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What I think would clear up a lot would be that the duopoly of the two parties would be finally broken. But Americans simply believe in the impossibil...
September 03, 2023 at 17:13
And my questions are: 1) How are these stakeholder groups decided? 2) Once decided, can these stakeholder groups be changed? And when, in what time? W...
September 03, 2023 at 16:57
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The EU is a de facto confederation of independent states, which desperately tries to be an union. Perhaps something similar to the US by some visionar...
September 03, 2023 at 13:11
You hardly wan't to answer my questions, I guess. Well, I could have given the example of the whole Brexit thing...and not silly walks. But what's not...
September 03, 2023 at 12:54
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As this is a philosophy forum, let's think about this from the beginnings and from the theoretical approach, not so much as from the legal approach. F...
September 03, 2023 at 09:03
Yes, manufactured by Ukrainian volunteers at the start of the war when Russian forces were still racing for their initial objectives. Nothing instills...
September 02, 2023 at 18:32
Yes, it's a proposal. But just how rigid the stakeholders are is in my view a relevant question. The actual upper house of the UK Parliament, the hous...
September 02, 2023 at 18:08
Nations that have called themselves socialist and democratic have been typically dictatorships. Isn't that exactly what existing democracies are about...
September 02, 2023 at 12:31
Tomorrow the French ambassador should be expelled from Niger. The junta gave yesterday the French ambassador 48 hours to leave. https://news.nbs24.org...
September 02, 2023 at 11:14
Somehow I have the feeling that Russians are quite used to this. During the Soviet Union a Russian would talk and behave quite differently when in his...
September 02, 2023 at 11:03
That's your personal view. How about cooperatives, public companies? So I guess you are then the dictator that decides just who get a "stakeholder pos...
September 02, 2023 at 10:33
Enlightenment has still a road to go, that's for sure. I think one of the worst things is when politicians use the superstitions of the people to back...
September 02, 2023 at 10:03
People being superstitious is quite real even today.
September 01, 2023 at 08:01
No. The evolution of our civilization has been widely exaggerated.
August 31, 2023 at 21:08
Isn't everything collapsing? EU was collapsing...at least so said many American commentators. UK was collapsing...again Scotland is thinking about ind...
August 31, 2023 at 21:03
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Ummm....Romania is part of the EU. It and Bulgaria have been EU members since 2007. What Romania isn't is part of the Schengen treaty and in the Euro-...
August 31, 2023 at 20:51
And about the modern day problem of "witch-craft", from some years ago:
August 31, 2023 at 17:57
Modern legal systems don't actually have any problem with this: If a witch-doctor is cruel to animals, hurts other people or somehow creates huge anno...
August 31, 2023 at 17:52
Isn't that group forming, which is even encouraged, basically the function of political parties? And just what means "on an issue to issue basis"? Som...
August 31, 2023 at 17:31
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Tax laws just like laws in general don't have same results in different societies. Hence it's not just to change the laws if you have severe problems,...
August 31, 2023 at 17:02
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(a late response) It is interesting to see how the Baltic States and other Eastern European countries will change through time. Because now those who ...
August 30, 2023 at 11:36
I think the most important thing to really understand is that Russia is an Empire. The whole idea of Russia is that it is an Empire. Russian's cannot ...
August 30, 2023 at 11:21
Fair enough. But usually there isn't much discussion of just what is the impact of this (or similar) findings.
August 29, 2023 at 17:27
That genuinely doesn't come at all to the reasons why Finland became and industrialized country from being a poor hinterland of Europe. But it suits p...
August 29, 2023 at 14:31
What's wrong with money? Are you going to centrally plan what people want and what manufacturers produced or what? Hows that going to work? And how ar...
August 29, 2023 at 09:51
Well, my country (Finland) never had colonies, it basically was a colony of Russia and earlier part of Sweden. South Korea was under Japanese rule for...
August 29, 2023 at 09:40
Because it's a good marker when the country is really, really poor. Famines happen in societies which are fragile, for example there are many subsiste...
August 29, 2023 at 09:15
For Ukraine, the situation is like the US when facing Saddam's Iraq in Kuwait, but without any or little air power and far less troops and ground equi...
August 28, 2023 at 18:41
Right, what should be happening globally. Well let's start with that. At first a question for you: do you think that historical examples of how now mo...
August 28, 2023 at 18:30
The rigid birth control was introduced in the late 1970's, so that was later. Yes, central planning and the "Great Leap" are culprits, but then again ...
August 28, 2023 at 17:45
Really, is it a pathetic improvement that there hasn't been a famine in China in the last 50 years, but before that there indeed were? (Those who don'...
August 28, 2023 at 13:34
Post-WWII history in China was a bit different to Western history. And you seem to look at the West, which in fact doesn't have the poorest people. Bu...
August 28, 2023 at 04:46
In Niger it's still not over and the bickering between France and Niger has continued: 1. Niger's military junta wants the French ambassador to talk w...
August 27, 2023 at 20:06
When you widen the viewpoint to let's say 50 years (1970's to 2020's) or more, the changes have been dramatic. Earlier there were widespread famine in...
August 27, 2023 at 19:50
Why not? It has happened. That it has happened in India and in China are really game changers, because we are talking about a huge segment of World po...
August 27, 2023 at 14:13
Afghanistan was a real tragedy. First, perhaps it would have been too much to ask from any US administration (Dem or GOP) simply not to attack Afghani...
August 27, 2023 at 11:19
A German documentary on the occupation / de-occupation of the city of Kupyansk. Kupyansk is close the Luhansk. Hence this is more "Russian" parts of U...
August 27, 2023 at 09:37
Stop right there. It's about limitations in mathematics. To talk about "certain classes of consistent system" can mislead someone to thinking Gödel is...
August 26, 2023 at 09:51
Ah, you mean like Trump wasn't fumbling in his Presidency with his administration just waiting for the next thing he would say, but it all was just 4D...
August 26, 2023 at 09:30
Anyhow, the whole Wagner mutiny was an epic disaster and a loss of face for Putin. It's not a show of strength that Putin kills now the Wagner leaders...
August 24, 2023 at 11:12
Well, once there's sound and agreed upon evidence of a conspiracy, it actually becomes a fact. And then the much hated "mainstream media" takes it as ...
August 23, 2023 at 19:21
What's the feint? Mutiny feint? Russian aircraft shot down feint? The mutineer then killed feint? :roll:
August 23, 2023 at 19:18
Actually, it has been the Department of State, not the CIA, which at the present has been most successful. And of course there really are NGOs, or sim...
August 21, 2023 at 05:16
Or if Ukraine is in NATO, that would be a guarantee that Russia doesn't the war after rebuilding it's offensive capacity. As you write, the whole war ...
August 21, 2023 at 04:54
How so? With Crimea, Russia can easily block (as it does) sea routes Ukraine is quite dependent, as we have seen. You see, the route from Odessa and o...
August 18, 2023 at 18:52
That's actually from Putin's firm ally, Belarus. And people there not being happy about their leader. But now I guess everything is fine. If Ukrainian...
August 18, 2023 at 05:06
There are no and never have been any grass roots opposition movements in Russia and it's near abroad. None. Everything is CIA/Western backed covert op...
August 17, 2023 at 20:21
If either France or the US will say by a high ranking diplomat or official that Wagner and Russia has been involved, that surely would show that they ...
August 17, 2023 at 13:52
Especially post-WW2 Cold War got world politics to look to be two sided. Now it's really getting back to being multipolar. Also in the way that so-cal...
August 16, 2023 at 21:43
Science and technology has improved, but has there been much other improvement? For me World politics looks more and more like in the 19th Century.
August 16, 2023 at 20:12