Do you have any examples of a state that has came about to protect the rights of its subjects? — NOS4A2
You didn’t deliver. The United States did not form to protect rights, — NOS4A2
Every ideal you claim the American state has was violated by the American state. — NOS4A2
This is because ideals belong to individuals, not states. — NOS4A2
And the moment individuals with these ideals wield your tool, they violate those ideals. — NOS4A2
The preside over institutions designed to protect their right to do so. — NOS4A2
And just how high do you think common morality is? Sometimes it can get ugly, you know.I fear that most are concerned with whom the wealth is given to rather than the fact that it is stolen in the first place. In effect they accept that state institutions are above and beyond common morality. — NOS4A2
The problem is once you sacrifice some individuals to “collective objectives” you ruin the collective whole in favor of certain individual members of it. — NOS4A2
Is it a common ploy of yours to rehash what I write into language that comforts you? — NOS4A2
It’s been a few times now that you’ve done it, that I have to stop reading as soon as I notice it. You’re a good writer, James, and you should use your gift, even if it’s in service to state power. — NOS4A2
How wrong you have it. If you "sacrifice" someone, you start with yourself. — ssu
When did I pretend something like that existed? Never once. And I disagree with your assertions. — NOS4A2
My only point to you was that states violate the human rights they purport to protect. — NOS4A2
My alternative to a state that violates the rights it purports to protect is a state that doesn’t violate the rights it purports to protect. — NOS4A2
But your idea that the state should violate my rights because someone else is violating another's is absolutely absurd and nonsensical. — NOS4A2
defend another's rights from those who would violate them — NOS4A2
But your idea that the state should violate my rights because someone else is violating another's is absolutely absurd and nonsensical. — NOS4A2
Ukraine’s president has said intelligence services uncovered a plot involving a group of Russians and Ukrainians to overthrow his government next week.
Speaking at an hours-long press conference, Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian intelligence had obtained audio recordings of the plotters discussing their plans, which he said involved tying to enlist the support of Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov.
“We have challenges not only from the Russian Federation and possible escalation – we have big internal challenges. I received information that a coup d’etat will take place in our country on December 1-2,” Zelenskiy said.
The West realizes that if it sets off a conflict on the Russian border, Minsk won’t stand aside, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said at a Defense Ministry meeting on military security on Monday, according to the BelTA news agency.
"They understand perfectly well that if they once again start a war in Donbass or somewhere else on the border with Russia, Belarus won’t stand aside. And it’s clear whose side Belarus will take. They understand it, which is why they have begun to strengthen their northern border, the Ukrainian-Belarusian border. Although there is no reason to do it at the moment," Lukashenko pointed out. "Nevertheless, they are deploying troops there, making clear statements about it. It’s about approximately 8,000 troops at this stage," he added.
According to Lukashenko, "intense actions are underway around Russia under the assumption that it plans to attack Ukraine. "I don’t have information about Russia’s plans to attack Ukraine, while if such plans existed, the Belarusian military, me included, would have been aware of them," he said.
The Biden administration warned on Wednesday that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would trigger “high impact” U.S. sanctions that would surpass any previously imposed on Moscow.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking in the Latvian capital of Riga after meeting with his NATO counterparts, said Russia’s large-scale troop buildup on Ukraine’s border and other pressure tactics resembled steps Moscow took before it invaded Ukraine in 2014 and seized the Crimean peninsula.
“Now, we’ve seen this playbook before in 2014, when Russia last invaded Ukraine. Then as now they significantly increased combat forces along the border. Then as now they intensified disinformation to paint Ukraine as the aggressor to justify pre-planned military action,” Blinken said.
But it remained unclear if Russian President Vladimir Putin planned to order an invasion, Blinken told reporters.
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