Nice way to cherry pick arguments. Making NATO larger was a massive mistake, as was recognized by the last ambassador to the USSR, he predicted this w...
If they retreated as soon as they invaded, that would convey weakness, not power. By now, as you said, the situation is very different. More of a liar...
I hope so. I mean, it looks to me as if these people watch too many action films. They've reaped plenty of profits and have set back Russia for some c...
Once the conflict started it was too late. Zelensky says different things depending on which camera is on him: Western, Russian, etc. As far back as l...
It's easy to blame a complex geo-political situation on "little mens insecurities". But fine, we can leave it at that, or, if you want a final respons...
Yeah, his actions were stupid beyond belief, it made everything he wanted to avoid happen: NATO got bigger, large swaths of the world sanctioned Russi...
I mean, so far the US and EU are being oh-so-confident that he won't do anything with nukes. I wonder how they can be so confident given what's happen...
What he said to Macron was that he needed assurances that Ukraine would not be militarized. He did not get this, hence the invasion. I do not think Eu...
Out of the European leaders, I think Macron has done the best, he did have relatively frequent meetings with Putin. But the other ones are an utter sh...
The problem is nuclear weapons existing at all, not a suicidal madman. North Korea has one, even crazier and he hasn't used them. But I ask you, what ...
No. We cannot put forth foundationalism with certainty. This leaves open a very big problem in philosophy, we have a certain mechanism or capacity to ...
It's a bit like asking why questions as to why you want to do X, Y or Z, you end up saying I want to do X because I want to be happy or content, to as...
Ukraine accelerates bid to join NATO after Russia’s annexation https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/30/ukraine-accelerates-bid-to-join-nato-after-rus...
In how it handles trying to get the territories back. If they go full force, it would be akin to Ukraine "invading" Russia. This might allow Russia to...
I didn't say they weren't. Russia doesn't consider it though, so it will take any attacks on these territories as an attack on Russia. Not saying Ukra...
Apropos no specific comment here, but, for the purposes of the war, it does not matter than the US, Europe and even the UN, don't consider these new t...
I skimmed the paper, so I may have missed important details, but, there is a factual claim here which is mistaken. "Irrealism" has been explored, in s...
I mean, that would be my guess too. Then he would hopefully, be forced into a negotiation, which has not happened yet, before considering the use of n...
Medvedev Says US and NATO Won’t Intervene If Russia Uses Nuke in Ukraine https://news.antiwar.com/2022/09/27/medvedev-says-us-and-nato-wont-intervene-...
Ha! One good line in that horrible book! Ironic that Hitchens hated her. Not that Hitchens was exemplary, far from it, towards the last part of his li...
Truss reminds me of a remark Christopher Hitchens made about David Cameron: Q: What do you think about David Cameron? A: He doesn't make me think. Exc...
There tends to be very little dissent in the NYT, it tends to go with the government in relation to wars, so it's not the best site for this conflict....
I tend to look at Al-Jazeera, FT and Antiwar.com, they seem to me to be reasonable- for the most part, though the Financial Times is inconsistent and ...
There are worse things to be addicted to, by far. If someone can manage to live the much touted "balanced life", well, good for them. I haven't figure...
It could increase bravado from NATO. They can be accused of "cowering to Russia"-type rhetoric, which, don't get me wrong, is incredibly stupid, but e...
The thing is if he does drop one, even a so called "mini nuke", I don't see how NATO will not respond. They'd have to. But then that creates a self-fe...
They do, but one cannot deny that Russia is under severe pressure - otherwise Putin would have not made his announcement today. Of course Ukraine has ...
Looks like Russia is running out of options. And while in a more rational society this might be an impetus for negotiations, now there is a ramping up...
One has to keep in mind that Kant was a Newtonian. The notions of space and time Kant had in mind, no longer apply. Which does not mean that his gener...
If it does, which I don't think is clear at all, then I'd argue that the metaphysics of science is bound to be argued for one's own personal metaphysi...
How is the metaverse science? It's technology and a dubious one at that, if you have in mind Zuckerberg's version of it. I perceive a tendency to conf...
Yes. However this thought does not arise when one is dead, IF we are correct in assuming that post-life is a similar state than pre-life. Death is "on...
It's not testable, reason can either accept or deny it (though it stretches credulity) and other theories can, in principle, produce similar results w...
We don't know this. Reason may be a more or less affair, with sudden leaps in capacities due to the development of something like the language faculty...
I'd say we don't know enough to determine whether the laws we study are or are not fundamental to the universe. So, not so much sub-reality, as repres...
I think the OP is a bit too long, I've done this before so, it's nothing personal. If you can make it more concise, then it should be easier to unders...
This I agree with. I'm not following the bit about the computer being linked with the mind. Does that mean that we are living in a videogame of some k...
Empirical science is agnostic about metaphysics. You may occasionally hear the odd statement about being a "materialist" and even more rare, being an ...
He mentions that our knowledge of the will is the closest approximation we have of the thing-in-itself, but it's not the thing-in-itself, itself, as i...
That's the thing about this topic, there is no good argument for this at all. It was made up, now you see some fancy scenarios about the probabilities...
Interestingly - and while agreeing with you mostly about Zizek, he actually discusses this. It's an idea in psychoanalysis called fetishist disavowal:...
@"Xtrix" I think society is too complex to single out one or two factors which we can use to explain our current situation. However, if we are forced ...
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