And there it is - the Marvel comic book picture of international politics. — StreetlightX
Earlier this month the UK - land of populist Brexit - was already looking to provide government loans to cover energy bills in an out of control energy market. That was before any of this started, proper. Can European governments afford to drive up those prices further? Not even asking rhetorically, but as a genuine open question. — StreetlightX
Understand why you feel strongly about this, but a solution will come from a sober analysis. If you don't try to understand your opposition's perspective, you won't be able to deal with them effectively. It's like being in a poker game and thinking throwing your cards in your opponent's face is going to help you beat him. — Baden
this is all Putin. This is part of the Russian tradition of being assholes to whomever they think is their possession. To argue that "the west" pushed Putin to this is a fucking delusional point of view. — Christoffer
"I know people are suffering and getting killed but...." — Christoffer
Wouldn't that have let to war with every NATO member? — EugeneW
I do not think Putin is stupid enough to start a nuclear war... — FreeEmotion
My point is that tanking the economy is probably never a push towards other solutions, — ChatteringMonkey
A position literally no informed commentator holds. — Isaac
There's debate around just how much culpability the US and Europe have. — Isaac
...maybe let's not engender more people suffering getting killed? — StreetlightX
The scientists who invented the weaponry. — EugeneW
. Is the rock to be blamed? — Christoffer
If you construct such a bomb, you know what it can do. — EugeneW
You could secretely roll a stone ball up a mountain. And release it. But if you are seen doing it, people will stop you. How to stop Putin from waging his war? Trying to stop him literally, by taking him captive, or killing him? What will happen? — EugeneW
My point is that tanking the economy is probably never a push towards other solutions,
— ChatteringMonkey
This is doubtful. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention (not talking Zappa here, who was extremely creative himself). Take The Manhattan Project for example. When you get hundreds, or even thousands of scientists working together, in a network, there is a lot more efficiency than a handful of scientists here, and a handful there, with intellectual property guarded by secrecy. Fusion, or other new ideas, might not be as far away as you think. — Metaphysician Undercover
So the person pushing the stone is innocent because he isn't seen? — Christoffer
Take The Manhattan Project for example. When you get hundreds, or even thousands of scientists working together, in a network, there is a lot more efficiency than a handful of scientists here, and a handful there — Metaphysician Undercover
We've had the technology for many decades. The only reason it's not fleshed out is because there wasn't any weapon capability as a byproduct. You know, if you have a normal nuclear power plant, you could use some of the nuclear matter used for nuclear weapons as a side gig. Thorium is too good for bad nations. — Christoffer
It's a push in that it demands another solution. And "scramble" to stay afloat is not really true. An economic crisis may look like the one in 2008, but did that "scramble to stay afloat"? There's still plenty of capital to invest in new solutions, it's just that the financial world always need to balance the entire economy so as to not break regular folks. However, since regular folks seem to not care about climate change and politicians are not willing to do what it takes, a crisis that pushes everyone out of their comfort zone will lead to hard times in the short terms, but better times after a few years. Also remember the jobs that gets created by investing in new technologies. — Christoffer
And this is what I think gets pushed when we can't rely on oil and gas. People feel the ground shake under them and they will start investing much quicker. — Christoffer
Take The Manhattan Project for example. When you get hundreds, or even thousands of scientists working together, in a network, there is a lot more efficiency than a handful of scientists here, and a handful there, with intellectual property guarded by secrecy. Fusion, or other new ideas, might not be as far away as you think. — Metaphysician Undercover
I would like to hear some practical solutions to Ukraine, how to deal with the nuclear threat, how to deal with Belarus getting nukes, how to deal with the fallout of economic sanctions, how to deal with China's relation to Russia, how to deal with Putin himself. — Christoffer
First, the compromise will be reached, and things will come to normal as it was before Russia invaded. — Number2018
Second, Putin will be ousted from power. — Number2018
Third, Putin will stay, and there will be a profound transformation of his regime and the world’s geopolitical order. — Number2018
So, you basically mean that whenever you hear someone actually saying it, you can brush them off as being just uninformed — Christoffer
Who's to be blamed when a rampage killer shoots up a mall? — Christoffer
And how do we do that? — Christoffer
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