That's going to be true of any politics thread generally, including Climate Change or wealth distribution or Trump and Biden. I only hope some people ...
Not at all, you are right. This is old indeed, well documented by, say, Smedley Butler, he painted the picture very clearly in that one. It may not be...
No, that isn't Disney. I think it's a rational move, given the dire circumstances. I'm referring to the way the conflict is presented, as if Europe, U...
I hear you. Though a corrective or counterbalance is necessary, or else it merely becomes self-reinforcing dogma. Having said that, it's extremely dif...
That's kind of like saying that all these people in Moscow who are against the war and are jumping out of windows actually were depressed. Do you have...
Not about what Blinken or Biden said, which would be silly to overlook in my opinion. Or you can present another plausible account. I don't see what o...
It's a matter of likelihood. I suspect we may soon get direct evidence of the event. It would make no sense for Germany to blow up a pipeline (which i...
What a fantastic pic. FFS with leaders like these, and crowds whipped into a frenzy... Won't repeat myself at the moment. I must imagine that someone ...
Yes, indeed, a classic. Wasn't Einstein a patent clerk when he discovered the first steps in General Relativity, or was he already taking courses? I d...
In the sense that they allowed the US to blow up the Nordstream pipeline. I don't know if Germany was aware of this, but, I think that's counterproduc...
That would require a mutual stop of military actions on both sides, regardless of the status they have as victims and aggressors. Why? If we don't hav...
Man, I know we all have busy days and different interests and all that, but you should definitely post like, once a week or so, takes like yours and @...
With takes like these, who needs satire? I don't see the point in having a discussion with a person who thinks that nuclear war is fine and dandy, bec...
We return to that pesky word, "metaphysics", which is now more obscure than it was when it worked on by Aristotle, not that he used the term itself. T...
Well, what can you expect when, being the creatures that we are, we begin to scrape the very fundamental issues of the world? After all, we are dealin...
I will have to look him up. Thanks for the reference. Edit: Which book or article of his did you have in mind? @"180 Proof" Haven't seen you say "woo"...
I guess I am the odd one out on this topic. I think we have good reasons to believe that matter thinks, so there isn't a mind-body problem. At best we...
We can try to psychoanalyze leaders like Biden, Xi, Lula, Macron and Putin, yes they surely are different in terms of how they think and what they bel...
I think your first two sentences are true, but for different reasons, I don't think that it's necessarily the Geneva Convention that limits state beha...
Anything objective has to recorded or analyzed by something subjective, otherwise it remains in the dark, even if it is a "brute fact": the start of t...
This makes sense, but much reform needs to be made, in particular to the United Nations, which is currently quite limited by the Security Council. In ...
Ahh, ok. Here we have some interesting material to talk about, very much pertinent to philosophy too. It's a solid post, some excellent points raised,...
Depends who you ask, Rovelli will have a different take than Sean Carroll, who differs from X and Y and so on. But quantum physics studies the extreme...
Sure, Lockheed and others are making a killing, they love war. It’s very rare to have a good vs evil fight, unless you see a movie or something. We ca...
Really? I missed that. My impression of them is that they basically exist to critique Democrats, no matter what they do. I know Rand Paul is being mor...
I think Republicans (with the loose cannon maybe-maybe not exception of Trump) are even more hawkish than the Democrats. I don’t think the situation w...
No, no, no. Putin is an evil criminal, I’ll share with you some disturbing pictures instead of presenting an argument as to why Ukraine must not only ...
I have no doubt Russia is committing war crimes, as those pictures indicate. I mean, it is evident that it is, as is covered 24/7 in most news media. ...
Yes, that was a defeat for them too, but remember they were going through quite significant internal turmoil. These days, in which everything is telev...
I'll grant you Afghanistan, no doubt. Back then Russia (The USSR) was not the target of the most severe sanctions a country has seen. Maybe North Kore...
Yes. One cannot have negotiations if neither side offers an inch. This is not sustainable, particularly to Russia, I think they will get even more des...
I don't disagree with the analysis here. I'm throwing out some ideas of what a negotiation could look like. But something has to be exchanged, I think...
Well frank, if you insist that "defeating" Russia is the only commendable and desirable outcome, then we have different notions of seriousness. I'll l...
Ukraine gets rid of the invaders. Russia keeps Crimea. Ukraine declares victory against a nuclear power, Russia declares "denazification" successful. ...
You insist on using the word "surrender". If you say "compromise", then I agree with the last statement. Ukraine has exceeded expectations by far. But...
It's a matter of priority: do you think saving many, many lives is worth stopping the war, or are you confident that escalation will defeat Russia? If...
Well, you can think of it in terms of "surrender". But you can also think of it as "saving lives", and potentially the planet. Or instead of "surrende...
Now negotiations are even further away, given the decree signed by Zelensky. As things stand, this cannot end up going well. You need to have an optio...
He is no more of a recluse than Kim in Korea, and dialogue with Kim went OK. Putin can be talked to, I'm sure of it. The aim if The Pentagon has been,...
I mean, as I see it, it's a question of priorities. For the people involved, I think this would mean no further escalations on either side. Any milita...
I read it this year. Took me about 4 months or so. But I had a lot of preparation. I think Lucy Allais' Manifest Reality does an excellent job present...
They called the Chechnyan "terrorists", so a large portion of Russia probably didn't care about that. Syria was a disaster from everybody, Russia incl...
Like the US did in Baghdad, or NATO in Libya, bomb it to pieces. Basically, tear the country apart, as those states are today. I think this is easy. R...
To incorporate parts of Ukraine, or even the whole of it to Russia would surely prevent Ukraine from being part of NATO, that much is a truism. I don'...
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