Some people have an astonishing ability to wish away inconvenient facts if acknowledging them undermines a central plank of their world view. So for many anti vaxxers they won’t ever bring themselves to acknowledge the presence of the anti semites, the neo...
Reading the comments on these Ukrainian posts has been a depressing reminder that some people on the left manage to justify some truly morally repugnant views, so long as they blanket them in reflexive anti Americanism.
If Russia has no interest in controlling its neighbours and preventing them determining their own future, where does this fear for their existence come from?
“ Nato's advance east is that threat.” How? If Russia doesn’t have imperialist ambitions what’s the threat? Are you saying it’s credible NATO would fire missiles on Moscow? John Mearshiemer when he tells of this usually falls back on Napoleon and Hitler as...
“but they'll never win against a prolonged insurrection” Indeed, then what is a Putin’s end game? An attempt to Groznify Ukraine whilst the West cripples the Russian economy? How long would the Russian military/people have the stomach for that against 40m ...
Ok, even if we humoured you and bought this narrative about Ukrainian effectively being controlled by Neo Nazis, your response to Russian war crimes against civilians is what….
I’m genuinely curious as to how Zelezney a Jew with family killed the Holocaust fits into this agenda…sorry narrative.
Some people intent on using violence to hold the country to ransom are I imagine going to cause a bunch of criminal damage and end up in confrontations with the cops. Hopefully the public stay out of the way and mob get arrested. We’re lucky in this ...
Sorry, what ‘segregation’? Are you arguing that people who reject established science should have been allowed to continue on as normal despite the increased risk they provided to everyone else and what? Anyone who didn’t want to share a work space an ECE ...
I think it’s frankly insulting to either compare this to the Springbok protests which was a huge movement drawn from people right across NZ society which united not merely what they believed but how the acted, or that these people are simply poor and ...
Please tell me they didn’t actually chant that?
On its own no, but it could be done in a manner which did. Having said, there’s nothing to suggest the Police has done anything that can’t be justified as a proportionate use of force in the circumstances.
He needs answers NOW! Ok! Mate, you’ve got COVID, go home or if necessary a hospital
So they should be left in place indefinitely? The responsibility lies with people who appear to believe using children as human shields is legitimate.
Finally, it seems this nonsense is at an end. They can all go home having achieved absolutely nothing other than make miserable the people they’ve abused, assaulted and harassed.
It always amuses me that the crazies are so obsessed by the Magna Carta, cuz it’s all about those wealth land owners protecting themselves from our absolutely monarchy. 🙄
I imagine it’s pretty common that once you head down the conspiracy rabbit hole it becomes a package deal and it ultimately ends up back with the original grand daddy of all conspiracies.;
As opposed to the ‘Rothschilds’ who are never on the good side of good and of course isn’t a well known code for something else 🙄
Your claim to be merely be trying to ‘understand’ Putin wouldn’t be so pathetic if there was any possibility that that understanding could lead to the conclusion that the ‘why’ is Putin’s a tyrant and it’s the type of behaviour tyrants engage in. Your ...
Does your grand theory of ‘Big powerful countries have a right to crush small ones beneath their might’ apply to everyone or just Russia?
When you’ve made an effort to distinguish between a people and a dictator you might say something worth taking seriously. Or if you want to make an effort to explain how self determination = a tyrant doing what they want to their own people with impunity I...
Whilst it’s easy to overstate things from the safety of a keyboard, I do think given the implications for the Ukrainian people being there for the world to see, it’s going to be much harder for those in the West to argue that we just need to treat tyrants ...
So your politics and take on international relations is offensive neo realist? Really? Whatever Mearshiemer’s faults he’s a serious thinker with a coherent world view, but one I happen to disagree with. You’re a silly little Tankie that’s grabbed hold of ...
Watched loads of Mearsheimer, very familiar with the ‘neo realist’ position. He’s an interesting man, always worth hearing but his argument is deeply flawed. Would happily explain why, but I doubt anyone needs an IR lecture and I know there’s zero chance ...
I have zero interest in search for links, but as I said initially try Fox News, it’s effectively the same argument. There’s plenty of people pushing the idea that this is effectively all NATO’s fault, do you live under a rock with only a copy Manufacturing...
You Tankies are claiming the Ukraine state is effectively a Neo Nazi state with a Jewish President and the later is ‘irrelevant’. What does the fact that there’s Jewish critics of Israel have to do with the laughable proposition of Neo Nazis being headed ...
And spamming us with Chomsky videos…. Do you think that any one that disagrees with that position hasn’t read and listened to Chomsky or the type of argument his followers commonly put forward. If you’ve got a coherent argument put it forward, but acting ...
I’m perfectly happy to hear perspective different to my own, but I can also spot ones that are comically incoherent (Comrade Trotter has lurched from one perspective to another in space of about 48hrs) and I don’t need to be treated like Comrade Trotter is...
Does Ukraine have a problem with the far right, yes. Is there any country in Eastern Europe that doesn’t including Russia, no. Does this make the Ukrainian state illegitimate or run by neo Nazis, no. Have you bothered whilst being an apologist for a tyrant...
A violent Neo-Nazi coup that ended up with a Jewish President…interesting. You must be fun down the pub.
I’m no expert but my guess would be shut down or not, a missle hitting a nuclear reactor would be catastrophic. Would love to be proved wrong.
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