Tzeentch

The one-sided focus on men in these kinds of debates gives a very different impression. Masculinity and femininity nowadays are seen as traits present...

Really hard to see where you are coming from. Rape is punished by heavy jail sentences. No sane person would defend an act of rape. Convicted or even ...

Be sure not to watch the whole thing, because you may just have to face the fact that she's not the only one who puts it forward and they all seem to ...

CSIS doesn't seem to think his intention was a coup. 26:55 - They seem to actually confirm my idea.

Bullshit. You're succumbing to peer pressure in a vain attempt at forming an ego. But I'm guessing you view that as something 'manly' too. Had you fel...

What is masculine about senseless violence? I find it quite worrying that people attribute such things to masculinity without batting an eye. In my vi...

Germany ready to put 4,000 soldiers permanently in Lithuania As Wagner is moved to Belarus, it seems NATO is not taking chances.

Maybe the action was genuine, and Prigozhin hadn't anticipated that his protest against the top brass would be interpreted as an attempt at a coup. He...

Patriarchy is the term that's used when the liberated women of the West entered the social, economic and political power structures only to realize th...

This whole episode was probably a little too odd to be taken at face value. Rebel Russian mercenaries halt advance on Moscow, Kremlin says fighters to...

Historically, it's the norm that people don't realize the ship is sinking.

The Lord of the Rings is quite relevant to mankind's predicament. Virtually everything mankind does revolves around power, or illusions thereof. Techn...

Nice post. :ok: My impression is that Trump's election, who ran directly against the neocon establishment, caused said political elite to press the pa...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz1T-mEnbPI You may get to vote for an actual person this time, Americans. Don't disappoint please. I'm not sure the w...

The irony in all of this is that the "evil capitalist corporations" are actually public, and not private. In a similar vein, they owe much of their po...

I really like Laozi's teachings. They never cease to instill virtue and a sense of moral duty in would-be leaders and people in general. Virtuous peop...

What I mean is that concepts of Yin and Yang presuppose some form of sophistication. It's hard to describe the behavior of apes through a concept like...

The current western system is not philosophically coherent enough to be understood through Yin and Yang. It has become a virtueless cult of power. Eve...

I cannot agree with this. Emotions may just as well mislead us in regards to morality. How many terrible things aren't done out of fear or anger? And ...

I'm guessing you are not religious, but the way you talk about morality is as if hell is awaiting sinners. Allowed by whom? Acceptable to whom? God? I...

Note that you used the term 'acceptable', and not 'moral'. Lets assume lying is immoral. In that case, lying is always immoral. Sometimes people still...

I think this is more a problem with people being fraudulent. If people have no desire for developing and upholding a genuine moral code, then morality...

I'd say that's a typical example of deceptive language; the way we seperate immoral things that also happen to be very convenient (tax) from immoral t...

I'm inclined to agree with this view. What I don't understand is, if the nature of morality is unchanging, aren't we looking for principles, hard 'tru...

Probably so, but herein lies the problem. People used to find it perfectly reasonable and fair to stone people to death for things we would now consid...

I'm not sure if fairness and reasonableness are terms I would use to discuss morality. They are too pliable and morality requires clarity, or it risks...

Actually, Mearsheimer argues that Putin was deeply committed to making Minsk work. (51:27) And we know from recent revelations by former French Presid...

I'm not interested in setting rules for anybody but myself.

In my view, morality doesn't involve groups. It involves interactions between moral agents (individuals), which could perhaps even include interaction...

Surely you have something better than a pedestrian attempt at semantics?

Nope. He used the terms either / or. Clearly he thought it was a possibility that the Russians only meant to threaten Kiev. And no amount of copium is...

Untrue. As I have stated before, he expressly considers it a possibility that the Russians meant to threaten Kiev:

You understand that nothing he says in that March 2022 interview takes anything away from the contents of the lecture he gave in May 2022. If anything...

Ta-daa.

I don't see what's conservative about the way the Russians advanced into Kherson. They penetrated quite deeply, and seemed to have encountered very li...

I think that's untrue. The Russians went into Ukraine being outnumbered, even though military logic would dictate going on the offensive would require...

That's not the video I meant. By now I have dug up and shared these links so many times I can't be bothered to do so again, since none of you seem to ...

I already have. Direct communications by the Ukrainian General Staff. If you had anything better you would have provided it by now, so all of this is ...

This is quite hard to say (too many moving parts to make even an educated guess, in my view), but in a general sense if there had been no significant ...

More strawmanning. The amount of BTGs involved in Ukraine is entirely part of your argument. My argument is that we have information showing 21,000 (n...

Ehm, no. This was in reply to your claim that 190,000 troops would translate into 283 BTGs. The confusion lies primarily with you. Taking the land bri...

Perhaps not all Russian soldiers were deployed in BTGs. Anyway, the 190,000 figure is provided by Mearsheimer as the upper limit of troops the Russian...

Sure. The 21,000 (31 BTGs) figure is pretty solid. The 190,000 as an upper limit for how many soldiers the Russians field is too. Those are the number...

That's rather ironic, considering the Russian order of battle included no more than 190,000 troops, making the notion that the Russians had large terr...

I think the primary goal of the invasion was safeguarding a land bridge to Crimea. However, neither me nor you know what the actual Russian goals are/...

I think the casualty figures clearly imply said lack of trying. And the southern operations were successful, weren't they? I'm hypothesizing. I sugges...

I have provided my reasoning, in our current discussion and the many we have had before. But in case it was unclear, my reasoning is: - 21,000 troops ...

A blitz means punching through defensive lines with massed numbers and firepower. In a blitz operation one doesn't stop at the first sign of resistanc...

The 31 BTGs, roughly equivalent to 21,000 troops, comes from an ISW report, which in turn gets the figure directly from communications by the Ukrainia...

'Captured plans' - sure. Show them to me. Ironically, RUSI seems to use ISW's daily reports as its main source, most of which I've actually read, and ...