Isaac

Yes. As I said, the mere existence of that possibility as a motive cannot stand as evidence that it is, in fact, a motive on any given occasion.

Governments obviously leak intelligence to support their interests and/or undermine the interests of opposing governments. One of the ways leaked inte...

Right, I've actually quoted our entire conversation and you're still making up stuff you imagine I said rather than using the quotes I painstakingly p...

Yeah, definitely. They're both as bad as each other. If it came out later that they'd cooked the whole thing up between them to boost arms sales I wou...

Good idea, let's try that. You provide the template. Lay that out for us using only what we actually know.

What previous behaviour? Which of the behaviours you have evidence for, indicates a likelihood of creating a smokescreen for and then using chemical w...

The point is not the tier of the lab, the point is that Nuland was concerned about them falling into the hands of Russian forces. You don't think Russ...

Here's the conversation we just had... Us: The US Secretary of State has just admitted that Ukraine has biological research facilities of such a natur...

They do. There's one not far from where I live. Neither I no my government would care if an invading force got hold of it because it just contains a l...

No. Here's the exchange... And the context before was me saying... ...in response to questions about whether advancing NATO was provocation. I don't s...

Marco Rubio (R-FL) to Nuland: “Does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?” Nuland: “uh, Ukraine has, uh, biological research facilities...we ar...

The levels of support for this kind of cynical exchange of civilian lives for a cheap propaganda coup is vaguely excusable (if not morally sound) in a...

Right. So Russia does have a strategic interest in the advance of NATO (their neighbours). Your denial of this is how this whole thing started. Again,...

Then why do America have strategic interests? You keep dodging the question. Why have America got a missile base in Poland if no-one is going to attac...

Yeah, people forget, this is a country that's been at war with itself (in parts) for years - over exactly these issues (the independence of Donetsk an...

I see so... Says what, in addition to "Ukraine can't negotiate with Russia because they're liars"? That there isn't really a deal? Well Russia have ce...

Indeed. There was talk before the war of Putin wanting to be recognised as a proper player on the world stage. A war to make official that which was t...

You're arguing that Ukraine should not accept terms because... I mean I'm literally quoting you here, I can't get any closer to what you're saying tha...

So you're saying that because the Russians are liars, Ukraine (who obviously never told a lie in their lives, and probably are being considered for be...

Ukraine has to either say yes or no the the deal. It's a binary question. Your claim that it is "100% correct" that the only way forward for Ukraine i...

I included that... ...or did you think they could defend some more without any more loss of life? That's not what's in dispute. This part of the argum...

The best bit about this story is the 'fact checkers' response. This one from USA today is priceless (if you're into dark humour)... "Some people sugge...

So how come... ...is ...? How do you see a chance for Ukraine against a superior force undamaged by sanctions which can maintain a long term war effor...

That doesn't explain the... I get the idea that operationally any number of mistakes might have happened in Ukraine's favour, but you go on to say... ...

So in Ukraine, Russia are... Yet... ...and... Which is it? Are Russia so weak (economically and militarily) that they're about to be defeated after ba...

Ha, indeed! One only need look at the massive improvement in global inequality which came about after Bin Laden's humiliating defeat... ...One might h...

Yeah, it's this vacillation between war being the crisis to end all crises on the one hand and then immediately pivoting to war being so trivial as to...

No, not 'explained'. An explanation goes from cause to effect. You've 'said', not 'explained'. Why do we need to recover territory, why is scaring the...

Right. But your claim is that sanctions can cripple Russia. So why do we need Ukraine to send it's young men in after them? Sign the peace deal, cripp...

That doesn't answer the question. Poland's membership of NATO doesn't somehow lead to missile bases by some law of physics. Why has America chosen to ...

Yes, in large part I agree with your assessment. Ukraine want some military security in the region, and they want control of the gas market. What I'm ...

So what's wrong with Ukraine accepting the current deal? Donbass regions will be independent, probably heavily influenced by Russia, but if Russia get...

Interesting. So what 6 and a half million strong military are America legitimately concerned about?

Absolutely. Given the response to Russia from the West thus far, Ukraine has little to lose by the current deal. They weren't going to join NATO anywa...

I grant that, but that doesn't qualify the scale of the difference.@"ssu" was trying to argue that Russia in 'attack mode' were so weak that the world...

You think they do. I think they do. Others don't think they do. Can you somehow demonstrate a contradiction? Do you seriously think that what seem cle...

I expect they did, as opposed to just let them walk in. The point isn't the word used (as you well know) the point is against whom they're fighting th...

Really? How exactly do you see that working? Take Joe Bloggs, a Fox News watching bod. "He's seen CNN say Fox are lying, he's sen his politicians say ...

Yeah, this is what I mean by not caring about truth. https://public.tableau.com/Dashboard1.png Look at the transition from before the 'post-truth' era...

How on earth did you get that from what I wrote? The issue is not whether people lie, it's that no-one is going to knowingly get their information fro...

If you can find me a single person who admittedly gets their information from non-trustworthy sources, bad quality data or journalists who make it the...

Well, yeah. That's the point. One cannot defend free speech with one breath and then condemn demonisation with the other. Demonisation is, after all, ...

Who said anything about truth? It's just a shit argument.

Well it seemed that way to me too at first, but I realise now I'd missed this... We have an actual expert in. Someone with, like, an actual education,...

Has the quote function broken? There seems to have been a flurry recently of posts referring to what I'm apparently saying without making use of it.

Absolutely. I probably wouldn't trust what Twitter say either, and I don't see any problem saying as much - so long as we're clear about it. I think "...

Like a needle in the eye, but hey...

Indeed, I heard they already have the plans showing the weak spot in Putin's death star and just need to deactivate the force field... Oh, hang on, am...

Yeah, because only Russia are interested in hydrocarbon resources. The rest of the work have a very much more 'take it or leave it' attitude.

I agree with here. You do need to track your sources back a little further https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1083401220/facebook-uncovers-disinformation-...