Raze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnWUutXzRkA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yExoNZLCjDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nco9isReoA

Call a French abuse hotline

I don’t like how the tour seems focused on himself, he is really old and should have brought along a co-speaker on tour to cultivate a successor. Or at least focused on expanding some sort of political action organization.

I think Mearsheimer is too biased for wanting to maintain his theories. And Sachs is too biased for not wanting to criticize foreign governments to maintain his connections there. I preferred Chomsky but he is probably not coming back.

That’s because they need to emphasize specific points as they are trying to pierce the mainstream messaging bubble

https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/art_discomfort.pdf

Stop looking for advice from random commenters. Hire a coach with an actual good track record.

Yet Russia was invaded as well

Intimidate potential rebels. Sadism.

Generally speaking boycotting huge corporations by yourself isn’t going to work to make changes, they will probably not notice. Boycotts are supposed to happen in organized fashion specifically targeting vulnerable companies with sets of demands for them.

It’s not just about money, we have a capacity limit of advanced weapon systems

Even if Putin took the entire country he’d have to expend massive indefinite resources to occupy it and deal with an insurgency while under harsh sanctions. A reasonable deal would be let Putin keep the four oblasts and give Putin assurances Ukraine will remain neutral. The security guarantee to Ukraine can be that if he violates it the military aid and sanctions continue, this time not stopping. Anything else is essentially just saying Ukraine continues a war of attrition until it is totally destroyed.

Then Putin wouldn’t agree to stop the war if the security guarantee is making Ukraine an existential threat in his eyes

But that’s a ridiculous demand. It’s been known from well before the war started Russia sees Ukraine in NATO as a threat.

He came out against trumps Gaza plan. Probably he dislikes Zelensky not agreeing to the mineral plan. Like a month or two prior he talked about wanting access to Ukraines minerals.

He said in exchange for Ukraine in NATO.

You don’t call someone out in the middle of negotiations where you want them to make concessions

I recommend watching the full press conference. The discussion started polite and Trump said he was agreeing to a sign a long term financing agreement. It got heated because Zelensky kept interjecting and trying to start an argument. When Trump said people died on both sides, Zelensky needlessly interjected saying Russians were invaders, Vance made a good point that constantly demonizing Russia in the media has not helped negotiations, and it started the argument. I’m thinking Zelensky did this on purpose, either because he wants to US to reduce or stop aid so he can agree to end the war but blame them, or to make more of a split between the Us and Europe to get Europe to finance more and hope in the next four years a different admin more in favor of indefinite military spending will come along.

Europe is already having major social issues and radicalization, if they militarize now that would mean worsening it as they have to pull resources from their social safety net.

I don’t support Trump extorting Ukraine for minerals. But seriously, what does Zelensky even want? He has been given hundreds of billions of aid for years now and all that has happened is he’s in a war of attrition where he is losing men and land. Trump already said he would keep sending weapons but he needlessly started an argument with Vance instead of just smiling and nodding. No Ukraine supporter has given a coherent realistic plan that doesn’t involve just pushing the rest of Ukraine into the meat grinder.

I think it’s more they are just looking at exploiting whatever political winds give them the most benefit. They backed the dei stuff when the left had cultural hegemony to avoid their ire being focused on them and make inroads with power in Washington. Now the left started turning on them (Bernie and AOC pressured Amazon to increase minimum wage, congress shamed Zuck at hearings) and the rightwing has made major gains so they’re shifting to appeal there hoping to get on the republicans good side again. I don’t think it’s shame. I think they view their companies as their life work, and will do whatever and side with whomever to keep it growing.

https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/art_urges.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um9OiPaKuqI