In other words, you're saying the Russians lied to us for 15 years and their warnings should have been ignored, as they were? Another question; suppos...
Oh... How odd then that the Russians insisted for over fifteen years that it was an existential security threat and marked it as a red line. And what ...
No one here is arguing that Russia is right in what it does. This is what you can't seem to understand: my argument is not that we ought to look more ...
None of the things you named there, regrettable they may be, can hold a candle to the damage the United States has wreaked upon the world. When I say ...
The problem with these people is that they've fallen hook, line and sinker for a story of American exceptionalism. They view Russia through a lens of ...
Neoliberalism takes away formal instruments with which the democratic system can influence socio-economic matters, but does nothing to counteract the ...
They told us Ukraine joining NATO was an existential security threat to them, and a red line, meaning they were prepared to enter into full-scale, per...
In the world of international politics, and in life in general, one doesn't always get what they want, and blindly pursuing what one wants is a recipe...
My point is that the US deliberately sought to change Ukraine's neutral status in order to create instability in Eastern Europe - that has been its go...
True. Personally, I regard wisdom as a synthesis of rationality, intuition and experience, and therefore as having an element to it that is revealed o...
I'd love to engage with your posts, but I find them impossible to make sense of, and am always left guessing what point you are trying to make. If you...
A neutral Ukraine was the key to stability in eastern Europe and everybody knew it. The US deliberately sought to remove Ukraine as a neutral buffer i...
The US intentionally sought to create instability in eastern Europe, which is why it sought to change Ukraine's neutral status, which was the key to p...
From what I understand there is quite a debate within Christian theological circles about the original teachings of Jesus Christ, which I think is the...
It seems to me that religion often results in a watering down (or obfuscation) of the original teachings of the sage, therefore I have found very litt...
Even though the nature of the Moscow terror attack remains ambiguous, it appears now that Turkey is throwing the US under the bus. Two of the terroris...
Personally, I think the military balance has changed significantly. The Arab nations are no longer completely clueless when it comes to military matte...
I don't think this is true, with an eye on the changing geopolitical reality in the Middle-East. The West can "forget the issue", but the geopolitical...
Right, in other words: "It's not me who is crazy. It's the whole world that is crazy." You realize how rare it is for almost literally the entire worl...
I agree, the lobby is extremely powerful, and I think that's why Biden dared not bypass Netanyahu (who is heavily favored by the lobby). It's also wor...
Just look at how desperately the US is trying to play both sides: US says ceasfire resolution non-binding Suddenly UNSC resolutions are non-binding. E...
You don't think there are many normal people looking at what is happening in Gaza and drawing their conclusions? Where I live we call this "the silent...
Biden has been stooging for the Israeli government in the hopes of securing support from the Israel lobby, which could in turn make the difference in ...
With a second Trump presidency looking more likely, perhaps the United States may come to its senses. If Biden is going to lose anyway, the US might a...
IDF general: US official accused IDF of sexually abusing Palestinian women, general says Normally I would treat articles like this as likely spin, but...
For the first time, a demand for an immediate ceasefire has passed a UN Security Council vote. The US abstained. It seems like supporting genocide is ...
Make no mistake; while there are many perverse incentives at play in this conflict, and the MIC is certainly one of them, it is US grand strategy that...
Maybe the period of US history you're referring to is an exception, where the political elite can be said to have gone against the will of the people ...
Whoever leads the crowd probably doesn't matter all that much. They are just a vessel for the discontent. That's why they're so often demagogues and o...
We don't need historians telling us what happened. We have first-hand accounts from the Ukrainian side and neutral mediators of what happened. Ignorin...
The history speaks for itself. The US intentionally sought to flip Ukraine, while a neutral Ukraine was the key to stability in eastern Europe and eve...
Well, yes. Kind of. They often correctly sense there is something wrong with the political elite. Their methods and visions of "the way forward" can b...
I think this is a wrong depiction. Corrupt elites are often extremely powerful, since they have hollowed out the state (which formerly protected citiz...
You're talking about constitutional/human rights, not the basic function of democracy. Corrupt elites don't serve democracy - they undermine it and us...
Many of this thread's participants seem to view "populism" as something negative, and therefore try to understand it in negative terms: "anti-democrat...
Queen Vicky has resigned. The Ukraine debacle is slowly becoming complete. Though, one may wonder why Vicky resigned, since the US approach to Ukraine...
Sorry to interject, but are you still getting psychological help? You mentioned it earlier in the thread, and judging by what I am reading you are in ...
The former option sounds to me little different from propaganda, and I am convinced many major news outlets have degenerated into just that. I find my...
Corruption of the elite causes populism (basically, wide-spread discontent among the people), which causes a rejection of the system since it is deeme...
A while back we discussed the danger posed by the Houthi missile attacks in the Red Sea. It now seems the first vessel has sunk - the cargo ship Rubym...
That's easy. The EU is an undemocratic, untransparent, bureaucratic monster of an institution - inept and easily corruptable by design, which grants t...
I fear what happens when the US can no longer keep Europe weak. Ever since the end of the Cold War, there has been plenty of anti-American sentiment i...
Just reading through some of these passages has me reeling at how incriminating this stuff is. This once again proves one cannot be too cynical when a...
By the way, , you claim to have read The Grand Chessboard. So how come you have failed to notice chapter 2 makes exactly my point? Dishonesty? Illiter...
They paint a clear picture. I could dig through them to find the exact quotes, but I have done that enough times to know you will handwave them simply...
If after 500+ pages of discussion these thinkers and their works are still a mystery to you, I can't be bothered to educate you either. (I have mentio...
Even if it was a foolish decision, it was based on a very tangible perceived 'Russian threat'. What the Finns missed is that they are only putting the...
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