In what way have, for example, we in Sweden "sold our souls" to the US? Please explain, from the perspective of my country, how we've done this and ho...
No one knows, but plenty speculates that even if he succeeds in defeating Ukraine, he will still not benefit from this. There's almost no "win" for hi...
Except, it's gone out of fashion. Moving borders, getting influence etc. usually goes through democratic elections, corporate investments etc. This is...
I'm surprised at how many swallow Putin's propaganda machine. Many seem to uncritically eat up his and his machine's words as actual valid perspective...
What is that? Is that a fantasy utopia? Sure, but what has this to do with any of the current events? It's like you don't really know what's going on ...
Towards Russia? It's towards PUTIN! What is it that you don't understand? You think Russia and Putin is one and the same? All of this is the actions o...
Isn't it easy to dismiss others like that? Turn on the news before continuing with your Putin apologistic ideas. Just tell them they are indoctrinated...
To return to the glory days of the Russian empire. According to those who have done research on Putin and his intentions. People seem to not understan...
You don't seem to understand that this is all Putin. Even the Russian people were against an invasion of Ukraine. All the Russians I've heard from rea...
What is the reason for his current invasion according to you? Explain to me what bad things that compare to the invasion of a free and independent nat...
I'm not saying they are simple-minded, how do you draw that conclusion? Do you think everyone else is simple-minded? You think the consequences for Ru...
At least our people start to talk about nations as friends, as "one people" more now. I don't mind it, I actually would think that a nordic union, alm...
Russia can be self-sufficient, but not be able to advance in technology in the same way if they cut off the supply of semiconductors. However, of cour...
With what trade routes? And you think they can cover every kind of trade? What if China lose other trade because people want to sanction their help to...
Not if this conflict escalates, not if Putin acts on his indirect threats towards the west. But yes, the upcoming sanctions will go pretty far. The pl...
Maybe this will push us together, Swedish and Finnish alliance, strengthening our entire line of defense. The best thing that comes out of Putin's stu...
No, in the long term he won't be able to occupy Ukraine and even if he's doing so, the Ukraine people's morale is to fight for survival, while the Rus...
I'm all for it, it's impossible to reason with the crazy fucker in Russia so we need to be in that alliance. Putin is too irrational and erratic to be...
Yes, his loneliness is actually a thing that could end up being a catalyst for his aggressions. The more alone he feels the higher the risk of just "g...
Because Putin is a lunatic. He's essentially a dictator. If you ask "why" it's the same "why" you would ask about Stalin and Hitler. For us in Europe,...
The problem is that there's a mentally challenged lunatic called Putin who is indirectly threatening with nuclear weapons. That is such an unstable fa...
NATO won't defend Ukraine because Ukraine isn't part of NATO. Since they're a defensive alliance, if Putin ever becomes even more delusional and attac...
We don't know that yet, a total isolation of their economic mobility by locking in their money might not do much in the short run. What's more troubli...
Russia will be economically suffocated until someone becomes fed up with Putin's empire fantasies and assassinates him in order to free Russia's peopl...
You are still comparing crimes to crimes when we are essentially discussing a system that might lead to war. The systematic poisoning and imprisonment...
Ok, fair, but I didn't say that democracy is some kind of bright beacon, it is still the ONLY system that has led nations to a more balanced life for ...
I'm not. I don't think you know enough about Putin, his ambitions, the geopolitics of those ambitions and how Russia functions. I would say, it's easi...
If that's not a strawman I don't know what is. What's it like walking through the world thinking we are immune to historical destructive events? Ignor...
Everyone is pointing out how Russia is a "security risk", it's political lingo. No one can speak in the way you require because of diplomacy. You cann...
That doesn't help if China gets in bed with Russia. Fighting Russia is fighting China. And if relations with China get worse, their relation with Russ...
According to us living here in Europe, according to everyone involved with global trade, global interactions. It's very naive to pinpoint the distance...
Because Putin isn't just some small-time dictator or some proxy war puppet they can throw around. We can criticize the US in another thread and I agre...
It's all Putins doing. The US president isn't a watchdog for WWIII. But when Trump calls Putin genius, that is a major red flag. Throw both the democr...
I wonder if people now finally would realize how deeply incompetent the republicans are when Trump calls Putin "genius" and Tucker and Fox news contin...
It's a combination of both way too liberal gun laws and problematic socioeconomic politics, it's not one of the other. You increase crime through prob...
Logically there are also lots of people with good memories of Soviet russia. They're old and dying off, younger people without memories of the Soviet ...
The Russian economy is in the toilet and with the pandemic and rising inflation it's obvious that war becomes a way to distract the Russian people fro...
This is propaganda koolaid. Nato is an alliance of defense. If Russia keeps being Russia, keeping the current borders, then Nato isn't doing anything,...
Anyone can do philosophy, but a true philosopher does not jump between emotional opinions and proper philosophical scrutiny when constructing conclusi...
I wonder if it's possible to manufacture a genetically modified variant that is almost non-lethal but has a transmission level hundreds of times that ...
Problem is that it's like an infestation, it just keeps multiplying. There are so many copies of topics around religion or God or whatever that I can ...
Does anyone know if there's a way to just filter away every theist subject so only threads that are not theistic or related to any "God" questions dis...
I would say that the purest definition of art is: A creation created intentionally as an expression with the intent of a receiver experiencing it. Eve...
What data are you drawing this conclusion from? I said both patriarchy and matriarchy are made-up concepts based on an uneducated opinion regarding di...
Both are illusions of solutions to power plays in society. Neither matters, both are false, truth and what is considered "best" has nothing to do with...
I don't think they tried anything. The Talibans were in Kabul before they even had the ability to say that they might come to Kabul. So whatever they ...
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