Because their agency matters. It's not just the US fighting a war through it's proxy. It's really about the proxy itself. The biggest mistake is that ...
In an insurgency naturally you cannot be sure who is the "illegal combatant". But that doesn't make the civilian population an enemy". Are all the chi...
If there would be NO assistance, perhaps an arms embargo on Ukraine ...for some reason, then I guess the only response would have been an insurgency. ...
Which is here talking, Gaza Health ministry (the remnants of it) or the IDF? That tells everything. For me the enemy is always the enemy combatants, f...
I don't recall hearing this. But please give an actual reference on it. And what happened to the "denazification"? Besides, this isn't on the anymore....
Wee! :grin: When the Finnish Parliament voted at 188 to 8 to apply for NATO membership, some might think that nearly like in North Korea. But there we...
The Kremlin hints at negotiations. This can be intrepeted many ways, but I think the new entities refers to the Oblasts annexed. And naturally Russia ...
If you have a right answer, you are dealing with mathematics and logic. If the answer is better (or worse), then the next question is better for whom?...
Well, it's the typical modern day argument method: there is no room for any conversation. You simply repeat your line no matter what and simply ignore...
Well said. And here we find the problem that the narratives diverge so much that they simply don't meet. At all. Nor there's any willingness to listen...
What larger death tolls? War in Ukraine has larger death tolls, but it hasn't such high amounts of civilian deaths or death of children. And let's rem...
That's what I tried to say, but that's a better way saying it. And the statement describing "information" is basically about this inability of compres...
Perhaps "the randomness and information are essentially the same thing" simply means that you cannot compress something that is random or you will los...
Perhaps I may have asked the question in a difficult manner. Do historical aspects justify more or is it the will of the people? Which justifies more?...
If my narrative is that negotiations for a ceasefire have failed, how much does that contradict my entire narrative? :roll: You are just building your...
Yes, I'm serious. There were negotiations that didn't go anywhere. They failed. Not even a moments cease-fire. So you are whining over about spilled m...
And Israel's first backer was actually the Soviet Union. At the birth of the state it was quite leftist and the US wasn't actually supporting it (the ...
It didn't happen, hence this is crying over spilled milk. Remember that years have gone from this. And especially after Putin annexed more Oblasts, Uk...
Five months ago here. It's the typical idea that Russia would have (somehow) accepted a negotiated peace... but it was the West that fumbled it by "st...
Again no. They are not lying! Does the US lie when it talks about democracy and humanitarian rights? No. The simple fact is that sometimes realpolitik...
It's not about the justification, it's about what the real objectives here are. Does Russia have the right to annex territories is the justification p...
I still think that their history makes them quite different from Jordanians, Egyptians or the Lebanese. As I said, Swedes and Finns are both Europeans...
The lesson that should be learnt is that Russia isn't a state that basically is happy with it's borders and has severe problems to be a nation state.....
This is laughable. What security concerns made Russia to annex Crimea? What security concerns made Russia to annex later Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and...
Do you have reading comprehension problems? Just as the US speaks of humanitarian rights and democratic freedoms all the time, so does Russia about NA...
They might be unhappy of NATO enlargement, but as you should notice that the enlargement of Sweden and Finland didn't actually get much if ANY respons...
What genius says things like the above. There's nothing odd with that. Russian imperialists see Ukraine as the existential part of the to make them a ...
:100: :up: Everything has to be put into context and scale. Ukraine didn't threaten Russia, Russia has made crystal clear it's imperialistic territori...
Interesting read. I think there's one absolutely fundamental issue here at play to this discussion: as you point out in Introducing the Scandal of Ded...
First question here is of course cui bono? Who is the Central Clearing Party and how much power the pension funds themselves have? Then what's at stak...
One can say so, but the people aren't artificial. I think that Palestines and Palestinians ideological roots have more to do with how the "Jewish Pale...
At least that pi is a transcendental number means you cannot square the circle as it otherwise could be possible, if it would be rational number (or R...
? Ah, I think that this is the finding that infinite strings as being infinite also then do have the text of Tolstoi's "War and Peace" written in bina...
I don't think that this is our biggest problem. Public discourse simply can be annoying some times. If it helps you, you have a way to go still in tha...
Again, just what are the devastating effects caused by scientific progress? Without scientific progress there sure would be devastating effects. Not j...
Yet we won't get "food replicators", at least in the way in Star Trek, without new scientific insights. And there are ample amount of global problems ...
So we agree that it's the potentially devastating technology, or the use of this tech, which is the real threat. Because otherwise it's a bit difficul...
A lot of people do think that science is just one part of the process of how our technology will improve and that tech is just there to improve our li...
Self criticism can be our strength, assuming that we also will respect the achievements that we have made. Totalitarian systems cannot be self critica...
Must be really some awesome technology of the future, because the fact is that even an all-out nuclear war between US/Russia and China wouldn't devast...
Yet we don't call engineers scientists, but engineers. There really is a difference between science and technology. Your simply not using the definiti...
There's a lot to be critical about of US actions, but when it comes to Europe, here fortunately the US hasn't made it's biggest blunders. On the contr...
Why use scientific progress and not simply technological progress? Our weapons have become more deadly because of technological advances. Science is a...
There's few mosques here and very few Jews where I live. And people are quite well behaved. It's a bit different in "Holy Land", where religious zealo...
Actually here NATO works (...or doesn't work as a tool of US policy): only few American endeavors have been so that all NATO participates in them. And...
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