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I watch CGTN and RT as well, critically. Newspapers - which ones do you read, and maybe we need a separate thread on that.

In short, I really feel it is survival, maybe legacy, and there is no hope of any sort of empire. In the face of media attacks, economic sanctions and...

By the way, anyone here who can't bear to watch CNN, Fox News, Al Jazeera ? It's not all lies, but the bias is tiring. They have, like all good media ...

They reveal what he wants them to reveal, after all, that is how the KGB worked isn't it? There is no way any leader could have run any country so lon...

That's all well and good, judging from the demographics of the language, it won't be easy to govern by Russia.

Is this reflected in this statement?

Ok well if I were put in as president of Russia (!) I would feel threatened and humiliated with the constant media attacks ("Russia influenced the ele...

While Streetlightx is responding, may I add something here, since I have addressed this before? How does NATO expand? Consider yourself facing a footb...

Yes yes, but isn't what is in their free and independent minds important? Suppose what they had in their heads was the brotherhood of man. That would ...

They think they are. The words "World's Policeman" mean something, especially the brutality.

I think we established all nations run after these things.

This story is as old as the hills it seems. American forces fought in the Russian Revolution. Maybe they lost. https://www.rferl.org/a/when-american-s...

Ukraine needs to get some things right, putting the minority Russian speaking populace in a corner is not really a good thing. One example is the rest...

All very unfortunate. He who dies with the most toys wins? Is that it? Well then you can count me out of that, it's not in the spirit of 'one family' ...

Yes yes but what for? What is the end game here? What are the goals of the great nations of the world right now, isn't it more power and domination ov...

Great point, but we understand that that attack was carried out during a world war, in which all countries were involved and were attacked and occupie...

What would you do if you were put in (pun intended) as President of Russia? Would you be any different? Since the rise of Nazi Germany's illegal arms ...

Financial measures work for sure, and are relatively benign and reversible, unlike a nuclear option. For those like myself who want to respect all nat...

I agree. Ukraine could have had it all, but they have been open to overt and covert foreign interference, which has upset the internal balance. I am n...

The question is, though, is he popular (approval rating) and has he broken any laws internationally?

Cristoffer, we all understand your concerns. No-one wants people to get killed. In our school textbooks we are taught about war, it is glorified, not ...

For some reason NATO is unwilling to admit Ukraine into NATO. The final agreement may include this condition. Ukraine is a large, resource - filled co...

My understanding of President Putin is that although he may make a foolish decision, he is not stupid. As you know, any attack on a NATO member - let ...

Exactly. That is the essence of NATO's deterrent. Don't tell me it does not work because NATO would have been then a total waste of time.

If Ukraine surrenders, surely less people will be killed, if stopping the killing is what you want. You cannot at once assign Putin responsibility for...

One last wish that Russia decline, apparently the West is fixated on this goal. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/reports-of-russias-decline-are-...

Survival? I mean everyone here seems to want a weak, diminished Russia without any say on the worldwide stage, maybe like Great Britain after it lost ...

No leader, regardless of how evil, purposely destroyed his own country. It follows then, there there must be something that president Putin thinks he ...

I do not think Putin is stupid enough to start a nuclear war, however making threats is the rational thing to do. After all, the United States has pub...

"We're probably privvy to about 2% of the truth of what is actually happening and the reasons behind it" “Truth never damages a cause that is just.” ?...

It is interesting to consider the number of lives lost through war. WW1 : 37,569,768 https://www.facinghistory.org/weimar-republic-fragility-democracy...

I guess we are all Stayin Alive though cities were breaking and everybody was shaken. Is this a shaking up process for the collective psyche of humani...

I am not sure that the hesitancy to help Afghans is based on anything resembling carefully reasoned arguments regarding morality. That's the rub. It m...

Yes I have heard of this incident. Underlying all this is the thought of men, and the thoughts of men are ruled by their philosophy. The failure of ph...

Since my first post there have been many millions pledged to help the people of Afghanistan. The world cannot agree on anything, which is a good thing...

Definition of dilemma 1a: a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice faces this dilemma: raise interest rates and slow the economy or lower them and r...

Afghanistan's success depends on the level of conflict within its borders as much as on the Taliban's government methods. Development and conflict do ...

What seems to be an excellent summary on interpretation options for Genesis is here: https://biologos.org/articles/comparing-interpretations-of-genesi...

All history is written on aged paper. Is the United States Constitution inerrant and infallible? How do we know that it is what the Authors intended, ...

If the Biblical account of creation is self-consistent, then the next question, which might be raised in another discussion, is; "Is belief in a God c...

There are various approaches to interpreting the Bible, so I do no think I can agree with all of them. Instead of avoiding objectivity completely, let...

I am not sure I follow you at all. The sin of piety?

I think we are discussing the subset of views where God can do anything but does not break the laws of self - contradiction, we can do that.

There are many reasons Christians do not just discuss among themselves, although they argue among themselves as well. Some Christians believe that all...

I think time travel is possible, the past will include the time travel event as part of history. For example, you travel back to 1870, wait for a few ...

Take the Babylonian creation story for example: https://www.creationmyths.org/enumaelish-babylonian-creation/enumaelish-babylonian-creation-2.htm Is i...

There are degrees of irrationality when it comes to faith and the Bible. Most theologians would make the claim that there is a certain method to it, t...

Arguments for omnipotence can get ridiculous. The question 'can God destroy Himself' was to me unanswerable until I realized that if God destroys Hims...

The entire Bible is not self-inconsistent, there are entire passages that are self-consistent, they may be taken to be fiction, however. There are som...

Faith does not have to be faith in God. Could you prove that it was wishful thinking?