It's essentially giving Russia a bunch of pre-emptive concessions in return for a status quo ceasefire. Since there's no operable European coalition t...
So the Trump / Putin call seems to have gone better than I would have expected. A pause on strikes on energy infrastructure will probably save civilia...
I was wondering what issue they'd use to openly defy a court order. I guess the administration feels like "violent foreign gang members" and "wartime ...
I think the danger of the current situation for Ukraine is that there's not much either the EU or the US is able and willing to do to pressure Russia ...
I also quite plausible that Putin will wring further concessions out of Trump and the deal for Ukraine changes. But even if they agreed to the 30 days...
I'm kinda amazed that you're managing to spin Russia asking for concessions before they agree to a ceasefire as evidence of their good intentions. By ...
True, but it would make sense that Trump thinks of them as purely transactional. Of course we also don't really know how much of the current policy ca...
Yeah I think this is a plausible take on some of the motivations. Still it also feels like we're missing a piece here. For example, why would the US g...
Do you adjust your theory at all based on the fact that the US is obviously not the country forcing a continuation of the conflict? Yeah it's increasi...
Oddly though, there's been no bullying of Russia at all. Russia seems to stand apart, with no demands made of them at all. I wouldn't paint the pictur...
And tariffs are off again, partially, until April, maybe. This seems to be a good way to drive away any kind of investment since no long-term planning...
Diffusion of responsibility. Everyone looks around at everyone else to see what they're doing, resulting in a gridlock where no-one does anything. I t...
Where do you get the idea that a uniquely defining factor of Christian morality is that it's objective and universal? I'd say the opposite is true. Ch...
Based on what I've read, it's actually worse. The Trump administration has halted all weapon exports to Ukraine. People are still scrambling to find o...
I'm not really seeing a carrot here though. Threatening to withdraw security guarantees isn't a carrot, it's another stick. It's all stick. Trump seem...
But wouldn't the US aligning with Russia create a situation where a disgruntled Europe is now more open to Chinese influence? If you could choose betw...
Sure, Putin was a convenient figurehead to use for the right wing populists and their nativist, anti-EU and frequently Anti-American agenda. But that ...
What's confusing me is that I don't see what either the tech-bros like Musk or the nativists like Bannon (I'm not really sure where Vance falls on thi...
In terms of market, a disunited and splintered EU offers much the same market and the nations can be played against each other to avoid moves that thr...
I'm reading the situation a bit differently. Trump doesn't care about Ukraine one way or another, he just cares about his ego. He appears to genuinely...
I do agree with the sentiment, but Zelensky had a purpose for going to the White House, and he failed. Maybe there was no actual way to succeed. But t...
Just how do you imagine that working? What interest do China or Russia have in a stable and independent Europe? None. There's only two ways to have a ...
Well, that meeting went rather badly. How did the Ukrainian delegation, with Zelensky at the head, let this happen? It seems very likely now that the ...
I'd say that the opposite is likely. What would be in the interest of the "tech-bro oligarchy", as we could call it, would be a Europe of divided and ...
I think it's more than just laziness. The entire behaviour of this US government seems to be purposefully geared to undermine collective security. You...
And yet what is the alternative? A principled stance for peace will not prevent someone else from pursuing their goals through war, and always avoidin...
It's doubtful whether Russia can afford to do that. But I think more importantly Kiev is part of the russian national heritage at least the way Putin ...
But this is ultimately a matter of degrees. Ukraine has been relying on US intelligence and targeting data since the start of the war. It's an open se...
What? I honestly have no idea what you mean here. How is Russia without options? The russian state is not remotely threatened. They're facing more dif...
We stood at the precipice of annihilation during the Cuban missile crisis or on the few occasions when a detection error almost set off a nuclear exch...
For me to read your argument, you would have to actually write it down first. All I have are your conclusions that this or that is unjust. But what is...
What makes it unjust, specifically? What's the moral philosophy and what's the argument? It seems like a perfectly fine policy to limit the ability of...
Sure. He just doesn't seem like a particularly good one. His speeches may stoke hatred and fears, but they're also meandering and sloppy. Putin has th...
Well that's what big pharma says. But they just want to sell you their expensive chemotherapy... On a more serious note, I do think it's interesting t...
No? A crime is committing an act defined as criminal by law. If we'd like a less positivist definition, we could say a crime is a violation of social ...
As evidenced by what? Do small time drug dealers threaten the state's monopoly? I think not. And according to me they're not. Claims without arguments...
But obviously the government does not actually have this monopoly, because other people commit plenty of crimes. More to the point, this kind of argum...
I don't know the number. I have always assumed though that it's not a relevant amount of people. And do you think we're looking at the cause here or t...
This seems to imply that what makes governments unjust is primarily the monopoly on violence. However, the monopoly is not constitutive. In and of its...
"Incumbency" seems to increasingly be defined not as any specific government, but as the entire socio-political (though curiously not the economic) st...
Not policy in the strict sense. More like meta-policy. Specifically the idea that the institutions are corrupt, society is falling apart and thus some...
Well, Germany seems to have decided that what it should do is chuck the current coalition and aim for new elections in the spring. So both the US and ...
He'll burn down the system. That's what people want. They're tired of politics, tired of being responsible for the world's ills, tired of worrying abo...
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