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Don't say the word 'genocide' though, or the Jews are going to feel insulted, as per @"Benkei". It's "only" a very very large mass murder.

I'll go for three well written, radical metaphysical works of the 20th century: Popper's Argument for Inderterminism is to my knowledge the only sourc...

Ditto. Also, it's a good idea to answer questions.

What choice of words are you even talking about? You guys are grasping at straws now.

I agree. I see modern materialism as little more than the fear of ideas, after a rather ideological XXth century, at least the first half of it. The f...

And to produce and consume material goods. It's now a fully materialist world, in which one measures quality of life only by the amount of stuff folks...

Such self-flagellation by affluent yet guilt-ridden westerners would be entertaining and even occasionally rightful, if it wasn't also worrying in ter...

Yes, there's that too, I guess: an opportunity to seize now -- when the Russians cannot do much about it, busy as they are elsewhere, can't even argue...

It's possible of course, yet your idea of a woman may not exactly coincide with another's. So it would be hard to craft a universal definition.

Our leaders, last week, reacted with shock and emotion to the images of hundreds of civilians massacred in Boutcha and other suburbs of Kyiv. Emmanuel...

What you expect is irrelevant.

What are you trying to say, exactly?

Very few died in Georgia. Chechnya is part of Russia so it was not an armed aggression of another country.

More scared now that thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been murdered by the Russians, yes. If you had a serial killer living next door, you would ...

As I said, @"ssu" would be in a better position to answer this question. I would guess they are now more scared of a possible invasion than they were ...

Yes. The world is not static, it changes all the time. Putin can learn a lesson. It's not impossible.

Military strength can be rebuilt; mistakes can be learnt from.

I don't know. @"ssu" would be better placed to answer this.

You are exactly like them in a way: blinded by hatred and fear, and thus unable to think logically. Calm down already. No bombing has happened to the ...

If there are Finns and Swedes who want their people bombed by Russia just because they might have a chance to prevail in the end, they are indeed as d...

Are you crazy, just stupid or is it blind anger? Try and think, for a change.

They can outsmart it though... Look at the way they sunk two mighty ships with local technology and tons of smarts. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/...

BTW, I take exception to this. I appreciate Russian culture and folks. I've read Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Andreï Makine, Nabokov... Nothing in my ...

Those two views easily combine into the image of a brute: strong, violent, and not too bright.

And yet their intelligence was totally off. That is indeed a mystery of sorts, when you think of it. Maybe a lack of prudence and humility. As Chirac ...

I agree. Even their war disinformation efforts appear amateuristic.

The Moskva has now sunk, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

The time it would take to make sure it's not a ruse, I would guess. Like a few months.

We should also treat the same way people who think a bit of genocide is OK because it's realpolitics.

I'm no military expert, but my understanding is that Russia is able to keep up with a high intensity conflict only for a few weeks, maybe a month. The...

It could take a few years, yes. But I could be wrong; Mr Putin could still surprise us.

I think the war will go on untill a new Russian president is ushered in, who is psychologically and politically capable of making peace. There might b...

In your posts. Why do you trust them?

You keep repeating that journalists are suspect, while treating as gospel a bulletin who pretends to be of scientists but is in fact written by journa...

Atomic scientists are not scientists?

No. You started arguing something rather vague. I'm just trying to understand your point. But you apparently don't care enough to make a clear point, ...

I'm sure they know a lot about atoms.

I asked you a precise question: not accepted by whom? And your answer has been quite vague so far. The concept of 'international community' is vague, ...

It's not saying much about what NATO can do...

It's an oft mentioned phrase, but there is no such thing as "an international community", I'm afraid. "Community" means having shared goals and values...

Once again: not accepted by whom? By those who do it secretly? Putin is an assassin himself. What right does he have to a decent treatment? Who lives ...

Yes, these missile ships must be real power kegs. You don't want a fire in the ammo depos...

Not implying anything in particular. You may have noted the words immediately following those you quoted: "natural or otherwise". He's old, he could b...

KYIV/LVIV, Ukraine, April 14 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday the flagship of its Black Sea fleet was seriously damaged and its crew evacuated foll...

Only Dracula is immortal.

Yes, that's possible of course. I am just unable to see how Putin could swallow a serious peace treaty with Ukraine.

It could be far simpler than any of your crap. People die. It happens.

A resolution of this conflict might look like the death of Putin -- natural or otherwise -- and/or his replacement by somebody less confrontational an...

I thought the IMF was this evil western institution harnessed by the US to dominate the world. They are worth quoting now?

There's no such thing as "today's philosophy of consciousness." There are variety of ideas, some less stupid than others. Reductionists have not achie...