So NATO is careful about who joins them as well, some sort of a balance. — FreeEmotion
you don't get to decide if someone invades you or not, — jorndoe
Imagine you have bully on your block, do people on that block moderate their behaviour to avoid getting punched by him? Of course they do. So conversely it must follow that if you actually want him to punch someone, you'd know pretty much exactly what to do to get that to happen. — Isaac
She asked for it, evidently. The bully is entirely predictable by others, like a machine would be, and has zero responsibility for his own acts. So if he raped her, it must be that she pushed him to it. Ergo she asked for it... — Olivier5
frank
Ok, well then re-imagine my little bully story but you're not motivated to do anything at all about the situation except for some purely academic analysis on the internet. — boethius
I don't know what you're talking about. I'm sure that on the basics, we agree. Maybe we differ on strategies for dealing with bullies, but we're still on a dead rock hurtling through nowhere on the way to nowhere for no reason.
As we pass into oblivion we whisper into the darkness: "we did the best we could..." — frank
It is useful also for the non-intended purpose of showing how immoral you guys are. — Olivier5
"For years we've heard the opposite, open doors, However, it is not," he said according to Ukrainian news outlet, Trukha. "Our people understand this, and we are beginning to count on our own strength," he added. — MSN News
Says who, and to whom? There's no grievance without an aggrieved party. — Olivier5
So the Russians decided to kill Russians outside of Donbass.... Makes things more even, right? — Olivier5
Russian Ground Forces consist of only 280 000 troops. — ssu
Imagine what the outcry is if they seriously try to then press reservists into going to war, those who have done their military service and haven't made any kind of contract with the military in this situation. Their moral sure will be high, especially when they aren't the age of the "average Fox viewer in the US". :roll:till, there's been an outcry in Russia, and even an official acknowledgement that conscripts have been sent to Ukraine "by mistake." Some of these 18-19-year boys have only had a few months of basic training before being sent into battle! — SophistiCat
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