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Your second point seems to contradict your first point. And I have not engaged in any act of tribalism, thank you so much.

Rest assured that these allegations by a country waging war on its neighbour have been addressed here by rational commentators. Neonazis are not a sig...

Vice versa rather, I said them because I know them. Are you not aware of these facts?

He is a brutal nationalist autocrat. He is a war monger and a mass murderer. He is funding Le Pen and has links with other European extreme right part...

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) is a United Nations convention. A third-generation human...

But I did argue that there were obvious links between Trump and actual neonazis. Remember Jan 6? Now you are just stonewalling, not addressing the poi...

You use this word a lot to brush aside arguments but are you aware of your own lack of credibility, not to mention your apparent lack of logic and coh...

Trump praised neonazi groups and vice versa, for heavens sake. Your priorities are screwed. The preoccupying modern fascist leaders are Putin, Trump a...

I honestly don't find it credible to say Putin is in any significant manner different from a neo-Nazi, or helping defeat the neo-Nazi 'cause' (your wo...

Yes. Putin.

They are not a fringe group in the Moscow, though.

Good that I'm not arguing that, then. I'm just stating that Putin is not in any significant way different from the 'neonazis' he brandishes as an excu...

He is the gay nazi type. It's a flavour alright.

If Putin wants to get rid of neonazis, he should fire a bullet in his head.

Why not? Zelensky is a bit busy right row, and doing extremely well in his communication, thank you. You might have to wait for the evidence, I guess.

Personally I agree with Popper that philosophers should try and be 'real' ie focus on problems that are relevant to the general public, science, polit...

I agree, it will look like our worst nightmares. Like Syria, with a nuclear spin. Yesterday the Csar called Macron to tell him he will go all the way ...

There are all sorts of fake news being spread including by the victims of course. I was reading earlier about a village north of Odessa (Datchne) wher...

Incidentally, I've always been amazed at the number of people in developing countries who studied in Kiev and Moscow. The soviets must have trained th...

Agreed, it's a finely balanced analysis.

Of course they do do dominate NATO but nevertheless, this organisation, a few weeks ago still, seemed to have forgotten its mission and lacked in cohe...

I suspect, and this is not a criticism, that you also have skin in the game, literally. Your life could be affected. NATO is better than the alternati...

Sadly, that is to be expected. Not everybody cares as much as you do. Some of your interlocutors just put out vague faint generalities that they are u...

Seconded. The role of moderators doesn't involve insulting other posters. @"jamalrob" should know better than that.

I would like to tell you, I would like to say That I knew that this would happen That things would go this way But I cannot deceive you, This was neve...

The Dutch may have played a minor role, but I know better than trusting the Australians with anything. They certainly didn't do much to stop the escal...

Personally, I blame the Australians.

I've given some thoughts to this excellent post. Thanks for it and others on the subject. I agree that nations are based on myths, rather than 'lies'....

In Europe and America There's a growing feeling of hysteria Conditioned to respond to all the threats In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets Mister...

We could still fail better next time, that's true! :grin:

I was not talking about you, but to you, about something we seem to agree about. Edit: ... : that we should forget the blame game and focus on what ca...

I wouldn't go so far, to me we're not judges.TPF posters don't have a responsibility or obligation to lean in and reach a verdict. We won't in any cas...

Good for him. We should all shed our urban sophistication at this point and understand that it is indeed about tanks. And the right response to a tank...

I'm afraid Internet platforms are part of the game now, not outside of it anymore. TPF may be too small to attract attention yet, but you can bet that...

The brotherhood between Ukrainians and Russians is deep, and has been harped upon since what? Peter the Great? It's like if the US invaded the UK. It ...

The same sentiment is creeping all over the (non-western) world. People are tired of Europe and the US being top dogs. They want geopolitical change a...

Except that apportioning blame is part of the game. There is a battle for public opinion in Russia, Europe and elsewhere. For the Russian leadership, ...

Okay, that's interesting. Do all polities need a foundational lie? I'm not against the nation state as a concept, but it's almost impossible to implem...

It's better when it suits him, I guess. For info, my point questioning @"StreetlightX" was to try and show that he is grossly misinformed about Europe...

Have a little patience. Also, @"jamalrob", you may wish to clarify if you are participating in the discussion as a contributor or as a referee. The tw...

Have you ever lived in Europe, by any chance?

You want more reverence? Let me see what I can do. May I ask, your appropriately condescending highness, which nation has had the privilege of welcomi...

Where are you from?

The UK left because of their racism. Good riddance to then, their heart was never in it. And if other countries want to leave the Union, they are most...

I wonder why them countries keep applying to EU membership all the time, as if it was a good thing to trade with Europe. Little do they know that Brus...

Indeed, just because a bunch of insecure jerks say they feel threatened, doesn't make it true. For instance, incompetent people often feel threatened ...

Always the heavy reader... Anyway, Jupiter Ascending is made for teenagers, but it's surprisingly good, as far as these things go. That's death's nick...

Thank you for this. I had to google up the expression. It's a good one, and I guess we all whistle in the dark on this thread, as loud as we can...

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Why? I trust we can be non-delusional about history without committing suicide. We can live without all these lies. We don't really need them. They ar...