Isaac

We've been through this. You can't support 'Ukraine' in a discussion about strategy because 'Ukraine' is not an amorphous mass all agreeing with a sin...

I see. And those reasons have gone away now? Just as the media start reporting on peace talks. What a coincidence. It's funny, but to someone who didn...

I see. So you've been arguing against my view that Ukraine should accept a deal, for the last eight pages...what? By accident? Was your account hacked...

So when I asked, and you replied... You meant what...?

But I thought... ...and... ...and... So I assume you're all dead set against this so called 'peace deal'?

What a bizarre post. In the latter half you graphically depict how gruesome and appalling war is, what a tragic impact it's having on the Ukrainians.....

Yep, and it's not limited to external agents either...

Yep, and Elvis is still alive too apparently Lest anyone's in any doubt whose agenda you're all slavishly promoting Oh dear, withdrawing from the war ...

Yeah! Why not...let's have a fucking World War, we haven't had one in ages, it'd be laugh. Poking Putin with a big stick for 20 seems to have finally ...

Yes, we can now add legitimately sitting elected leaders to the list of people whose decisions we apparently ought never question. It's little short o...

If you've no intention of answering the question you can just say so. You don't have to waste your time writing another puff piece.

Still not out of 'odd' territory though. You're saying as long as the election was good, you don't question the decisions of elected leaders. That's a...

I don't really care if we're at each other's throats or calmly disagreeing. I prefer the latter but I've little expectation of that from you. What I'm...

Seriously? You just unquestionably accept whatever any commander in chief decides? When Trump was commander in chief of the United States did you adop...

Yes. I was asking why. But you just said... ...which is it, the will of the Ukrainians as a mass or the will of the Ukrainian government? And if the f...

You'll find if you want to know something about what I've written, a good start is to read what I've written. I've underlined it, to help your struggl...

Again, can't think of a single reason why not.

I can't think of a single reason to side with the aggressor.

All of Ukraine are the aggressed. Do you think all 41 million of them think the same thing, have the same priorities, the same plans, the same ideas a...

I have no interest in why (some of) the Ukrainians want to remain outside of Russian control. I'm not questioning a Ukrainian. I'm questioning you, wh...

You cannot just keep arguing ignoring reality. It is not 'freedom' that's the prize for winning and it's not totalitarian dystopia that's the result o...

But you've yet to address the fact that people in Russia are all much happier than people in Ukraine. ... See what we can do when we just make shit up...

You're forgetting a little something... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/russia-ukraine-war-numbers-casualties-refugees-aid 549 civilian ...

Calling them both as bad as each other is not 'defending' one of them. Calling one worse than the other is not 'defending' one of them. 'Defending' so...

I agree. One acts in a way that is virtuous regardless of consequences. The problem is Ukraine is not a person. There is no virtuous course of action ...

Indeed. And then goes on to do exactly that... So Ukraine's win will result in a 'free society'? How has that in any way sidestepped the "balance of p...

Yep. It also has a reasonable hope of losing hundreds more of its people and not getting anything more than it's already got. Again, simply presenting...

So what's it got to do with your argument? So far we have. You: Ukraine should keep fighting because a bad thing could happen if they agree to terms M...

All territory is seized by war. And you think that's a good thing?

Territories he already has. He's asking for Crimea which is de facto already part of Russia, and independence in Donbass which is already de facto the...

So I guess the International Centre for Counterterrorism, Chatham House, and Professor of Defense studies at King's College don't know what they're ta...

No. Not likely at all. That's rather the point. If we were talking about what the deal ought to be then it'd be. 1. Russian military fucks off and lea...

Your blind faith in capitalism is noted, but the charge involved impoverishment, not a failure to get richer.

The claim was about Putin fucking over his countrymen. Indices of overall poverty aren't relevant to that claim. If they're all poor then one sector a...

How is 'avoiding openly lying on public record' not 'a reason'?

Seriously? You want to put some figures to that? Putin has impoverished more people to a greater extent than the US? Let's start with the Gini coeffic...

It was a piece of social commentary about today's mercurial, shallow emotional flag-waiving. It's relevance to this thread is the obsession with it de...

Right so the New York Times article in 2001 describing how Project Clear Vision created biological weapons which they hid from the mandatory UN declar...

For any would be commentators concerned about the gross misfeasance indicated below... ... I've gone to the trouble of preparing a guide. ..(1).. is a...

Yep. What's not on the recording apparently, is later when questioned about whether Ukraine has sufficient supplies of fuel to hold out she goes into ...

I mean it literally says the exact opposite of this in the post you quoted... ...but please, don't let what I've actually written get in the way of yo...

It's like you don't understand how negotiation works. Here's a primer for you https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/negotiation-skills-daily/what-is-negot...

The rest of your analysis is really interesting, but this seems out of place. The Russians are claiming to be about to bring evidence of biological we...

How does Putin's belief about the mooted biological weapons have any bearing whatsoever on their existence? Putin might believe the vase on his shelf ...

I just don't understand how something as simple as... ...keeps getting twisted into 'You're supporting Russia'. It's analysis at the level of the scho...

Im afraid I have no idea what any of that was supposed to mean but... ...how very drole/apposite/insightful/admonishing

Interesting article in the Jacobin on the exact argument being made here - the misguided, dangerous promotion of continued war. The whole article is w...

Of course. The question is why we should take your default position and have to prove otherwise rather than take our preferred default position and as...

Yep. And to think they'd be so aggressive after the US promised to conduct it's future proxy wars using nothing but a strongly worded leafleting campa...

Let's see how my own personal intel plays out shall we? My network of sources tell me that Russia is likely to use weapons to attack Ukrainian positio...