Yeah, I'm not so sure about that listening to what the Secretary of State said and listened a bit more further. The reporters question was loaded. If ...
Nope. What is going on is a Trump tantrum. A coup isn't when the executive uses his power to dismiss people that he can dismiss. Besides, last chances...
That's a nice compliment to the forum, Athena. Making a spear better is likely a far more difficult thing than planning a new computer program, when y...
You are right about the cult of personality and populist movements. Populism has this fascination with strong leaders. You can see it also for example...
Half of the country is excited of Trump leaving. That's for sure. But come February 2021, just few months from now, that isn't the focus anymore. Then...
Trump surely doesn't have an ideology, but the reason he was elected in the first place isn't a mystery. Call it simply populism: be for the ordinary ...
Not actually. As you can observe from even this Forum, there's not much genuine excitement for Biden as there was when Obama came into power. Exciteme...
A lot to describe there, especially on a global scale. I think that for starters, we concentrate on how things change while something that has stayed ...
True. The real problem in the "Market economy" of the present is that the natural market mechanism that would lead to asset prices to fall isn't toler...
True, but notice there are indicators as Price to earnings ration, the P/E. Usually with "normal" stocks this is something like 30, meaning that the c...
The duopoly has found the perfect formula: 1) Nominate Presidential candidates "Bad" and "Even Worse" 2) A third party on the ballot will automaticall...
Economic history tells how to do it. Actually many countries have become more prosperous thanks to globalization and thanks to the West's indifference...
That's the classic example how economics get's things wrong: if the mother stays at home, looks after the children and takes care of the house, that i...
For starters, not everything important has to do with the economy. The economy is first and foremost a tool, if it works well, then the prosperity sho...
One reason I guess is that some states could issue mail-in votes until the last day before the election. A good idea (that won't happen) would be that...
No, but to one should be aware of the things when talking about everything being possible by air power. There's enough literature, documentaries and i...
What reality are you talking about? Have you served in the military? Are you an active reservist? Do you have a summer place less than 10 kilometers f...
Uh, well, in a large country holding national elections ought to be a well coordinated collective effort. But for some reason, some states will get th...
CCCP. Besides, the Russians I've met were very nice and warm people. Judge individuals, not people. And don't relate the people to the problems of the...
Make him a martyr? Likely he will then be one of the most respected Russian leaders, even if "the intelligentsia" might have other ideas about him. Yo...
Well, I've tried to say Paul (and you) just what the US did wrong, but from your 'clear minded moral vision' similar to a view from an ivory tower you...
Far more better if he would be sentenced to jail for the a) rampant corruption b) the killing innocent Russians to reignite the Chechen war. Yet that'...
And I'm getting tired of the utter military ignorance and naive thinking especially from Paul Edwards on military matters. I have had to correct his e...
At least on the Republican forums, sure. Perhaps others will refer to him as ex-president after he leaves office. I'm sure he personally wouldn't like...
The first thing to do in a war is to dehumanize your enemy and delegitimize him. A typical way is simply start by referring to the enemy as terrorists...
One of the biggest inabilities of the US and the West in general is to look at the examples of how truly lasting peace has been made in the past. Espe...
Yes. Because your simplistic ideas aren't based on the real World. It's more to the level of bar room talk where World problems are solved by just bom...
Ground forces were still needed. Please inform yourself of actual events. IFOR was a 60 000 strong NATO force deployed into Bosnia. In the war in Koso...
Well, here we have been having deficits for a long time and it hasn't gone into investments, but upholding the welfare state. If taxes don't cover the...
With "surviving" I'm drawing my definition from the experience of our eastern neighbor, which was called Soviet Union one day and then was Russia afte...
Exceptionally many tight races, like Wisconsin with 20 000 vote in favor Biden when 99% counted. How many recounts are there going to be? It will surv...
Well, it's close. Likely so close that even some other politician than Trump might also start arguing about an unfavorable outcome. There is a high pr...
Seems like Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina are going to Trump (at least now). So how it looks like now I have to admit I was wrong in my fore...
It's called voluntary work, if you have not noticed. I understand your point. My point is that "scratching each other's backs" is important as then th...
What are you talking about? Afghanistan was never an air-alone war. In fact neither was even the intervention in the Yugoslav war as US forces and NAT...
And contribution we usually think as work. Rarely we see ourselves contributing if we just get an unemployment check. That sense of contribution is im...
Perhaps people don't want to stand in line for hours during a pandemic. But the real question is how many states can get through the mail in votes. I'...
Is making art meaningful work? I think so. Besides, I've done a lot of voluntary work, that I've not gotten paid. I think it has been meaningful and I...
I don't think so. Besides, getting rid of meaningless work is a totally different question that getting rid of work altogether. Meaningful work brings...
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