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by racional 2y ago
Another option is a "frozen conflict" -- for Ukraine to accept a cease fire with current front lines, but not to recognize Russia's claims of sovereignty. Leaving open the possibility of a final counteroffensive after Putin
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by racional 2y ago
I can't understand why you would raise it I misread what you wrote, as already explained. Give it a rest, please. No one is reading down here anyway.
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Environmental advocates heartbroken over sale of Florida seabird preserve(theguardian.com)
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by racional 2y ago
The Winter War occurred in ... I know, and I'm pretty sure you know that I know. The context was M-R, so that's the time frame I was referring to. Your bringing Finland into this just didn't make sense any sense otherwise
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by racional 2y ago
The 200k number doesn't follow from the tables in [0]. It gives a net population difference of about that amount, but it doesn't explain what accounts for the difference (how much of it is people moving in and out of the region,
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by racional 2y ago
The Soviets accepted the independence of Finland That's a weird way of summarizing the the Winter War. Poland that invaded Soviet Russia in 1920 The places where they met the Red Army were not "Soviet Russia". Let's
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by racional 2y ago
Wow - that was quite a topic change. So it seems your response is: on the basis of what you saw in some videos regarding an event in the Old City a little ways back -- most Palestinians are pathological liars, and that's all there is t
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by racional 2y ago
The overwhelming majority of the population you're defending supports the killing of Israeli civilians. This is according to their own polls. False. The PCPSR polls (the only ones anyone is talking about) do show broad support for th
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by racional 2y ago
I don't see how anyone can claim in good faith that expelling these people (who settled illegally since 2014 in support of Russia's overall project of aggression against Ukraine) is a form of "ethnic cleansing", as you&#
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by racional 2y ago
“Sam is extremely good at becoming powerful” was the quote, which has a distinctly different ring to it. Not that this diminishes from the overall creep factor.
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by racional 2y ago
The USSR did not have to expend much effort in taking eastern Poland. The poster above wasn't referring to the effort expended in "taking" eastern Poland militarily -- but in subjugating the population and massacring the el
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by racional 2y ago
This is bog-standard MAD that’s been a big part of the US strategy since the Cold War. Except it's not "standard MAD". In fact MAD doesn't apply at all to the Oct 7 attack (which was evil and awful and all that -- but
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by racional 2y ago
You don't have to parse this in terms of cartoonish stereotypes or opposing extremes. But if you look at his background, his statements (in the large) and the evolution of his career -- it's pretty obvious what the guy is, and wh
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by racional 2y ago
You're railing against things I simply didn't say. Of course these vast majority of people at these companies are regular staff. But I was clearly referring to the folks at partner level, not the employees. It's right the
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'I'm the new Oppenheimer ': Palantir's first-ever AI warfare conference(theguardian.com)
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Blacks and Jews were excluded from Alameda County juries for decades, Feds say(jpost.com)
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by racional 2y ago
VC is a job like any other Generally speaking these people can retire any time they want. Not necessarily with the all the padding and status markers they'd prefer to have. But the bottom line is -- by the time they hit partner lev
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by racional 2y ago
Israel is way more a European culture than it is Middle Eastern. This really is not a productive line of thinking, you know. As the Palestinians keep saying -- it make no difference to them where the settlers came from, or what their cul
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by racional 2y ago
"I don't think he would've launched this invasion in Ukraine if he would've understood what was actually going to happen," Luckey said. On the contrary -- going by everything we know about the guy and how he think
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by racional 2y ago
While Israeli Jews receive full, collective blame. I've never said or implied any such thing. Collective blame and victimhood are your themes, not mine.
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by racional 2y ago
Try going back a couple thousand years. And then a few more, for good measure. The only legitimate heirs to the region are the Bronze Age Canaanites. The only legitimate religious claim is held by the followers of El and Asherah. All oth
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by racional 2y ago
Well, thanks for clarifying at least. If things do come to that -- it definitely won't be an inevitability, but a conscious choice on the part of those responsible.
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Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering(theguardian.com)
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by racional 2y ago
That was merely the usual Russian tactical 'Trade Space for Time and Advantage' policy, as used many times before, as in Napoleon's time and in Adolf's time. Except as an offensive strategy (recall that the goal of the
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by racional 2y ago
Let's also remember the words of MK Israel Katz (now Minister for Foreign Affairs). A bit ahead of the curve, his remarks came in 2022 in a speech before the Knesset: “Yesterday I warned the Arab students, who are flying Palestine fl
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by racional 2y ago
In light of the fact that continuous Arab attacks against Jews of the region began decades before Zionism, has it changed your mind at all about the cause of the conflict? I was already aware of the chronology. I've pretty much alwa
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by racional 2y ago
"The Nakba" is considered by pro-Israelis to be a myth, then you should, and you should know why. This is, in itself, a myth. They might talk around it, and attempt to dial down certain aspects, bemoan the "necessity",
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by racional 2y ago
The underlying premise of the story is bizarre (is the IDF really so short of manpower that they can't select their own targets) The premise that the IDF would use some form of automated information processing to help select potentia
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by racional 2y ago
Have you been there? I've done my time. You seem to think the average Russian's sense of identification with the Donbas is exactly the same as, say, that of a typical French person with Le Havre. It's not and is quite dif
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Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than seven years'(theguardian.com)
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