Trump is just a populist in the purest sense of the word. Populism is a reaction to a failed political establishment. We're seeing the exact same thin...
Pulling the rug on the Ukrainians wouldn't weaken NATO. It would strengthen it. What's weakening NATO is the fact that we're trying to drag Ukraine in...
I have to correct you here. My point was not that the US is trying to crash the global economy, but that it is trying to disrupt land-based trade conn...
Trump would be better for Europe. The worst thing he can do is pressure European countries to pay for their own security, which we ought to be doing a...
This isn't about Biden, or even the election. It's about using the word 'evil' to describe a person whose crimes do not extend much further than being...
Right. The entire US political system kowtowing to a lobby of genocidal lunatics - 'an unfortunate state of affairs'. But Orange Doofus saying words w...
If you would use the word 'evil' to describe Orange Doofus or Elon Musk, what word would you use to describe the current administration as it is liter...
The worst thing about Trump is how he functions as a lightning rid to distract from all the vile shit that is being perpetrated by the US government a...
One could make the prediction that this will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back. Not an altogether unreasonable prediction, but at the ...
Who would believe that bullshit, right? Well, as it turns out a lot of people continue to believe that bullshit. Propaganda is a powerful thing. And i...
We actually agree that the plane is definitely going down, however I think a better representation of our arguments is "Plan vs. No plan", and to that...
Whatever the case, the Israelis disagree and the Americans don't feel called upon to correct them. Israel has proven capable of assassinating high-pro...
If Israel fully embraces the ultranationalist path, genocide/ethnic cleansing is not necessarily desirable to the US, it is inevitable. In the case of...
:up: If Washington wants to sow chaos in the Middle-East, a nuclear-armed Israel that fully embraces violent ultranationalism is the perfect vessel to...
I think you're grossly underestimating the power of the United States. Of course it has various domestic issues, and corruption is undoubtedly one of ...
(I decided to put my response in this thread, because the main topic is becoming the Middle-East) Personally, I think it is self-evident that the US a...
On the topic of Israel's genocide: Arguably, ethnic cleansing and genocide are the only options the Israelis have left if they want to cling to their ...
Facing war in the Middle East and Ukraine the US looks feeble. But is it just an act? (The Guardian, 2024) An interesting article that appeared in the...
One year on since the Hamas attack, - Hamas remains undefeated while tens of thousands of civilians lay dead. - Israel's international reputation has ...
When people start talking about 'revolutionizing the home' I get chills down my spine. It smells of authoritarian tendencies that have often assaulted...
How is that a rabbit hole? Irish resistance against British rule lasted multiple centuries. The Dutch resisted Habsburg and Spanish rule for hundreds ...
It took them eight centuries of resistance. Israel is not going to last eight centuries. It will be lucky if it lasts another eight years by the way t...
Arguments about what belongs to who have no other purpose than to justify apartheid and/or ethnic cleansing, and don't need to be taken seriously from...
In those cases I think 'oppression' is indeed a strong term. In the case of Ireland there were various historical grievances that fueled the resistanc...
To suggest that World War 2 and the Israel-Palestine conflict are in any way comparable is a ridiculous argument that I cannot fathom anyone takes ser...
Violent resistance movements tend to use very comparable methods, that usually extend to acts of extreme cruelty and targeting of civilians. You can e...
Scarcity means that something is in limited supply. Colloquially one may refer to goods which are 'very scarce' (like precious metals) and goods which...
I think cryptocurrency derives its value from the fact that it is an independent means of exchange. It's much less stable in value than gold, but it i...
Personally, I am reserving judgement on this issue, though I am leaning towards the US being in the driver's seat. The basic question is, could Israel...
We are in general agreement, but the West will be pushing the envelope because it knows Russia will get more risk averse the closer it gets to victory...
Ukraine cannot strike targets deep inside Russia without NATO ISR capabilities. That's the problem here - NATO becoming a direct participant in the wa...
People's perception of the longevity and value of the currency, I suppose. Certain cryptos have turned out to be scams, or became completely valueless...
The biggest problem with crypto is their trustworthiness, so cryptos which are perceived as more trustworthy, like BitCoin, are a distinctly different...
One can be morally against something, while still being tolerant of it. (In fact, tolerance of something seems to already imply some moral distaste fo...
Europe, including Britain, is heading for a new dark age, mainly because its political elites are too corrupt and incapable to adjust to a world that ...
It is instrumental to the US empire, and that's the primary reason for the way things are. The military industrial complex, BlackRock, etc. - these ar...
The difference is that the former does not threaten the security of the great powers, whereas the latter undermines it in the most dangerous way possi...
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