You're obsessed with proving. It's you who raised the objection to my position, not the other way around. I'm quite happy with your position. I don't ...
Chicago Riots killed 43 people, part of a series of about 50 such riots which, together with many peaceful demonstrations, brought about the changes i...
So no sources then. Yep. Still waiting for the part where it says that another country's sovereignty over an area is a legitimate foreign policy goal....
Go on... Which news article? No, since the UN charter does not specify that one country's sovereignty should be a foreign policy objective. So? Is he ...
It showed nothing of the sort. If you don't understand why not I suggest you go back and read it more carefully. Or, you know, we could actually discu...
Really, that's an interesting development. Your source for that? No it isn't. One country's sovereignty over an area is not a legitimate foreign polic...
Comments keep going in circles because no-one will address the issues directly (not that they might not go in circles still, even then, but we could a...
Yes, indeed. I think my position could probably be summed up by "either do it properly or stay out of it". I should add though that the reason I think...
No they don't, and no it isn't. There aren't laws of physics about peace talks. What's the US's interest? Why wait? Hardly. But either way, if the US ...
The US (or someone of similar standing) offer to broker peace talks. No more weapons drip-fed to Ukraine. Either UN/NATO on the ground or we don't tak...
Yep. We're talking about how to get (1) to happen. Your idea is we just wait? Shall we cross our fingers too? Meanwhile a few more hundred Ukrainians ...
https://mate.substack.com/p/russia-says-us-wrecked-ukraine-talks The point is that there's been no such request. Putin's not going to just offer is he...
So? Try to stop just saying random stuff and follow an argument. We're currently talking about the moral rights and wrongs of including Ukrainian sove...
Yes. It's something I find chillingly fascinating. It ought to be fairly straightforward to discuss the best course of action our governments could ta...
Well then I don't see much evidence that your (4) follows. Countries with a long history of democracy and free press tend to have better internal huma...
No it isn't. Pro-west is not a single measure but is made up of military, economic and cultural forces. Plus... ... We're talking about the situation ...
So? We're talking about the humanitarian situation in Donbas. It's like citing a revolution in Scotland as evidence of England's pro-scottish tendency...
I don't see how your third step is in any way 'unquestionable'. NATO is a military defensive organisation and the EU an economic one. Neither decision...
So an organisation is 'incompetent' if even a single plan fails? That's an astonishingly high bar. But the answer's already been given. If we underest...
This is a crucial point that is being overlooked. @"apokrisis", @"ssu" - what is the background against which you're measuring 'competence'? How many ...
Uh huh. Similar protests take place in Russia. I'm enquiring about the evidence that their requests have been acted upon. I've provided three reports ...
It was rhetorical. The point is that the wealthy who might complain about the loss of their exploit-ready labour force are in that position because of...
But ought they be? The system by which owners own what they own isn't some law of physics, we made it up, it's written on paper under our respective c...
I think so. For me it would be around autonomy and egalitarianism. For a labour arrangement to be fair, the labourer has to have a genuine other choic...
Yep. What's that got to do with the humanitarian problems in Ukraine. Neither Ukraine nor Russia are 'Western'. I haven't. No it isn't. I'm a member o...
I've no idea what you're talking about. All my sources are prior to the war. If by 'the war' you mean the whole unrest from 2014, then... a) some of t...
Interesting how this links to power though? What you can do with it is not only a question of technical know-how, but of power. Even here the country ...
You already know it isn't. I am and always have been in favour of negotiations mediated by a third party with some meaningful power (the US, Europe, o...
This first I think we can dispense with because even if the total changes, the rate at which is changes if still fixed. If I triple my share of a pot ...
Oh, and here's the most interesting part from the joint Amnesty, Human Rights Watch report... . Blaming the reporting of their abuses on Russian disin...
Sure but we're talking about objectives, not suffering. It's the Ukrainian objective you're expressing support for, not merely empathising with their ...
Maybe 'wealth' isn't the right term either. There's definitely a limited pot of stuff and labour, and at the end of the day, that's what things like w...
OK, so ideas don't have a maxima, not even in rates. That makes sense (I might quibble about limits to the bandwidth of the working memory, or remind ...
Yes, that's right. That's up to us to decide. Personally I think the notion of human rights is a good starting point. Not in isolation, no. The Russia...
Yes. A government of a country with Nazi supporters in it, though, is not, thankfully, a Nazi government. Hence the very significant difference betwee...
The situation in Crimea was broadly similar to the situation in Ukrainian controlled Donbas. That was the conclusion of Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, T...
How? You've not even addressed the question. Did Poland (or the Western regions of Russia) have a better time of the war because their governments did...
Are you seriously suggesting that a few rallies makes us basically the same as being run by Nazis. That some public meetings are much the same as the ...
Why not Crimea? Because it doesn't fit your narrative. You have an actual example of an actual territory annexed from Ukraine and you're avoiding usin...
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