It's a little crazy how quick things seem to be moving in the background, and how little of it reaches you unless you go looking for it. Practically e...
The "Anglosphere" for short. It might be interesting for you to research the geopolitics surrounding the Anglosphere, their role as "island nations" a...
That's a pretty extreme position to take, and there are serious indications that it is wrong. For example, what do you make of academics and intellect...
A-ha. So NATO enlargement was all about Ukraine, then? Interesting theory. Has the time already come for psychoanalzying? Realism is the lens through ...
And what evidence would that be? The Budapest Memorandum? Certainly. This is a philosophy forum after all, and realism is one lens through which I mig...
My position is clear. The U.S. and Russia, and to a lesser extent Ukraine are the big players in this conflict, and all the other countries involved (...
Absolutely stomach-churning stuff. I'm glad some people seem to have finally had their "Hans, are we the baddies?" moment. Also somewhat reassuring th...
Exactly. NATO enlargement had nothing to do with a threat from Russia, but the United States jealously guarding its position at the top. The United St...
My argument is that none of this 50-year old argumentation is particularly relevant after the Cold War. It's a completely different situation. There i...
There was no "dangerously unstable Europe" after the Cold War. First off, Yugoslavia hardly represents all of Europe. Second, the U.S. played a major ...
I don't think throwing money at anyone would necessarily benefit them. I'm not really sold on the idea of reparations, in case that wasn't clear from ...
It's essentially a replay of the covid pandemic. This is the denial phase. The phase is prior to the last one, quiet shame. It makes you wonder how ma...
On a different topic, Ukraine's frontline is starting to look severely compromised, with pockets closing around Vuhledar, Bakhmut and Krasna Hora, and...
Are we just going to ignore that this happened then? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8 In what world is the U.S. not the primary suspect aft...
The topic of maskwearing was also quite hot in the Netherlands. Somewhat amusingly (but not really) Dutch government officials went on record first st...
He seems to have a solid record of uncovering U.S. atrocity, being noted for his investigations into the M? Lai massacre, Watergate and Abu Ghraib, to...
There are so many clear cut cases where it's practically undeniable the U.S. government owes people compensation. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. - c...
After the Cold War, NATO became something different from a military alliance that pursued deterrence and mutual defense, since there was no enemy to d...
That's a huge topic, which I am not going to go into detail on because A) I don't believe you're genuinely interested in what I have to say (I'm not a...
There are plenty of scholars who make the argument, and I find it quite compelling. Foreign policy and geopolitical strategy are things that may take ...
United States controls Europe through NATO. That is to say, it controls Europe through (in this case) political means not dependent on coercion. The n...
If hypothetically WBGD would be possible with a deceased body, would that change your mind about whether it's permissable? It seems pretty morbid to m...
I tried to give you an explanation for why the United States is worried about controlling Europe, which it evidently is. If your argument is "they sho...
It's hard to make sense of it. It basically signals that the Ukrainians fear an offensive from the north, while the chance of such an agreement being ...
My most obvious objection to it would be that we have no idea what the consequences are for the child of being gestated in what is essentially a corps...
Regrettably so. Luckily we as free individuals have a choice to resist such unethical practices! Note that 's idea seems to extend not just to the dea...
It should be noted that if one's body is made property of the state, that "state" is in fact only a surrogate term for a collection of (usually highly...
All fair points, yet I don't think many would argue Europe isn't still very important to the United States, I don't know where you get the idea that I...
Ah, I see. In that case I would probably interject here: To impose the cost of having to articulate one's preferences to avoid having one's body laid ...
This is where I would disagree. The person's body and the organs therein are no one's property to "harvest" after death. As much would imply the perso...
Because Europe is home to a number of immensely powerful nations which are, united or seperately, essentially destined to play a big role in global af...
Oh wow. You completely missed the ball on that one if that's what you believe my arguments implied. I already did, in painstaking detail, multiple tim...
I don't think the EU's behavior can be explained through the lens of offensive realism. I don't personally subscribe to any one way of viewing interna...
I think it will have the exact opposite effect. By inserting itself between Russia and one of its core strategic interests, the United States has guar...
Just thought I'd drop it here because for whatever reason it still seems controversial to suggest that nations, including the United States, are prima...
Ok, but I have trouble reconciling this with page-long discussions about human rights, when you are now giving very straight-forward realist explanati...
I mean I could go on. Given the fact that this future great power conflict is likely going to take place between the United States and China, in the P...
What I don't understand is that you seem aware of the probable realist motives behind the United States' actions - Ukraine being a bulwark to contain ...
What the US strategy for incorporation of Ukraine into NATO has been so far, is to make Ukraine a de facto US/NATO ally (something they nearly achieve...
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