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Sherbakova says the truth. An imperialist Russia won't change: it will continue to threaten it's neighbors and continue to try to dominate them.

Yet the US has wanted and still wants them to spend more on armed forces? And Ukrainians have seen how prosperous and stable this has made other count...

In fact really. If you are going to go for the trope NATO members of being vassals to the US and EU members to being vassals (umm...to somebody), then...

Really? First of all, it's not basically a "public forum for states". and if the member doesn't comply, And furthermore, "public forums for states" do...

Doesn't then being a member of the United Nations mean a lack of sovereignty? At least for me joining a club voluntarily or some goon forcing by viole...

Seriously: joining voluntarily and being attacked is the same thing?

But it's telling about the whole effort. A war that came as a surprise to many in the administration. A mobilization that has mobilized more young men...

When Bush invaded Iraq, many NATO countries starting with France and Germany didn't participate. When Obama wanted to attack Syria, his NATO allies sa...

Then obviously you have an incorrect idea of what is to be a sovereign state. There's an interconnected web of international laws, agreements and inte...

You can utilize what kind of discourse of vassalization whatever about the EU or being in NATO, but it totally falls to be similar with the case of an...

Think for a while about it. Is the US annexing parts of Ukraine? Does the US think Ukraine is an artificial state and should belong to American cultur...

A cardinal number is, well, a number. When we talk about finite sets, the cardinal number is a natural number. And even if this will irritate the math...

Why ought Russia have the right to take it from a sovereign state, whose territories it has accepted on several occasions? Why ought violence, aggress...

Index funds may really not be the great investment now, just as @"Benkei" noted.

What I think is obvious that they mobilized are used in the classic Russian way as cannon fodder. I remember some Ukrainian soldiers that were intervi...

That is where nuclear weapons work: deterrence. If this would be a non-nuclear armed country attacking Ukraine, it is likely that a no-fly zone would ...

Oh yes, the Ukrainians as the "proxies" of the evil West. How typical, the victim is the proxy. Simply keep the same level as now. Keep the course now...

Notice the difference with rhetoric and actions on the Russian side too. Russians have basically made the argument that they already are fighting NATO...

Simple: to continue to undo "the greatest tragedy of the 2oth Century". Russia to claim dominance over it's "near abroad". And the West has given him ...

Appeasing the bully will just encourage Putin. The nuclear sabre rattling naturally is taken seriously, but it should be looked just how likely this w...

Countable, right. Thanks for the correction.

To the layman (as me) this is rather scholastic, but I understand that math is precise. So a question: When you construct "a denumerable binary sequen...

What was then his working hypothesis?

This is simply irrational. Neither side will overcome and defeat totally the other side. Hence there will be a negotiated peace or armstice (like betw...

Cantor proved that you cannot make a bijection between the natural number to the reals, hence the reals aren't aleph_0 like for example rational numbe...

Actually, what Russia would need would be it's own Monty Python. Monty Python, and it's success shows a crucial great aspect of the English, if not th...

I think we are simply talking differently about the subject. But as I'm no mathematician, I acknowledge that my wording might not be rigorous. Do noti...

Hm. Comes to mind what a great ally Russia was to Armenia, when it was attacked by the Azeris. Didn't even provide arms, but least after Armenia lost ...

Well, it's about what can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the set of natural numbers and the reductio ad absurdum proof that this cannot be...

I wouldn't be surprised. Russia did nothing to help it's ally Armenia when it was attacked. But naturally for Russia alliances don't mean the same thi...

Even if they would be the same, Isaac would interpret them totally differently. As he has done.

But that's about infinity, actually. The Continuum Hypothesis.

That's a good return. And you are correct that making an investment where you don't physically meet someone or know where to physically go if there's ...

This seems to have had an effect on the discussion about using nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Likely the costs of any "Escalation to de-escalation" would...

As an Englishman, do you have a moral right to some piece of geography, like where you live? It's not about duty. It's simply a very rational response...

What did I say? There's still something for us to understand with infinity. Actually, I think the continuum hypothesis is that from aleph_0 the next i...

Very easy: aleph-1. The the infinite cardinal of the real numbers Because I think there's still something for us to understand with infinity, it isn't...

They naturally ought to fight, and that fight has been proven very successful. An invader that thinks your sovereign state is artificial, that ought t...

Clueless as ever.

When you in your ignorance (or living in your alternative reality) think there is no difference between Ukraine and Russia... And don't understand why...

Well, you convinced me to buy cryptocurrency (Bitcoin). We obviously are in the fear mode. Actually that might sound like a simple thing to do, but it...

It's interesting that those neonazis don't get the focus of those seeing neonazis in Ukraine as Putin sees. But Putin's far-right views are in line wi...

Now trying to change the question again? What in "as long as it takes - for the territory to be intact" do you not understand? Anytime soon doesn't me...

Incoherent ramble again from you, Isaac. The fact that I stated is that Milley doesn't see a quick victory for Ukraine (just as the Ukrainians don't e...

How far postmodernism has taken us. The fact that morality isn't totally similar as logic where things are either true or false and usually provable a...

So just to continue this thread. FTX went bankrupt with billions of missing. So the guy who handled the Enron mess says this... :smirk: Is it a trend ...

Wrong again, Isaac. It's even in bold, so you could notice it. (But again, too much to assume you would read what people say or write)

LOL! :rofl: An absolutely ludicrous idea! Even you wrote his name wrong (MIlley), and obviously that when the general says the obvious, that there is ...

Hardly surprising that that you are living in an alternative reality. As Ukrainians already have regained territory. They didn't have to rely on an in...