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Go back to your quotes: This is what I am saying. Although unconventional, this use still focuses on a radical collapse of society. Which is not the s...

To my mind, existential means: relative to existence. Pundits can disagree. But even them know they are abusing the term when they do. Someone may pre...

Just because some journalists made a click bait out of the concept, doesn't mean it's right. An existential threat is a threat to something's or someo...

No. The phrase means: "You could anihilate my country and I don't like the idea." You are entitled to your opinion, not to your own private language.

L.O.V.E. https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1580090899228418048

Borrell probably means "the Russian army in Ukraine".

A Russian nuclear strike against Ukraine would trigger "such a powerful answer" from the West that the Russian army would be "annihilated," said Josep...

Marx and Machiavel were realists, almost scientific, using history as their lab. That's what I like in them: the respect for reality, at least as a ge...

Popper also wrote well of democracy, and many others.

Philosophers don't really understand politics as practiced. Most of times, they theorize about some ideal forms of government, often favouring the phi...

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We agree here.

It's almost as if @"schopenhauer1" did not believe liars and equivocators. How dare he, seeing all the hard labor you put into your work?

Yes, let Turkey reopen a channel. And let's hope it leads to something. I won't hold my breath though. Diplomacy is slow.

Ha ha. That was easy though, Turkey facilitated previous talks eg on freeing cereals export ship lanes in the Black Sea. Those negotiations worked, BT...

Greta Thunberg says it would be "a mistake" for Germany to switch off its nuclear power plants if that means the country must burn more climate-wrecki...

Speaking of which.... Kremlin expects Erdogan to offer Putin mediation on Ukraine on Thursday By Le Figaro with AFP Turkey, very dependent on Russian ...

Now, yes. Never say never though. At present, even if one could get some talks underway, they wouldn't lead to much progress, I think. At this stage i...

Consider China's interests, particularly their eye being on Taiwan. If Putin succeeds in annexing a good deal of Ukraine through force, that creates a...

Certainly, China could press (independently from the US) for negotiations if they thought it useful, yes. But we were discussing the role of the US in...

Too much aligned with Moscow, I think.

I think the last thing anyone on the side of Ukraine wants, is to weaken their negotiating position. The US openly pushing for negotiations could be i...

Or rather, let others do it, and quietly encourage them. Russians fear the US the most, and there's value in that. If the US was seen as pushing for n...

https://focus.courrierinternational.com/2022/10/11/0/0/383/495/1280/0/60/0/3806d13_1665474991895-wprost.png Vladimir Putin on the edge of a precipice,...

Biden is wakening to the risk that Putin goes nuclear, so there's some progress there. But what you are talking about -- keep diplomacy alive in spite...

I would think that after Bucha and all the other crime scenes, it's easy to understand why the Ukrainians would want revenge and wouldn't be intereste...

https://img.lemde.fr/2022/10/10/0/0/1654/1063/1328/0/45/0/41bbc2d_1665395227724-kazanevsky-ukraine-2.jpg By KAZANEVSKY (Ukraine), Cartooning for Peace...

I now read them. I agree that in May, the US admin was getting giddy about the prospect of a proxy war, and this is I think exactly when I wrote again...

Please do post / repost anything you have. I'm genuinely interested.

I'd love to have access to those accounts. Appeals to the historical record are moot, in the circumstances. Whatever Johnson or Nixon did is itrelevan...

If enough people try enough time, it will "lead to something" often enough, e.g. political education of people attending the thread. But still, TPF is...

I thought as much. So one cannot say that the US is evidently blocking negotiations. It is not. I grant you that the US is not encouraging negotiation...

Nothing posted here will ever "help resolve this conflict". This is too high an expectation to hold. What we can do here is learn new information from...

It's irrelevant. You are still not an American citizen.

Still, it's not your government, so you have no "duty to hold Biden to account", not anymore than you have a duty to hold Putin to account.

You have something more specific that this? Like, verifiable? When and how did this happen? Otherwise, there's nothing to discuss.

Go is actually Japanese. The Chinese are more found of Majong.

Okay, so Putin is pushing for war and Biden is not. Exactly what I was saying!

Some people here are unable to discuss anything. They get all angry as soon as the slightest disagreement occurs. And that's okay. Of course the US wa...

Let's say the US support is more diversified, but in terms of armor, Russia's abandoned tanks and carriers did 'give' to Ukraine more than all western...

I regret to inform that your government is not in Washington but in London.

So you are trying to influence the US foreign policy by posting your condescending mind farts over the interwebs? Good luck with that.

Here you go: https://elpais.com/internacional/2022-10-07/rusia-se-convierte-en-el-principal-suministrador-involuntario-de-armas-para-ucrania.html It i...

Google it up. Russia is the largest weapon provider to Ukraine right now. The UN charter condemn aggression, posits that any member state has the righ...

FYI, US foreign policy is set by the president, who is elected every four years.

LOL. You managed to misunderstand even your own quote. Now that's funny.

News. You mean the UN charter got it all wring?

That is precisely what your quote implied, though. Go back and read it more carefully, because it seems you failed to understand it.

It couldn't. Which does not mean that they will stop without further US support, since by now Russia is the largest purveyor of weapons to Ukraine. Th...

It's certainly not MY kind of BS. It's what exists. It's the reality we have to deal with. As much as I love John Lennon's imagination, nations are no...