There are also dickheads in the USA who are hoping and actively planning for society burning down. And whatever one may think about Donald Trump as a ...
A provocative question: Why do you support the "cause of peace"? Not why were the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan wrong, but why is peace, generally, the ...
If I was religious, I'd assume god really is on Trump's side. The last couple of weeks were an amazing string of successes for his campaign. First the...
This is a good way to put it, but it begs the question: How the hell is it that the republican party despite it's large and obvious fractures is able ...
It looks to me as if the democratic party has managed to hand the election to Trump on a silver platter. If opposition to Biden has not managed to coa...
Yes, I also think my statement was too general. But it might highlight an important notion: That there is no hard dividing line between a security int...
I would put things differently. We have clearly made tremendous progress in simulating all manner of physical processes, including those happening ins...
Aren't security interests in foreign countries inherently imperialistic? But since NATO has no doctrine for expanding into Russia, the same can be sai...
Right. So we do agree that one is allowed to select an effective means to meet an attack, even if that means heavy casualties, but that intention matt...
OK, so anything is on the table. Let's spin this further: Shmoland knew about the plans and has anticipated the plans for years. They easily turn back...
Right. I thought you were arguing that releasing someone's (actual) tax return was a danger to democracy. Which would be weird because whatever else i...
Well, let's not be unfair, the Gorch Fock is not dependent on oil or gas and thus provides an important asset in case Germany's access to these resour...
Unfortunately Germany currently seems to be slipping into a deep domestic political crisis, with record high dissatisfaction with the ruling coalition...
I didn't expect someone to bring up the treaty of Westphalia as an argument... Anyways this is just undermining your own argument, as your explanation...
So the opinions of a single prominent person are indicative of "everyone"? I think not. I mean your quote literally starts with the words "I assume".....
The point is that the narrative "Britain gave Palestine to the Jews with the Balfour declaration and thus Israel was created" is simplistic and doesn'...
The Balfour declaration probably tried to balance a lot of interests at once, in typical British imperial fashion. It played the Zionist card to gain ...
Britain did not give anything away, they just ended their mandate and fucked out of there. Britain, having at that point still various muslim subjects...
Unless the Russians were already aggreviated at being treated as merely a second-rate "regional power" by the west, and the status quo was always unac...
I suspect that it's less the actual military staffs that are worried about nuclear escalation, and more the politicians that worry about the fears of ...
Noone in this thread has cared the argue that the US is not duplicitous or self-interested. Only that a) not literally anything that happens is a US p...
How does credibility come into this? Everyone is a hypocrite, so what? Hypocrisy is an ad hominem charge. The US military has always been both. The re...
Yes, the abortive coup itself was a defeat. But since then the anti-democratic forces have fought a seemingly successful campaign to rehabilitate them...
I'm no longer so sure about that. The "ruling business elite" knows the risk of some kind of major crash is high and rising. For example: "two thirds ...
I think though that a bunch of the personality cult is tongue-in-cheek. The Trump voter base seems far more concerned with their enemies than with the...
Well I picked that specifically because it's so central to our western societies. That if you're not successful and happy you're either doing somethin...
I find this take in existence interesting. It reminds me of the "blind idiot god": Humanity has found it's god, it's creator, only to discover that it...
This seems to conflict with any other source on the negotiations I have looked at so far. They all stress that a high level meeting of the two leaders...
But I did look. And came up empty. And you clearly don't have any more either or you could have simply posted it and thus exposed me as an ignorant fo...
Look, you cannot really suppose that a mention in Hillary's emails about a gold dinar and a supposed (but unsourced) russian article constitute suffic...
You're neck-deep into conspiratorial thinking. That is unfortunate, but you'll hardly listen to me so I'm not in a position to help you get out of tha...
That's not how that works. You need consistend practice by the vast majority of states, which certainly was not the case with R2P. Plus there were con...
The problem is that R2P is not part of the rules based order, is not widely accepted as a principle and is not part of international law. Even the Wes...
This seems like a really bad example because that "invasion", the no-fly-zone was backed by a resolution of the security council. One of only three (?...
Well, how do we know that things don't spontaneously spring into existence all the time? Since the laws of physics as we observe them would already ac...
But these systems largely don't originate from the "unipolar" phase (I.e. post 1990) but from the Cold war, mostly the 70s. They're not simply the res...
But hasn't the war - or rather the sanctions - also shown that the importance of that depends on your economic enmeshment with the US? It seems to me ...
Efforts like that have been tried several times before though. Sure eventually something will likely replace the US dollar. For now it seems to have b...
Protecting yourself from outside aggression by invading and annexing your neighbour. So the aggression is then inside? Don't you have some other forum...
A multipolar order based on cooperation would certainly be novel. So far, the default state has usually been more or less open hostility and frequent ...
AFAIK there are no NATO nukes east of Germany. Not really. America already had world domination. The US voters don't seem particularly impressed with ...
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