Belacqua Wrote:With America now wanting to disengage from the whole fiasco
Fiasco? Maybe you want Ukraine to apologize to you for not having a war more to your liking?
Belacqua Wrote:So if we go back to my earlier question, about what we can hope for from the EU's recent promise of a loan.
You know how you ridiculed Zelensky for ordering warplanes he "doesn't have money for" and you proclaimed him insane? Well, now he has money for airplanes that will bomb Russians and you are the insane one.
Belacqua Wrote:Russia, and before that of course the Soviet Union, has been America's designated enemy since the Cold War.
Ah, Belacqua's relentless attempt to portray Russia as a victim. But the truth is that the US didn't designate Russia as an enemy. Just the opposite. The whole world tried to work with Russia and trade with them in hope of getting them to normalcy that every country needs years to achieve after it leaves communism, but it didn't pan out because Putin is insane. And the world should have acted before and not ignore Russia's pseudo democracy.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
