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Not my beef at all. I was just trying to understand your post better. My apologies about that.

Odessa, when it's all over.

What follows has the same meaning: "I went to the shop yesterday, right. So, I was in the shop, I picked up this bottle. I dropped it and it exploded ...

So you meant "was". Okay.

You mean ***was*** under siege? Ukrainian troops have retaken the entire Kyiv oblast.

Spring sowing forecast The Ukrainian Ministry of Agriculture has given its forecasts for the sowing of crops that farmers will be able to carry out th...

It was written last year. I didn't bother reading it.

Zelensky is now seen as a hero the world over and quite probably in Ukraine as well. Good job Vlad!

You predicted the Russians would encircle and besiege Kyiv. They tried but couldn't. Now they are fleeing. Ha ha ha.

Now you are lying some more. A liar who complains about propaganda. That's rich.

Because you wanted to score a cheap point on a message board?

"Which side to chose if any" means that one can chose no side. And of course you know that, and deleted it from the quote on purpose, to make it look ...

No, I just proved that you willingly distorted a quote of mine, and thus that you are a liar. I know very well what @"boethius" meant, thank you.

Next time, quote the whole sentence.

Okay, it can remain an established fact only for me, no problem.

Not a single Russian POW, soldier, officer or official ever said otherwise at the time, ie the onset of the war. And dozens have reported the delusion...

And yet he said it...

What conflict of interest do Russian soldiers have, when they call their family and say in essence: "Our officers told us it would be a matter of a fe...

They failed to surround Kyiv and could only shell its suburbs. They were stopped in their progression southward of Kyiv, and the Ukrainian leadership ...

And these criteria do not apply to "the Russians believed it would be a short and easy operation" because?

What predictions did you even make that turned true? That the Russian forces would easily surround Kyiv?

LOL. The mage Boethius is with us.

Not totally certain what it means yet. In practice, how would you go about establishing the fact that the Russians thought it would be a short and eas...

That's the shortsighted view of a slave. Fighting back can be worthwhile on the long term, just to make sure your aggressor get the lesson and never e...

It says they have a right to defend themselves and we have the right to help them anyway we can.

You'd be surprised.

You got to give it to the Ukrainians : they are no-nonsense, business-like, pragmatic folks, and not so easy to impress. Here is the mayor of Melitopo...

So what were you trying to say?

Try to answer the question, if you can.

Well, you did not mention the necessity for a body of knowledge in your definition of an established fact. So I guess you would need to add that somew...

Your definition isn't working then, it is too close to that of a beauty contest.

If your country was invaded by Germany or France, would you think that complaining about it is hypocrisy?

If a majority of your 'epistemic peers' agree that Merkel is the sexiest woman alive, by your definition then it is an established fact.

You mean, like in a beauty contest?

First, nothing forces us to chose one system at the expense of another. As you say, we can combine them. Take capitalism and socialism: they can be co...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fUe2kboTCjU

Everything indicates it was the plan. You do not need to defend the strategic blunders of the Kremlin.

Exactly, and that plan failed disastrously. And then they couldn't even start to bombard Kyiv because they were repelled.

That is truly an absurd statement.

They haven't achieved anything of note around Kyiv except losing a quarter of their own force. The capital is almost intact. It seems glaringly obviou...

Because they are now pulling back, objectively.

You do if you don't want to turn crazy. No issue with the rest of your post.

Of course one cannot know what is in the head of people, by it is an established fact that the troops thought it would be very easy. Hence 'the Russia...

Combined

So what qualifies as 'an established fact', according to you? BTW, this implies that it is absolutely not obvious to you that one has to trust some se...

What are you trying to say?

I don't know about you, but when I write something down, it is not necessarily to refute something that was said by someone else. So you agree with me...