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We shall see.
April 13, 2022 at 14:23
Haven't they done that already?
April 13, 2022 at 13:53
How could they stop it, if the EU is willing? Nuke Brussels?
April 13, 2022 at 13:14
Not much. There is a war going on between Ethiopia and Eritrea. How many pages does the Taipei Times devote to it? Or to the war in northern Nigeria w...
April 13, 2022 at 07:19
That's because they don't give much, I believe.
April 12, 2022 at 06:39
No way they can prevent it.
April 12, 2022 at 06:38
Good one.
April 11, 2022 at 21:23
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8NEJMetXm80
April 11, 2022 at 21:23
A new word appears in Ukrainian: "Stop macronizing!" By Christel Brigaudeau, special correspondent in Kharkiv (Ukraine), Le Parisien, April 11, 2022 T...
April 11, 2022 at 07:59
Oh, you're back? That was fast. Wanna talk about the war in Ukraine, for a change?
April 10, 2022 at 18:43
Don't let the door hit your ass on your way out.
April 10, 2022 at 18:20
Sure, one ought to discuss whatever one wants to discuss. I think it's called freedom of speech. And if one doesn't want to discuss something, one is ...
April 10, 2022 at 16:56
You mistook me for someone who cares what you talk about very much. I don't. When I see a mistake or a lie, I point it out. So for instance, all I mea...
April 10, 2022 at 15:41
There is a categorical difference here. Those countries fighting in the Ukraine war, vs those not fighting. Two different categories. A further catego...
April 10, 2022 at 14:05
NATO have no troops fighting in Ukraine, the Russians do. This makes a big difference in terms of involvement and hence responsibility.
April 10, 2022 at 12:30
His forces are, cretin.
April 10, 2022 at 12:17
The exact opposite is happening. We are here to talk about Ukraine and you guys try to make it about your anti-american obsession, to deflect attentio...
April 10, 2022 at 12:09
It's an old French dream -- to which I subscribe -- to build an autonomous Europe, including in terms of foreign policy and military. The idea is call...
April 10, 2022 at 11:38
Yes. Charitably speaking, people are also tired of a unipolar world, something I can understand, and it's a new thing, not a feature in the 30's. It's...
April 10, 2022 at 09:00
A person being bombed by Russian despotism could view things this way, I guess.
April 10, 2022 at 08:48
This dichotomy is still with us. After two generations tried to remember the horrors of Nazism, now people are eager to forget and to come back to sim...
April 10, 2022 at 08:25
How do you know that the children crushed by bombs in Mariupol or elsewhere 'hate and despise' the bombers? Hating your own murderer justifies the mur...
April 10, 2022 at 07:56
Money is not a problem. There's vast amount of it everywhere. Europe is rich. Now that the Brits are gone, the EU has a better chance of making progre...
April 10, 2022 at 07:51
"Surely, and Mr Hitler is fighting communism. That must count for something." Often they would have the good sense to qualify their support: "I find h...
April 09, 2022 at 17:44
Can stories defeat Putin? Op-ed by Jo Nesbø, Le Monde, April 7, 2022 Vladimir Putin’s narrative that Russia invaded Ukraine to save a repressed people...
April 09, 2022 at 12:39
You should write for Disney.
April 09, 2022 at 09:10
You have a vivid imagination, I grant you that.
April 09, 2022 at 08:56
It's part of his job description. He does so all the time.
April 09, 2022 at 08:44
Of course it does. It's the same old cold war script: invade country, bomb children, rape women and shoot prisoners, then deny deny deny, while the ot...
April 09, 2022 at 08:34
:kiss:
April 08, 2022 at 15:14
Don't be so judgmental. You asked:
April 08, 2022 at 14:13
It's a satirical piece.
April 08, 2022 at 13:39
At the end of a gun. The war has changed everything.
April 08, 2022 at 13:37
Thanks, nice. The conclusion of the article:
April 08, 2022 at 12:18
Thanks, interesting. Not a major plunge in popularity from what I can tell, but I don't have a NYT subscription.
April 08, 2022 at 11:53
Poll Shows Zelensky Leading 2024 U.S. Presidential Race Andy Borowitz, March 17, 2022 WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a development that could upe...
April 08, 2022 at 09:46
It's two to tango. You have data on that?
April 08, 2022 at 09:37
Zelensky is the modern anarchist champion. Power to the people! From wiki, emphasis mine: Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih,...
April 08, 2022 at 08:24
Is he?
April 08, 2022 at 07:07
https://img.lemde.fr/2022/04/07/0/0/7780/5000/1328/0/45/0/27a48b2_1649323622025-tjeerd-royaards-pays-bas-2.jpg
April 08, 2022 at 06:44
Good point. That's probably true, and would explain the relentless character assassination attempts by the representative of the Federation of Russia ...
April 08, 2022 at 06:44
Self-determination means nothing to you then? You have no criteria for it, no way to ascertain it?
April 07, 2022 at 21:44
Mr Zelenskyy might be a clown but he is a good one. Servant of the People is really funny. THAT -- and not CNN as suggested by @"boethius", the mage w...
April 07, 2022 at 21:43
How would you figure out what they want without asking them?
April 07, 2022 at 21:27
In theory, that's precisely what it implies and requires: a vote. How do you know what people self-determine without a referendum?
April 07, 2022 at 21:06
The EU is a project. It's not finished yet.
April 07, 2022 at 21:04
Okay so you don't exactly know when he was told but it was after or soon before the start of the war. So my case is strengthened: it was not a priorit...
April 07, 2022 at 20:53
But that quote is dated a week after the start of the war. Before the war, he was never told that. Okay so you lied implying that Zelenskyy had starte...
April 07, 2022 at 20:22
What evidence is there that Zelenskyy was told about that before the war? At what occasion did NATO tell him? Refresh my memory and present evidence o...
April 07, 2022 at 19:43
To you, certainly it is. But not to me. What lie are you talking about, oh confused one? That's a lie. Ukraine is fighting to defend herself, not for ...
April 07, 2022 at 18:50