Being shown around by a real estate agent at Lake Valdai, looking for a nice dacha for retirement.

Those are questions to which you have either a “yes” or “no” answer.

I’d like to hear them. Nothing else.

These aren’t statements but questions. These are answered with either a “yes” or a “no”.

You have “answered” one. There were four:

Has Russia invaded Ukraine?

Is this a war of aggression?

Is Russia committing war crimes in this war?

Should Russia fully retreat from Ukrainian territory according to the international borders of 1994?

I’d like you to answer the questions please.

Why are you dodging the questions?

You miss what is actually happening.

Are you sure? Let’s check:

Has Russia invaded Ukraine?

Is this a war of aggression?

Is Russia committing war crimes in this war?

Should Russia fully retreat from Ukrainian territory according to the international borders of 1994?

Still citing the book you haven’t read? Tell us again, what comes before the one sentence you always carefully select?

We also don’t know if our judgement of Russia is rooted in manipulation.

Well, at least my judgement of Russia is rooted in their own actions, atrocities and crimes they do since 4+ years in Ukraine. It is you trying to manipulate to whitewash them from it.

So you clearly haven’t made any effort, which basically says that you are discussing in bad faith.

No. I just won’t let extreme accusations stand unquestioned like that. And frankly, why would you get so upset about that? If your accusations are well-founded, where’s the problem?

Yet, you haven’t shown where she “cheered for genocide” or “literally said it is fine to murder Palestinian children”. If you boldly make these claims, you should have the facts to back them up.

So I take it you won’t provide sources for these statements of yours?

You’re the one making the claim, so you should have and provide the sources.

So I kindly ask you again, as I am genuinely curious.

Annanela Baerbock literally said it is fine to murder Palestinian children

Then, I’d like to see a source for her literally saying thid.

She […] cheered for genocide.

For this too, please.

Pre-Brexit UK: these rules from Brussels apply to us, but we can shape them according to our needs.

Post-Brexit UK: these rules from Brussels apply to us, but there’s nothing we can do about it.

I know which one I’d prefer - but it’s not my choice to make.

Yep, the New / Nowy Złoty was introduced in 1995, with a rate of 10,000 old to 1 new.

NATO has been dead at least (!) since that dude took office for the second time.

And there’s nothing Europe could have done or do about it, as it is not their decision to make. He doesn’t want NATO - and he’ll find the “justifications” for this one way or the other.

Why do you care?

That user is free to state an opinion about the source as long as that user wants.

Likewise, you’re free to post from that source as long as you want.

Having the same discussion between the hard core under each post about arguments you’ve exchanged over and over rather than actually discussing the articles itself seems rather pointless.

Yes, eventually.

But on the way there, being the company that oversleeps an occuring technological shift because you still make money with the old business model will end in you and your company simply disappearing, with no govt to protect you and bail you out.

Those folks in suits there like to attack the state for interfering with their business, but at the same time heavily depend on it for mending their short-sighted managerial mistakes.

Yes, but they aren’t smart and especially don’t think long-term.

And while in ‘true’ unregulated capitalsm, this would be heavily discouraged and punished, in our system they will just call for the governments to protect them and bail them out, as they are ‘too important to fail’.

I agree.

But wouldn’t you agree that this fundamental dilemma of power inviting abuse has been proven by humanity to be irrespective of the label of the respective societal system?

A society that reaches a stable state, as in there are no forces tilting it in either one or the other direction. A society in ongoing balance.