I think what you mean to say is after a certain amount of posts it becomes clear some posters are here for purely propaganda purposes or then to prote...
You are completely delusional about what has been discussed in this thread. Impressively, you manage to preamble your simplifying delusions with talk ...
Can you cite the comments you're referring to? But, if I understand correctly, because a few lower-ranked people did face some prosecution, all the pe...
So your plan of action is to just get rid of the people who don't value honest work and respect the order of things? If all the people without plain o...
Totally agreed there's outside parties as well, making the legalistic debateoids even less conclusive. However, I would still say faults are all aroun...
I agree that's how things seem now. However, policy can change abruptly. Other EU nations may push behind the scenes for a peace deal and use their le...
Exactly, you can keep making these sort of "debateoids" forever. The legal arguments will never end because there's no judge and state to decide how i...
That's the whole idea of self-determination: none of my business to figure out anything. I have no "right" about it. I am not part of their "self" and...
The way he expresses that he asked NATO if they could join in 2 years of 5 years, or then just say no, makes no sense in the context of an ongoing war...
So ... in theory, if I call for better more transparent voting the US, Ukraine or anywhere, that removes the right to self determination? Why can't Cr...
If you have a right to self determination, don't you have a right to carry out votes as you please? Why would it matter what Zelenskyy thinks of how C...
My interpretation was that he was told before the war, and apart of his reasons for becoming more cold on NATO for a while. Considering Chancellor Ola...
Dombas isn't Russia and currently not even Russian. You can say you started a war for legal, even moral, reasons, such as to crush a breakaway region ...
He literally said this on live television in a CNN interview, after making final desperate arguments to join NATO. Yet on February 14's, Zelenskyy mad...
Yeah... key word maybe. As in "Maybe it's perfectly clear". Zelenskyy pretending to not have been told NATO would never let Ukraine in, but advocating...
Maybe it's perfectly clear but cause for pause for thought as I mention, and thus cognitive dissonance if one does not wish to pause to think about an...
And why was Scott Ritter banned from Twitter? Just asking common sense questions and pointing out evidence is needed to actually answer common sense q...
It's obviously relevant that one of the main reasons for fighting and not making peace with Russia, and one major galvanization of Ukrainian and Weste...
I was surprised too, but I think I heard mention by Defense Politics Asia channel, and the number is impossible to verify (which the channel mentions ...
This is my feeling too. I think the Russian military strategy after the failure to seize Kiev unopposed, which certainly they would have done if there...
By spillover I mean the current war literally spilling over borders. I then address the nuclear threat in the next sentence: Nuclear war in this conte...
Ah yes, just water under the bridge ... but not really. Just because there is some law and some objective and some duty to implement the law, does not...
Notice the diplomatic nuance, the statecraft, even in this fun loving speech—cognisant that every word matters—in phrases like "The true story is cert...
That's his line now, but if he was told Ukraine could never join NATO, why wasn't it his line before the war, which would have significantly reduced t...
He could have put it to a referendum, after telling people that NATO already told him they would never be allowed to join NATO, so even if it's an asp...
Sure, if you're goal is to use Ukraine as a proxi war to bleed the Russians, then fighting to the last Ukrainian for the "right to join NATO" and the ...
No one disputes Ukraine, at least represented by Zelenskyy, wanted to join NATO. The problem for Zelenskyy and Ukrainians is that NATO would not and h...
You were responding to @"Benkei" observation about Western countries, not people on this forum. Again, no threat to USA, Australia, Germany or France ...
Again, most people in "Western countries" aren't personally affected, it is purely empathy driven to demand heaven and earth be moved to help the vict...
Sure, but the comment was about Western nations generally, not individuals personally affected. Again, can't say its clumsy lies without proof; and jo...
Why I say "the most" peaceful and democratic, of the great powers. A choice between limited options. I agree that the EU did not take advantage of a w...
Thanks. This forum is one of many avenues of action available, and my time is limited in any event. And again, the claims about racism aren't claims o...
This was a miss formatting of your quote of the person saying "We will rebuild the Roman Empire and this time through the power of ideas, not by force...
You seem to think these observations are levied at individuals and just opinion of internal belief. That's not the claim. The claim about Ukrainians b...
Well, put this way, definitely sounds a lot like the Fourth Reich to me too. Hopefully such intentions and plans could be modified by democratic proce...
Although the Third Reich called itself that for exactly this reason, and I would definitely agree there's plenty imperialist agendas within the EU, wh...
I care about the Ukrainians because they are people, as well the Yemens and Afghanis and Ethiopians, Uzbeks, Chinese etc. I also care about the whole ...
I honestly don't get what you're even trying to argue on this topic of the "little green men". Are you saying if we catch the US or the Ukrainians in ...
Sure, for people that are "close" ... but how is the United States any closer to Ukraine than Ethiopia or Yemen? @"Benkei" is talking about Western co...
That's why I don't say "reach agreement" but rather ... which does not include the word "agree". However, whether you refuse for the purposes of defle...
You clearly have no idea how long debating from first principles takes and that the war will be likely long over (hopefully long over) before we even ...
Time is limited. Every word you consider saying you could first debate in your head 10 years the first principle reasons before saying it. Nothing pre...
As for "preventing" that's a completely absurd representation of my position. I said if you want the bloodshed to end (that's your moral objective in ...
You didn't read either of my comments. I said moral discussion of first principles, which you are not doing. You assume Ukraine has just cause, you ar...
I said from first principles. If the bloodshed ended we could circle back to a lot of foundational moral issues that have been touched on in this thre...
And we have discussed "what we can do about democracy in Russia" such as provoke a violent revolution. However, if one disagrees with that plan and do...
Our, certainly my, concerns are the hundreds of military bases and toppling government and interfering in democratic political processes even in Europ...
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