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? The border which increases hugely the border that Russia has against NATO (now only in the north in Norway and around the Kaliningrad oblast with Po...

Oh. So you mean that corporations are secretly refraining of producing what is demanded? Well, they then lose money.

Can you explain a bit what your meaning here. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. Yes, COVID, wars, etc. do increase the spending of governments, whic...

Yet they aren't synonyms. I have faith that my wife loves me. But her love is quite dependent on how I treat her and that I show my love to her. I wou...

And likely will continue also in 2022 with two new members, if Turkey get's to be satisfied. Yet our 1344 km border with Russia now posed to be a NATO...

Hmm... but is it really based on faith? You can trust logic and mathematics to bring an answer in the logical system. I think the idea of "If we hadn'...

Thanks for your response. Of course we cannot answer historical "What If" questions, but I would dare to argue that there is more to this than just op...

Hmm... proof of God? I wonder if people have been in a Church listening to a sermon where the priest has talked about really "thinking" about Jesus, u...

I think the real difference has been in just what reasons are seen as the most important. Or let's ask it this way: What do you think the objectives o...

a) Usually countries don't have nuclear weapons as their neighbors aren't a threat to them. b) Mearsheimer argued that Russia is such a grave threat t...

Isaac, I've always said that NATO enlargement has been ONE reason for Russia to attack Ukraine. My point it hasn't been THE ONLY ONE. That Russia has ...

How does it relate? You really are asking that? He thought it was so likely for Russia to attack Ukraine that Ukraine should need it's own nuclear det...

And one should remember what the deficits look like now. https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/images/deficit-trends-viz.svg

You genuinely think that there isn't the link in the central bank money printing and fiscal policies? The biggest holder for US treasury bonds is the ...

Another fact stating how bad the war is: See World Bank article Just to put up into context what a -45% GDP growth, it is similar what the Soviet Unio...

What is now interesting to see is the row between Lithuania and Russia and EU sanctions, that Lithuania is following in the rail shipments to KönigsbK...

I think Mearsheimer should have been listened far earlier, when he was arguing that Ukraine needs it's nuclear deterrent to prevent Russia attacking i...

Yet I think only a fraction of physics is actually experimental lab work. A fraction of physics is about "here's an experiment we did in the lab, plea...

There's one thing the old 19th Century name, political economy, tells immediately about economics. And that is that it's very political, not some clin...

I think you give too much credit to "hard sciences". Everywhere where a lot of people are involved, mediocrity and partly lousy standards can and will...

Why is the GOP clinging so hard with so much nearly religious devotion to such an inept politician as Trump is beyond me. It doesn't make any sense. N...

Indeed. (Of course the 2014 annexation of Crimea can be seen as the Anschluss part) Well, the atmosphere is partly like the US of 1939-1941. Back then...

Because inflation happens well after the money has been printed. Let's have a simple model. The government has to pay it's employees and assist it's c...

Then you simply don't look at the big picture. Because the response to covid was done in tandem. Both by the Government and by the Federal Reserve. Ye...

That's what I was trying to say. Making a huge separation between fiscal policy and monetary policy isn't fruitful. Perhaps better would be to talk ab...

But the crucial "strategic surprise" is lost now, fortunately. The best time is always the first time. A huge majority of people simply won't understa...

Absolutely!!! They are avoided all the time. But what is an avoided war? Peace. What is an avoided revolution? Political stability. We cannot see coun...

To believe in the independence of the Fed or the ECB on these matters is a bit naive. I'm not following you. Or do you think the EU didn't have it's o...

Uhhh....yeah. They have. They've chosen the various stimulus packages etc. which got the inflation finally going. https://crfb.org/sites/default/files...

Simply to put it, stopping the easing is already tightening. If you have increased the money supply and then decrease it or stop it altogether, isn't ...

And just when in your thinking the Ukrainians become these turncoats who ceased to be sisters and deserved the "special military operation"?

That's why you have the price mechanism. If something becomes unobtainable, it's price goes extremely high. That creates incentives to replace the "so...

I think you have in the options many important issues as options lacking in the OP. The inflation is the direct result of a long inflationary monetary...

But then you immediately continue... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Allies halting at the borders of the Third Reich...because of the sovereignty of Nazi Germany is one of those questions of some invasions. Of course, ...

Larger homes, more servants. Same issue. So if everybody would have the living standards of what billionaires have, that would be irrelevant, if there...

Let me pick just for example this. @"Baden" is totally right, pretty much any political discussion is as messy as this. How about starting to answer y...

Nobody else but you are giving legitimacies over invasions and annexations. Neither the invasion of Poland or the invasion of Iran is legitimate. It's...

Hmmm... I don't think anybody here thinks it was OK to invade Iran. Yet neither country annexed Iran. Iran actually later took out the Soviet puppet s...

:up: And because basically started this war in 2014, there wasn't any strategic surprise, which would had to be had to pull this special military oper...

But prosperity is all about absolute terms. Do you have enough and good food? Good service and medical treatment. All those machines and opportunities...

Absolutely. With a super majority in the Duma, Putin has total control. United Russia is Putin's party, even if he doesn't have a prominent official r...

If you start with a logical system, it shouldn't be a surprise that you end up with something logical. Not only do we use logical. I would make the bo...

I think the greatest flaw in Intelligent Design is simply that it goes against religion if the conclusion made (by ID proponents) is that by scientifi...

Yeah. How dare I disbelieve what Putin or Russian officials sometime say: And should I remind that some people on this thread seemed to be openly and ...

Question: Would we have three (and counting) pages of discussion of this if we would be discussing Flat Earth Theory? Surely we could, it is a fascina...

There's no different treatment. The US is arming substantially Ukraine. It's sharing intelligence about the Russian invader. But it's not declaring a ...

In fact Putin had already in 2014-2015 bullied to Western leaders that he can "roll the tanks to Kharkiv and Kyiv easily". This is very bizarre semant...

No. What I'm saying is that they are continuing their assault in Ukraine and have not yet made realistic proposals to end the war. What I'm saying is ...

And those consequences aren't usually then thought through. Because the idea goes that we simply are consuming too much, hence let's consume dramatica...