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by aguaviva 2y ago
I don't see how you can make such a comparison. The article is a bit overdrawn in places -- but for whatever negative sentiment is expressing, it is directed entirely at specific politicians, who are fair game for such criticism, right
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by aguaviva 2y ago
So all the death and carnage that happened during the Partition was simply "committed" by the British - with no agency at all within the local populace? Seems to be a rather dehumanizing and belittling view of the latter.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And now it is just treated as an absolute necessity never to be scrutinized. I definitely don't see a lot of people pushing for the "never to be scrutinized" part.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
As to the main point of contention -- I think a fair description of the consensus view of the situation, among people who have the temerity to disagree with you, goes about like this: "Of course NATO enlargement was something of an ann
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Of course there's extra detail, and one can parse out all sort of things based on what the commenter might otherwise have said. I just find the choice of phrasing -- "No one in Israel is beating women" -- to be weirdly ideali
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The only time someone says "absolutely no one thinks/says/does X" is when they are politely accusing someone of lying or bullshitting. No, they're saying they have reason to believe your characterization is inaccu
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Come now, those are very much adversarial. The first statement (the one that began the engagement) obviously was not. And ironically -- your misinterpretation of that statement (as adversarial when it clearly wasn't) is exactly what
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No, its not at all different. And that's your mistake. The statements are clearly quite different. In exactly the same way that the statement: The tumor is benign Is obviously quite different from: The tumor is irrelev
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No one in Israel is beating women. But of course they are. Women are beaten everywhere. There's certainly nothing special about Israel in this regard.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Even if we accept your paraphrase, that's still quite different from saying "... is irrelevant to Russia's security." Especially when we look at the broader context of what Albright was trying to say in that situation.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You support Ukrainian nazis They're doing nothing of the sort.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Many people in Russia will say: "so, you support a government whose national hero was a Nazi collaborator who committed ethnic cleansing of Poles, Russians and Jews." Then they're under the influence of some serious propaga
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Most likely what they were saying was actually quite different from that. So you're gaslighting yourself, in effect.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
They could have just followed British history and made these countries colonies with an American Viceroy in charge. They actually floated a proposal along those lines -- a Suggested Post-Surrender Program for Germany , which saw it parti
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Russia's War Economy Is Hitting Its Limits(foreignpolicy.com)
9 points by aguaviva 2y ago|7 comments
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by aguaviva 2y ago
https://archive.md/FA18i
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by aguaviva 2y ago
First mistake was trying to market to _students_ And yet there's something to it. Of course it's a nothing market, from the standpoint of immediate revenue. But the students will become professionals in just a few years, and
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Basically every single sentence above is pure fantasy.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Which eulogy was this again?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
What you seem to be tripped by is the fact that an information source can on first appearances seem quite legitimate and useful, by telling you all kinds of perfectly valid and interesting stuff, like the book you are promoting here, with a
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The Crimea is multiethnic. It belongs to all of its pre-war citizens equally. Its sovereignty is Ukrainian.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
That explains her nomination.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You know you're going to need to provide us with a little snippet demonstrating this behavior now, right?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I was actually genuinely interested in what you might have to say.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I suppose you're the type to spend at least 10 minutes talking to everyone on the street who hands you a flyer, or makes some other approach to you suggesting that you join their church, cult or whatever it is they're trying to ge
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The information i get is from US Military personnel. Tell us more about what you've been hearing, please. Especially as regards this topic.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
She happily echoes the regime's propaganda, but "ties to Russia" has to mean something more concrete than that. Care to elaborate?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Not every book is worth reading, nor is every worldview that comes along worth considering. We definitely aren't going to agree on this, nor is there any reason we should.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Exactly - "an obligation that flows from [it]" is quite vague, and in any case wasn't the language of the Memorandum itself.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
All countries' bases are infinitely too many, everywhere. But if one prefers to carry on with an image, or a number in their mind that differs greatly from the physical reality on the ground -- that's their own lookout.

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