I thought we were talking about how it's a great idea to give Putin what he wants unopposed?
I can't see any parallels with anything else, history has no lessons to teach us
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 7 Sep 2022, 13:26,
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Comparing Putin to Hitler is giving Putin way, way too much credit.
I think the Invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan make better comparisons. Thinly veiled power grabs under the pretence of a 'Liberation'.
I suppose some perspective is needed at the day, though. It's only a matter of time until China decides to delete Taiwan, at which point we're basically going to be hurtled into a global conflict with the PRC, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
We'll have NATO and, erm, Israel. So that'll be interesting!
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you're far too clever, my eyes have been opened by showing me what about these other things
yes, of course the west's hidden agenda was to seize afghanistan, the jewel of asia. To many it might seem like a dirt poor landlocked faction-riven backward muslim shithole with few natural resources and no infrastructure that they desperately wanted to walk away from without losing too much face, but we know that was just a pretence. And your geopolitical antenna is again uncannily astute that it knows implicitly that china will not be weighing the wests resolve on ukraine when calculating any future aggression against Taiwan. Instead you have the mature insight to accurately predict we'll be fighting a coalition of "baddies" like the opening scene of the naked gun .
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 7 Sep 2022, 15:34,
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convince?
as in someone changing their mind instead of defending their certitudes to the end with increasingly tenuous rationalisations? I guess it could in theory happen, but I've never witnessed it. Perhaps people capable of being open to better argument aren't the kind that need convincing. Bit of a catch 22
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 7 Sep 2022, 15:56,
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I always get Godwin's Law and Rule 34 mixed up
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 7 Sep 2022, 14:07,
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Be careful with that -
Some people are fucking Nazis about it.
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IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on, Wed 7 Sep 2022, 14:47,
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