Putin is only about number ten on my list...Before I start opposing him I would have to deal with the US, the UK, Germany, France, Japan...etc.SteveFoerster wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 6:20 amIf you had any problem at all with making war, calamity, and destruction, you'd oppose Putin's the invasion of Ukraine.Sertorio wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 12:13 amChina will be around very much as it is and has always been long after your bones have been turned to dust for centuries...You keep wanting the world to be as you wish it to be, regardless of what is real and viable. You cannot face reality and that's why you keep making war to try and fit the round pole in the square peg...In the future the Anglo era will be remembered as the most calamitous of the human history...Let's hope we will survive it without further destruction...
But you don't, so you don't.
Can The West afford détente?
Re: Can The West afford détente?
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Re: Can The West afford détente?
After calling him a "statesman", no one would believe he's anywhere on a list of people you'd oppose.Sertorio wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 7:20 amPutin is only about number ten on my list...Before I start opposing him I would have to deal with the US, the UK, Germany, France, Japan...etc.SteveFoerster wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 6:20 amIf you had any problem at all with making war, calamity, and destruction, you'd oppose Putin's the invasion of Ukraine.Sertorio wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 12:13 amChina will be around very much as it is and has always been long after your bones have been turned to dust for centuries...You keep wanting the world to be as you wish it to be, regardless of what is real and viable. You cannot face reality and that's why you keep making war to try and fit the round pole in the square peg...In the future the Anglo era will be remembered as the most calamitous of the human history...Let's hope we will survive it without further destruction...
But you don't, so you don't.
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Re: Can The West afford détente?
Statesman is "a person who is experienced in the art of government or versed in the administration of government affairs".SteveFoerster wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 7:43 amAfter calling him a "statesman", no one would believe he's anywhere on a list of people you'd oppose.Sertorio wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 7:20 amPutin is only about number ten on my list...Before I start opposing him I would have to deal with the US, the UK, Germany, France, Japan...etc.SteveFoerster wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 6:20 amIf you had any problem at all with making war, calamity, and destruction, you'd oppose Putin's the invasion of Ukraine.Sertorio wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 12:13 amChina will be around very much as it is and has always been long after your bones have been turned to dust for centuries...You keep wanting the world to be as you wish it to be, regardless of what is real and viable. You cannot face reality and that's why you keep making war to try and fit the round pole in the square peg...In the future the Anglo era will be remembered as the most calamitous of the human history...Let's hope we will survive it without further destruction...
But you don't, so you don't.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/statesman
Re: Can The West afford détente?
Yes, we all know that you are against the democracies.
By now Sertorio you should have worked out for yourself (without someone like me needing to tell you) that I consider any person who prefers despotic government ahead of democracy to be an unmitigated fool.
Re: Can The West afford détente?
I don't prefer Putin over Biden, Bojo, Scholz or Macron because he is an authoritarian ruler. I prefer him because he is mostly right and the others are mostly wrong; because Putin is basically honest and the others are basically corrupt.neverfail wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 4:17 pm
Yes, we all know that you are against the democracies.
By now Sertorio you should have worked out for yourself (without someone like me needing to tell you) that I consider any person who prefers despotic government ahead of democracy to be an unmitigated fool.
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Clearly you're not aware of the word's positive connotation in English. The only alterative is that you are aware of it and are just being purposefully disingenuous, and surely that can't be true.Sertorio wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 10:08 amStatesman is "a person who is experienced in the art of government or versed in the administration of government affairs".SteveFoerster wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 7:43 amAfter calling him a "statesman", no one would believe he's anywhere on a list of people you'd oppose.Sertorio wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 7:20 amPutin is only about number ten on my list...Before I start opposing him I would have to deal with the US, the UK, Germany, France, Japan...etc.SteveFoerster wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 6:20 amIf you had any problem at all with making war, calamity, and destruction, you'd oppose Putin's the invasion of Ukraine.Sertorio wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 12:13 amChina will be around very much as it is and has always been long after your bones have been turned to dust for centuries...You keep wanting the world to be as you wish it to be, regardless of what is real and viable. You cannot face reality and that's why you keep making war to try and fit the round pole in the square peg...In the future the Anglo era will be remembered as the most calamitous of the human history...Let's hope we will survive it without further destruction...
But you don't, so you don't.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/statesman

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