Yes, there's just too much money at stake and Biden can't satisfy all the money simultaneously. Even if Biden satisfies the biggest money there's stil...
There's also the funders of those organizations (the elites' elite), and there's hundreds of billions of dollars on the line in terms of policy. If yo...
Simply assuming a machine has already solved a philosophical problem, such as what is happiness in this case, doesn't really solve all that much. Taki...
Though I generally agree, I think the main difference between a second Trump administration and the first one will be a quest for vengeance. As chaoti...
Sure, but if Trump already won once raising half the funds of Hillary, then we're not in a "all things being equal" situation. Things are not equal, T...
Yeah sure you can equate Ukrainian Nazi indoctrination with Russian nationalist Neo-Tzarism or whatever you want to call it. The point of my argument ...
Well these other pre-2008 things are not really vis-a-vis Ukraine, it's seems closer to reading tea leaves. Of course there's a historical context and...
There's all the usual issues of why partisans usually vote for their party regardless of the candidate. As I say in my post, I'm not saying Trump will...
That's a pretty tenuous premise. Not simply because extrapolating from protest votes in primaries is pretty shaky ... but I'm pretty sure Republicans ...
Why would other people's responsibility be a greater focus than my own? It seems my position here is almost at the level of a tautology: that one shou...
I've posted the same Western reporting on the Nazis in Ukraine I think 4-5 times now. It's the same cycle, someone mentions the Nazis in Ukraine as me...
My primary responsibility does indeed revolve around the West and its actions or failures because I live in the West. I have zero problem discussing o...
I point out my primarily responsibility: Western policy. First, it's not an exclusive statement, we can obviously also talk about Russian and Ukrainia...
How is this in anyway related to what I explain? The core question is what is the best policy to manage the situation. For me I am primarily intereste...
This is really the strangest of the propaganda vis-a-vis Ukraine. Western policy is Western policy. "Ukrainian agency" is not a cause of Western polic...
Again, such limited imagination. How escalation works is a series of tit-for-tat actions which spur each side to buildup and "show of strength". As I ...
Macron is talking about sending troops into Ukraine as we speak ... and you're arguing that NATO wouldn't send troops into NATO. Makes zero sense. But...
Why not? Let's say tensions rise, use your imagination, and Russia is building up on Finland's border, even if everyone understand's it's just "to fle...
To put the nuclear question aside (until someone wants to dismiss its relevance completely again) and continue my periodic analysis of the war situati...
Yeah, sure, but 'Russian threat' also includes being nuked by Russia precisely because you joined NATO. We agree. Hopefully doesn't happen and I would...
And the decision to join NATO was based on non-hypotheticals? You're basically arguing that the hypothetical situation which serves as the justificati...
The other thing I take issue with is ceding the low probability risk-analysis to a given side. For example, in this case the justification for Finland...
Sure, chance is slim but the consequences are very high, and so wroth discussion . It's also been an explicitly stated reason for plenty of policy dec...
The other thing that changes with a long contiguous border is the missile time is extremely short. The biggest thing that this changes is that there's...
There definitely is a scenario where that would happen. Precisely because, as you say, Russia cannot fight a conventional war against all of NATO, its...
Ok, let's run with that. The US strikes some targets in the middle of nowhere, neither side wants to escalate further, then the argument ends. Is this...
I've put the question to many Finns: "Ok, imagine tensions rise, whatever it is, and Russia nukes Finland (military bases and so on) as a precautionar...
I am talking about who controls the territory. Ukraine lost control of the territory, regardless of what legal or moral arguments you want to make abo...
First, I have not forgotten your long post explaining this pick-a-hegemon position, which at least strives to resolve surface level contradictions. I ...
The person resorting the drama is the person screaming "DRAMATICALLY"! What facts are you even talking about? That the US doesn't have a weapon right ...
Capitalization is part of the spelling of a word. "DRAMATICALLY" is not how you spell properly, and just shouting because you have zero points. If you...
Exactly, when the US interferes covertly in other countries it's ok because it's "for good". Why we should suspect US intentions is that US officials ...
The fact is US covertly interferes all over the place and governments change. When that happens we point to the people in the country in question who ...
Also, if anyone's wondering how you MacGyver a nuclear warhead out of one system and into another, such as an ABM missile, there's a really good start...
Your points are certainly possible, but I'm not so sure. The West has enormous leverage over Zelensky in terms of the money; of course, Zelensky has t...
It's definitely starting to feel like Afghanistan 2.0 where it becomes just a normal practical necessity to cut loose our allies, nothing to see here....
Ah ok, noted. Honestly surprising to me, both that he has this reputation and Western outlets would run with it. The Duran had a theory that Zelensky ...
Honestly, the article is really surprising to see in a Western media outlet. I think useful to highlight that I, personally, wouldn't base any conclus...
Their proposal (and what Bush said publicly he'd insist on Russia accepting) was to renegotiate the ABM treaty to update it to recent threats, such as...
To defend against a Russian first strike? And where do you even get what the "Russians really think" from? You just makeup total bullshit, whatever is...
It was a love firelake relationship. Definitely no doubt about the rogue nation threat. However, the Russian perspective (at least according to Putin)...
I read the entire history of philosophy (as many books as was available to me in different libraries) and stopped after reading Schopenhauer. Philosop...
"But the height of audacity in serving up pure nonsense, in stringing together senseless and extravagant mazes of words, such as had previously been k...
It is my main point. That you can deploy nuclear weapons to these bases is a larger threat than the ABM missiles. It is not logistically as easy to de...
You seem to always be arguing with someone else. I have zero problem recognizing Russia's actions are imperialistic. Russia's "national interest" is d...
I define good debate as 1. A space where ideas can be scrutinized against opposing ideas. 2. A fair playing field so the rules are equal for everyone....
Although I understand the concern, I've been meaning to mention for a while, and this is a good opportunity, that the old forum had one thread per cat...
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