Why don't you give me some indication that you're capable of more nuance than the average propaganda bot? So how did you think this would go, you just...
Intervention by the US airforce alone would have absolutely crushed the Russian invasion. With Ukraine's forces on the ground and the US airforce abov...
Not in every conceivable way. Notably they have retained their choice of alignment - with the west. You may think they're making a mistake but polls i...
Well what is it? Can Ukraine negotiate or not? There's a difference though between claiming a strategy has failed and claiming it wasn't sound to begi...
If that's the case, why should we "pull the plug" on Ukraine support? The support improves Ukraine's ability to impose costs and thus their position i...
And if Russia then let's the tanks roll west across Ukraine, should Europe then restart their aid? Or are we giving the entirety of Ukraine to Russia ...
Well Germany had a key role in NATO defense until the collapse of the SU and had significant forces. The domestic political opinion of Germany's armed...
Well the Antivax bit is just another arrow in the quiver for people like Bannon. What exactly one believes about any particular issue is not so import...
I gave reasons for my statement, which you chose to ignore. What are your reasons? Care to explain to us how calling the citizens of Gaza "not much be...
Trump is the wrecking ball. By delegitimising democratic institutions, causing chaos and shifting what is acceptable he's paving the way for an actual...
Is exactly the kind of rhetoric Hamas would use. Or any other person justifying mass murder. Odd that someone would seriously adopt this rhetoric on a...
What is astounding to me is the apparent lack of awareness of the overall situation. This was visible early on with the failure to make a convincing c...
More and more voices are starting to call out the supporters of Ukraine for not preparing properly for a long war and dragging their feet on supplying...
Oh I'm sure that if you can find various aspects that predate it. That doesn't mean that their specific combination wasn't relevant though. I think it...
True. There's always the danger of getting too enamoured with the big, sweeping narrative. Also we can't really say that these ideas are necessarily u...
But, arguably, the fact that we even think about inequality as a problem is part of the Christian tradition. Greek and Roman pagans would not have con...
I think the Roman empire was doomed long before the Christian religion became dominant. Really what's interesting is not that it fell, but how long it...
Or perhaps the conclusion we should draw from the repeated failures is that the two states solution is not a good way to go about it. It tends to focu...
I wouldn't even necessarily call the lockdowns an overreaction. When states felt that infection rates went beyond what could be handled, the lockdowns...
I love the logic of invoking denialism while posting a bunch of articles to then turn around and claim the articles are thus evidence of a much worse ...
If one wants to live in the real world, the last thing they should do is believe anything you write. More lies piled on. Really, you expect anyone to ...
I guess I could reject the framing of occupier and occupied and instead take the position that really Gaza has been given considerable autonomy as wel...
I guess noone here expects that the Palestinians have much capacity to change, given their situation. Though one might also argue that this attitude i...
No they are not, unless you mean in the sense that any armed Ukrainian is a threat to russian interests in Ukraine. Not really, since that is merely a...
You're making an unwarranted leap here from arguing that Ukraine's Nazi problem is beneficial to Russian propaganda efforts to concluding that it was ...
But you seem to be simply perpetuating the "us vs them". You're merely placing yourself at the other side of the debate, not asking why it's that way ...
They were designed to create antibodies. Not sure at what point it could have been predicted that this would not confer sterile immunity. Unfortunatel...
Vaccination and vaccination mandates are not new concepts. Why was the realisation that your actions affect others such a problem during COVID? Also t...
Well they have so far insisted that a second occupation is out of the question. The pessimistic version is that the decision-makers in Israel know ful...
You're making stuff up again. Baseless speculation. And some more lies. What laughable nonsense. That's not how language works. Asking a narrow questi...
It's not fraud. Maybe it's a crime in some jurisdictions but I'm not aware of any. The crime and the laundering cannot be the same act. The whole talk...
I did supply an argument. I did provide evidence, I even provided you with the specific evidence you asked for. After which you just dropped the topic...
No it's not. Obviously you don't. And this "moral hazard" is here supposed to stand in for evidence and an argument, but I don't accept such a transpa...
Of the people you mentioned, only Hersh and Sachs can be considered "sources". The rest are analysts. As such we can consider their arguments, but the...
As should be clear from the context, I'm talking about @"boethius" filling their posts with lines from russian propaganda and making factual claims th...
Money laundering? Perhaps you should look at a dictionary first. You're parroting propaganda to the point of embarrassment. Another strawman. Claims n...
A false claim invented by russian propaganda. You're staying current on that front I see. You not listening isn't the same as there not being an argum...
A fairly transparent fig-leaf, since you ascribe the same argumentation to Zelensky and the rest of the Ukrainian leadership. You seem to be vastly ov...
I think you should put some more Russian propaganda lines in your post. Someone might not have gotten the message. Perhaps some carricature of Zelensk...
To get this topic back to less circular territory: The strategic situation currently seems almost a repeat of last year, Ukraine is on the strategic d...
Your strategy to "navigate" risk involves just handing Russia whatever they want whenever they want it. But actually even that isn't sufficient, becau...
Right, but that's the precise problem. If it's the risk that Russia reacts to, then Ukraine's current status is pretty much irrelevant. Ukraine can do...
Except the two times when Russia did actually invade Ukraine, nothing concerning NATO had recently happened. So clearly just not joining NATO isn't ac...
I think he knows he's a dead man anyways, as Putin will not tolerate any challenger, especially not from the nationalist camp. Might as well drive up ...
I'm going to call this a straight up lie until I see evidence. The strategic situation in the Donbas had not significantly changed just before the 202...
So, taking all these together: What Zelensky needs to do in 2022 is to somehow re-establish the status quo before 2014. And doing so would cost Ukrain...
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