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You haven't actually done that. That's what you dream of doing perhaps, in this fantasy world of yours where you are a hero. What you have done here, ...

You 're reading too much into this. Maybe you need to open a dictionary and read the entry for "action", rather than try and impose your skewed interp...

We should all speak French, it would be much easier, and more precise. :-) Pending that, native English speakers should make an effort and try to unde...

Some are more perfect than others though, like our boy @"Benkei" here. He understands Zelensky more perfectly than anybody else, and if you disagree w...

It's not a fallacy to contest another poster's interpretation nor method of argument. @"Benkei" says he knows best what Zelensky meant, "in the contex...

What's your native tongue, pray tell?

action (n.) mid-14c., from Old French action (12c.) "action; lawsuit, case," from Latin actionem (nominative actio) "a putting in motion; a performing...

We don't know what he knows, though. Beside, I think one could be forgiving of a certain rashness in judgment, under the circumstances. What furores? ...

That is correct. There is that dimension. However, I wouldn't say that my trust in Zelensky has been shattered. Would you?

Someone died and made you the final interpreter of anything Zelenskian?

Not really, no. I go by the usual meaning, which implies a lack of lies and dissimulation, but does not imply that only reasonable statements are in g...

Maybe they are a bit smarter than you are, or a little more interested in understanding things than you seem to be. A good thing you don't work in NAT...

NATO will NOT respond even if it they conclude the missile was fired by Russia. It's evidently a mistake, a stray missile. Calm down already.

I know that you scare easily, but this is ridiculous even by your chicken little standards. NATO does not take its orders from Zelensky. Beside, it's ...

As you must know, some posters are more interested in spreading confusion and misunderstanding than in understanding anything.

The probability of Kherson being liberated so soon was not very high either. The morale and readiness level of Russian troops is unknown but probably ...

If Zelensky believes in good faith that the missile was sent by Russia, then he is not following a political line in saying so. He is just saying what...

Or he just genuinely believes that the missile that crashed in Poland was not fired by Ukraine. It's not like the evidence is out there for everyone t...

Interesting... Do facts interest you at all?

Giving up the land bridge and Dombass would be more likely to work.

Well, you are not saying that the reasons for the Russian retreat are partly the strength of the Ukrainian advance, but could also be influenced by ba...

That is not what @"Tzeentch" is saying though.

How could I miss this gem? The Russians are -- against all evidence -- pretending to be forced out of Kherson, all in the service of (secret, of cours...

That's an easy one: there's no evidence of any peace deal, and the Russian general admitted on TV that they couldn't supply the troops on the right ba...

You didn't follow the conversation. All I am saying here is that @"Tzeentch" has displayed a pro-Russian bias in his interpretations of events on the ...

What position, exactly?

The Russian retreat from Kherson.

That is entirely correct, but not at issue. My point was rather that if parts of reality just don't happen to be "good" for Russia, pretending against...

They say hypocrisy is the homage of vice to virtue.

Agreed. I just tried to have him express his opinion clearly. He's too much of a chicken for that, apparently.

Well, you just lost an excellent occasion to clarify your position. But be my guest. Wallow in ambiguity all you like, if you have something to hide t...

Ambiguity is not my cup of tea. I asked you a simple question. You should be able to answer it with a yes or a no. Let me make it even simpler for you...

So you don't agree that you are pro-Russian, in this particular conflict? Just to be clear.

I've written two or three times about your obvious pro-Russian bias. I have an obvious pro-Ukrainian bias, btw, and I am not shy to admit it. I don't ...

Thus proving my point that my philosophical decisions may differ from yours. :-)

You've been hostile to me alright.

Nice self-criticism. Now do something about it.

The Ukrainians forced the Russians to withdraw by cutting them from their supplies and by slowly grinding their defense lines. And they keep pushing; ...

Say the three wise monkeys... :-) https://media.istockphoto.com/id/101579289/it/foto/scimmie-giocattolo.jpg?s=612x612&w=is&k=20&c=RlIpw-Si31y1FcwZTGPi...

I would think that these decisions are subjective and personal, not factual or normative. Your decision of what you consider philosophy does not conce...

The signal is there alright: they were forced to withdraw from what their lord Putin sees as Russian territory. That signal was well received in Ukrai...

Yes, they avoided total humiliation. Most importantly, they saved a lot of Russian and Ukrainian lives by deciding to withdraw from a position they we...

LOL... It did succeed in recapturing Kherson. :-)

You haven't the faintest idea of what I write about or think of this war.

It's a fact, not an accusation. Your interpretation of anything happening in Ukraine is systematically viewed through a pro-russian bias. So you are "...

Of course you do. It's just that your rose-tinted glasses are Russian made, and so are your 'good guys'.

@"Tzeentch" is unable to imagine a world where brutal dictators don't win.

Things people say and forget:

Unlikely that the war will stop soon. The Russians were simply unable to hold Kherson and afraid of losing many men for nothing in that battle, so the...

Okay so they deny that anyone was forcefully taken, but not that there are 'refugees'. Fair enough. It follows that one would expect the status of tho...