Arrested is not the verb I’d use there

Don’t you actually have 7 holes?

It’s not peace when you have a gun over your head.

You said I have a flat in Moscow because I don’t agree with your opinion. You throw terms like “false equivalency” hoping it sticks. I was talking about peace and you talk about counter invasion, not sure what the point in that is. Russia started the war so let’s invade them and show them is not very productive or reasonable. We seem to have diametrically opposed opinions on war in general.

I want people to stop dying for pointless wars from which they have nothing to gain

In the comment you responded to, I said I agree, it’s easier to negotiate from a position of power. What’s the plan afterwards? Everyone keeps saying that we need power to be able to negotiate, and I keep agreeing, and saying that there is no plan for later, and this is what I am worried about. I’m really interested in an answer for this question, but I just keep getting the same argument, which I’m not even opposed to.

I do not have a concrete proposition, and I don’t think it’s reasonable to ask it of me or anyone here. I’m just a random person. But neither does the EU, USA or anyone for that matter. That’s exactly my point, there are no measures taken for a solution by anyone. It’s a race to power, which, just as appeasements, never work.

People nowadays hear the word diplomacy and immediately think it’s treason. Has there ever been a war where the enemy is not being portrayed as the greatest evil, whether it is or isn’t true. Both sides will claim that for their enemies. With that logic there would never be any diplomacy anywhere. Of course, I have to make the disclaimer, Putin is the aggressor. Putin is the worse of the two sides. There is no question about it. That doesn’t mean we are good, or will be, if we have the military power. We’ll still be relying on the whim of a few people, just friendlier as they will be from “our” side.

This is the time to stand up against every empire, not just Russia or US but the irony is that Europe might become an empire again in the process.>

That’s the point, isn’t it? We’re just happy that it might be EU who “wins” because we live here and will feel safer.

I agree, I just don’t believe there is a negotiation plan. I think the “plan” is to keep the enemy in line with superior military power. Good short term, not really solving anything long term.

I never said lay down arms. I just said that there is no plan for deescalation.

I’m happy to hear of a plan, I might be unaware.

Also, I get that people disagree. That’s fine. But at least disagree with something I actually said.

It’s not that I don’t understand the logic. It’s that I don’t believe scare tactics lead to peace. I agree that short term I it might scare of Putin, and that’s obviously good, but it’s a bandaid, not a solution, and one that, IMHO, is not easy to get away from.

Also, I find it sad that whenever someone mentions peace he gets ratioed and called a Putin apologist (not here but I see it a lot).

It is possible to want peace and still be against Putin. I get that it’s a sensitive topic and intense times, but we just keep alienating and polarizing more and more people. We need a better approach.

I’m all for supporting local markets, but in the grand scheme I find it a bit pointless, when there’s absolutely no plan or intention from anyone to deescalate the situation. I guess that’s the point, so big bucks can be made, but I can’t help being a romantic and hoping for long term peace

We all live in echo chambers, it’s not just Reddit. Lack of understanding and empathy is one of the main issues of the modern era imo

If you’re saying all sides lie, of course the do, but that’s not what the previous comments were about.

For my part, it was about a seemingly pathological need to contrast every real life actual harm coming from the right, with an imaginary potential thing from the left.

Both sides have been and can potentially be very bad. But one side is clearly worse than the other, and pretending otherwise with every opportunity is imo really harmful.

The logic of “yes but the other side did X” is flawed, and we actually try stop this behavior in little children, but we can’t seem to accept it even as adults

The contemporary mainstream right would be considered far right a few years ago. This kind of “all extremes are bad” and “the truth is in the middle” view has been taken advantage of by the right, as they have kept pushing the “middle” so far right that social democrats and all kinds of leftism is considered extreme, even beyond the USA where it probably used to be the case even longer.

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Greek government will never give in either. And they will still win the next election with more or less minimal losses.

I was trying to see if I would become a billionaire if I jumped in an X like Musk. Hasn’t worked yet

I read Blood and Iron by Katja Hoyer before I started Weimar, which is a very brief beginner friendly account of the years before the first world war and the Weimar republic. It’s a good introduction to set the stage for the ultimately failed first German republic.

The Weimar book is much more thorough, going into a lot more detail and nuance, which I feel is worth it for one of the most interesting and defining times in modern history. Definitely worth a read, though I’m not sure if it’s been translated to English.

I’m lately trying to learn more about European history. Currently I’m reading Weimar, by Heinrich August Winkler

I usually keep all my settings in English. It makes it easier when you’re looking for help online when you need something

– Γιατί πίνει ο ακέφαλος καβαλάρης;

– Για να κάνει κεφάλι.

– Why does the headless horseman drink?

– To make (a) head

“Making head” in Greek would mean getting drunk to the point where you first start feeling dizzy