If the movie would be done as a comedy, like "The Death of Stalin", it would be far more accurate. But as Hollywood is liberal, they have to portray t...
When you say something that is wrong, I'll correct you. Nobody is amending anything. If you actually would read the memorandum (which you won't). And ...
Yep, both Jason Bourne and now (allegedly) Donald Trump can lift up their fat-asses from the backseat once inside a vehicle. I'm just wanting to see t...
At least Finland isn't changing it laws and likely isn't Sweden, so enough with your typical bullshit lies. And as the objective seems for some just t...
The rational reply would be deterrence, to have the capability of defending your country from an attack from this threat. And then continue to be at p...
Not in my view: tradition = the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way. =an inhe...
I'm not saying that. Both can change. What I'm saying is that they aren't so interdependent as to say ethics = tradition. Ethics can change due to eve...
First Kallas of Estonia, now Nauséda of Lithuania worried about the situation. Still on the level of "usual stuff happening in the Baltics with Russia...
Perhaps needless to say, but for Japan after the devastating and utter defeat in WW2, there genuinely was a perfect reason for the whole country colle...
I think this bizarre incident of Yukio Mishima's actions is a perfect example how some conservatives are totally blind to reality and see cultural dec...
From last Thursday: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates in it's latest report that this year total federal revenue will be 4,8 trillion an...
There's a difference between supporting a regime change and orchestrating one. Sorry, but this revolution doesn't look like some "Operation Ajax". You...
Devaluation (or revaluation) of a currency is a different thing. Remember that other countries had similar policies as the US and in many cases the US...
I agree. Those who get the money before the inflation kicks in are the real winners. And usually the wage earners are the last to demand higher compen...
With inflation, wage increases are usually viewed as the bad guy. And of course the government did basically shut down businesses during the pandemic,...
Seems like your blaming the rape victim for dressing too promiscuously. Oh yes, a decent outfit would have saved the beautiful young girl from being r...
Some have, that's true. I do know those permabears. They have their niche audience, just like every perma-something or conspiracy theorists has. And i...
Or irrelevant to you. Then why on Earth continue this debate? Well, in the case of Crimea and now in Donbas, I think this should be clear even to you....
After the bursting of a speculative housing bubble inflation won't pick up as the bubble bursting is highly deflationary. Banks and the financial sect...
I don't dispute there being an "Old Right". What I'm disputing is the idea that the Keynesians and those who pushed for the New Deal weren't part of t...
Like in 1971 Nixon saying that he is now a Keynesian? When especially Keynesianism is one of the most successful economic schools of all time, the ide...
Not actually. There's no alternative now for the US dollar. For now. Basically the US just can fuck up and have the dollar lose it's status as the res...
Fertility rate goes actually down when people get more prosperous and the fertility rates have gone steadily gone down around the World. Abortion bans...
Well, just who are you talking about. I think Roosevelt and the democrats of that era were part of the ruling class. With any class of people, you obv...
Ah, the decadence of the West! Well, both Americans and we foreigners likely don't understand just how much of that wealth and awesomeness of the US e...
Some, but only partly. I think the problem is that there's a huge difference in the actual policies and objectives which one side has and what the oth...
I've not followed what he has said. And I think the real problem is that into this issue will also be engraved the political mudslinging, the "culture...
Exactly. And the real problem is that these elites don't even change so much. I wonder what the reaction would have been if a Republican would be in t...
Learn just what? Actually the real interest hikes happened in the 1980's. Paul Volcker was the Fed chief in 1979-1987. Here's the fed funds rate along...
This isn't only an US problem. This is a global problem. When Paul Volcker raised the interest rates above the inflation rate, I guess the US debt to ...
My point was that Crimea being (historically, ethnically etc) part of Russia was very important in the rhetoric/excuses. But enough of this. said the ...
The legality of the "full compliance with democratic procedures and international law norms" seems quite in line with the Stalinist rhetoric during th...
No, it isn't an important distinction. With money printing I don't mean the actual printing of money, although they do that too. Let's just listen to ...
Your again wrong, Isaac. With Crimea, it was viewed as an inseparable part of Russia, which had no right to be part of Ukraine. Putin stated it quite ...
When the Federal Reserve doubled it's monetary base from September 2020 to December 2021, you think that isn't a lot of extra money? Sure...the people...
It basically is the question just how credible is the deterrence of NATO in the end. Or the US. We do have to remember that CENTO or SEATO don't anymo...
Well, this is the point I really look forward to have a discussion. How long should you believe this "supply shock" argument? How long people believe ...
This is an important issue, actually. With the Baltics, first it was that the states just became NATO members. ....without anything else being done. T...
Well, when they do start dropping dead in a great famine in the Sahel or somewhere else, the Europeans (and Australians too) can show their immense be...
Or likely that fertilizer plants in Africa would be dangerous competitors to European fertilizer plants. Not only the salaries would be lower, but als...
But moving on to another issues... What is interesting and a show of good political moves from Russia is the defense of the ruble. After the initial p...
Really? HOW ABOUT CRIMEA? Anyway, I think you should put the trust in Stalinist rhetoric to a level where it belongs. After all, in Soviet (Russian) h...
And if during the Cold War there would have been a Marxist revolution in Mexico, yes, extremely likely the US would have intervened. Mexicans themselv...
The famous hypothetical China-Mexico alliance. Well, ask yourself first just why would Mexico want to have Chinese to protect them? The Zimmerman tele...
Ukraine itself has huge strategic significance. Just earlier you could read how 'Novorossiya' is portrayed from the Russian viewpoint. And NATO attack...
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