Tzeentch

Since you ignore requests to actually state your points clearly. :yawn: This is normal for negotiations, actually, and it was no problem when negotiat...

If you haven't familiarized yourself with the basic structure of these people's theories then you're running a few years behind. How about you educate...

Sure. Let me know when that happens. These people have been making accurate predictions about where this war would lead since Day 1. Mearsheimer under...

Indeed, and there are plenty of western scholars who share that sentiment. Jeffrey Sachs, Noam Chomsky, John Mearsheimer, etc. - all Americans by the ...

The most relevant difference between the Soviet Union and Russia is obviously its power. Russia has a population of 144 million, and a GDP of 2.2 tril...

Imagine Rutte saying something along the lines of "We can do this the easy way or the hard way" to get Yesilgöz to drop out of the seat of party leade...

I had to go and look that up, but that's absolutely crazy. Mob level shit.

What you're describing are US-European relations during the Cold War. During this time, Europe was a key US ally against the Soviet Union. What I am s...

Europe is not Ukraine, obviously.

Dialogue can and should happen regardless of who is president. It costs nothing. Obviously, presidents or politicians who have some rapport with the R...

Opening any kind of dialogue with the Russians would have been a sensible start. When the former hegemon gets involved, I see little point in ascribin...

I'm aware of the context, and still I cannot decipher what point you're trying to make.

The move to change Ukraine's neutral status predates Russian military actions by some 6 years at least. Worse still, the Americans were aware that thi...

I would love to engage with your comment, but as is unfortunately somewhat of a pattern, you're relying on me to decipher them first.

The ICJ brought out a report on the legal status of the occupation of Palestinian territories by Israel, (once again) concluding it is illegal under i...

They've stuck to their red line for over a decade. They told us exactly what the problem was, and they told us exactly what the consequences would be....

That has nothing to do with it. This is just the reality Ukraine has to deal with.

The point is, you're projecting aims and goals onto the Russians for which there is no basis. Russian rhetoric and behavior has been surprisingly cons...

Had the West not insisted on changing Ukraine's neutral status, Russia probably would have never invaded. It's worth noting that the Russians spent 6 ...

The point is to enter negotiations and make a deal that's acceptable for both sides. This already happened in March/April 2022, so it's clearly possib...

To be honest, I think a peace deal is easily within reach. The Kremlin has signaled that they want a diplomatic settlement since the start of the war....

Ok, so how is it borderline irrelevant when you seem to agree the event may give Trump an advantage in a possibly highly consequential US election? :b...

Don't you think the failed assassination attempt makes Trump more likely to be elected in what is bound to be a close election?

Hmmm. This is perhaps the one instance where I think who becomes the next US president somewhat matters. The US establishment has been deeply split ov...

Fantasizing about torture for the sake of a clown - well, where does that leave you? :brow:

Wishing death on people out of personal fancy is just poor character. Point at something Trump did that makes him deserve to be assassinated. What ill...

What did the guy do, other than being personally disliked by you, that makes him deserve to be assassinated?

How is entering directly into full-scale war preferable over striking a deal with the Russians which they have been signaling is their intention since...

That's some crazy stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG0qPDCWE9w Absolutely nothing suspicious here, folks.

I forgot that 5.56mm isn't used by professionals to kill people. Silly me.

Yea, they missed.

It's pretty much unthinkable that security was alerted of a gunman and did nothing. Very... erm... "strange."

https://i0.wp.com/tiptaptip.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/car.jpg?fit=1000%2C750&ssl=1 Isn't it time you folks got off the clown car?

I think karma is real in the sense that immoral deeds hurt the actor as well as the victim, and no good things can be obtained through immoral deeds. ...

Very spooky. Maybe we should stop producing them then, eh?

Barring a debilitating health event, can we safely conclude the US establishment favors Trump / the Republican Party over Biden? Is there really any u...

This term is quite loaded and can have multiple meanings. In the modern-day context, I would suggest that 'multiculturalism' is essentially a doctrine...

This is why I prefer the term 'mystical' experience, because 'peak' implies something intense and lengthy, whereas it appears mystical experiences com...

I'd be interested to hear some of the conclusions regarding this!

To be honest, there hasn't been a young world leader that has ever made a good impression on me. They appear naive, easily manipulated, sometimes over...

Just curious; why do you think mysticism is inherently radical?

I agree that the term mysticism has been thrown around very loosely, so it's probably important for us to settle on what is its essence. A mystic, in ...

No one is interested in hearing a hundred-year-old tu quoque to distract from America's many misdeeds in the present.

If you need me to give you examples, you're proving my point. Listing America's misdeeds is pedantry at this point, and I'm not going to waste my time...

Because of the "orders of magnitude" part of my argument.

Now that would be rich - the suzerain trying to evade responsibility by pointing at the involvement of her client states.

You need me to give you an example of America's misdeeds in the modern age? Please.

If you're going to play this game, you should probably find something that does not pre-date the concept of a European state.

How is Trump worse than several other presidents in recent times, who started illegal wars and supported genocides and revolutions with literally mill...