BlueOak

If you are dismissing all that as nothing. Your bias is too immovable to connect with.

@Raze 1, All countries expand their spheres of influence, including Russia. You are acknowledging 'past Ukraine'? Because he wants all of Ukraine, despite the population not wanting him (especially now). I'll re-list a few links and add plenty more. A, Russian Units fly USSR Flags Plenty of units leave USSR flags on the ground now also. Here is a wider look at how the state and its people are propagandized into the vision of a 'greater russia' That's been going on for decades, the vision of a greater Russia and a return to the old ways, using liberalism as a scapegoat, Putin requires these nationalists satisfied to stay in power and he knows it. B, Moldova's Breakaway Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria - Ditto the Russian Breakaway republics in Ukraine. Speculating the same strategy in the baltics with their Russian populations. The fool Lukashenko pointed to this on Live TV at the start of the war as their next target. C, Threats to take Poland D, 8th War to rebuild the USSR. If you need the 8 wars from this list, I can list them. Putin is ex KGB, he laments the fall of the USSR E, Further: Putin has been flooding the EU with immigrants to destabilize it, this has been known for a while now, 2016 article, especially from Syria. F, Putin generally uses conspiracy nonesnse like QANON and backdoor groups like the Russian Imperialist movement to import Ruscism to the west. Ruscism is something Putin has adopted from Alexander Dugin, which culminates in a desire to restore a new Russian Empire. Like wagner they can do this quietly and with plausible deniability. G, There is a reason in the german far right coup attempt that they sort out Russian aid. Because Russia is actively trying to infiltrate Europe more and destabilize it. Arne Schönbohm was the most public Russian agent in Germany, sacked for his ties to Russian intelligence service as one obvious example, however, Ukraine publicly listed 600 more. There is little for them to gain by posting fake names. 2, I gave several links in previous posts showing neutrality was offered a month after the war started. You've ignored or not seen them. There are hundreds more. 3, NATO doesn't 'go' anywhere, countries come to it. For a country to join NATO, it has to have an internal popular wish for it and a lot of government support. People join NATO out of fear of Russia's actions. I can list the many hundreds of reasons Eastern Europe fears Russia if it will help, or just watch some Ukraine footage. If you mean America and Russia's sphere of influence collided in Ukraine yes, largely because of the changing social, economic, and cultural conditions in Eastern Europe. People were enjoying capitalism and Western liberal values, the EU gave them a good quality of life, and security from Russia. Ukraine wanted in. I don't trust Wikileaks. Russia has weaponized it, like most conspiracy sites. A general note on Russian spies for further reading. https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-world-deep-cover-russia-spies-infiltrating-west-putin-agents-2023-12?op=1&r=US&IR=T

Because doing so would mean having to admit the double standards. Not just in Israel but with America's policy since the Bush years and the second invasion of Iraq. The world fundamentally changed since 9/11. *Some people like to pretend it hasn't still.

Oh if you want my personal opinion and feeling: There are a whole host of things I would say Putin should be locked up for. I've seen tanks firing at civilians. Mass graves of those tortured to death. Plenty of people were sexually assaulted by Soldiers in Ukraine. I've seen Russia shelling small boats of civilians trying to rescue others in a flood Russia caused. Russian missiles hitting food lines of hungry people. Russian opening up corridors for residents to flee, then shelling them as they do so. The near daily targeting of commercial areas, residential areas, and a terror campaign that Russia has waged for more than 18 months. Russia is a terrorist state. Its done a universal pardon for all crimes committed in Ukraine, so there are no consequences for anything a Russian soldier does. I'd just want Putin shot. I also said that on day 1. He's the cause of so much suffering and death, all because his ego is stuck in the 1990's in a fantasy that no longer exists. But we don't get what we want or feel do we. We get what a large amount of people in power will practically allow or can make happen. We can both sit here and hope America lets Israel bear the consequences of their genocidal actions so they stop killing indiscriminately, like we can all hope BRICS allow the Russian economy to collapse so they can't keep fighting wars. - Neither of which is going to happen, because two sides are being drawn up, which is going to lead to increasingly larger wars. But kidnapping kids from a war zone, keeping them from their families, and then re-educating them to be Russian is about as scummy as it gets. So locking him up for that one day in a political trade, or making Putin's life difficult gets no sympathy from me. That's if you want my feeling. Not just the practical reality. This would be the difference between a stage green me above, and who I am now, someone who sees what I want is nearly irrelevant to the larger picture.

Putin has always been trying to rebuild the USSR. He's been manipulating domestic European politics behind the scenes, using his oil/energy leverage to turn policy his way, and trying to put in power governments loyal to Russia. The only difference is one of these governments was pushed too far, and there was a coup in Ukraine which turned into a war. This will not change just because Putin wants it to. We are not in the 1990's, Putin still is, and so we have war because people can't accept then adjust to reality and want to make it different.

People join NATO for fear of Russian aggression. NATO doesn't go anywhere. Neutrality was offered to Putin. He rejected it and has ever since put up impossible conditions to meet. Ex: We can't catch the easter bunny and give him to Putin, just like we can't catch non-existent Nazi's in control of the country and give them to Putin. For a variety of reasons I've already listed, Putin wants to expand to the former USSR borders. Ukraine is in the way of that, as are the Baltics, Moldova, Poland, and Romania.

There is a good chance of larger regional wars in the coming years. Russia - Europe China - America Iran - Israel / America There are a lot of minor regional ones as flashpoints. Turkey - Greece. Saudi Arabia - Iran. China - Everyone it's trying to steal land/sea territory from. South Korea - North Korea. North Korea - Japan. Belarus - Poland, Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan. Argentina going into meltdown. Africa is heating up with a new colonial push from BRICS. There are so many flashpoints now. Depending on how much larger but neutral countries like Turkey, India, Nigeria, and Brazil are involved. There is a good chance of WW3. I am in my 40's. There is more tension in the world than there ever was. Everyone is further right than they ever were. There is more indifference to life. Competing global power blocks. People fighting wars over land. More suppression, more fear and more uncertainty. Along with ongoing wars happening right now. Unifying Globalism is vilified and nationalism/fascism ascendant. Everyone has forgotten why things like human rights were created and all the horrors of WW2. It is the exact conditions that led to WW1/WW2. It's the same cycle. I can see Fascism and Anarcho-Capitalism starting to compete. Is WW3 Guaranteed? No. The patterns are there. So far nobody is making different choices.

Picture yourself as a teenager or younger. All the mistakes and learning you had to do, before you became who you are. Now picture you have little but violence to learn from. Nothing but hate or death as a teacher. Anger, grief, and pain. A young, stupid, impressionable mind filled with hate. That's most of Hamas. A few live to become angry men who recruit them, but not many. If you mean the leadership. All this is doing is giving them recruits.

@Princess Arabia Yes you understand a pattern. Which gives you influence.

You can't control what people will do with the information you give them. You can be mindful of your intent. Just aim to improve lives where you can, rather than sucker people into wasting their money.

I have never had any attraction to a male. With women sometimes I realise I am attracted when I am in close-proximity usually. I don't have to think about it or rationalize it, I feel the connection and then decide if I want to act on it or not. Attraction for me has never been an intellectual choice.

You can meditate on literally anything, even the desire to imagine something new. I'll add I think most people go for silence or stillness, because most minds are stressed due to many different factors.

Get more countries to start selling power and water between their grids. Interconnect more countries. The effect populations have on climate or social conditions can also be 'moved' based on how fast their transport networks are. Living in one place, working in another. Industry in one place, clean air in the other. Lessening of migration tensions. Landfill etc. The same is more than true for power generation, which moves a lot faster than people do across boundaries, and can be stored in advance of being needed. I was trying to convince a person in a country bordering Iraq, that they could be making a fortune selling water to Iraq from their ocean connections. But all people would say is how expensive salt water is. Well yes, but water is worth more than gold when you don't have it. Anyone with an ocean connection should be using it. Anyone with a solar power advantage should be using it. Just have to get the oil barons onboard. If they are selling this, they aren't fighting it as much.

The concept of mind yes.

Influence comes through understanding and empathy. Towards people and patterns internal and external.

Words form worlds Language in your mind forms your reality.

Universe. U in verse. Infinity is observed through a fractal creation. Relative from the point of observation. The fractal is created by representation. Creating everything seen in an ongoing cycle. Stillness is given motion or separation/form to observe through the fractal expression.

For me, that would be a stage yellow problem. Holding both perspectives at once. I fully understand why others would prefer to integrate them together.

For me it's a deeper codependent pattern, or at least the end of one that I haven't yet cleared. Everyone offers different perspectives, some argue them with others, some don't care to argue or speak further once its offered, only a relatively small amount stay in a discussion arguing that others accept theirs alongside their own. At least I don't see many doing so, but without arguing for that space for multiple perspectives to exist, achieving any level of existence without conflict seems less likely. But the older I get the more I see that behavior I have as unhealthy.

Yes, I apologized. I need to keep reminding myself through these discussions that accepting multiple perspectives means actually accepting them, not equivocating them into a larger one. Equivocating them is still a codependent behavior, as opposed to just offering the perspective and then leaving.

Eh I am doing it again, I am arguing with someone to accept reality as I see it, and for that, I apologize. I wonder if one day I'll break that habit. Hope springs eternal.

What makes you think what you said is any more true than what I said? There will be nothing at all you can point to. Because you created the representation anyway. Take any subject at all, any representation you can make, any perception or form of it. Infinity has an infinite amount of possible perspectives. All we do is pick things to create or observe an experience. Structure or order things to have them make sense and become material and usable. You are severely limiting yourself deciding only one perspective has truth to it. You could tomorrow decide the complete opposite about something in your experience, and you'd still be true/correct. *In fact all conflict comes from human's inability to take two perspectives at once as true.

Existence is non-dual and dual. I don't understand why people need so badly for one to be true. People exist and don't exist. Truth is true and not. Things are relative and not. Infinity doesn't have a single answer. Its infinity. Its all answers. I can keep reflecting the opposite of the division people (and I) enjoy, or keep saying this. If someone decides 1, What real means to them - then 2, An image means not real - then 3, The things around them are images separate from the words he/she hears - then 4, Defines those images to be non-existent figments of imagination. Well that's entirely their line of reasoning made up in their own mind. It'd be the same if it was the opposite. Its no more true or false than me saying all minds are interconnected sharing an experience. One framework for existence is however more solitary and miserable. The other is filled with infinite possibilities. But both are a choice.

Everything is relative except observing or creating something to observe.

However, you decide to represent reality to yourself is correct. If you decide you are alone you are right. If you decide there is infinite complexity to life and many gods/minds/people sharing a global experience you are also right. If you decide both you are right.