The story here is that Europe will now re-arm. This will take a decade or more. In the meantime Russia is weak and can be held at bay for that decade....
Just heard from Sir Bill Browder that he was talking to EU leaders at the summit the other day, about releasing the frozen Russian Funds to support Uk...
Yes 1983 was the point of real danger. Baerbock let it slip the other day that the EU is prepairing €700billion aid package for Ukraine. Apparently it...
Although I am dead against the war and was shocked when Putin invaded. I realise that it was a fatal strategic error for Putin. His army is now deplet...
Maybe they think it’s corrupt, therefore can’t be trusted. There’s also this thing where they know that what Trump does is wrong and there will be som...
What you describe was the post war settlement. It worked ok for a few decades, until it ran out of steam as a result of the rise of China. Now the US ...
I’m a bit late to the thread. Just to put you at ease, mathematical infinities are not the same thing as philosophical infinities. They are precisely ...
I live near the US airbase in Norfolk U.K. on the night when the drones were flying above us here there was a lot of military aircraft activity. While...
As the climate in Europe becomes more unstable and intense, it is going to become increasingly more difficult to grow enough food to feed the populati...
I saw Max Richter in concert last night. He played the album, Blue notebooks, which he wrote 20yrs ago in protest against the Iraq war. Sublime experi...
And Trump has stated that all these people will be sent to jail. Basically, he is now waging war with the American state and if he were to win, he wil...
And if Biden were to halt arms shipments to Israel today. What would happen? Or what do they fear would happen? Evil is something that goes on in a pe...
Both sides are scared of upsetting the Jewish lobby, or want them onside. Isreal is a running sore, which previous administrations have tried and fail...
Yes, the French bureaucracy, painfully slow. Whereas on the other side of the spectrum there are corporate giants like DuPont and Boeing over the pond...
I see now that I was misreading your OP. I was thinking about freedom, rather than morality. Morality is about social behaviour within a species. Wher...
Yes, I see where you’re coming from now. However if you take a look at France, one of the most socialist Western countries. There are maverick’s study...
Socialist countries have capitalism and investment capital too. Or are you thinking of Communism? Anyway I’m just saying they can do it too, just in a...
By relative, I mean not universal, but something happening in entities. Each species of entity is different, so the result of the inquiry will be diff...
Freedom is relative and an attribute of an entity with agency. So there is no solution to the problem, but rather a series of compromised solutions de...
The AstraZeneca vaccine was funded by the U.K. government and charitable organisations. This would have been the same under a socialist government. It...
Here’s the full speech, people can make up their own minds about who speaks for the people of New York. https://x.com/ArtCandee/status/179547570697923...
Sums him up nicely. “ We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot. A two-bit pl...
In this interview an Israeli soldier speaks out about what he saw fighting in Gaza. https://x.com/Channel4News/status/1783179575310094524 Two things h...
Quite, like words of agressors being backed up by actions. Of course, the complacency in Europe failed to act as a deterrence against Putin’s expansio...
If we’re serious about destroying all oppression we could all just kill ourselves. But in the meantime I say Hamas first - the aggressor and oppressor...
People doubted he would invade a large country like Ukraine too. It’s a risk, we are talking about risks here. Again it’s about risks, probability. Ye...
It’s relevant if that anger goes beyond the point of rationality. But you take us back to the Chechen war, things have moved on since then. Putin’s me...
That’s unrealistic, you’re taking it back to a point where Russia was weak compared to now. Putin has been agitating in Ukraine for a long time. If Uk...
Controversial enough to threaten the alliance, to threaten U.S. support for and trust in a powerful EU. How angry do you think Putin would have been i...
So am I, the Israeli conflict won’t have big geopolitical consequences. The Ukraine conflict will have big geopolitical consequences, but the directio...
I see the issues you raise and they will have to be grappled with by the parties to the coalition. Provided the U.S. doesn’t veer off in another direc...
This supports my point, the U.S. needs to help the EU to become strong and strengthen NATO. Yes this is something to guard against, but not for reason...
Yes, I agree that a long drawn out war is fine for the U.S. But I really don’t see this talk about the U.S. wanting to keep the EU weak. Or that she w...
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. ...
The West can "forget the issue", but the geopolitical shift with Arab nations aligning to BRICS and taking a bigger role cannot simply be ignored. Or ...
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