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And the assumption that because Russia has nuclear weapons, it can invade other sovereign countries and we can't even give these countries aid to defe...

I'm not so sure of that, actually. US officials have been in contact with their counterparts. We forget just how little interaction there actually was...

A Republican controlled Congress won't eat alive Joe. Not literally and not even in a figure of speech. We don't have to go further than 2015-2017 to ...

Well, thinking of "pathologically stealing or harming others" seems to have the idea in it that ethics can be universal and absolute. In many cases it...

Seems that James Webb telescope is in heavy use, new interesting images: https://www.al.com/resizer/58Coi6sTRJE5fynpsUR1h3XRsmc=/800x0/smart/cloudfron...

Laws defines criminals. Speaking of a war existing between Ukraine and Russia is criminal in Russia. So yes, you can be totally rational and a crimina...

For Ukraine to defend itself from an Russian attack is different from NATO attacking Russia. But if you listen to Putin, it seems to be the same.

I think the escalation to WW3 is severely overstated. It seems as if people have long forgotten that similar wars where on one Super Power's enemy was...

Besides, I've noticed not much enthusiasm for the incoming elections here. Might the Republicans get both houses? What do people think?

Well, the inflation finally came, even if it wasn't supposed to happen at all in an deflationary environment. And wasn't so transitory as suggested. S...

Ah, in mathematics, yes. Sorry, I didn't understand you at first. In mathematics you start with logical premises, and then get that system something i...

No.

Logically it's not just any kind of adjective. We assume that true things exist. We cherish for example mathematics because there true statements exis...

Physical existence is quite clear: either something is made of atoms exists or it doesn't. Hence we can say that an animal we define or have named as ...

Apart from the interesting ontological questions, we simply need in everyday life to exist as humans a lot that isn't made up of atoms. An advanced la...

Portugal btw. was the last Western country to hold on to it's African posessions by fighting colonial wars (in the 1970's) thanks to having a fascist ...

Is antinatalism the answer? Perhaps the lure is the provocative nature of this absurd idea. After all, if everyone believed in antinatalism, we as a h...

The short answer is that Russia is a police state. There are more political prisoners now in Russia than in the later years of the Soviet Union. A rui...

Can somebody sum up just why anti-natalism is such a popular topic?

This is one of those very peculiar and strange things in international politics and really interesting to find out what history will say about this. A...

Your just a troll, Isaac.

When thinking about the Trump administration, one has to remember that: a) There was Trump b) There were the "Trump"-people, c) There were others, tha...

I'm just trying to show how ludicrous your ideas are. Of course that doesn't go through to you, but others might benefit.

Yes, if the leaders actually democratize, reform the system and not have the country lead by a dictator. The Baltic states did this. Russia didn't. Be...

Yes, and both are targets of Russian imperialism. With the case of Chechnya it was trying to free itself from the Russian federation. Yet Chechnya was...

So when Russian army has done atrocities, then accuse of those being racists who point these out? Talking about "Russian endemic cruelty" is wrong as ...

One of the way how navies fight is to create a blockade against the enemy country. And naturally that is against all shipping to and from the country....

Mr Strawman inventing his own topics of the discussion, it seems.

So you don't understand what you quote in your own messages? Putin started his career extremely likely with a false flag operation killing ordinary Ru...

Just as I seven months ago said on this thread here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrvAkNRYjFs Those Russians got what was coming for them in the di...

I haven't seen this article, but I guess it's more of the journalists (Lauri Nurmi) imagination than anything else: if nobody hasn't talked about them...

Is he banned from Russian television? I'm not so sure how much Dugin's star has faded as his speeches is quite well taken now as there is a war betwee...

Just how Orthodox Russia is quite questionable as the atheism of the Soviet Union did have an effect. I am for conservative values, but when those con...

Which then begs the question: how credible is the West in it's promise to attack conventionally Russia? Is that believable enough to Russia and Putin?

Winter is indeed coming. But perhaps it's not going to be as bad as they say (and Putin desperately hopes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGjBtNu2rZ...

Alexandr Dugin is really a "Putin whisperer" in the way he has promoted this semi-fictional historical view of Russia and it's role in the World. That...

But for some people here the only issue is to criticize the West and about the situation in Russia, China or Iran, they don't simply care.

If "diplomacy" means a cease fire on the lines now, that would be most beneficial to Russia's war aims. Putin could justifiably say his war has been v...

Hilariously illogical. These kind of brainf thought constructs tell something about when actually the "me-myself-and-I" attitude is mixed with over pr...

Actually, the Soviet collapse was far more dangerous as: a) there were A LOT MORE NUCLEAR WEAPONS then than now in Russian arsenal b) several countrie...

Yeah, not actually. We already saw this didn't happen in the case of the Soviet Union collapsing. Or with the sad case of the Iraqi scientists buildin...

And this is why inflation will be made to run as long as possible. It's one way to decrease the debt burden. The last act of this long running play wi...

And if the West gets offended by Chinese actions, it can do the same to China which it did for Russia. And China is even more dependent of exports to ...

If you don't have an armstice, you can have a frozen conflict then. Basically that both sides lick their wounds and refurbish their materiel for an po...

Many wars show how this war could end...badly for Russia. A failure to make peace: - The Korea war. Only an armstice exists. DMZ drawn where the fight...

This just shows what this war can be seen as a war that didn't happen then, but has happened now due to the breakup of the Soviet Empire. This is on t...

This is alarming. It really is like preparing the narrative groundwork for using nukes. After all, you could argue that making the Ukrainian territori...

With Rishi it isn't, at least when it comes to Oxford. But the private preparatory school, Stroud, likely is nearly as exclusive as Eton. https://www....

That is a good observation.

:roll: I assume that Trump can evoke hatred or disappointment even among libertarians and people on the right. Trump was simply a very lousy President...