Olivier5

Europe and the US are aiding Ukraine alright

I love the way you lie to yourself, adding layers after layers of BS to your own ideas, like a master painter would add layers and layers of paint to ...

That's a lie. I am saying that I respect the legitimacy of Zelensky, that he is in charge of a country at war, and that I don't want his job. I will r...

You see? You are 'frustrated', or pretending to be. Why are you so angry all the time? What do you care soooo much about my reasons? When did you star...

So you disagree with Zelensky's policies. I don't. I think he does the right thing and he does it well. So what? Do we need to be at each other's thro...

I'm not in the business of second-guessing commanders-in-chief. What ground do you have to say Zelensky is illegitimate?

Here are some other folks who chose their side: Odesa’s Defense Stiffened by Belarusian Volunteers STEFANIE GLINSKI FOR FOREIGN POLICY MARCH 13, 2022,...

@"ssu" and I support what the government of the Ukrainians wants, not what all Ukrainians as a mass want. If Zelensky decides to strike a deal with Pu...

Why then do you question @"ssu" about why he's chosen their side?

Why then, not side with the aggressed?

Of course not, but they don't need to be all clones for one to feel sympathetic to them. Why side with the aggressor?

I support that. :up:

It's a natural human tendency to support the aggressed against the aggressor.

Likewise, presenting another option does not constitute an argument for it. Oh stop lying, I'm not in the mood. I don't and couldn't suppress anything...

Bad things can always happen. But to disincentivise ie punish aggression is generally perceived as a good thing in geopolitics. If Ukraine fights on, ...

Indeed, and all territory can be lost by war. Nope. I think that's a bad thing, reason for which I'd rather see him lose this war.

That he already sized by war, yes. He can lose them too. NATO is not willing to get involved, which is not the same thing as being powerless. If Putin...

On the contrary, it is war mongering for you and the other guys #trollinforPutin to support the aggressor like you do, since if Putin leaves this conf...

I have an idea! Let's send Noam Chomsky, the greatest intellectual alive, to Donbass. Let him sort it out!

You see? Miracles happen.

You misunderstood the intent. There is no expectation of a direct cause to effect mechanism to anywhere here, and certainly no hope from my side or th...

Says who? Your cristal ball? There's a gag on Russian media, and it was breached on prime time yesterday night by a few courageous guests in a propaga...

Despite the gag imposed by Vladimir Putin, even Russians are starting to rebel. Yesterday during a talk show on the state TV channel Russia 1, the gue...

My guess would be that this debate is the equivalent of a festering religious war or dispute, attracting the kind of fanatic energy and never-ending a...

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Some crazy stuff... I don't know if related, but a similar ugly rumor has been going around in Africa for decades about AIDS, that is was invented by ...

Most welcome.

NPR is not that biased, a bit dull maybe but that's in a sense the price to pay for neutrality... And the New Yorker remains IMO the best magazine in ...

In the US, it seems to me the NYT has not succumbed to the sirens of alarmism and dramatism. These things sell well; wars make for good click bait I g...

Yes, there's some silver linings here or there, but overall this war is a disaster for all, first of course for Ukraine and Russia, and second for the...

What's your thesis exactly? It doesn't come across in your long OP.

I'm not worried about the impact of our discussions here on the war. We are encouraging no one. There's no audience, and nobody ever fought a war beca...

Precision of language is key here. The situation is simply too complex for vagueness to work. We don't need to recover territory. Ukraine does, or to ...

Why are you wasting your time here, when there are all these kangaroos outside, calling for your affection?

To recover territory and scare the Russian army for a long time, as already explained. Besides, the sanctions are hitting us as well and might benefit...

To help protect Poland, I suppose.

Europeans are afraid of Putin too. They see him as unreliable, corrupt, ultra-violent and manipulative. They can see that under his rule there is no h...

Because Poland is part of NATO, of course.

No objective security concern would justify the current bloated US military. It is more a question of how the militaro-industrial complex is phagocyta...

My sense is that the Ukraininans want to punish the Russian army as hard as they can, so that they will never even dream of attacking Ukraine again. T...

Question unclear, please rephrase. Especially the last part. Sanctions will cripple Russia whether or not they murder or otherwise brutalize folks in ...

Military types say you need three or four attackers for every defender, so it does make a huge difference.

https://youtu.be/If61baWF4GE

All post truth blah is exactly why you're so confused all the time. That and a lack of street wisdom and exposure to the world. But I suspect you enjo...

It IS of course about money.

Because defense is much easier than attack.

You reach out to him, or you don't, but I think it is worth trying. It is also worth pointing put that you cannot triangulate lies into truth, that on...

Don't get hysterical quite yet, I was just asking for clarification. I think it is good advice to point out that certain sources are untruthful, such ...

Let me get this straight: you think nobody ever lies, or that journalists never consciously lie in their reporting, or what? What is the status of 'ly...

What you describe is called triangulating information sources. It's an important skill, but like any process for information management (tabulating, a...