As I referred to "the political theatre event played in the Congress", I'm quite aware of this. The real problem is this: this is a long term structur...
US debt problem, the nation spending recklessly well over it's income (and not the political theatre event played in the Congress) is like inflation. ...
Let's take just this part of the paper into debate. Thomas Diefenbach here uses frequently conditinionals (might) and simply makes quite a weak case h...
When you have a centralized state, oligarchy in some form will evidently happen. Perhaps we should define oligarchy and oligarchs better as let's say ...
If Athens stands out as one model for democracy, even with the minority (the few free men) participating in the democractic rule of the city-state wit...
Prigozhin isn't acting like a military leader, but basically a warlord playing the role of a politician getting ready for the internal violent for pow...
Well, I think the reaction of the people when Ukrainian forces Russian occupied cities like Kherson tells it all. But noted, there were (and are) thos...
Evidently the belief in the new Novorossiya isn't at the ground level the same as in the propaganda. This was happening already before February 24th o...
Great job guys getting him here! If still room for a question, here's mine: Professor Chomsky, your first political book was The Responsibility of Int...
One possible outcome is that the border will be at the Dniepr river. This basically would mean a Russian victory as then they have obtained from this ...
This is something I have to degree with. The objective seems to prevent Russia from gaining an all out victory, but Ukraine not having the ability to ...
Again the similar ludicrous (and apologist) view that if Ukraine is under Russian control or independent, part of the West (and hence under the oppres...
Lol. I think for Ukrainians it genuinely is about living in Putin's Russia or not. Something a person like you living in the UK can obviously easily d...
And women can be more easily raped when they are passed out. Now the situation in Ukraine was different, which was rather unnoticed before by the atta...
Estonia is actually a very interesting example as it had so much experience of inept socialism under the Marxism-Leninism of the Soviet Union, that it...
This is classic nationalism. Something that actually Vladimir Putin has been also very concerned about: the Russians now "stranded" in other countries...
Subjectivity is a problem for us as our scientific method tries always to give an objective answer or model about reality. Hence it simply doesn't car...
Obviously "conservative values" depend on the society and history where the conservative party exists. Conservatives in an islamic country or in an no...
No. Just to give one example, actually this "soft power" is something that Russia has used successfully in Central Asia. Remember that the US after it...
Coming from a country where the authorities have planned and also constructed shelters for nuclear attacks in cities, the first question here is just ...
With the meaning by "soft imperialism" I referred to a situation where countries have the influence over others (political and economic) without terri...
Last Tuesday I went to a local cafe down the street. People sitting in one table had put a little NATO flag on the table. Basically people had been in...
Yeah, there you go... Well, EU has kept EU members from fighting each other. And btw, NATO members have also done that, thus the member states have fo...
That sense of belonging and social cohesion is important in an otherwise alienating world, especially when we inherently have different ideas of how t...
If you know about Afghan history, you will know just how difficult it has been for the country to modernize, even without the European powers trying t...
You can argue that both are forced upon the individual, but I think a lot of it isn't forced upon us. Citizenship of a country and the idea of nation-...
Just a question: how would eternal life would be so nice? I guess the first few billion years could be nice, but then? (Oh right, you said it would be...
We are talking about Europe... and especially Ukraine. As I've said, other developments in other continents deserve and have gotten their threads. Jus...
A fundamental problem in this thinking is to assume that the government just gives out services, which are paid in taxes. Services that we "the people...
Yeah. There's actually many differences between Ukraine and Afghanistan, if you haven't noticed. You can see from the examples of the Baltic states an...
Yet we can see that without exersizing this "right" to apply for NATO membership, hasn't made a country like Moldova to be left alone. And this really...
Well that's something to note! The dismal reckord of the West has taken place especially in the Middle East and also in Africa and earlier in Asia, no...
The American fascination with guns is a political one. There is this myth held by Americans that they are more free and have more liberties than other...
Ukrainian war has been very costly. What I was referring to was that Russia would have had ways to influence it's neighbors to keep them out of NATO w...
Never underestimate how tolerant of difficulties people are. Let's take for example unemployment: now you would think that high unemployment would mak...
Oh you don't see this war and the Russo-Georgian war of 2008 etc. as a tragedy? Well, objectives like containing NATO for Russia would have been easy ...
Some real estate investors are like Trump: anything they get, any money, they put into new buildings and take as much debt as they can. Then when the ...
Oh they want to retain it. That's what Putin has been talking about all the time: how illegal it was for the Soviets to make Ukraine a republic and th...
Thanks for good commentary, @"Count Timothy von Icarus" I think the recessions haven't happened because of tax increases, but lowering taxes in hope o...
Yes. good Isaac. And oh, look how it starts, which you haven't put to bold: The extension of a nation's authority by territorial acquisition. So, I th...
But it is a perfect example of classic 19th Century and earlier imperialism, which Russia has gone back to. This makes it so obvious. The annexation o...
So you won't give own reasons, why you think as you said above? And yes, in many ways there is this longue durée in Russia security policy thinking st...
Some remarks on the good comments made by @"Count Timothy von Icarus": The US simply should look just why it's health care costs are so insanely more ...
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