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What likely isn't fake news is that Russia has lost many generals (perhaps four or five) and high ranking commanders in the war. This does tell about ...
March 24, 2022 at 09:31
Of course. I'd agree it's likely, but the probability of it being fake isn't zero. And even if it's simply thoughtlessness of those who cleaned up the...
March 24, 2022 at 09:25
Obviously Putin does have his supporters, no doubt. But one should notice that Putin's Russia is authoritarian, and spontaneity is usually controlled ...
March 24, 2022 at 08:56
Of course you don't. And these people came all with their own flags to the stadium, which they cherish so much. They weren't handed to them by the org...
March 24, 2022 at 08:42
Yes, they seem to try to encircle the Russian forces. This I think could be the first major operation as the counterattacks before have been tactical ...
March 24, 2022 at 08:22
Yet you have firm convictions about them being perfectly sensible solutions.
March 24, 2022 at 08:09
Yep. And for this you basically have to have measure of absolute poverty. Why I took this up is because if one let's say just looks at income inequali...
March 24, 2022 at 08:05
And how well you know these independent states of Luhansk and Donetsk?
March 24, 2022 at 07:46
Bravo. But as you so well put it, this is the thinking of many here. Here the agency comes into view so well when you compare the fight the Ukrainian ...
March 24, 2022 at 07:43
If income varies even a bit, there will be low and high income. Yet this defintion simply needs the idea of absolute povetry.
March 24, 2022 at 07:28
No, he's genuinely being pro-Putin. Did you read through the his quotes that I gave? Likely not. Neither @"Isaac" or @"StreetlightX" or anybody else i...
March 24, 2022 at 07:20
Oh our forum Putinist has already extensively covered the evils of George Soros. :smile: That is the sad truth. I remember what a Finnish former MP pr...
March 23, 2022 at 13:23
It unfortunately looks to be a long, bloody war. Yes. Democracies can stay as democracies even during the war... but it will be tough. Martial laws ar...
March 23, 2022 at 02:26
One shouldn't feed a troll, but anyway. Selective troll memory part III: And that we already got your answer: you don't condemn the annexation of Crim...
March 23, 2022 at 02:20
I think that if Zelensky worked in Ukrainian media making films, there likely was an oligarch owning the media. Hence that part is the usual mudslingi...
March 23, 2022 at 02:04
Selective troll memory, part II. So you go with your lies...
March 23, 2022 at 01:51
Ukraine is winning at least in the West the information war. It was totally different in the confusion of 2014. And it has to be said that a lot of th...
March 23, 2022 at 01:34
Clearly I do. I've discussed him issues far enough. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck. Why don't you just look at what he says...
March 23, 2022 at 01:18
:100: Idiots cannot do that. :smile:
March 23, 2022 at 00:48
Don't know well the Ukrainian constitution... Yep. Talk about a postmodern twist. Or Karma. Announcing his candidacy and having to insist, it's not a ...
March 22, 2022 at 21:15
Some make similar arguments like you. Haven't been successful. You see, even if it comes close to be like the liar paradox, it isn't a paradox. It jus...
March 22, 2022 at 21:09
The whimsically selective memory of the Putin troll. https://www.democracynow.org/images/story/64/22764/splash/feb15crowd.jpg
March 22, 2022 at 21:02
Leaders using that kind of rhetoric aren't immediately signing peace agreements. Documents of enemy surrender perhaps. Yet the war isn't going as earl...
March 22, 2022 at 20:56
Putin clearly stated before the invasion that he had no intension of invading Ukraine. Denazification I think was the term when the invasion had been ...
March 22, 2022 at 20:20
Similarly goes the civilian casualty figures. That happens when you fire rocket & artillery barrages at urban areas. And when you're out of wooden cas...
March 22, 2022 at 08:51
Yeah, this is a very stupid idea. Russia isn't the US. Putin doesn't need any backers for elections. He needs the support of the army and the intellig...
March 22, 2022 at 00:04
This is how the conflict can drag on for a long time... and that will put the human cost easily well beyond hundred thousand killed. Ukrainian and Rus...
March 21, 2022 at 23:52
After Sauli I guess we'll get an older Sanna Marin as President. She's bound to be the next. If she doesn't really fuck up. I just find it amusing tha...
March 21, 2022 at 23:28
As this is a philosophy forum, it think it is worth wile to ponder about morality or justifications. I think if you would understand that if the realp...
March 21, 2022 at 22:59
As a Finn watching Ukraine fight now Russia, I understand how Swedes felt during the winter of 1939-1940. (Swedish posters of the time) https://www.in...
March 21, 2022 at 19:20
When someone hasn't anything to counter your argumentation, then start the nasty ad hominems. After all, for some, they have to win debate. Not to lea...
March 21, 2022 at 19:05
From Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riF1szCa6Ho From Syria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_raow2c0j7c In Afghanistan in a war far shorter ...
March 21, 2022 at 19:00
My government has for the first time in it's history sent weapons to another country. So let's just understand Putin. He needed that sphere-of-influen...
March 21, 2022 at 18:38
Oh. So you think the "denazification" of Ukraine will be so easy at the end of a rifle? Whopee! That sounds like fun. All this for a land bridge!!! :r...
March 21, 2022 at 18:30
:100: :cheer:
March 21, 2022 at 18:06
I am happy that you did that. Or that your wife and your smart daughter insisted on that. Never underestimate how precarious the acceptance of foreign...
March 21, 2022 at 17:51
Oh sure, how the war is going it surely won't be an Afghanistan for Russia. It will be much, much worse. In Afghanistan in 9 years of fighting Russian...
March 21, 2022 at 17:36
I think the bellicose rhetoric of "fortress Russia" will only end when there is a humiliating defeat and too many soldiers are killed in a war that ma...
March 21, 2022 at 16:47
They have already oil & gas pipelines to China and likely will build more: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/resizer/coDRBOZ9O9RjUJqqL7C-Pqi5Xug=/1500x1...
March 21, 2022 at 14:39
An oil embargo has been talked about by EU foreign ministers. For example Poland is openly demanding it and naturally many countries are opposing it. ...
March 21, 2022 at 14:21
Well, I guess Putin would be the first person declaring that! He's just protecting ethnic Russians and welcomes them who want to join mother Russia. J...
March 21, 2022 at 14:15
It's his rule that sucks. Many Europeans would just love to have a calm, peaceful and prosperous Russia, where entrepreneurs like Sergei Brin would st...
March 21, 2022 at 02:06
That's a good start of us agreeing on the picture. You do understand the difference between "in 2014 the US overthrew the Ukrainian government" and "i...
March 20, 2022 at 21:01
The only thing which is all Putin is that he surely made the choice to invade Ukraine. What I've said, and many others (perhaps you too agree with it)...
March 20, 2022 at 18:54
Benkei. That is exactly what I meant. Basically it's the Nuland Pyatt taped phone discussion and then saying that this is improper thing to do. And no...
March 20, 2022 at 18:35
Just check how close the Finnish border is from St Petersburg and Moscow. And how many wars can he handle? And aren't we forgetting that his most trus...
March 20, 2022 at 18:28
Why don't specifically tells us how the US overthrew the Ukrainian government. Because if it's that John McCain and others visited Ukraine among other...
March 20, 2022 at 17:46
You make all kinds of accusations and strawman arguments, which I really don't care about.
March 20, 2022 at 17:30
My country isn't at war. But I'm a reservist, yes, with a wartime position. Yet Ukrainians are defending their country.
March 20, 2022 at 17:17
Of course, for the like of you people defending their country from an invasion is warmongering. Why don't the silly Ukrainians just surrender to Putin...
March 20, 2022 at 15:55