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Your post is very unclear. Try and write less but clearer. Are you now talking of the present situation, or of the pre-war situation? Pre-war, Zelensk...

I agree that a peace deal appears almost impossible now, in part because of the war crimes committed by the Russian army which the Ukrainians will fin...

Let's hope so.

All I am saying is that you guys seem to be parroting the US extreme right. That's objective and verifiable, it's not an opinion.

Seconded, he has proved himself unworthy of it. @"Baden" was more civil but equally biased IMO. He is only looking for 'fallacies' on one side of the ...

I said what I had to say. You may ignore it now.

Some of the missing context is indeed that I am tired of making careful arguments only to be ignored or insulted in return, including by petulant mods...

The war itself is one big atrocity, so if atrocities are not the issue, there is no reason to stop the war. Logic anyone?

No comment -- this speaks for itself.

My opponents, as you say, are parroting the FSB and Carlson. I ask them to do better than that. Thanks for the advice. I've been doing just that but a...

Exactly. @"Baden" is confusing a topical argument with an ad hominem.

LOL

Not smearing, just pointing out that you spit out the same lies as they are. It could simply mean that you all live in the same parallel reality.

And least we forget, the bear suckers are not content with barely sucking bears. They also suck the American extreme right. Doesn't that rhetoric soun...

And fuck the bear suckers.

Your elements are meagre. Economies are interconnected and derivatives are a small market. One could mount a reverse argument that New York is control...

Isn't it a bit too late for your advice? What difference does it make now, what Zelenskyy did or didn't do to change the Ukrainian constitution before...

I explained why: the constitutional amendment binds him from doing anything else than implement it. Now this is water under the bridge.

That 's precisely Zelenskyy's line, I think. Good question. I did some research (from wiki): On November 22, 2018, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine...

The NATO aspiration was written in the Ukrainian constitution before Zelenskyy was elected president. It seems he had nothing to do with it.

Good thing it's not

"Antiquity historians" had to do with folks who keep talking of the Roman empire again and again. Add me and most pro EU folks to that list. A strong ...

For your info, the right term for someone from Afghanistan is "Afghan". "Afghanis" are their currency. We can also quantify how many words YOU wrote o...

I think you only care for the Ukrainians because they are white... :-)

Maybe because one is bombing folks, and the other isn't. This may come as a shock but people don't usually appreciate being bombarded, not as much as ...

Is that why you care about the Ukrainians ? Because they are "white"?

Not at all. It's your stupidity that has this effect. If all you have to say here is that you don't care about Ukraine, and care much more about Yemen...

Very astute. :grin:

Folks here don't care about what disturbs you or not. This is not about you. If you don't care about Ukraine, by all means shut up about it, and write...

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A21997A1128%2801%29

And sure as hell, we've done the same. Since 1997, the EU's political and economic relations with Russia have been based on a bilateral Partnership an...

I am not sure what law is broken when countries sign trade deals with the EU, or what harm is done to anyone. To the extent that the EU tries and cont...

I understand how unproductive any philosophical debate can be in terms of reaching agreement, but this is a 'productivist view' which I find a bit nar...

And lo and behold, we have found it quite possible to have this discussion here, in spite of the war going on, so I don't see the link between a war g...

I don't see how wars and events prevent a moral discussion. That's a non sequitur.

Not different, just less anti-american.

No reason to expect the bloodshed to stop, nor to wait for the bloodshed to stop first before we can debate morality.

There's no such thing as a nation of angels.

Sure, and among people like that, some of them do it for the money, but of course your question of why do they defend Russia arises only for those who...

Yep, someone needs to denazify Russia...

You are thick. It had to do with this comment of yours, where you made it look like Zelensky and the West are war criminals, and you conveniently left...

I suspect one of them is doing it for the money.

It has got something to do with the fact that it's not the Ukrainian government who is killing those children, nor the 'West'. It is Russia. And that ...

Or maybe it will be worse.

It's late to the show but useful for Americans who didn't pay much attention to atheism until now. It's new for them, hence the label. In Europe, athe...

The more the Russians murder innocent bystanders, children, grandmothers and the likes, the more hospitals, maternities and supermarket they bomb , th...

That's true but let's not trivialize war crimes either. To execute civilians with a bullet in their head, dozens or hundreds of times over, are the ki...

This was not always the case. The Netherlands had an oversea empire in South Africa and Indonesia. They invented the apartheid system to rule it, prim...

I am afraid Finland is not the model.

They applied pressure on all those dead civilians in Busha alright.