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Maybe they will testify under oath. Right now, they are unwilling to even speak on the record.


From Josh Marshall:

So, you're back to quoting people who think NATO promised not to expand, even though your first source said there was no formal deal and Gorbachev says there was no such deal.

The Ukraine war may...

Because his answer would be no, and he has acted on his beliefs.

:).

Same role John Dean played in Watergate, isn't it?

The desire to stay in power by illegal means wasn't rational. But it wasn't based on the delusion that he had actually won the election. It was based on his belief that he should be top dog, no...

I think he's well aware that he lost, and knew he was going to lose before the election. Yes, he has a clear-cut case of NPD, but it's not a matter of thinking he didn't lose, it's a matter of...

I shudder to think what Republicans would do with that.

Why would anyone think the filibuster is sacrosanct, or even a good idea? It was never intended to exist, and the rule that made it possible was written by Aaron Burr shortly after he murdered...

The mainstream cast more votes than that, and is well represented here. If the 81,283,098 votes for Biden don't represent the mainstream, certainly the smaller group who voted for Trump were less...

The electoral college, combined with the 3/5 compromise, was designed to give the slave states an outsized influence on who was president in proportion to their voting population.

Nice to know he had the launch codes, ain't it?

The testimony I'm hearing right now is the most damning I've heard. The committee seems to have found its John Dean.

The electoral college, combined with the 3/5 compromise, was designed to give slave states an outsized influence in proportion to the number of voters. It worked until the Civil War, then worked for...

Yeah, the cops continue to cover themselves in glory.

Yes. The EU is not a military alliance, Unlike joining NATO, it does not commit anyone to defend Ukraine. Also, it would take at least a decade for Ukraine to join the EU.

Good work on the pretextual and the delusional parts of Putin's justification. Not mentioned is that Ukraine was trying to become less corrupt and more democratic, which would have provided an...

So, they've decided they will trust China to be their supplier? We know where that leads{

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAU7k8aXoAADqY5?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

A useful definition of garbage is something that costs more to get rid of than anyone would pay for it. An 80p chicken is just on the non-garbage side of the line. If you can't sell something at a...

So, what's the solution? Spending the next 50 years trying to fix what the Republicans spent the last 50 years doing to the Court?

I suppose with more than 330 million people in this country, there must be someone who holds this opinion, but can you name any elected politicians who do?

Turns out Ukraine really is finding it hard to get ammo in the old Soviet sizes:

https://news.yahoo.com/putin-decade-long-secret-sabotage-152921901.html

We got here because there were so many one-issue voters opposed abortion, and they were motivated to go to the polls. It still took them 50 years to politicize the courts enough to make this happen....

Covid.

When you're right, you're right. How did that guy get to be a lawyer, let alone a state supreme court justice? It must have been politics all the way.

Turkey has long had some governance problems. Let's hope Ukraine can move into the community quicker. Hell, let's hope they succeed in continuing to exist as a country.

You're being optimistic.

I understand your hostility. You've made foolish statements and don't wish to defend them.

Try being halfway civil.

More straw men? I haven't said a defeat of the Russians would lead to global peace and prosperity, nor do I buy the notion that anyone else thinks that. I support the right to self determination of...

So, you don't want to engage in a discussion, you just want to shout at people? How is that civil?

And how civil is it to mischaracterize my position? Nothing I've said indicates I want to fight...

hope he's alright.

In a way, I think Chomsky and Putin have the same assumptions about democracy -- that it is always a sham, that people are always and everywhere manipulated.

I have a stupidity theory of history....

Except that the information he's posted checks out.

You still haven't explained why America doing bad things in the past justifies Putin invading Ukraine. Have you read the Bucharest Memorandum...

Gorbachev says the offer to Germany was never made, and I think ethnic Germans are pretty scarce in the territory. And the offer to Lithuania was made by Nikita Khrushchev, so way before the breakup....

Why didn't they offer it to Poland?

Yeah, no way that's goi8ng to lead to corruption.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/highway-robbers-how-trip-buy-farmland-ended-police-taking-all-n1281629

I agree with him mostly. In particular, the critique about Chomsky being American-centric. Sometimes he gives the rest of the world so little agency, it's like he thinks America is the Illuminati,...

I think when Russia stopped being Communist and turned Fascist, he kept quoting Russian propaganda out of habit.

So what? Doesn't everybody blame America for Iraq 2003 and Vietnam?

Why can't you answer any of the points raised in response to your earlier post? Try this one:

#3741:

Fewer logs would be a blessing to them.

So, it wasn't just an angry amorphous mob that attacked the capitol, there was more command and control:



In the '30s, we had the brownshirts. Now, given the right's response of people actually...

Based on sandtown's past posts, he's an old-style Noam Chomsky type lefty. Chosmsy's 'blame America first' philosophy has, ironically, begun to sound a lot like Tucker Carson's approach to Ukraine....

Another straw man? No one has made the claim you're attacking. I posted a direct response to what your first link said, and you have not responded to any of the issues I've raised. Instead, you go on...

I've read the article by Prof. Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson. I'm not sure why he thinks we should act as if there was an agreement that was broken, when he says, "No formal deal was struck."

He...

In honor of those long, long threads that result from people hating each other:


https://youtu.be/irDtV3nfBQw

The issue wasn't NATO in 2014, it was the Maidan movement, in which Ukrainians rejected closer ties to Russia and expressed a wish for closer cooperation with the EU. The threat to Russia has never...

If you are ignorant of this history, it's your own fault. I've given you the names of the most relevant agreements, the least you could do is read the Wikipedia entries.

And I don't see why you're...

So, you're fine with what Russia has done because of what the U.S. has done? Personally, I've condemned many of the things my government has done, and don't think its misdeeds excuse anyone else of...

The Minks agreements would not have been needed if the Russians had kept their word on the Bucharest Memorandum. And no new negotiations would be required if the Russians had abided by the Minsk...