When you're operating based on principles, a priori thinking is typical. It's the same approach I took to COVID lockdowns, masks, useless "vaccines," etc. It just means that everything is a bad idea until I'm convinced it's a good idea. It's served me well.
But did you think we should get involved when we denuked the Ukes?
It didn't matter to me one way or another, as I remember it at the time. By 1994 I had already grown skeptical that the U.S. government was worthy of blanket approval for any steps it took in foreign affairs.
... it was the right thing to do at the time and it’s the right thing to do now, honor that agreement in the face of obvious tyrant bullying and invasion to take another country’s natural resources, and just plain kill lots of civilians.
The agreement was that Ukraine would not have nuclear arms, and as signatories of the NPT the U.S. and Russia both agreed that we wouldn't give Ukraine any nuclear arms or help Ukraine develop them. Who is failing to honor that agreement right now?
When you’re operating based on principles, a priori thinking is typical. It’s the same approach I took to COVID lockdowns, masks, useless “vaccines,” etc. It just means that everything is a bad idea until I’m convinced it’s a good idea. It’s served me well.
***It is a classic fallacy. You should try not to uphold classic fallacies as if they are sound reasoning.
Kevmo:But did you think we should get involved when we denuked the Ukes?
AC:It didn’t matter to me one way or another, as I remember it at the time. By 1994 I had already grown skeptical that the U.S. government was worthy of blanket approval for any steps it took in foreign affairs.
***Then if that was your approach towards tens of millions of souls under threat of nuclear annihilation, you should just take the same approach towards it now and just nonchalantly ignore this thing going on as a result of the non proliferation treaty.
Kevmo:... it was the right thing to do at the time and it’s the right thing to do now, honor that agreement in the face of obvious tyrant bullying and invasion to take another country’s natural resources, and just plain kill lots of civilians.
AC:The agreement was that Ukraine would not have nuclear arms, and as signatories of the NPT the U.S. and Russia both agreed that we wouldn’t give Ukraine any nuclear arms or help Ukraine develop them.
***Ukraine had hundreds of them. The Budapest thing was the arrangement for getting RID of them.
Who is failing to honor that agreement right now?
***Russia, by invading. The USA by not ‘respecting’ the sovereignty and borders of Ukraine. The rest of the UN by going silent about it.