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Yesterday there was a lengthy interview with Scott Ritter, a former USMC intelligence officer, who I gather is a fairly controversial figure. Still, h...

And while we're on the topic of historical throwbacks. When Nazi-Germany invaded Ukraine in June of 1941, they deployed roughly 800,000 - 1,000,000 tr...

And what about this claim? And this claim... And this claim... ______ And what about your implied claim that Russia was aiming for a full-scale invasi...

You're going to substantiate your claims, or will you hide behind snarky comments to hide the fact you're backpeddling?

Strategic strike isn't a military term used to denominate ground invasions. I won't hold it against anyone that they're not experts on military termin...

No one's. I'm not a part of this conflict.

First it was Crimea, now it is Czechoslovakia. Invading a diplomatically isolated, unprepared Soviet republic and invading a western-backed, militaril...

Seems like there's two wild, unsubstantiated claims in here: 1. Russia modelled their invasion of Ukraine on the previous conflict in Crimea. 2. Russi...

I don't think this characterizes my position very well. But already said about this what needed to be said (and thank you for that ).

A wise lad once said, "Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?"

What you're implying is that all territory Russia at one point or another controlled they also meant to hold. I think that's a highly questionable ass...

As far as I know, Russian advances around Kiev began from the onset of the war, so I'm not sure what you're getting at.

My view is that this initial drive was a last attempt by the Russians to end the conflict quickly, not necessarily by taking Kiev, but by showing they...

Of course. But there are dozens if not hundreds of people working in the Kremlin. Analists, advisors, a general staff etc. I already explained my view...

I've gotten the impression the EU has taken the opportunity to use the war in Ukraine to both excuse its desastrous economic policies and to push its ...

That's a rather big if. The short answer is, occupying large countries with too few troops is asking for trouble. The Russians know this first hand. I...

I would turn that around, actually. Putin and his cronies aren't fools, nor is Zelensky, nor is the Pentagon or the EU leadership - they likely know a...

I don't think that's evident at all. For one, with western backing it was obvious from the outset that taking Kiev would not end the conflict. Leaders...

Sure. All we have are interpretations. But it's supported by figures like Mearsheimer. Mearsheimer makes the same point - the number of deployed troop...

The number of troops the Russians have deployed indicate they never intended to invade all of Ukraine. And that's sensible - modern armies have the ex...

Allow me to be a bit more cynical and posit a theory of my own: The failed Kherson offensive signaled that Ukraine was, as many had feared, no longer ...

Because it puts things into perspective. The Ukrainian forces took back some territory, but large parts of Ukraine remain in Russian hands. Further, i...

Looking at a map of Ukraine now, why is this significant?

I'm struggling to see where this idea comes from that Russia is losing, and I'm starting to get the impression this forum's ability for reason is buck...

It seems to me people are attributing a little too much to this offensive. The fact that the captured territory was defended by tripwire troops implie...

Interesting, since I came to the opposite conclusion. The closer we get to the teachings of Jesus, Q, the more it seems to resemble classical Greek ph...

The greatness of a moral teaching lies solely in the goodness of its contents. The person who repeats it, or even the person who invents it, are in my...

If they believed no intervention was necessary then why did they print an unprecedented amount of money? Perhaps they thought they could "kickstart" t...

Maybe so, but I'm not talking about what caused the financial crisis. I'm talking about the Fed's response, and why it cannot be compared with what th...

A bunch of stuff. But I don't see how one cancels out the other. There was a financial crisis to solve, and a recession that followed. Maybe you can s...

I think I know quite a bit. :chin:

It responded to a major recession. Recession is a general slow down of the economy. A reduced demands can lead to deflation and it's been one of the k...

The difference is the Fed was then responding (correctly) to an economic recession. Now it's creating one!

How did that come about then?

Trump is a buffoon, but with each passing day this ordeal is looking more and more politically motivated. What'll be the reaction of those on this for...

Ceaseless money printing is the elephant in the room. It isn't being addressed for political reasons. For one, central governments and banks have no r...

I think intuition and/or instinct can provide some starting points for morality, but I find the idea that it can provide a basis for morality unconvin...

This is a pretty common idea, but what is exactly the logic behind it? What is the exact mechanism that requires modern economies to grow in order to ...

I think mankind will be just fine, with or without global warming. It's perhaps the current status quo that will have to go - something for which I wo...

At this point US politics seems so utterly corrupt and devoid of reason, I find it hard to imagine why anyone with a brain would willingly defend eith...

Won't those just be bought and paid for by those same self-serving individuals, like most media is today? Though, I think today we're seeing a challen...

If you mean the fact that the disagreeable, competitive, competent types get to rule, yes, I think mankind is unable to change that except if it someh...

Perhaps that is true, but it is also unavoidable. At the top of the pyramid, anarchy reigns, and people who excel at accumulating wealth and/or power ...

Inflation as caused by the increase in the quantity of a currency ('money printing') is a form of devaluation or debasement of currency. It's quite li...

Have you watched any of Desmet's interviews or read his work? This is one of the exact phenomena he talks about and he terms it "free-floating aggress...

That's exactly right!

He quotes Hannah Arendt extensively. I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you've never read anything by Desmet, nor watched any of his interv...

Government is an instrument of force, and thus inherently ethically flawed and unsuited to apply a system of ethics. In my opinion, governments can on...

Isn't that a big part of what writers do, though? Synthesize works from different writers and turn them into something that sheds light on contemporar...

Desmet does not claim that this world view is particularly prevalent among scientists, nor is it meant to be an attack on modern science. I've tried t...