Terra Incognita

Need to rewatch this, there is new info here, such as that he and his family are having the rifle destroyed...



I saw this one too but the first one is newer and much more informal. (It's on the channel of the guy who interviewed him 'that night' before the trouble started).

This is how petty Prosecutor Thomas Binger is. Despite Kyle being acquitted, he would not drop this.

I don't know what type he is. He is incredibly self-righteous with some strange hole in his soul. He exemplifies the latter in Yeats' lines, "The best lack all conviction while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity". What type is that?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/ma ... d=msedgntp

It's about how the homeless crisis is being handled. Look into and break down. Assume nothing. Not even his characterization of the landmark circuit court case in Boise is transparent.

Sam Vaknin has a great take on all this.

There isn't a single geopolitical 'realist' who doesn't understand Crimea is gone and the twin breakaway republics have to be granted some kind of genuine autonomy.



Vincent

Here's more Konstantin.

And Ukraine cannot join fucking NATO.

Well, to be clear, Ukraine as it stands in the pre-2014 map mindset, cannot join fucking NATO.

Kisin is Russian and his wife's Ukranian, and no one hates Putin more than he does. But he still winds up de facto in the 'realist' camp.

Vaknin is a Sephardic Israeli living in Macedonia who teaches in Russia and is by nature by far a 'realist'.

Ukraine and NATO is pretty much a nonstarter at this point, fair to say, and for all the reasons illustrated by Mr. Vankin, who does strike me as slightly more romantic with his west/east assessments than Kisin overall. They're both extremely aware of many nuances but the realism award (IMO) goes to Kisin. NATO is handcuffed, Putin is in a way handcuffed, as regime change is another pandora's box. I think in his eyes (P.) it would be really nice to have Ukraine as Chechnya and Belarus, border countries that are ruled by pro-Russian dictators, but that has become an obviously difficult task.

Vankin makes a tremendous amount of sense describing the actions as the completion of Crimea, which isn't much good as a seaport when you can't get to it by land. Ukraine, like the former Yugo has a lot of ethic dissimilarities and not nearly as homogenous as most ppl would assume. They're probably gone for good now (the donbas I mean). Its just a shame that if Kisin is right, there will a great loss of life and the place more or less ruined, but maybe that was the unavoidable course eventually.

Jonathan, Vaknin is more romantic, and Kisin is probably more realistic. But I had in mind 'realism' as the political science school of thought in the Mearsheimer video (linked in the first post about Russia on this thread).

This 'realism' school critiques modern Western liberalism as ideological, triumphalist, and naively optimistic in casting itself as the foregone conclusion. Liberalism politically is just one force competing among others; realism foresaw the end of the end of history as soon as (neo)liberalism invented it.

Vaknin is typologically and temperamentally more of a realist in this sense. Western liberalism is just one of many kinds of animals and it's a jungle out there.

ps In fact the French Revolution very quickly decided to export itself militaristically, provoking the Romantic backlash in Germany and beyond. It makes sense that the more philosophically romantic one would be the bigger political 'realist'.