What is the point of your posts? You're just microblogging and news aggregating. Again, there are places you can do that without betraying your fanati...
This is just a word salad and has nothing to do with your original argument. Your original argument tied "defiant" to justification of Western policie...
This is not correct. MAD theory does not apply to Ukraine as Ukraine does not have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the planet, or any nuclear weapon...
Meaning pointing out US's invasion of Iraq was not an act of "defiance" does not create some situation where the "contrasting" the concepts of maveric...
Your full sentence was referring to Russia, whereas my statement was referring to the US invading Iraq was not "defiance". Maybe follow the context. Y...
Again, if you declare martial law and disband the second largest political party, that does not qualify as democratic. But even putting aside that, is...
Our proxies will keep being proxies so therefore we should continue to use them as proxies? It's their country that gets fucked, not ours? And to acco...
... Like Belarus and Kazakstan and Georgia? Places Russia already dominates? What is the next step of this "rebuild the Soviet Union" plan? What Putin...
Where do I do this? I do the opposite. The US's maverick attitude in invading Iraq with sufficient justification or a credible plan, somehow succeedin...
Encourage Putin to do what exactly? Sure, it sounds good to say we're "standing up to a bully", but what cost to Ukrainians do you think is worth it f...
Again, more bullshit soup. What's the purpose of "defiance" in your strawman here? Obviously if West/NATO/US has little respect for international law,...
These would not be "NATO" just whatever country they are from. For example, say Estonia announced they weren't going to just talk shit and launder mon...
Both these statements are not really true. First Article 5 is not "we start WWIII" but is technically only a commitment to meet and respond in some wa...
Light does not have mass, it has momentum but that doesn't matter either. It's more correct to say light travels in geodesics in curved space. A geode...
How do you know they are better than nothing? How do you know without the West first making the entirely false promises and expectation that Ukraine w...
What violence? But anyways, again, excellent demonstration of the incapability of understanding a position other than pro-Zelensky or pro-Putin. I'm n...
The problem is that what the Russians are doing is simply Shock and Awe, which is a US military doctrine and involves targeting civilian infrastructur...
You're talking about everyone here? And that's your preferred form of government, what actually matters, and you're just a loyal patriot willing to be...
That's what we're discussing. However, you're only argument here is "Ukraine business!", and it would be Ukraine business and mere academic interest f...
Ok, there you go, price is worth it so far. Assuming it's 100 000 lives to get this far, would you sacrifice (or support Zelensky sacrificing) 300 000...
The decency of supporting a policy (or supporting other people with those policies) that results in thousands of people dying but ... shhh ... we do n...
... Therefore Ukrainian lives are a price you're willing to pay (or support Zelensky paying) as a blood price to retake the territory that Russia curr...
For people actually interested in the topic. What is confusing in this subject matter of international treatise, is that they are written in highly le...
You clearly just have no reading comprehension. The claim that "security guarantees" are as meaningful as "trust us bro" is the claim that, just like ...
You're the one debating here. Why would I join a discussion to discuss with people that are absent? But, if you don't have the courage of your convict...
This process has been happening for 8 months. For example, media believed man-portable systems were enough to "beat the Russians", gushed unending pra...
You are literally describing how the word "guarantee" doesn't literally mean "guarantee" ... as why would it be a guarantee in any sense of certainty....
You are really saying after hundreds of pages of arguing the situation in Ukraine, that your position is not Ukraine is fighting a just war, can will,...
You went from "pre-condition" to "rational requirement" to "considering the nuclear deterrence they both had" ... that I remind you "Ukraine doesn't h...
I go to some length to explain that agreements coordinate actions between willing participants, and also solve catch 22 situation where one party is w...
I don't have time for the rest of your post just now, but I'd like to point out the reading comprehension that, perhaps, you could spend some time in ...
Proving what? A "collective" (as defined by the dictionary) has collective interests and collective actions and policies. The UN is mainly a diplomati...
You mean: That you believe this is sufficient explanatory power? Escalating the war to what? A war Ukraine can win? And if there going to win anyways,...
What? So... you're saying Zelensky is just stupid enough to lie to people who would know he's lying? So it's not a lie? ... Also, I don't have spy sat...
This is not the issue. Zelensky isn't literally on the battle field kungfooing or whatever. Forget about Ukrainians for a moment, forget even about th...
@"Isaac" has pointed out the basic problem with your statement. However, I think even more revealing is the underlining self-contradiction in this sor...
Why would this be relevant to my argument? The word precondition was already being discussed, the point of discussion was if Zelensky's precondition t...
I have zero problem reading the entire thread and verifying your claim. Also, keep in mind that apologising for Zelensky is also apart of it ... which...
Essentially your position, along with the other Zelenkyites, is that support for Ukraine means support for Ukrainian propaganda, and especially whatev...
Ah, ok, making false accusations in the context of a delusional "urge" to put the world on a path to nuclear war in order to get more assistance, is j...
Over 8 months ago I posted several reports by Western media (made before the war) investigating the Nazi's in Ukraine. Are these Western journalists w...
Key word: Not "bound to" or "for sure going to happen". Or, in other words: It's a nice charter the UN has there, very pretty, I honestly wish I had a...
Yes, go ahead and read your own words: "pre-condition for the kind of agreements" and "but Ukraine doesn’t have!" You are making a "pre-condition" dif...
We agree here. If we are only considering Zelensky lying to us; I think what matters is the intention. Zelensky's intention is clearly to escalate ten...
The thread is discussing Zelensky and his preconditions for dozens of pages. I write my views about it, which you then respond to in a way perfectly c...
So you would agree that Russia could employ nuclear weapons in Ukraine "out-of-the-blue" with zero fear of any US response. ... And you'd even make th...
If also want to change the meaning of words around to make boring discussion, be my guest. "Collective" is a strong word in political analysis, and Ze...
I have little doubts you're actually in such a self-delusion, perhaps on some level vaguely remembering your original point and thinking it was a good...
Yes, precondition is also a pretty clear meaning, just like attack. If you say A is a precondition for B, the meaning is not-A isn't compatible with B...
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