would make a robotic arm to pick out a ball: red or blue...
Because only the nearest abroad counts. Russians do not see Finns (or the Baltics) as 'people like them', so they do not care much whether they are fr...
The issue I am pointing out is that first you make very specific claims and support it with a rather unspecific indicator of freedom, which is actuall...
Your claim was that it went from oligarchy to democracy in ten years. Do you still support that claim? I just ask how the evidence that you have provi...
So we are supposed to ignore it and pretend it that the other data are not there? Well, using data from two different sources if you have the relevant...
In the link you have provided: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2023-01/human-freedom-index-2022.pdf there is no data for 2015, but there are...
Yes, I know those bits in blue, those are the exact links I have used to get the data I have so nicely presented. Those data say things completely dif...
Ukraine score in 2015: 6.34 https://i.ibb.co/xmK3ZVT/Clipboard-Image-1.jpg Russia now: 6.01 https://i.ibb.co/JvL29Yg/Russia.jpg Can YOU keep up with t...
Not if the expected likely consequences are worse than if you did not take that action. But if the alternative did not strive for global peace, but al...
No, 'greater than zero' is not enough, you have to provide argument that your proposed course of action is likely to succeed. If you had a plan that w...
I was referring to the facts concerning overthrowing various regimes and how it affects the likelihood of assessment of success in this case. No, your...
No, I did not present my views based on one instance. I have quoted many events from the history that support the view I propose. Unlike you. It was y...
No, that is not true, it is as ahistorical as most of your other claims. The simplest example is the one I have already given you: the liberation wars...
I have given you two specific facts: 1. Putin's rule has been practically unchallenged by peaceful protests for twenty years. 2. The events of the Ukr...
You expect me to apologize that facts confirm my arguments and not yours? No, it is not a coincidence, it is a process well known from history. The fa...
Yes, tyrannies have a tendency to last quite long, unless significant impulses affect it. I would say that a bloody, unsuccessful war, with more than ...
Igor Girkin (Strelkov), the main instigator of the Donbass war and a man main responsible for killing three hundred people in a passenger plane over D...
Your alternative was 'popular protest movements vs how many had to rely on military invasions'. I did not expect you to take it so literal, if you do,...
Then Washington invaded British-held Boston. There you go, military invasion overthrows the regime! Should I look up all the others? The bottom line s...
The simple answer is: it is not the most humanitarian option. The American Revolution was not the most humanitarian option: most likely Brits would ha...
There is no reason to limit the examples to invasion of one country by another, given that Ukraine does not and never planned to invade Russia. Why br...
None of the oppressive regimes were overthrown by military action? Hmm, let me think: the American Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the Greek War, ...
Well, when the Ukrainians tried that (by driving toward closer integration with the EU) their president for some reason made a 180-turn and opted for ...
No, as I have already explained. Sovereignty for Ukraine is a way to steer away from Russian-style authoritarianism. I was explaining why Ukrainians f...
I do not believe that the distinction between a full-blown autocracy and a full-blown kleptocracy is that important in case of Russia. The point is th...
As far as I know there have been no cases of well established democracies turning into full-blown autocracies in half a year. But I might be wrong her...
No, it is not, it takes a bit more than that. And seemingly you missed the whole point of my post: at this particular time those under Russian influen...
Russians openly call for genocide and subjugation of former republics (and other countries) on their official channels not because of their genetics, ...
I also recommend viewing some fragments (or reading some quotes) from Russian Media Monitor. Note that those are fragments from official Russian chann...
Sorry, I missed that one... Germany is possibly the most powerful (depending on the metrics), but not to the extent it can dictate anything - it usual...
Again, I was pointing out that his reporting might be biased, and I was write. Lol. That is exactly biased reporting: Bennett says it is what a joint ...
Sure, he is independent and biased. Lol. No, he did not. Don't be daft. Of course the foreign interference would have to be significant to name it as ...
I have singled out Sachs because he was presented as supposedly 'independent' witness of the events. This is simply not true, given his visible bias t...
I would agree that an 'object' is a mental construct. I believe that mereological universalism is too vulnerable to a host of problems (Theseus/persis...
So we should assume that all those academics, including Sachs, are biased? OK, that is all that I have claimed. No, of course not, that is logically i...
Which Europeans? Germans, French and Italians - yes, the spell of the inexplicable infatuation with Russia seems to lift. Austrians are hopeless, Brit...
Your arguments from authority have a certain flaw: Sachs is a respected academic, but only a tiny minority of foreign policy experts agree with him on...
You miss the point. Sachs' thesis is that if not for 'agressive NATO push by the US', everything would be peaceful. That is simply ahistorical - Russi...
The bias, IN MY OPINION, is shown in how he presents only those facts that suit his theory. I do not think it is the best place to dissect the whole a...
His previous declarations and articles, such as this one. Of course, in my opinion. Just like everything you write is 'in your opinion'. Yet you do no...
What an unimpressive rhetorical flourish, devoid of any substance. You do have a tendency to do that, when you run out of arguments. 'They blocked it'...
No, I am claiming that if people are biased (and Sachs clearly is), then we should not treat their reports as 'independent', as Tzeentch claimed. Now ...
You can strike out 'strong', if you find adjectives offensive. The facts remains that the report that the peace deal was almost ready and it was block...
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