Until relatively recently the US had inspection rights of some Russian facilities as a part of the New START treaty, and US behaviour throughout this conflict has erred on the side of "yes Russia has...
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Until relatively recently the US had inspection rights of some Russian facilities as a part of the New START treaty, and US behaviour throughout this conflict has erred on the side of "yes Russia has...
The English don't even have their own parliament. They're a province at best.
England's?
Not sure how you would have prevented new EU membership, when it has to be agreed upon by all, and all agreed. Including the UK. Besides, the UK didn't leave the EU because of immigration. They left...
The Biden and MBS are not even on speaking terms at the moment - MBS has been deliberately snubbing the US. As much as anything, because of Biden's withdrawal of support/weapons for the invasion...
Speaking of which... I thought we celebrated Guy Fawkes' failure to blow up parliament? We don't celebrate the man, we make effigies of him and symbolically burn him to death on a bonfire to...
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What a difference 14 years makes...
When people are confronted with death, they will look for every answer they know - including the supernatural. It is a sign of their desperation, not evidence of God.
I have exclaimed "oh my God"...
I for one will enjoy much chocolate and the last opportunity to enjoy spend time in the remainder of summer's last warmth. I'll be enjoying autumn in April, a thing that Jesus couldn't have fathomed....
You couldn't resist responding to someone sarcastically pointing out the obvious flaws in your argument. Which are essentially, "other people are OK with it so Mississippi should be, and I reckon it...
A weak bait is one that the baitee doesn't feel compelled to reply to. And you couldn't help but scratch that itch. I'd call that a win in my books.
Also, sarcastic anti-racist remarks are not an...
Poland's economic growth is predicted to slow to 0.9% this year, then pick up again next year. Certainly, the post-Covid recovery has been threatened by inflation and Russia's invasion of Ukraine,...
On the one hand, Lord belittles those who claim to be anti-racist, on the other he justifies separate judicial systems.
He finishes his post with a dig at situations in other states, for that...
ChatGPT will not be truly human in its nature until it denies its mistakes, and responds with a counter claim, or a series of claims aimed at undermining the accuser.
Like all other major world events, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is being seen through a polarised domestic lens across the world. If Biden supports Ukraine, and I dislike Biden, I must therefore...
I've already countered most of these points thematically in my previous post.
Russia is a highly complex governmental system that has many layers of interdependencies. Complex authoritarian systems work until all of a sudden they don't. The USSR was fine, then all of a sudden...
Well no. There was an opportunity early on for instability within Russia, but Putin was pretty quick to crack down and most of those whom could have caused the instability left the country. Although...
Those things are happening now. So that is what we're talking about. We all know that these things have occurred all over since pre-history. But we don't need to contextualise every single event we...
Which is irrelevant to present day, as nobody who was in that brigade, or made decisions for it is in government in Bulgaria. Might as well blame the Darius for marching onto the steppe and attacking...
There were even Americans and Brits in Hitler's armies. So Russian propaganda can claim that WW2 was an approximation of NATO.
People are sceptical because it is not an argument backed by evidence, but rather a set of theories based on personal or anecdotal experiences, which are subject to biases that haven't been checked...
I guess there are complicating factors to the idea of a post-racial society.
One example is the long tail of colonialism, where in some Western countries, there are still people alive today who...
A great many wars end in other ways. While you could argue that complete capitulation is a form of negotiated settlement, mass genocide or ethnic cleansing or mass enslavement or literal or...
Being democratic isn't as important for NATO membership as it is for EU.
To be fair, politics isn't about policy, or what benefits policy provides.
The GOP doesn't need to provide solutions to what they claim are problems. Just to point out that the problems exist....
Oh it goes beyond "don't reduce spending"
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Profit driven industry is very good at generating vast resources and growth. You can argue that this isn't the best path for societies to be on. But that's a general anti-capitalist argument and...
I somehow doubt that you're going to insult anyone who is inspired by Rand by saying they're Randian.
The GOP however stopped being inspired by Rand with the end of the Neocons. They've drifted...
I live in a country with a relatively free market. People here profit off my health care. They profit off my coffin. They profit off my food, and my water. Why should I care if an arms industry...
Two things:
1. Saying you won't negotiate, is part of the negotiation. It frames following negotiations as magnanimity and is a device used all the time. Just like red lines. It doesn't mean there...
As is this post.
What exactly do the GOP want to cut as a policy position? I'm not certain they are in agreement at the moment. That's hardly a position from which negotiations can be made.
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Sweden has to do no such thing. There are a great many examples of Turkey disagreeing with its NATO partners over defence issues that haven't prevented them being in a defence alliance. As there has...
The application block is just an election bone to chew on for Erdogan. I think once the election has passed, this might quietly become a solved dispute. For now it gives Erdogan something to puff his...
I believe it is called 'whataboutism'
Putin has repeatedly stated his terms for negotiated settlement. They don't include anything that anyone would be interested in discussing, in any way.
Certainly, if Trump were in Zelenskyy's...
Seems a pretty clear illustration using an analogy of the difference between a fantasy story (fine) and a violent call to action (less fine)
I think a more clear metaphor would be to say that it is a crazy conspiracy for fire extinguisher designers to create fires so that extinguisher designs can be tested to know that they work. "See,...
Yeah and all the people in those places are also along for the ride and have zero ability to influence the GOP. So like me, the best they can do is also foster a healthy trust that the GOP are power...