Tzeentch

In my opinion, no. It's great for the individual speaker that their tongues are no longer being physically cut out, being thrown in jail, etc., but th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFaMVZzueEU In a recent interview with Jeffrey Sachs, he calls United States foreign policy a major threat to peace, a...

You'd be surprised. Most people readily support systems based on violence without batting an eye. It's so normal to them. Nation states would be one s...

Certainly. I am morally opposed to any system that is based on the use and threat of violence.

I don't think we necessarily have moral obligations to do things to other people, even if we think it is in their best interest. But I would probably ...

Engage in dialogue, perhaps? If you're asking me if I ought to force people to abide by my principles, then obviously the answer is no.

I would consider even a single person dying against their will to be an enormous cost that was unjustly imposed, on the moral ground that no person ha...

The term "war crimes" is being thrown around a lot, and it is regarded as established fact that "war crimes" are being committed. I am not so sure how...

And so, the accusation is quickly made, yet takes ages to refute. I think that is too simplistic. The accumulation of intergenerational intellectual a...

There's seems to be a lot of anger and resentment among certain demographics, and politics and media (aka Tweedledee and Tweedledum) seem very interes...

Ah, right. Your first accusation failed - accusing me of basing my views only on "truth teller" Mearsheimer - which I thoroughly debunked. So now you ...

Ah, so people like Mearsheimer, Chomsky, Sachs, etc., what are they in your view? A bunch of dummies? Kremlin propagandists? Their views are irrelevan...

"All I have" are US state officials confessing to funneling billions of USD to Ukraine, and being deeply involved in the construction of the post-coup...

And you don't think US officials putting together the new Kiev government in a tapped telephone conversation and $5 billion of "aid" goes a long way t...

That's not necessary at all. You've already been given evidence of substantial US involvement. Pretending that in order to be involved in the coup the...

Here's a lovely little clip of Victory Nuland, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, at the end of 2013 as the Maidan...

You are aware of the tapped telephone conversations from 2014 in which US officials were literally discussing who was going to be in the new Ukrainian...

Note the steep decline of the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union, at which point it became unipolar hegemon. It seems power does indeed ...

If we were to do a side by side comparison of human rights violations in the 21st century of the United States and Russia, I'm not sure who would come...

People get upset by words when they fear they're true. The go-to response when confronted with words we fear are true is to say to ourselves they're r...

To "win" is to cultivate virtue and self-mastery, though one doesn't triumph over anybody else except perhaps one's lesser self, thus this type of win...

Since John Mearsheimer's opinions on the Ukraine war have been quoted here regularly, it seems some posters have gotten the impression that the perspe...

Not without actual evidence, no. The fact remains that Ukraine is an important region for the Russians and they have made that clear over the course o...

For the sake of keeping things interesting: Since the United States cannot have been surprised by the Russian invasion and also does not seem overly c...

Or neutral (double emphasis) border states - what Ukraine was and threatened to no longer be as a result of continued United States foreign policy. I ...

Why would it be impossible for a nation to seek to acquire territory in pursuit of a national security goal? You keep making the leap to "imperialism"...

Still no shred of evidence.

In what world is that evidence for imperial ambitions? The Kremlin has never been shy about their motivations - it's a matter of national security for...

Easily thwarted? What makes you say that? It's taken repeated "red line" warnings by Russia for nearly a decade, then a coup d'etat in 2013 and an inv...

Of course, because it proves your argument stems from a decade prior, and it didn't hold any water then, and it doesn't hold any water now. The second...

You're just deliberately twisting my words at this point. The United States clearly decides what happens in NATO, and even if NATO member states stop ...

On certain topics like holocaust denial it's not the motives I question, but censorship as a means. If topics are banned from public discourse, the se...

Personally, I feel free speech in the way I described it is under pressure, and the pollution of the information environment is a result of that, and ...

Still, I don't see a single instance in which censorship had a positive impact. To emphasize, censorship (just like free speech) to me is about ideas,...

Has censorship ever demonstrably produced something positive? Individuals are perfectly capable of looking at the data and drawing their own conclusio...

Your posts crack me up. :lol: Would that desensitization persist when one abstains for a week? Somehow I doubt it. I think the fact that everyone can ...

Pornography isn't much different from other stimulants. If anything it's more tame than alcohol and other drugs. It should go without saying that you ...

I recently watched this Swedish documentary on transgenderism. What struck me as particularly interesting is the fact that teenage girls seeking "gend...

As I said: ___________________________________________________ It decided, and I quote: "... that will become members of NATO." Bucharest Summit Decla...

Of course it does. That's why the US decided in 2008 that Ukraine would become part of NATO even though that was against the will of Germany at the ti...

You are beating around the bush. You responded to my earlier post by stating that it's supposedly a big deal that Germany blocked NATO membership to U...

Your point was that EU countries blocking NATO membership was a big deal. Then how do you explain this: Ukraine defense minister says Kiev is a “membe...

It is what it is. When you've got substance to bring to the table let me know.

This is literally adressed in my post: ______________________________________ What do you think such a statement really means, when the United States ...

When I say commit, I mean commit to a Ukrainian victory, obviously, which is going to involve NATO boots on the ground. And yes, you're right that nob...

What is people's opinion on the current situation on the frontline? https://liveuamap.com/ It seems to me the situation is rapidly deteriorating. Sole...

By all means, continue believing that nuclear devices can cause tidal waves then. :lol:

The reason is obvious. The United States can not and will not commit itself to a Ukrainian defense, because getting involved in a protracted land war ...

Well, had you asked me in 1944 or 1968 maybe I would have answered you differently.

Because the power of a nuclear device is dwarfed by the power required to cause tidal waves.