People who were never slaveowners paying "reparations" to people who were never slaves all on the basis of skin color is one of the most silly and rac...
They'll deliver as little as they can get away with. Suppose they did nothing. Would you then vote Trump? My guess would be no, so why expect anything...
My sense is that communism lost its appeal because history has quite convincingly shown dreamy idealists to be no match for the brutal power dynamics ...
Historically, sure. But contemporarily I see no point in spending time talking about whatever little bit of influence they might have. It's obviously ...
The French? Haha. The US' vast amount of interventions by various means in the Middle-East had as its goal to prevent regional powers from rising, and...
Has anyone been able to come up with a credible explanation for Ukraine's incursion into Kursk yet? Let us ask the simple question: "Cui bono?" Hypoth...
Sure, but geopolitically its days are numbered. It can survive, for now. How long can it survive? It is surrounded by Arab nations which have been art...
Doesn't anyone who engages in the democratic process think they have a right to decide for others, and are they not actively trying to get the governm...
This is a long-winded way of saying Israel has no way of decisively defeating its adversaries, and therefore no long-term solutions for the problems t...
You're contradicting yourself. According to your own views Israel cannot go on the offensive, thus cannot rely on pre-emptive attacks to protect itsel...
Israel is the size of a post stamp. It has zero strategic depth. You also seem to acknowledge Israel has no prospects of going on the offensive, so ho...
So did apartheid South Africa. It probably would lose even a dragged out conventional war because of its small population and strategic depth, but in ...
Ascribing value to unborn life doesn't seem like something that could only be argued by unreasonable, illiberal or archaic people. It's not uncommon t...
I'm just being realistic. What I'm seeing in Ukraine and what I'm seeing in Israel are quite similar patterns, except that every factor is even worse ...
Regardless of my own stance on the matter, I don't think there's anything particularly degenerate about pro-life stances, which usually focus on the v...
Well, I don't believe it is in Israel's interests, because I don't think Israel will survive the moment the US leaves it to pay the bill. To put it di...
You may believe that - many do - but I don't see it that way. I disagree with those who portray Israel as the beneficiary in this relationship. While ...
Oh please. It's a rare occasion when the US faces blowback from its cynical foreign policies. Maybe if that happened a little more often the US public...
This is not the type of debate I would directly touch even with a 10-foot pole, but from a bird's eye perspective I think it's a great example of how ...
In Israel Netanyahu is considered a 'moderate', if you can believe that. And when interests align he uses the loonies as a lightning rod. That's why h...
That's quite literally what the Biden/Harris administration is doing right now, though. They threaten Israel with menacing finger-wagging and taps on ...
Kamala mentioned something about tyrants and dictators, mimicking Joe's terminology vis-á-vis Russia and China. Not only does this show a complete ina...
Just a former Mossad director comparing the current Israeli government to the KKK: Ex-Mossad Chief: 'Netanyahu Allies Worse Than KKK, Overhaul is His ...
Caricatures aside, the idea that the West carries principal responsibility in this war and that the West's conduct so far has been nothing short of sh...
An isolationist America would be a godsend to the world. But we all know that's not going to happen. The US thrives on ceaseless meddling. I hope one ...
The Russians don't need nuclear weapons to win, nor do they benefit from such a huge escalation. Things would have to get a lot worse first for them t...
On a sidenote, I think people grossly underestimate the risk this war brings to the region, with which I mean Europe as a whole, western Russia and by...
Kursk Incursion Boosts Ukrainian Morale After Grim Year (Reuters, 2024) :chin: One wonders how an incursion into a strategically irrelevant region of ...
Quite the contrary. Decades of US-Israel policy is the cause of chaos, refugee crises/mass migration and radicalism, and the reason why various, forme...
'Turning the other cheek' is certainly the more consistent school of thought - ergo, hurting someone in self-defense is not morally permissable. Howev...
I agree with Benkei's skepticism. In fact, I would go a step further and say the WSJ story is obviously bullshit. What amazes is me is the fact that p...
What are you waiting for, exactly? The US to come out and say they did it? Wait and see what they write in the history books twenty years from now? If...
The Germans are apparently looking for a Ukrainian diving instructor named 'Volodymyr Z.' :lol: You couldn't make this shit up. It's like they're purp...
I will "grow up" on this subject once it stops being a lightning rod that obfuscates the very real, short-term health risks that everybody ignores. I ...
The real thing boomers should be feeling sorry for is the fact that their children will have to carry their economically unsustainable social security...
Do you remember this by the way? US warned Ukraine not to sabotage Nord Stream after MIVD alert (June, 2023) They're expecting us to believe it was th...
It's interesting you chose to share a picture from 1945, during which Israel had not yet been established and the United States still could be said to...
If you believe I 'excuse' the Kremlin you're simply not reading my comments. My continual point is that Washington and the Kremlin are two apples of t...
The country is bankrupt and in shambles. No one is going to be held to account for the coming hundred years. That's why it is the perfect patsy. It pr...
, that's called bribery, not an alliance. You may characterize this as an alliance, but I don't. Various countries in the Middle-East have been made t...
Anyway, perhaps it's a good time to evaluate where this Ukrainian offensive is going. Decisive results that could justify the expenditure of vast amou...
Calling Egypt and Saudi-Arabia US allies just turns 'ally' into a vacuous term. Of course they are not allies - certainly not today. Egypt is in BRICS...
Japan during WW2 was a fascist menace. Of course they had it coming. That doesn't mean the nuclear bombing was justified, or that civilians weren't in...
There's an obvious distinction between a country and its government, and its civilian population. Countries and governments are not victims, since the...
I think we should be open to the possibility that it is in fact Netanyahu who is being played by US Congress. US Congress seems to know exactly how to...
They are really not, but there have been times during which the US attempted to placate them. Pretty much every nation in the Middle-East would be ove...
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