Installing a puppet regime in a country that has been militarized by the United States over the course of 10 years, with an intact and capable army th...
Consider how the Russians fought the battle of Bahkmut, or the siege of Mariupol. Kiev and Kharkiv are several times larger, so we would expect to see...
If taking Kiev was the principal Russian objective, how come the fighting around Kiev resembled nothing like we saw in places where actual bitter figh...
Ok, so what do you believe those limited objectives were? My guess would be something along the lines of: - Occupy strategically vital areas, ergo lan...
Which would be incongruent with common military logic: why would Russia deploy a fraction of the troops required to occupy Ukraine? And also with sens...
The thing is, Russia not gaining more territory is entirely congruent with the view that Russia is pursuing limited goals in Ukraine, which in turn wo...
You can't win a war without taking casualties. Pretty obvious. Crimea became strategically vulnerable when the US sought to change Ukraine's neutral s...
Well, this is a discussion forum where people share and talk about their ideas. I'm more than comfortable within these topics not to have to cite sour...
Just read the Western press. The fact that the war is going terribly for Ukraine and that Zelensky is facing heavy pressure domestically and internati...
Hard to see the Russians going home. I can't really blame anyone for not looking through the constant propaganda barrage, but the Russians are on trac...
I'll readily admit it is very idealistic. But it is not fantastical. History has known individiuals who were able to bridge large gaps between peoples...
Well, expelling more people from their decades-long homes is not the way forward. One would have to start somewhere, and the idea that every Israeli o...
In a secular state, the land would belong to all citizens, people would be free to move wherever, assuming there is housing available. The Israeli arm...
I'm not sure what you mean. If we assume for a moment a new secular state is created, then no one would be forced to move. Everybody could live where ...
It seems we are mostly in agreement then, but on the most important point we diverge: Yes. Israel was created with the idea of providing Jews with a s...
There is no other way to answer the question. Any solution I could propose would require the Netanyahu regime to leave first. After that it's pretty s...
I would have secured the border and subsequently resigned. Getting the Netanyahu regime out of power is the first step to creating any sort of workabl...
Moderates cannot fight extremists almost by definition, because moderates tend to be reasonable human beings who aren't willing to resort to any means...
When people are calling the actions of the Israeli government genocide, they are not just referring to the indiscriminate bombing and collective punis...
A lot of talk on the side of the West about the war in Ukraine having reached a stalemate, and Zelensky being pressured into talks with the Russians. ...
I have heard of them, and I know a little bit about the US Israel lobby, but it has never been entirely clear to me what the United States gets in ret...
Nothing says "moral high ground" like weeks of indiscriminate bombing, targetting civilians, wounded and medical personnel alike. Al-Shifa: Israel adm...
This is a pointless way of discussing the issue. Moral acts are done by moral actors. Abstractions like Allies / Axis are not moral actors. But if we ...
Sure, but I'm not sure if being equated to a terrorist organisation is going to help the Israeli government's case. Israel has a history of ethnic cle...
If you're going to argue a moral obligation exists to tell the truth, you had better be able to delineate exactly what truth is. And obviously you can...
It is probably both. Israeli policies in Gaza and the West Bank are deliberately put in place to make life impossible for the Palestinians living ther...
Biden administration thinks Netanyahu may not last politically More news articles are appearing about the relationship between Netanyahu and the Biden...
Given the limited access people have to 'the truth', what would such a moral obligation even look like? Does answering "I don't know" to every questio...
People are responsible for their actions, so they are responsible for their children, so they have moral obligations towards their children. I believe...
If the logic in that sentence sounds threatening to you, then draw your conclusions, I suppose. It's the logic being forwarded by the Israeli governme...
One carries responsibility for their child. Not for their neighbor, at least not by default. Other children are not one's responsibility, unless one h...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G15QfqBGyMM A lot of people busying this type of rhetoric now. Making comparisons to WW2, stating that there is no lim...
I simply asked you to quantify the obligation, which you couldn't. Your defense was, 'just because I cannot quantify it, doesn't mean it's not a moral...
This propaganda is age-old. The problem for Israel is that no one is believing their bullshit anymore, and the world is now rallying against it and th...
It's pretty much an accepted fact that the Netanyahu government at various points in time supported Hamas in order to disenfranchise the more moderate...
You seem to believe you have a moral obligation to save children. Well, there is no shortage of children in need. Why aren't you saving them right now...
If one cannot pinpoint it (or at least give an exhaustive explanation), they have no business calling it a moral obligation. That was my point. I woul...
Israel is now bombing refugee camps several days in a row, and not even throwing up nonsense propaganda anymore to try and cover its tracks. Israeli a...
Look at this shit: South into the Sinai: Will Israel Force Palestinians Out of Gaza? (Carnegie, 2023) Israel is actually considering ethnically cleans...
There are dozens if not hundreds of similar reports I could pick from and they will all say the same thing: Israel belligerently occupies the Palestin...
Not a year has gone by in which the UN hasn't made a report about Israel's belligerent occupation of the occupied Palestinian territories. Here's one ...
It will be easy for Hamas to frame it in a way that suits their purposes, especially when the harassment of Israeli occupation forces begins - if they...
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