The offer seems to be "based on current lines" so if Istanbul drafts are a basis then it's for things other than territory. Putin has also stated that...
Trump is a corrupt idiot who will disappoint everyone if he's elected. Biden is a corrupt formerly-clever-but-now-has-dementia with a disturbing tende...
Well two years ago when Ukraine still had leverage, talking independence of some kind (such as Russia's offer of more autonomy for the Donbas but rema...
Half the population in the Middle East (what I'm talking about) are not Jews. Of course, the bet that "what happens in Palestine stays in Palestine" h...
My basic point is that there might not be a political end game even in the situation of the erosion of both US and Israeli power. Things maybe locked ...
@"Isaac" and I explained how negotiations work, how compromise works, how leverage works, and Ukraine's interest in negotiating while it still had lev...
Where are you even getting this from, following your own link: Number 5 is: And 7 is: Ukraine is in the process of collapse and no longer has any leve...
Well it might, but I honestly doubt it. The other option is that the deranged fanaticism in Israel becomes even more entrenched, mainly because less f...
Definitely. The war has gone extremely well for the Kremlin, from what I can tell. Russia is attritting NATO weapons (not all weapons, but critical we...
Again, there's really big difference between this current war and the Winter War. First, notice that in the photo you just posted there's a lot of sno...
Statistics are made by statisticians. It is a convention how unemployment is defined; who exactly fits this definition at any given time would be fact...
Unemployment statistics only count people able and looking for work. Which is of course a somewhat vague concept so it's pretty easy to manipulate the...
Yes, Russia was winning the war 2 years ago, and is still winning the war. And the whole comment is definitely worth citing: At no point has Russia no...
That's literally what's been happening, and the insistence on the delusion of the opposite is mostly what has prevented a diplomatic solution to the w...
There's not that many facts in the video you posted, mostly just discussing the impact of the war on the Russian economy and citizenry. It's mostly hy...
Israel already attacks Iranian people and assets all the time, including assassinating Iranian citizens within Iran. Israel has not acquired any "righ...
We've discussed this probably dozens of times. The moral issue is giving support based on false assurances and propaganda. The analogy would be "infor...
We definitely agree on this point so I will try to synthesize the debate so far as well as transcribe some key passages of MacIntyre. My position is e...
John Cleese once explained that when he started in comedy his of the world was that it was mostly sane and if we just made fun of the small part that ...
You've have provided an argument on climate change. A bad argument, but at least an argument with some supporting evidence. Simply stating Biden is be...
That's exactly what your argument is, that Biden is better on climate change. Your claim of "significantly better" is ludicrous as you yourself state ...
The fallacy is taking one dimension of evaluation and claiming it's conclusive. My pointing that out is not a fallacy, it's basic reasoning. Yes, clim...
I don't know about you but I came here for an argument. Be at ease, you're clearly debating in good faith, which warrants respect. My disrespect is re...
You're response to my objection that you are taking one example and drawing a wholistic conclusion, is "I used one example to demonstrate both a very ...
The fallacy you're engaging in is one dimensional comparisons based on the two whole strawmanning my position as having said they are exactly the same...
I'm not quite sure you fully appreciate the implications of your position: that a police officer could plant evidence on you to make his job easier, a...
Well, there is one important difference in that the US is actually participating in a real genuine genocide right now, whereas it's only imagined that...
We definitely agree on this point. To add to this excellent point, the classes of people who benefit from a system very rarely see any problems. When ...
You still don't get it. As Ukraine loses the capacity to legitimately threaten Russia, NATO can therefore augment whatever doesn't change the outcome....
You're responding to a simple statement of fact. Is just a fact. Is just repeating exactly as @"Tzeentch" just stated but just in the form of complain...
Certainly could be good to discuss that in another topic. Nevertheless, you'd really hold the position that there is no duty, or then you are uncertai...
That seemed to me your point: that the forum is populated by weirdos and therefore that undermine my project, either due to a lack of reach or then en...
Well, whenever someone denigrates the forum, I am always skeptical of these claims of irrelevancy. Maybe it is, maybe it's not. You're here, I'm here,...
I'm keeping track. Not out of personal or philosophical interest, but moral and civic duty. And not because anything said on this forum is of any monu...
Expanding your empire to get closer to a rival empire is exactly a plot against that other empire. Now I get it, you view US empire as good and Russia...
The conversation is: 1. You claim Trump is losing support 2. I go check your claim against the polls 3. Your claim doesn't check out, so you move the ...
Simply because something is used in propaganda does not mean there's no truth to it. The best propaganda is generally based on true facts and exaggera...
It's not really paradoxical that there's Russian speakers in Azov considering the Azov sea borders the Donbas and Russian speaking region, although yo...
Checked the polls again just now. YouGov has Trump leading by 1. HarisX has Trump +2 in one poll and even in another. Leger conducted two polls both w...
The problem with Ukraine in NATO is that Ukraine has not been let into NATO. If you're point is Russia, being an empire, will seek dominate where it c...
Again, you state that Trump is losing support, I go check the polls to inform myself whether this is really true or not, and turns out he's not losing...
Please do provide a definition of liberal and explain how you aren't a liberal and aren't in a liberal echo chamber at the moment. You post that Trump...
Agreed. Would Biden do anything meaningful on climate? Bidens' administration seems to just co-create terrible wars. Not that Trump would do anything,...
Ah yes, cast off your junk encrusted lenses obscuring your vision! and put on my lenses that are totally opaque to anything that happened after Octobe...
I'm not defending Republicans. Over the last half century they've spearheaded the legalized corruption in the United States based on completely fantas...
Well, Trump got a 10 day extension as well as only needs to post a smaller bond, 175 million dollars from 464 million dollars. Last few weeks so many ...
Conclusions drawn by who? At the time, I expected Trump to win, but that was just gut feeling based on the idea people would want to see "what happens...
Ah yes, the cunning response to evidence being "whatever". If you just want to stay in your liberal echo-chamber, then why come here to post what you ...
Your statement was that Trump was losing popularity, generally speaking, since the criminal charges dropped. To cite you exactly: I then cite polls th...
Certainly agree it's hard to see what Trump would do. However, the economic numbers are nearly entirely make-belief propaganda. The official inflation...
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