ChatteringMonkey

The ouside world are the ones not caught in the mainstream western information bubble. 'We' are the ones in the bubble. Maybe an example can help : In...

Don't listen to what he says, but look at what he does. Usually his words aren't meant to convey literal meaning, but rather to ellicit some effect.

I don't think I agree entirely. He's not a good diplomat in the sense of fostering good long term relations maybe, but I think he does have a very goo...

Yeah I think foreign policy isn't exactly what most American are worried about. The domestic policies musk is trying to implement at home seem a lot m...

The piece is still written from within the liberal democratic paradigm we had been living in up to the beginning of the year until Donald burst the bu...

I think Trump will organize a yalta-like moment where he sits down with Putin and maybe XI and/or Modi too, to settle the war, come up with the beginn...

A country at war is never pretty NOS. But to answer your question, some have their own interest, a lot have Russofobia, and most really believe our ow...

I would agree that it probably could defeat Russia given enough time, but it's not like we would be able to conquer back the territory to force the co...

Any new stable security arrangement for Europe will have to involve some kind of agreement with Russia. If we keep making this a holy war against the ...

Russia isn't in the same position as Germany. It doesn't have the technological and economical dominance to conquer Europe like the Nazi's did.

I'll stop chattering if you stop beating the wardrums.

Right, so you agree.

Let's not overrate Russia's strenght, they have managed to take a small part of Urkraine in 3 years of war where everyone expected it to be over in we...

And here's another potential reason Echarmion. If China's biggest enemy, the US is befriending next door neightbour Russia as it seems to be doing now...

Soevereignity doesn't mean a whole lot in a world without a police to enforce it.

2/3 in terms of military/power. And I don't think the current US administration is all that worried about forming coalitions. Ofcourse I understand it...

They will try to play nations against eachother, but now that the US has forfaited its role as garantor, a European security is what make the most sen...

Of course they feel threathened by the loss of controle over Ukraine to a pro-western government. It's a country on their border and so that massively...

The US has waged wars of aggression, and that's 2/3 of the NATO. Not wanting an alliance specifically designed to keep your country in check, on your ...

Europe is still one of their biggest markets, a stable continent could integrate further via the belt and road they are already building. China doesn'...

We don't need further escalting conflicts at this moment. Russia doesn't need it either. What it needed was to not have a US-vasal state on its border...

Would it be a bad thing is the liberal world order ended Frank? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA9qmOIUYJA

I think their goal is to overthrow the liberal democratic world order we have had the past 75 years. This is not about some policy change left or righ...

Yes that would be one of the main ones.

Nick Land influenced a lot of MAGA ideology. They want closed borders, de-globalisation, multi-polar world, protectionism, less immigration etc etc......

Yes or in socio-economic terms globalism vs localism/regionalism. Purely in evolutionary terms diversity is more adaptive because you have a wider ran...

What I think this comes down to is a 'Blood and soil'-type of reasoning. Historically different cultures arose from various peoples living over the wo...

He thinks tensions, conflicting forces in ones 'soul' will keep us going forward yes. The word opposites threw me off, because he doesn't believe in o...

Overcoming in ones opposite sounds rather Hegelian, something Nietzsche was not. The problem with 'Good and Evil' isn't only that it flips the valuati...

If your point would be that human beings have a certain telos (or design), and therefor morally (the way humans should act) is objective, I would disa...

I agree with all of this, never disagreed about this really.... but that is I think besides the point for the OP. The point is that different societie...

I don't disagree that Lebron is objectively a good basketball player, I'm saying that we have decided what constitutes a good basketballplayer collect...

I'm not sure what you mean with a Telos or internal good, because we invented farming, chess and clocks. These concept did not exist until we invented...

I'm saying there is no objective badness, and you're turning that into actual badness... as matter of definition it seems. What is considered good or ...

I don't see how you got there. Not everything is about morality. Morality pertains to human behaviour in relation to the group, by and large. People c...

There is no actual objective wrong, only conventional wrongs, yes.... that's just how it is descriptively. Usefull for what, to be able to declare war...

I do believe they are doing something wrong according to my own (non-realist/non-universal) moral framework, but I don't necessarily think that should...

Yeah, we have a different sense of what morality is it seems... I'm not sure we can get over this in this discussion. I'm not a moral realist, and I d...

Besides the point you are trying to make maybe, but I think these situational practical concerns typically are more important than any moral concern i...

I don't think you have to invade them, no, if they have no intention of attacking you or your allies... there are other measures. Besides avoiding WWI...

I would say they only have a moral obligation to conquer other land if it's in their own vital security interests. But to the point of imposing politi...

I would be in favour of some kind of in-group supremacism for all groups, a healthy culture should celibrate itself, but I would be against imperialis...

No, but what I'm saying is that "reasons" are not necessarily the result of conscious rational deliberation either. Instincts are obviously prior to a...

You act as if a mind or a self is a thing. A brain is a physical thing, a mind is merely a kind of metaphor for what the brain does. Strictly speaking...

I dunno, that is the question right? And that question in turn depends on what you would consider "a reason". Does a chicken have a reason the scratch...

I don't know, I don't get it I think, the tension is in what you want... and then you maybe refrain from doing certain things to resolve the tension i...

One thing with many aspects, or many things that combine and "fight" to result in one outcome at a particular time seem philosophically the same to me...

I'm going to answer in a somewhat longwinded way, but this is a philosophy forum so... I'd say instincts are to some extend rational, if by rational w...

It certainly is a continuum. And yes the idea is that you give up on/sublimate some desires or values that are contradictory with others that you do w...

You are resolving tensions in what you want, not in what you can or could do. So you still have the choices, you just don't want it anymore... so I wo...