01.22 EDT Oleksandra Matviichuk has a point she wants to make. The Ukrainian lawyer heads the Centre for Civil Liberties, a human rights organisation ...
Are you really saying that Poland, the Baltic states, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, the Czech republic all joined NATO in order to benefit from humanita...
Let me answer this one on behalf of the Putinistas. It's quite simple: an American imperialist bent is true by definition, without the need for any pa...
A Russian journalist propagandist went a bit too far, even for Russia Today, and was sacked as a result: RT Host Suspended for Calls to ‘Drown, Burn’ ...
Please give ONE. I quite precisely claimed that, otherwise you would not be arguing against it. Logic, anyone? There was Hungary, Tchekcoslovakia, Afg...
Stop changing the subject. The annexion of Crimea, Dombass and Kherson are evidence of imperialist ambitions. We are not talking of just beating Ukrai...
It is not incompatible with imperialism. In fact prehemmptively invading a neighbor because said neighbor is cozying up with rivals is precisely what ...
Note that in this scenario, the US would annex large parts of Canada, just as Putin is doing in Ukraine. Therefore, it would be a land grab, a manifes...
Yes, very poorly. Yet a fundamental difference with Iraq in my view, and respective to the argument I was making on precedent-setting, is that the war...
I believe that the Taliban wanted the US to come after them, that it was part of the plan, which would be why they did not surrender Osama Ben Laden. ...
It was legit I think, and it started really nicely. I travelled all over the country in 2002 and a lot of people were upbeat. It started to go sour wh...
Of course the US doesn't have pure intentions, but this discussion was about are the intentions of Russia, not the US. And evidently those intentions ...
The last thing I would want is to be taken seriously by people who take seriously a criminal's excuses for his crimes. Did you believed Bush Junior wh...
And yet, your interpretation of these facts is absurd and paranoid. Just because a guy said something to another in a 2008 meeting, doesn't mean hundr...
A closer metaphor would be: "I robbed the bank because they were considering getting better protection against robbery, so I had to rob it before they...
It is not just completely wrong, simplistic to the extreme, logically absurd and paranoid, it is also a tone deaf argument, akin to finding excuses to...
https://focus.courrierinternational.com/2022/10/18/0/0/2400/1600/1280/0/60/0/01619be_1666104461659-tjeerd-2022-05-09-7490.jpg By Tjeerd Royaards, the ...
Tx, this is all very useful. For the record, I have much respect for Amnesty, and would not want to slander anyone. I just reported on the reactions t...
You are right, we should have smelled the coffee a long time ago, and responded much more aggressively to the Crimea land grab. We were fools not to t...
Now, Putin has annexed his territorial conquests to Russia. That to me is ample evidence that his motives are 1) land grab, 2) people grab, and 3) pow...
"Gentlemen's agreements" are rare in International politics, and transient. Even if the story is true, that promise would have been made to a very dif...
All this amounts to believing some of Putin's account about some of his motivations. It's not going anywhere close to overwhelming. In fact it's very ...
It's not just you. Everyone here has had to say things that should go without saying. I find myself stating the glaringly obvious again and again. Why...
Each and every post would be too frequent, but what skin gets pulled off your nose if you state it once in a while? Why should it be a problem to say ...
From the French press. It's confirmed in Wikipedia: Amnesty's Canadian branch issued a statement expressing regret for among other things the "insuffi...
The point of saying it unambiguously is not to inform others about who Putin is, mind you, but to reassure them about who you are. Because if you do n...
Note that the Amnesty report in question is being reviewed by the organization. It was rejected by many long-time Amnesty members as flawed in its met...
After years of searching, I regret to inform that there is apparently no perfect paradise on earth. A consequence is that you cannot "flee these thing...
You seem to look at the West with shit-colored glasses; hence you see "political malpractice" everywhere while remaining remarkably shy on exactly wha...
Oh well. I can see quite a few elements of geopolitical relevance in the current context. No issue here. My point was different: that to the extent th...
??? Relevance is a relative term. Relevance to what, and for whom? War crimes may be irrelevant to you, but they are relevant for the Ukrainians, and ...
Really? That's all you could come up with in terms of Ukrainian war crimes??? No torture, no rapping, no murder of civilians, but the purely symbolic ...
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