About as much nonsense as using a hypothetical as evidence... "I think things would have been different under Gore; that proves things would have been...
Yeah, history is not on the side of the cheerleaders for this war. Barely a single US foreign intervention has ever worked, since WWII whenever the US...
Exactly why I spent so much time demonstrating that your assumption that the US are following a different agenda to Russia in terms of basic human rig...
Blackrock have already made a deal with the Ukrainian government for the reconstruction deal. I'm no economist so I couldn't say what the relative ben...
Obviously as a general principle this is true to the point of being a truism, but if you look at the analysis I presented from Rand, it's not even cle...
Another of those posts. There's two parts to this story... 1. A reputable Human rights group with a long and respected history accuses Ukraine of abus...
Yes, I think there's an aspect, as Stephen Walt says, of managed guilt avoidance. People love an enemy who is completely removed from any aspect they ...
Absolutely. Part of what I've been trying to show here is that it's ideology, not facts which drive our beliefs. We seek out the theories (experts etc...
Rand corporation's expert opinion on the benefits and costs of continued war involvement for the US ... https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA2510...
You might be interested in an article by Harvard's Stephen Walt, professor of international relations describing with surprising accuracy much of the ...
That's not the point. The moment society places a higher premium on adherence to government-sanctioned narratives than it does on actual qualification...
By far the most important issue here. We are censoring debate among experts. Not idiots on Twitter, not Russian trolls, not paid lobbyists...experts i...
And correlation is not causation. Nothing in that establishes that those countries made those changes because of western influence, or were accepted i...
I see. So Ukraine may or may not "improve", it's plausible the EU might help but the evidence isn't in the charts, but it's "obvious" so there's no ne...
But that's what the example of the Incas disproves. No one wants to be left on a hillside to die. Yet it was not proscribed. On what grounds do you cl...
Right. So all you've demonstrated is that all societies have social mores. You've not shown any unity regarding the content of those mores. If 'murder...
No, you're ignoring the evidence and continuing with your fairytale in spite of evidence to the contrary. Your theory is that Western influence on Ukr...
When I talk about US interests or European interests I'm talking about their governments, which, in turn, largely means the interests of their corpora...
Interestingly, an article on some of 'benefits' of western control Ukrainians can look forward to... https://jacobin.com/2023/01/ukraine-postwar-recon...
Not derivable from the charts. As I said, V-dem bias their scoring heavily in favour of democratic representation which is only a small part of human ...
Exactly. You care more about mollycoddling the current media darlings than you do about holding the most powerful nation on earth to account. I find t...
For those struggling with the link between gun availability and mass shootings. The explanation might be a bit technical for some, but stick with it.....
The trouble is that for reasons which we can only attribute to some key lessons missed at school, @"NOS4A2" doesn't understand the meaning of the word...
The 'evidence' that the defenders aren't is little more than overt apologetics. Amnesty produced a report which made the mere mention of potential war...
No one here has argued that the provocation argument is true "because John Mersheimer said so and he's an expert". Not a single comment has been to th...
You clearly haven't because you've not spoken a word of opposition against this one. I can't see why. No-one is using the argument "nothing happens ou...
I don't know what went on there, but I think we've established that not only do I have JSTOR access, but that my access is bigger than Frank's, and (a...
@"Moliere" Seeing as @"frank" seems to want to continue with the secrecy. The section on wages from the article he's citing is, in full... ...for any ...
What? I don't have a clue what my JSTOR access has to do with anything. (You mean the article which begins page 19 with "In this article I have attemp...
You made a point as if you were the fucking Oracle of Delphi, without either citation, or argument, and then acted as if anyone questioning must be ig...
It may be that @"Mikie" has a clear enough idea to respond, but in any case, I'd like to know what sort of thing you feel would satisfy this request. ...
So I did that. Google Scholar on "stagflation in 1970s UK" The first cites inaccurate estimates of the degree of excess demand in the economy, the sec...
You're confusing being interested in the question with giving a shit what you 'reckon' is the answer. I assure you entire shelves of literature is ava...
Yep. "always opposed to the previous war, never the current one". That way the war machine can just keep trundling on and everyone gets to pretend the...
What "we have" is the relative conduct in Crimea, which you're ignoring for some reason. We're trying to answer the question of what a Russian control...
And yet... So you admit that you cannot possibly derive anything from them about Ukraine's likely trajectory by knowing only one such factor (sphere o...
...which is absurd. Russia is opposed to the US. It's going to promote any story that reflects negatively on the US. If you're going to repress all Ru...
Why? The US is the most powerful nation on earth. It's necessary to hold power to account otherwise it can just do whatever it likes. So on what possi...
They don't. I've just demonstrated that. Croatia's human rights record declined on joining the EU. Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, and Hungary made no pr...
So the BBC's diplomatic correspondent is likely to be ignorant about the actual history? And George Friedman, director of Stratfor, U.S. intelligence ...
One more for fun. Since we've not touched on NATO. Out of the longest running ex-soviet states in NATO... Lithuania. Here's it's chart (again with you...
Oh, and one last for you all https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/physical-integrity-rights-fkr?tab=chart&time=2009..latest&country=HRV~BLR~IRQ~RUS~SAU~...
Here's your preferred statistics relevant to the actual argument. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/physical-integrity-rights-fkr?tab=chart&country=H...
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