Democracy doesn't create a paradise, but it still works in some countries. Many people just look at their own "democracy" and assume others are simila...
ISIS won't create it's Caliphate, but at least they did have a serious attempt. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSxJKyqhc0EWlgvFT...
After the 2020 election Trump's total ineptness and lack of leadership qualities was shown. The self-coup, which basically it would have been if Trump...
Let's hope that the US crawls back from this pit it has fallen into. An electoral commission would naturally be the first thing an autocrat wants to c...
Quite a lot of my predictions have come true. Like how it was laughable to think that someone like Trump "would end the forever wars" and "focus on Am...
The way things are going look very sinister to me. Even now when the GOP is enjoying a narrow margin in Congress, Trump isn't going the actual way of ...
It's really a concept of how to really fuck everything up: 1) Rapidly enlarge one particular force disregarding a vetting process and training. 2) Tak...
I'll choose any day the EU moloch from the Soviet/Russian moloch. And interest rates would be higher here if we wouldn't have the euro moloch, but wou...
If Trump would be just an ordinary president, it would be after all 5% (or well, with an ordinary prez I guess the percentage would be 0,05%), but he'...
And what do you think happens if after the Midterms Trump and the GOP would lose both the House and the Senate majorities? It is a possibility. Still,...
No. Supposed to be Trump's humor. But posting maps where countries are part of another one is actually no laughing matter. I just remember the maps th...
The good thing is that afterwards we will know. History will put these issues into context. Just imagine the historical films done about Trump decades...
That's why the administrators are so against political threads. I cannot blame them. I think perhaps a discussion about Ayn Rand's philosophy would cr...
I think he really got excited about Greenland. It was outrageous. It was totally surprising. Totally out of the ordinary. But he assumed it could be d...
And mine wasn't about Trump. Any president including those from the democratic party that issue executive orders when obviously those order ought to b...
And we do use it. It is, well, essential. What we don't have is a proof. Or how it fits everything else. What we have is threads like this constantly ...
For starters, I think we can agree on what space is. What is time and how it relates to space is another question. One can argue that calculus doesn't...
I don't think you are blind. That talk "reckless expenditure" I assume is before his last years of being a prime minister (2010-2024). The Russian inv...
Well, @"AmadeusD", I'm surely not in the Trump-lovers line. A bruise isn't something dangerous. An open cut which isn't treated might be. A mortal wou...
I think you understood me incorrectly as this has nothing to do with US policy. In "American racism" you have Caucasians, whites. In European racism y...
Racism is extremely illogical and basically is a result of bigotry, hubris of oneself and shows the lack of needed social cohesion in a society. So wh...
Calling Trump "Daddy" and all that... :razz: Rutte definitely is always saying that thanks to Trump, NATO countries are increasing their defense expen...
No, but the issue in the core of Zeno's paradoxes. And we should note that calculus had problems with the infinitesimals, like the famous critique fro...
Or it was a critique of Plato and other mainstream philosopher's idea of the potential infinite. We should remember that we unfortunately have lost Pl...
So next move from Trump is the "Board of Peace", which he has invited countries and Jared, Witkoff, some billionaires etc. to the executive Board. Of ...
Trump lovers will say: "This is the art of the deal!" "4D Chess!!!" Trump haters will say: "This is TACO!" End result: The US alliance system got a re...
No. They're hosting NATO exercises, which guarantees the actual safety of Greenland. Which Trump seems to go with now Rutte. Your a bit off here. Trum...
And now, finally. I think this absurd thread will like be ending soon as Trump finally gave in. For now. Until someone asks him if he is still thinkin...
Unfortunately I don't think it's going to go away even then. Trust will come back very slowly. Only an absolutely catastrophic fiasco will make things...
American Presidents will choose always later inflation from losing the next elections. If there hasn't been a dollar crisis yet, perhaps there isn't o...
I think the real problem will be just how to repair the damage. I think giving executive orders is simply a sign of weakness, especially if the Presid...
Lol. The only thing he is looking at is the midterms. Huge win might get finally an impeachment that goes through. That's why he wants the economy to ...
Indeed. Well, he got Iceland and Greenland mixed up. But he promised he won't use force to take Greenland. They way I see it, the US military wouldn't...
Correct. In fact, payments on the national debt are now larger than the defense expenditure. During the Cold War the spending was far higher. https://...
You think that changing tariffs less than in one year is rational? What international investments and trade simply needs is stability. Think about, if...
It's actually something that the Russians do (earlier the Soviets did) a lot. Many Nordic countries simply start from the assumption that internationa...
It is. But actually, can it be anything else? Perhaps, but it's hard. Many times people will assume the role of defending their country or their party...
OK, this might be difficult to understand as I don't have a clear way to say this, but I'll try to be as clear and as simple as possible: Cantor's dia...
I understand, but it's quite unfortunate. People on the forum have had a good general education and awareness of world events, which has made the deba...
When the issue is Trump, to view it this way is totally rational. I think the Trump thing here just works against any successful program. I'm quite sc...
Oh I'm favor of long threads (and like to hear the reason why this particular thread is closed now). If it's one topic especially about some ongoing e...
Really? How about the opposition to the Vietnam war? I think the Domino-theory was a long-term strategy. Or the Civil Rights movement? The policy towa...
Question for the moderators/administrators: Why is the Israel killing civilians in Gaza and the West Bank -thread closed? It's a long thread, started ...
How Russian media is viewing the possible US annexation of Greenland? With praise, it seems, from one fellow imperialist to another, from the Rossiysk...
Yes, you indeed are missing my point. Trump and the EU made last year a trade deal... which is now ripped open because basically of his own vanity in ...
You simply cannot make a deal with Trump. And that's why everybody is rapidly making deals with other (Canada with China, EU with Mercosur) because of...
Just to comment on the actual Artemis program, and NASAs manned space program in general: The program came after the cancelled Constellation program (...
Btw, has anybody noticed how Greg Bovino looks like Colonel Lockjaw from the "One Battle after Another", the role acted by Sean Penn? Bovino is so clo...
I don't think it is at all far fetched. Let's remember that: a) His bromance with Putin has been for a long time. He genuinely likes the guy. He likes...
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