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Yes. Why? Why is offense ("forever war") so much easier than defense? Where did most of the flyers of 9/11 come from? What is the first country visited? Of course offense is always done in the NAME of defense, as per the invasion and attack of Ukraine. People know the difference.
Point taken. Especially in percentage terms maybe. In absolute terms though I hope a large number of people have been informed by the TS articles. And that these people could be informing others. Also, the new surveillance state could "survey" /inhale/ discover some education by accident....!
Genuine question: Does the work linked below reliably support the TS article republished here, (thank you)? To me as a non-Russianist, the article seems to support.... desk-russie.info/2025/04/13/r... Author background: www.soviethistorylessons.com/francoise-th... Author academic background:
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In some places--not all--is clarity lacking about whether public officials govern an electorate or represent an electorate? In a non-autocratic system would "govern" even be a normal term? To represent is to ask questions, listen, call for votes, share findings, administer, monitor...so much.
We don’t have to live like this
Heard someone say the USA has nothing to learn by studying gun culture in Switzerland (high gun possession with low gun violence) because the USA is heterogeneous. Switzerland has 4 official languages for no reason? The big economies of Japan & Germany have lower gun violence than Switzerland, no?
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This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
A true leader.
Can lawmakers seriously study & implement learnings re gun use in Japan, Germany & Switzerland? Start with Switzerland: It has high gun ownership but low gun violence, much lower than USA. Germany & Japan: even less violence. Knowledge exists to build on & adapt. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm...
Can lawmakers seriously study & implement learnings re gun use in Japan, Germany & Switzerland? Start with Switzerland: It has high gun ownership but low gun violence, much lower than USA. Germany & Japan: even less violence. Knowledge exists to build on & adapt. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm...
Can lawmakers seriously study & implement learnings re gun use in Japan, Germany & Switzerland? Start with Switzerland: It has high gun ownership but low gun violence, much lower than USA. Germany & Japan: even less violence. Knowledge exists to build on & adapt. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm...
And lawmakers seriously study & implement learnings re gun use in Japan, Germany & Switzerland. Start with Switzerland: It has high gun ownership but low gun violence, much lower than USA. Germany & Japan: even less violence. Knowledge exists to build on & adapt. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm...
A staggering nightmare in Minnesota as the ravages of gun violence continue to destroy the lives of children across America. We pray for those killed, injured and traumatized and WE MUST ACT NOW TO STOP GUN VIOLENCE.
Thank you for studying and teaching this. Leaping,"millions of people who actually live there would have no voice in their own identity" doesn't yet describe the USA, but don't outsiders referring to the USA call it by name less and less? Instead, don't they say,"Trump did this. Trump did that?"
Domino theory?
This nation is being failed by its mass media, by our most important "fourth estate." Please take this into consideration. Also listen to Pritzker's latest speech, and get your shtt together! This nation has never needed you more.
I miswrote. Apologies. With "instead of debunking" I was thinking of media habits and my own reading habits. I wonder if giving more air to facts and less to lies requires a new business model for the media, a re-routing of income flows in the media industry? Seems now that outrage pays.
This isn't something that you "mock" It's not funny. It's not the sign of just a dumb-ass in the White House. This is another example of an American world view where negotiations with fascism is considered okay. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
So is it fair to say it's more like negotiating the peace not negotiating the end of the war, which has already happened with the instigator-aggressors' "waving of the white flag?"
Listening to NDR radio is like stepping onto another planet. Yesterday I heard a clip about the successful integration of many immigrants and another clip about how much there was to learn from Sweden (with specifics). The tone was totally different from what circulates around me. Much to admire.
Yes, possibly. Being wrong, like being insulting, yields news coverage which in turn yields "added value" for the wrong-speaking/insulting person--thanks to the way profit flows are currently designed? Outrage "earnings?" Instead of debunking, write facts in an interesting way and circulate?
Here’s an idea worth pursuing even if both major parties would oppose it now: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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It's a release from the fake we're inured to when the painfully empty language of jargon--now in "security guarantees"--meets words well rooted in a person:
“There were 9.7 deaths for every 1,000 births in Mississippi in 2024, the highest rate in more than a decade…More than 3,500 babies in Mississippi have died before the age of 1 since 2014.” www.waaytv.com/news/nation-...
? Are some people attracted to countries that are poorer countries on the GDP league tables because...
Also on John Bolton and colleagues.... If US citizens don’t feel they need to know front and center how much public money is apportioned to planning coups in other places, what does it say about the country and its people?
Lavish seems to be the operative word. The strongest societies and countries and economies do not act the most lavishly, correct? Wellbeing and lavish don't go together.
Tangential, but related, on available learnings not taken up...
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Can see your point and at the same time wish safety and sovereignty for Ukraine. If Israel had provided an iron dome for Ukraine instead of attacking Gaza after the horrors of 7 Oct., would Israel have much more support now?
It's tangential here but it's values-related... Which of the 25 top economies in the world are the people of the United States currently led to admire? Which countries outside the top 25 economies are people in the United States currently led to accommodate? Why? www.investopedia.com/insights/wor...
One more reminder: Russia's war is a threat to the whole of Europe. An unidentified object, believed to be a Russian-launched Shahed drone, has crashed in a cornfield in the Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. 🎥: Łuków. tv
And this is what, I am sure, Alaska will remain silent about, resolving the "Ukrainian question" only at the level of numbers. 4/4
The system of ratings then seems to be part of the problem. If saying anything outrageous, sensational, counter-factual turns heads and therefore pushes up ratings, do we end up focusing on rubbish? State media isn't the answer. Look at stats globally for media quality and emulate the best???
Thanks for the article. Wasn't aware of any of it. "...if you’re explaining, you’re losing." Yes, this phrase and its variants circulate in some circles. If people in public office don't see explaining as part of their job, should we be surprised when the electorate accepts lies? New phrase pls.
There's a guy from Chicago who might make a good talking partner for the President on this subject and others. The Pope talks to Presbyterians, lapsed Presbyterians, you name it, so I observe, and he seems pretty up to date. Yes, he plays tennis rather than golf, but... give him a ring? Seriously.
Reports seem to tell us Ukraine has demanded withdrawal of forces that have invaded Ukraine, correct?
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Don't know. Found this good. Please correct as needed! thebulletin.org/premium/2025...
I certainly do not know, but did this comment refer to his desire for a communist ideology to take hold in the United States? Thinking of today's expansionist thrust, below on NK is interesting, I find.
Would it help if President Zelensky put out a 20 page article entitled "On the Historical Unity of Ukrainians and Vikings?" (Thinking of the Putin article of course)
If reports are correct that this official has accompanied President Zelensky to DC, could it be a chance to talk about Crimea intelligently and from direct experience? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustem_...
Safety and sovereignty to Ukraine. Thanks. A very engaging article. Obviously.
Agree. He would add congruency and tone as well as knowledge. Might be possible. Could he attend as a a translator-interpreter? He can work in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, English, correct? VZ, who knows him, could invite him?
If Moscow isn't Viking it can't take places that are Viking. How's that for a law? Somebody--maybe Emanuel Ax--could write 20 pages entitled "On The Historical Unity of Viking Nations" and send it to all major media outlets. Then reparations.
Lovely. I recall Obama being a bit taken aback at receiving the prize and saying the equivalent of "Hold on now. I have yet to earn it." Which seemed (to me who voted for him) an appropriate reaction on Obama's part. Sigh. He seemed so normal. Normal seems so far away.
! Sorry. Was ambiguous. I mean thanks for pointing out that "It is very sad that you have to explain this."
Thanks for posting this.
Good question. No answers here of course but the subject at least comes up.... academic.oup.com/restud/artic... www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I once went to a school where when a much loved president retired, the search committee said they knew they wouldn't come close to replacing him adequately with anyone who wanted "that sort of job." (He hadn't wanted it; was an internal hire.)
Is corruption in autocracy attractive to some because it's more lucrative than good profit in democracy? But in what kind of society do rich people, whether rich transparently or rich from dark dealings, want to live? Fortresses aren't necessarily as appealing as vibrant civility, etc.
You might well be right, I guess, but Elon Musk also might have been said to own him, no? Strange.
and all children returned and therapy paid for
When someone loves the ugly word "loser" and launches this ugly word right, left and centre, but then suddenly loses this ugly word when confronted with what's described in the article....? The language improvement is welcome if mysterious...
Will there be others in the room who've built a highly successful business? How many? Yes, he has a law degree and that discipline would have helped him build a successful business--in his case a successful production company. No simple thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvartal...
Security Can places where dictator-control & dictator-patronage create the domestic "order" afford to have neighbors with vibrant civil societies? Will vibrant neighbours invariably be labeled by dictators as "threats," as "rigged," etc. to protect the dictators from contrast-loss and discontent?
Security Can places where dictator-control & dictator-patronage create the domestic "order" afford to have neighbors with vibrant civil societies? Will vibrant neighbours invariably be labeled by dictators as "threats," as "rigged," etc. to protect the dictators from contrast-loss and discontent?
And in countries that seek expansion and domination, foreign policy inevitably becomes domestic policy? It's like a rule?
Security Can places where dictator-control & dictator-patronage create the domestic "order" afford to have neighbors with vibrant civil societies? Will vibrant neighbours invariably be labeled by dictators as "threats," as "rigged," etc. to protect the dictators from contrast-loss and discontent?
...should it happen--and much better if it does not happn--turning on Pres. Ze will increase the support of Pres. Ze, to go on past performance.... But of course there are much better ways to support Pres. Ze.
Can places where dictator-control & dictator-patronage create the domestic "order" afford neighbors with vibrant civil societies? Will vibrant places invariably be labeled by neighboring dictators as "threats," as "rigged," etc. to protect the dictators from contrast-loss and discontent?
Yes, and also the Trump turn to the East occurs well before the Putin ascendancy, correct? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Your words get at sources of problems imo. Hope for study of what good defense looks like; being prepared & not being provocative? ?: "Outward Standing Armies Across The World" Military problems didn't begin with this admin & perhaps not even within the military. Also study: "Desk Make-work?"
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Brings to mind a recent interview of Marci Shore (linked on her Bluesky site) where she gets around to the idea of provocation and permissiveness as The Policy.... at least if I'm recalling the conversation correctly.
Agree. Here's an example of AI that has just come up unsought. It doesn't replace reading the novel. There's also the matter of the language-register AI habituates people to whether for good or for ill...? Perhaps need to try to notice that register and its effects.... Anyhow, "nuf sed."
I guess I shouldn't have but indeed I have in haste used unsought AI that automatically appears above search results. I've used it as a summary of material I'm familiar with and have noticed its limitations and been surprised ("taken"?) by its partial accuracy. Glad to learn from this NYT article.
Sometimes, for me at least, it helps to look at work, or even good summaries of work, that was in progress before the "shit hit the fan" so to speak. www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/affi... CV of the person interviewed in the article is available here: www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/en/ceri...
Continuing the analogy, thinking back to "justifying" comments that in general people in Gaza weren't sorry about the 7 October attack, is it clear that many people of & in Saudi Arabia watching the twin towers attacks were horrified by the killings of those NYC civilians, cared about their deaths?
By the logic of the Netanyahus of the world should the USA have bombed away and taken over Saudi Arabia after individuals from Saudi Arabia flew into the twin towers killing about the same number of people as were killed in Pearl Harbor--only the people killed in the twin towers were civilians?
Mr Witkoff's interlocutor? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_...
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Safety and sovereignty to Ukraine. Eva Lys, born in Kyiv, plays soon in Cincinnati Open. She speaks Ukrainian, Russian, German and English. Her parents, professionals, were born in Ukraine. An uncle works at a trauma clinic in Kyiv. According to reports. Possible respite watching her tennis.
Safety and sovereignty to Ukraine. Tangentially, fact or fiction...?
In the interest of transparency, an informed electorate and discussion, could a news outlet do a big report on the flow of public funds to security of gov. officials? Include costs of cars flown to destinations, etc. Include comparisons with costs borne by taxpayers in other countries. Cover why-s.
Some may be people whose healthcare is linked to their jobs.
And certain types of unions look after the company as a whole. Thinking of Germany....
Entrepreneurs, start-ups, investors look for democratic stability. Fact or fiction?
Agree. Do we want democracy if we'll do homework before we choose a car or school but won't do homework before we choose a government? The ability to do the homework exists, no? Genuine question. Granted, US people are not in the best position (by global standards) to take time to examine things.
Perhaps the unclear interest in Russia is the vast prospect of building unending prisons?! Isn't Russia nearly twice the US landmass? Is there any evidence that the people who voted the Trump/Vance ticket would mind? Schematic notion oc but mistaken "top-down ideas" seem atm to garner allegiance.
