I agree with most of what you said SSU. The point I wanted to make is that if liberal democracy and the values that come with that, are very difficult...
No they just have another order of values. They think stability comes before rights, which I would argue makes some sense because you can't protect ri...
Yes, mistakes have been made, but again we have to look at the situation as is. Renewable energy is still only a small portion of total energy consump...
Yes it's getting more extreme on both sides. I think identity is important here. Now the mainstream view of ourselves in the west is that we are these...
So more in terms of a solution. If it is an effect of the kind of society we have, i.e. exclusion of a certain part of society, then you would think t...
Because young undisciplined males are often the ones that don't fit in the kind of society we have. Those then find eachother in the fringes and re-en...
That isn't the case I think, we had had emergence of far right movements in Europe for decades. The reason for it's emmergence is a group of people fe...
I don't think you understand the situation the same way as I do. It is a big deal for Europe because it is one of the big factors hurting the economy....
The war has been going in the wrong direction the past 3 years, why do you assume that would change, if the US leaves the war? What is the plan other ...
Do you not realize what precarious situation that gets us in? The last thing we should be doing at this particular moment is looking to get into prolo...
I think something more fundamental is going on, they are essentially trying to overthrow the liberal democratic order because they think it was destro...
That doesn't really answer the question, why it would be better to prolong this war for European security, instead of using that time and resources to...
We were talking about military power, as that is what is relevant for the Thucidydes trap... it has similar consequences on that account, I wasn't tal...
Biden probably couldn't lose face after all the propaganda propping up the war and making it seem like winnable war. One semi-plausible explanation I'...
Only if the US would flip to Russia's side more permanently, and in that case the US is probably the bigger threat. If Europe unites more military, as...
Aside from the question of who is to blame for what, what do you think we should do when the US leaves the war? What are we hoping to accomplish with ...
All of those are part of the EU and/or Nato, so from the perspective of Russia it does look like its rival is in the process of overwelming them... th...
I'm not claiming that it is our fault exclusively, I'm only claiming that it isn't Russia's fault exclusively.... it is the relation, the dynamic betw...
Everybody caught in information bubbles left or right. Look at how much confusion there is, there’s a source for every diverging fact. I think the act...
The point of Thucydides trap is that it's not about how we view ourselves, but about how the rival percieves us. Sparta felt threathened by rising pow...
Ok I see, I was originally talking about ideologies and what policies they tend to go for in practice (and the implications of those policies in relat...
Because we said we wouldn't do it. And because Russia allways has signaled that they view eastward NATO expansion as a thread to their security. And t...
Liberal democracy isn't much better than communism on the imperialism scale. Both claim universality, because they are both offshoots of Christianity....
Because the world ultimately revolves around geopolical power and spheres of influence? Should Canada freely have wanted to become a communist country...
I think the methodology you are proposing is not the right one, because if you lift out one policy or one goal, and look at it in isolation, you are m...
I don't necessarily disagree with anything you said, but I do think one should add to that, that on the other side the plan of the US was allways a un...
No that's not exactly what I'm thinking. To me it seem wildly unstable right now, because they are so disruptive you would expect a backlash eventuall...
But Chattering Monkey, what dost thou sayest, that up is now down and left now right? How can that be? Brethren, stop looking down at thou tracks in t...
The history of the West, a footnote to Plato. Have you followed the discussion JD Vance had with Rory Stewart about Christianity On X? · I don't know ...
That's how we typically view morality because of the Christian origins of our culture, And chirstianity took its inspiration from platonism that was i...
You know you really have to look at this in a bit of a wider context. We are part of the reason why the situation has evovled the way it has because w...
It's a offshoot of judaïsm, To belong to Judaïsm you had to be ethnically a jew, the rest were gentiles. Christiany broke that open and made it univer...
Let's just spell it out as clear as possible so anyone who wants to see it can see. Liberal democracy has been the ideological underpinning of the exp...
But it is a US-Russia proxy war. Regime change has been a standard practice of the CIA and policy especially of the democratic party for decades all o...
Yeah I don't agree with that, it's also about the stability of the entire region. And if he decides it's a good idea to stay in the war, do we just su...
Do you think it would be better to send thousands of Ukranians more to the grave for nothing? Do we have to think about consequences at all, or do we ...
That's not what i'm getting at. I think one should pick their battles a bit more carefully. The war was going nowhere, and not likely to go anywhere w...
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