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Is there another plausible outcome, I’d like to hear it? It’s not a narrative, or a narrative that may be adopted. It’s an opinion of the likely outco...

I don’t see it as a problem, but rather an inevitability. We and the world have seen what the US gets up to for many years. But in reality that doesn’...

You do realise that Russia can and will use chemical weapons with impunity, right? For two reasons, it is what they have previously demonstrated to do...

I’ll remember that if I present their evidence against Russia.

You know the problem with evidence, like proof, is how do you prove it.

No, just the media reports and the Azov video.

There are reports of Sarin gas being dropped from drones over Mariapol last night(11/04/22). I agree, NATO won’t act on this if it’s proven.

This is what I’ve been thinking. This war along with all the others involving previous members of the USSR are fallout from the collapse of the USSR. ...

Yes, one is less likely to indiscriminately bomb the second house.

This is a big subject. Peasants in your part of the world may have had a nice life. They didn’t here, we lived under the brutality of our robber baron...

It’s better than the alternative, as far as global peace and peace in Europe is concerned. Remember the U.K. is a poodle in this, as always and with a...

Just looked at your avatar, now that is crazy. (One of my favourite films)

Oh, I missed out EU hegemony, I must have been distracted by something. Yes I’d opt for that all day long, of course. I’m not sure the alternative to ...

Yes the the geopolitical tensions between the US and Russia continue to play out. Following the fall of the USSR this point was always going to be rea...

There are a lot of analysts and commentators who conclude that Putin is a dictator. Certainly the failings of the military is not evidence to the cont...

I’m equally outraged about the war crimes and starvation in Yemen. The horrors in Somalia, Sudan and now in Ethiopia. I was up in arms about the invas...

I agree with you here but for different reasons. That Russia’s army is incompetent with poor equipment. They can’t even occupy Ukraine, so are not goi...

Hopefully you’re right, perhaps any scary variant which does emerge will not be all that bad as we become immune. I notice China is having a bit of a ...

Prior to the invasion I was closer to your position. This changed in 25th Feb and especially when Putin threatened nuclear Armageddon with menaces. A ...

Yes like passing through the eye of a needle. I find it difficult to image such an outcome.

I can find you someone who has met Putin, but I don’t think it would help. Putin has a poker face, is an ace poker player. Those Kremlinologists who h...

Andrew Levi co-led a UK diplomatic crisis response to Putin’s invasion of Georgia in 2008. I’m not sure what he’s done recently, but is occasionally i...

Now that Covid is endemic here in the U.K. and May we’ll be in other countries by now. Perhaps it’s time to consider if there is likely to be a deadly...

What I find interesting is how the Putin’s behaviour can be viewed through the prism of a mafia boss. As opposed to a strong man, a mad man, a megalom...

Interesting thread, comparing Putin to a mafia boss. https://twitter.com/AndrewPRLevi/status/1511000355781365767?s=20&t=3nD3A_OEWFEWX36lWBJEow

Yes, so on this assumption some eastern mystical traditions are poor mystical practice. This is not to say that they are not excellent meditation, or ...

Well this infinite monkey analogy seems to have a malignancy about it. But joking aside, what I was saying is that a being achieving a mystical goal, ...

What truth are you referring to? (I note no one else picked up this hot potato. Maybe it’s a good way into a discussion of mysticism)

Not merit, but growth.

I don’t know what JWST stands for? I agree with Metaphysician Undercover here. Infinite time is a peculiarity of philosophy, along with the infinite m...

Yes, the path from the person to the (true)self, put simply. I could elaborate, but it might not get us any further than that. There is the issue of w...

Agreed, but unfortunately you won’t find many folk on here who practice. In the absence of this practice it’s just words chasing their own tail.

Lots of detail around Omicron here. https://thezvi.substack.com/p/omicron-variant-post-1-were-fed-its

Yes I totally agree. It’s interesting that they don’t mention the so called problems caused by globalisation. Or in U.K. 42 years of Tory incompetence...

Yep.

Nice article, explaining simply the inevitable result of our Tory Brexit. https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/brexit-means-brexit-theresa-mays...

I haven’t had time yet to watch the video. But I can answer the question it poses. Johnson can’t afford a trade war. He is becoming weaker and weaker ...

I see this policy as a naive, incoherent day dream of a populist. It has some nice sounding phrases in it and it might be something which an enlighten...

Sorry, I’ve been busy on Twitter. I’m fine, I’m insulated from Brexit fallout. I came to the forum today as this week is going to be important for the...

Nicely put. I came across a phrase the other day, which conveys a lot about discovery and being in a few words. “ you can’t become what you can’t see”

I wouldn’t describe it as “the materialist delusion”. But rather an ideology which doesn’t (from its own perspective) require a sentient being as the ...

It is in a sub forum of politics and current affairs. It is a philosophical discussion of a current affairs issue.

Yes, although this happened many thousands of years ago. It is only recently that we have run out of new lands to colonise. And only recently that we ...

It’s difficult to provide proofs for things like global tipping points. The signs are there and arguably the tipping point is reached somewhere we are...

Yes, but it’s an echo chamber and only really worth it for those who are interested in breaking news and current affairs. I quite like it for cartoons...

Yes, we only need look at the tobacco, or oil lobbies. Here in the U.K. we have a distinct privileged class. An overthrow of our class system. These p...

Agreed, I expect a string of crises will help us adapt. But without them, I expect little change. Perhaps the EU will lead the way.

Interesting ideas, but I have given this some thought and came up with a problem. The rich, some successful business people, elites and privileged peo...

I think we will find ways of managing economies based more on sustainable models through having to deal with a succession of crises. The free market c...

These tipping points are already breached. We’ve recently had 30+ centigrade heatwaves in all permafrost regions. They are melting rapidly, there is e...