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It's funny how you just assume I don't know all these things already. You left out the consideration that a successful resolution by a people of whom ...

I'm working on something and I'm not sure it works. Anybody I can bounce my first draft off on?

Hard to say. The separatist war has been going on for 8 years now as well. So maybe this will simmer down to a long-lasting low intensity conflict. Th...

Raising minimum wage to 19 dollars might do the trick and split the GOP for good. That way not just Democrats benefit but actual US citizens.

Bound to happen of course as in any war. We can be shocked but not surprised. As I argued with respect to the atrocities committed by Russia: this is ...

Ah, the tone police. Mind your manners or someone might be offended! I've been entirely civil, I've exactly called you an idiot once when you were try...

I liked this one too. https://twitter.com/kennedytcooper/status/1511766508095090691?s=20&t=qqs-6hK4fl34phsi0JUZiQ

What's "the issue" Baden and I were talking about? Maybe try to read instead of trying to score cheap points by deliberately misrepresenting what I sa...

If atrocities were the issue no war could ever result in peace. But hey, don't let that stop you from emoting another useless contribution.

It's the reason why we can assume bad faith or stupidity on the part of the US.

I don't disagree with your assessment and not pretending there are no atrocities. But the problem in my view is the hawks in the guise of "moral knigh...

Look, I appreciate often what you bring to the table from a historical perspective, but when this exact situation has been predicted for over 25 years...

There's an immediate problem how to stop this current war. I find the atrocities committed by the Russians within the scope of what I expected. It's n...

I'd consider that a lack of imagination. Medieval peasants worked less than the average American and we're inexorably moving in that direction in Euro...

Also just to point out that what I said is that I don't give a shit about internal Russian politics when concerned about war, which is about internati...

I would prefer European hegemony in Europe without foreign military presence and maybe finally some equity and fairness across the world. Don't ask me...

That's a load of crap and you know it. We see a huge consistency across the board for decades in what Russian governments have said for decades, the p...

That's an interesting equivocation there. If you wanted to ask a question about Stalin and FDR, you should've asked that question. Or is this that gam...

@"frank" Book I got the numbers from: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48835.American_Holocaust

Estimates for native americans killed through deliberate governmental action range from 95 million to 114 million in Canada and the US. Whether that w...

This is a good question but one I can't really answer but only guess at. Ukraine was torn between loyalty to the West and Russia to the East. It's pol...

I just finished an interesting documentary where they argue that where science, profit and belief in superiority coincide, you have a particular volat...

In the sense they were both expressions of empire and the countries propping them up responsible for millions of death across the world. Sure. Pick yo...

You can disagree with it but that's the position Russia will take. Chomsky:

Also, as a consideration, blockades used to be an act of war but that was in the time when there wasn't really something like foreign direct investmen...

China is a fucking hellhole, which is why I try not to spend any of my money there. I guess my point is really that we're complaining about something ...

Another attempt at cheap point scoring and you suck at it. I suppose your arrogance precludes you from emphatising with people you talk to. I do care ...

Don't let your selective moral indignation disturb you then. Meanwhile, genocide in Ethiopia. But the Western countries are falling over each other to...

Why should this disturb me more than Yemen exactly? Or the Iraq war? Tugging at my moral convictions just shows how tribal your own convictions are.

Talking about narratives. "Kill the brutes" seems like an interesting series which I'm going to watch instead of post. ;-)

Thanks. Weirdly enough that didn't show on their own web page in the overview but does come up if you approach it by region/country here: https://ec.e...

Sure, let's celebrate the huge barrier to entry to start new social media. :sad:

uhm... https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/negotiations-and-agreements/#_in-place Aside from the fact that I said "association agr...

I think it's telling it's just the West saying all these things about Putin and Russia, What's ther rest of the world doing? South-America is shaking ...

The EU is build around the idea of economic interdependence as a path to safety. So I disagree. Where we went wrong is not making serious progress in ...

That leaves no members in the security council. So no.

Because this is the rational and intelligent thing to do? I don't think these fears are founded. Putin threatening using nukes is to clarify NATO shou...

How sizable is that in the USA nowadays? It's 14% here nowadays. When I was a teenager it was 8%.

I'm not necessarily agreeing with this theory, just saying that if you follow Andrew Levi's assessment then this is what you get. I happen to think it...

That contradicts what you shared though. The more secure and respected Putin feels the less trouble he should be.

All true unfortunately. Even worse, apologising for our "police actions" at the end of the 40s is still not done because the feelings of veterans are ...

Cool. Appreciate it.

I admit to highlighting a particular view when I believe it broadens the context. I would do the same when talking about the Netherlands but unfortuna...

It's relatively simple, where it concerns Ukraine Russia and USA have been fighting each other over Ukraine for decades. In my view both parties are g...

They will throw soldiers under the bus when a politician's ass needs to be saved. Other than that I find your optimism misplaced. Nagasaki and Hiroshi...

So he's never met Putin but feels qualified to make a psychological profile. Got it. Sorry man, I just can't appreciate a guy who tweets in 10 differe...

You don't travel enough. There's plenty of anti-Americanism going around and hypocrisy is one of the first thing spoken about. How can they complain a...

hmmm... I don't find much use in trying to project an archetype on Putin. It seems like psychologizing just for the sake of trying to categorise a per...

I have no clue why that passes for interesting to you.

I recall us having discussions about whether it would make a relevant difference voting for Trump or Biden. Just wondering, because I'm not taking US ...