He wouldn't gamble more if he perceives it to be a bad bet. If we for instance build up our defences then the bet becomes worse... They are an ideolog...
Yes I think you are right, economic globalisation was the cause of the hollowing out. But they see it as sort of a package deal maybe, for globalisati...
Remember at the time we already had really high energy prices coming out of Covid. I think Putin figured it was the perfect time, because he could rea...
The center of Europe Dark clouds circling ever nearer Dog pile world War is the father of all things The old world order was born out of world war two...
On this I will say a couple of things. Expect more to come. It's baked into their ideology because they see mainstream Europe and the Liberal democrat...
Well, Russia has recently conquered back Kursk. It's a stalemate where Russia has already conquered the territory it wants for the most part, and is t...
Putin has no reason to stop because he is winning. A cease-fire is tactically not advantageous for the party that is winning, because it gives the los...
Yes yes, we should allways keep the war going no matter what the chances of winning are, no matter how many people will die, no matter what the streng...
Yes our involvement has been half-hearted from the start. They probably didn't really want to get involved all that much, but then they had to virtue-...
Of course I wouldn't be happy with it. And I think Ukraine has every right to be unhappy with it too. They are fighting for their survival, I don't bl...
What's your point Jorndoe? That it would be bad for Urkrainians? I never claimed otherwise. We have been supporting them unconditionally in rhetoric o...
And I don't disagree with your comment. I didn't mean to imply that we are in the exact same situation as Weimar Germany... just that these kind of th...
The decision to support them or not, and under what conditions, is ours. The idea that we should just follow them, wherever that may lead us, is insan...
Yes and the US is threatening to withdraw their support if we don't coöperate to get a peacedeal. That is the situation we are in. We can either coöpe...
We can quibble over who is the cause of what, and who is in the right. You say it's all Russia's fault, I say its the result of the two reacting to ea...
And we used the "nuclear bomb" of financial measures against them. Of course they will use what they have against us... we are trying to break them, t...
Yes, as per usual it will be the bottom and lower middle classes who will bear the brunt of it... and cost of living is already becoming a problem for...
Trump is not going to side with Russia in attacking Europe. They only real care about China, which is the only one who can compete. If they have an in...
I mean it's difficult isn't it, because already I'm hesitating to say what I think because of all the taboos surrounding it. If it is purely racism in...
But here's a real life example. In a lot of western countries a lot of these restrictions to free speech have been set in place after the horrors of w...
The point is that it is an argument to not have restrictions on free speech, because it can and will be used by those in power to consolidate their po...
Yes I was overstating the case a bit, it is 30 years of no threat... the result is the same though, the military hasn't been taken seriously. But then...
We need to borrow more money because COVID, because Russia, because climate change, because an aging demographic, because there is allways a reason! h...
Assuming the US bows out of the war, we are weak at this particular moment because they did a lot of the coördination, the intelligence, logistics, ta...
Fair enough, and I do agree with this. Could you elaborate on this, I'm curious what you mean with it. Is it something along the lines of the Chuang T...
I was just trying to figure out what is going on with the recent cultural, ideological and political devellopements in the US, as these usually spill ...
It think the problem with this line of thinking is that we are in fact weak. Instead of trying to hold up a facade of strenght by not giving into Russ...
Maybe this is mostly just a definitional semantic thing. Nietzsche for instance saw (Christian) morality as just that, social control, and stifling to...
Yes, we have innate moral feelings, maybe even something like a directional moral sense, but I don't think its enough on its own to get fully function...
If you disagree with that statement, I think we'll have to agree to disagree. Look this was just not why I was posting in this thread. And furthermore...
They can be reasoned with if you take a conventional view of morality, i.e. it is true that we agreed (as a society) that stealing is wrong... you don...
I would say you have a shared understanding and values that is functionally similar to religion. I'm European. I get it, trust works... until it doesn...
Yeah but the reality is that we are not self-sufficient on our own. We need a group cooperating to sustain ourselves. If religion or any other common ...
Nah fascism is a particular way of organising the state, there's plenty of ways faith doesn't lead to fascism. The problem is universality, the idea t...
I don't think it is a bad thing to be clear. I don't think you really understand what faith is if you believe that you should evaluate what faith asks...
I don't think nationalism is functionally all that different from religion. The difference is that belief is the more encompassing term, also includin...
Well religion is the institutionalisation of these values, how they get propagated in a given society, how and who can change them over time. Faith is...
Religion, from the etymological root 'religare', means to unite. Its function is to unite a certain group of people so they move more together in a ce...
Ok SSU let me ask you this, what do you think our long term strategy should be towards Russia? I think, as I stated before, that the dynamics or the r...
You could use it as a template, or reform NATO itself sure, but I would do 3 things differently. 1) I think there needs to be political leadership ove...
Yes I totally agree with you about this, this is why I would give back a lot of what the Commission does now back to the countries... because they hav...
To clarify maybe, true unification is not what I'm aiming for, i'm arguing for both centralisation of defence and foreign policy, and decentralisation...
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