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You would be glad to learn that its present contribution to the defense of Ukraine is quite significant and effective. Specifically the HIMARs, as wel...

The problem could be that analysing the past - even if we were to agree about a diagnostic - says little about what must be done in the future. Arguin...

No, it's like saying Ukraine chose Western values over submission to a dictatorship. The Russians have yet to do this. Even your quotes testify that R...

But they did not succeed in toppling the regime. In contrast, the euromaidan and revolution of dignity did succeed. That was before the war, before Ze...

Human rights are political. (wiki)

Maidan.

Let's delete "for good", which is indeed quite debatable. The remaining part of the question is in the balance: Is the Western World still a force?

The Russian army has announced on its Telegram account (where else?) that it has replaced the commander of the SMO. It can mean only one thing: that t...

I'm coming from a place called "stating the glaringly obvious". You thought I was a boy scout? Now that's cute..

Of course you don't. Humanitarian concerns are not the primary reasons why the 'West' helps Ukraine. We are doing so out of perceived self interest, f...

Do you have access to his hit list? Personally I don't, and I consider that Poland, Germany and France could very well get threatened in the future if...

Answer the question: Why do you think it is that Uighurs don't get any help from the EU or NATO? Forget NATO. Here on TPF, who cares about the Uighurs...

There are many excellent moral reasons to help the Ukrainians. Just like there are many excellent moral reasons to help the Uighurs. But one people ge...

It's called geopolitics, not boyscoutism.

We are not supporting Ukraine for humanitarian reasons, but to protect ourselves.

Maybe they are re-discovering glasnost, though.

Andrey Kartapolov, a senior Russian lawmaker called on military officials to tell the truth about developments on the ground in Ukraine following the ...

Interesting video by RAI News from Kherson region, of a Russian tank applying @"Isaac"'s principles: https://www.rainews.it/video/2022/10/carro-armato...

Russia is journalistic hell. However, I think they are now realizing how self-defeating the 'official truth regime' is. The understand better now what...

Opposition press is NOT banned in Ukraine. They un-liscenced three TV channels from broadcasting but didn't ban them. Plenty other outlets are still o...

RSF = Reporters Sans Frontières. Nothing to see with Reuters

I am talking about freedom of press, as you know. It is an important democratic principle. It's not about 'kits'.

How many journalists were assassinated by the regime, or jailed, or beaten up? How much if their equipment was confiscated? According to RSF, there's ...

Since WW2. It is forbidden in many democratic countries to spread hateful lies by way of press.

Enemy operatives spreading propaganda cannot be classified as "free press". They are on a mission to disinform.

An argument against people staying in power too long, nominating puppets to reign in their place, and changing the constitution to retain power beyond...

That the same guy heads the country for decades. That most opposition figures have been killed or jailed, and their parties persecuted. That all free ...

LOL

Ukraine is a democracy, while Russia is not. It makes a difference in my book, and obviously for Ukrainians.

Seems to me that nobody who's given up political hope for a long while would be able to appreciate its victory, against all odds. It would imply that ...

I suspect it would hurt them even more if hope triumphed.

I think the wound you speak of is the idea that politicians are all equally bad, and therefore that there can be no hope from politics. This idea is p...

I say the hell with fascists, whatever their reasons to be fascist.

Correct, but unknown to @"Isaac".

Not really, or perhaps to Russia as a regime. They are sympathetic to the Putin regime, not to the Russian people.

And fight. Would-be philosophers busy trivializing war crimes... Figure that! Students of Heidegger perhaps.

And yet the holocaust took place, largely in Poland, after Poland officially surrendered to the Germans.

Exactly. No need to trivialize war crimes.

Well, if you are truly interested in arguments, I suggest you pay attention to what I and others here are saying.

Just because you are unable to understand an argument, doesn't mean there isn't one. Soddin war crime apologists...

They routinely murder and torture folks there.

What evidence do you have that they won't continue after a peace deal? And how would you bring the guilty to justice, after a peace deal?

A cover of Edith Piaf by Pomplemoose. The lyrics are variations about the Paris skies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vol9dZ-t93s Under the sky of Pa...

A simple enough answer: a peace deal now entrenching Russia's position in Dombass and Crimea would ensure that they can continue their vast crimes una...

You have committed war crimes, Manuel? ??

I wouldn't worry about that. The current regime have some of the best crafters of PR ever; a chekist runs it, he's an astute PR professional himself.

They reproach me here that I drive people into depression with my news. They say, you need to be more positive. Well, at time such as these, there wil...

Well, give it a rest then. Non-violence would likely not work against Putin.

Indeed, comparatively speaking.

Those methods have not proved to work against a ruthless, amoral enemy. In 1940 Gandhi appealed to GB to stop fighting Germany. Good thing they didn't...