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I’m not saying they think NATO will attack them out of the blue. But it’s the same reason why the US didn’t want Cuba to hold Russian nukes or why the US surrounds Iran with bases. So if a war does break out they have a close launch pad for operations. Also Putin wanted free travel between Ukraine and Russia, but if Ukraine joins NATO the US can launch destabilization operations to try and ferment a revolt of Russia’s governments. The US does this constantly, they even overthrew Ukraine’s President.

I’ve been listening to Jeffrey Sachs. He is an academic and famous economist who for decades has consulted with many different governments on their economy and is well connected in the elite. Initially in his career he was a neoliberal economist who supported mainstream U.S. policy. However he’s gone rogue and is basically exposing the establishment in a completely coherent way. He’s saying extremely critical things about government operations that aren’t really discussed by other insiders or on the mainstream media. some examples, according to him: The US purposefully sabotaged Russia and China to maintain hegemony and expand NATO aggressively Scientists were purposefully lying about COVID’s origins being natural and attempts to investigate if COVID was the result of joint U.S. and China virus research is being blocked by Democrats Israel’s government is openly involved in ethnic cleansing and the entire international order wants to create two states with a UN peace keeping force but the U.S. is blocking it The education sector world wide is completely underfunded and failing Syria’s civil war was a covert operation by the US for regime change He’s also essentially claimed the US government is a plutocracy and foreign policy is captured by the military industrial complex which is seeking a conflict with Russia and China. What I find interesting about him is that he’s saying very shocking or even apocalyptic things but he actually isn’t fringe, he is well connected with many governments and involved in their policies especially in the third world due to his expertise.

I’m dismissing it because none of that is actually proof A) from the article you yourself link, this is a quote from a political scientist B) that doesn’t entail them moving past Ukraine, and clearly trying to get them to join NATO would trigger a war there too, that wouldn’t be an example of recreating the Soviet Union, it would be, like with Ukraine, not tolerating a border country joining a alliance he views as hostile to his government. C) that’s not Putin nor a threat to invade Poland, it’s a threat because they are backing Ukraine D) the majority of those were before Putin was prime minister, those are mostly crushing rebellions not re-establishing the Soviet Union, every invasion has economic motivations for more logical ex: the Caucuses was to connect Russia to Iran lamenting the fall of something, even specifying the economic fallout and losing Russian speaking people as the reason, doesn’t mean he is planning on trying to reestablish it he also said: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191843730.001.0001/q-oro-ed5-00016963 ‘anyone who doesn’t regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.’ E) nothing about that tactic proves he wants to bring back to Soviet Union, just destabilize countries who are pushing against his interests. Putin opposed the Iraq war and backed Assad. The USA overthrew Iraq and backed a civil war to overthrow Assad creating chaos in the region and millions of refugees and migrants, if flooding migrants into other countries is a tactic to bring back the Soviet Union then the USA is more in favor of it than Putin. F) paying for bots to spread conspiracies online isn’t proof he’s reviving the Soviet Union. Also studies find they had no meaningful effect. https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/russia-twitter-bots-trump-election/ G) again, having operations against hostile countries is not proof he plans on reviving the Soviet Union If Putin invaded Ukraine to re-establish the Soviet Union, why did he only do so after it was close to joining NATO, and even offer to not invade if NATO didn’t admit it? If the goal is just expansion it would be invaded regardless. Why is it so hard to believe that Ukraine was invaded because Putin won’t tolerate NATO encroaching on his borders. 1) it matches the timing perfectly 2) it makes logical sense based on his actual actions 3) it aligns with his actual beliefs 4) he has said it multiple times and even US government officials acknowledged it meanwhile the idea he wants to re-establish the Soviet Union and Ukraine is the last line of Defence matches perfectly with supporting the goals of the military industrial complex and extending the war. Not the least bit suspicious?

I’m not holding anything against women or saying all women are the same, I’m specifically responding to the claim that women only want “good” high conscious men and if you don’t attract women you must low conscious or bad in some way, it’s not true.

I don’t really agree. - I doubt China’s military is that effective. They’ve had basically no real war to test themselves in recent history, just border clashes with India and incursions into Vietnam, and they didn’t do that well there. They only recently ordered ballistic vests and are known for huge amounts of nepotism and corruption at all levels of government. -China’s not actually a military threat to the US. China hasn’t invaded an overseas country in over a thousand years and rarely a bordering country. It’s just that the US has is a plutocracy and has a military industrial complex that is desperately trying to provoke and trigger a war with them and stop their economic rise. -China probably can’t socially maintain a war effort. The popularity of local governments is very low, the population doesn’t have savings and is relying on their sons to support them as they age, and it has a ton of debt and relies on foreign investment. China risks a brain drain as some of their brightest want to leave because they prefer living standards elsewhere. -If we actually go to war with China odds are military technology and tactics will have little effect, what matters more is avoiding the destruction of all of human civilization from nuclear war which would be likely (even if not from China, it could happen by triggering Pakistan and India, North Korea, or Israel and Iran) , avoiding a civil war and revolution inside the US and China due to how the population will react to what the government will have to do to maintain a war effort at that level, and then getting allies involved as China is surrounded by powerful US allies such as India, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam Philippines, Malaysia, Australia and Taiwan, China probably can’t take all of them on at once and definitely not at the same time as the US.

israel funds a massive influence operation in the U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eHQKJTnBoY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTksWA1I2UI

@BlueOak dude, not a single one of those is actual evidence Putin specifically plans to expand past Ukraine its not even circumstantial evidence, it’s just blind speculation. Present actual clear evidence Putin is planning this. 2, so what is your response to Putin only invading when Ukraine was heading to join NATO and saying multiple times that is a red line? 3. It doesn’t matter if you don’t trust Wikileaks, that was a actual memo and it has never been disputed as real by the government. If you have proof it’s fake I’ll consider it, or even any proof they’ve ever fabricated a document.

1. There is no evidence Putin plans to expand past Ukraine. This is just a propagandistic claim spread by the military industrial complex to justify war. In fact Putin had written blog posts specifically about how he feared Ukraine joining NATO and wanted Ukraine to have a relationship to Russia like Canada has to the US. He’s never said anything about rebuilding the USSR. Justifying war based on this speculation is absurd and certainly not justifiable evidence to turn Ukraine into Afghanistan, a war torn country for decades that may literally lose an entire generation. 2. Neutrality was offered by Putin and the US and NATO rejected it. He put a draft US Russia security agreement that just required NATO not expand into Ukraine, this was rejected. The US even overthrew Ukraine’s previous government to replace it with a more anti-Russian government to try and lead them to joining Ukraine. 3. we have leaked Memos from even the CIA director admitting NATO is aggressively expanding into Ukraine and this can trigger a war with Russia. https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html

It’s absolutely war mongering because it’s purposefully provoking a war and ignoring every chance at avoiding it. Even if you think it’s “justified”, it’s still war mongering. It’s also just incredibly stupid. All we have done is sacrifice a generation of Ukrainians and let Russia expand. All we had to do was nor let Ukraine into NATO. NATO was never supposed to aggressively expand.

Social circle is better for social skill experience yes, But that’s just one aspect of game. Game also requires pushing boundaries, showing intent, flirtation, and escalation. In a social circle you have to worry about your reputation, doing these things poorly and getting blown out will have consequences it wouldn’t if it’s just some random stranger.

At 37 min professor Sachs says he asked the White House to negotiate directly before the war but they refused

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/opinion/chris-cuomo-cnn.html

Netanyahu admitted he is blocking it https://www.huffpost.com/entry/benjamin-netanyahu-prevented-palestinian-state-two-state-solution_n_6580a368e4b0e142c0bed60b Every year Israel blocks the general UN assembly of “peaceful settlement of the question of palestine”

The funny thing is Chris was accused of sexual assault and got fired for helping his brother deal with allegations of sexual harassment and grooming

Or Israel could let Palestinians have a state, end the blockade and occupation, and pull the settlers out. Has stopping the formation of a Palestinian state, blockading Gaza, and occupying the West Bank and letting settlers live in it made Israel safer? Is Israel safer right now when it’s at war and risking war with Iran?

It’s funny you keep talking about how high conscious and honest you are, but every argument you make is evasive and assumes context that was never there. 1) for the cold approach point you had to insert a comparison that it’s all about sex like selling a bad product. First off that doesn’t prove your entitlement argument, a poor sales man with a bad product still isn’t innately being entitled, he’s just doing a bad job. Secondly I never said that I was suggesting cold approach inherently necessitates that. You can cold approach without being pushy for sex. By the way, if we listen to you and try to get girls by following our goals and having social circles, it’s the same thing, we are doing it for a secondary motive of getting laid. You can’t escape the pesky fact that desires exist and want to be fulfilled no matter how much you demonize it. 2) you’re now conflating successful long term relationships with the conversation topic of attraction women and getting sex, not the same thing, in fact little of the skills carry over between them. 3) you’re still latching onto the idea that a man’s success with women is determined by how high conscious he is and thus you can continue using it as a criticism, like just above asserting emotionalmosquito can’t get girls because he has a bad mindset. Are you sure you are being honest with this belief, and it’s just a coincidence it happens to line up with your moral paradigm and fulfill a just world fallacy for you? Irregardless there are plenty of studies finding traits that are toxic for a long term relationship can actually make a man more attractive to women. If you really want me too I can start dropping them here, but just think about it logically- 1) if women can sniff out toxic men and only want morally good men, why do so many women complain they ended up with men who abused them, cheated on them, or just mistreated them in some way? 2) what are the base traits that make a man attractive initially to women? If you are honest you’d see they either have no correlation to morality or possibly a negative correlation. Ex. Looks, status, and location. None of that determines morality. Then we have confidence, ability to escalate, smooth with girls. These traits can be gained by experience, and men with experience are more often players, or they can even be gained by high narcissism.

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How does that dispute my point? I never said social circle can’t result in successes. My point is telling guys “don’t approach women, just get a social circle” is a misleading answer, it takes a huge amount of effort for limited returns due to limitations of social groups.

Not when Israel is occupying and blockading them they can’t.

No he isn’t, he is not that influential, there are already societal problems which influence him and the Internet, blaming him for it all is silly. What is more likely, everyone came to rsd with no issues and he toxified them, or among the large fan base some came in with issues? And extrapolating that to blame him for Andrew Tate and their ilk is just silly, they only popped off from the vacuum after he was removed.