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US did not ever have slavery! Because noone was slave there except black people if they were not free.

Some hard hitting facts right there. I betcha you didnt know this.

I dont think that he is particularly upset.

No see if one was to compare his advice take the one to the us planners that they should provide for example loans to the soviets it was completely rejected, as the us chauvinistically did not want to help.

Quote of whom?

First where does security concern equal "standing up to something". Secondly what exactly do you mean by the concept of rational bias?

edit: do you know that some bolsheviks pragmatically supported capitalist policies as means to help the national economy and as transitional to communism. Your argument crumbles even in this respect.

Calling something by the wrong "name" is not exactly criticism.

The fact that his ideas were mostly not implemented is a matter of observation.

Quite a stretch of the word quote, is this wikipedia?

Well I would say that its precisely that the campism isnt strong when regardless of the fact that he is a capitalist, we can reject dogmatic criticism and ask for at least some rational basis.

Well yeah hes not a commie. He did not invent shock therapy, he considers this naming actually an insult. The soviet privatization is not representative because his advice was largely ignored both by soviets and amies. From your paste is also Ukraine missing.

But I partially agree that he talks diplomatically, so he wont always say exactly what he thinks.

No he typically tries to stabilize economies, thats his expertise. He tried to argue that the US should have helped russia economically. His advice was mostly ignored by soviets and later by Yelstin during the horrendous privatization.

But he is diplomatic, so yes he filters what he says.

Ah sorry I believe that in Germany they call it incitement to hate or something like that, which is criminal.

edit: from a very quick search I found this http://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/8/6/german-court-fines-woman-for-from-the-river-to-the-sea-chant which meand that by this judicature it is directly criminal. Also this source https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/1699528989-berlin-criminalizes-slogan-from-the-river-to-the-sea-palestine-will-be-free. But here I dont know how reliable this source is

No censorship of speech has always been liberal. /s Also its kidna funny how eastern european countries now have stronger foundations of liberal democracy than germany, since statements like "from the river to the sea" are not criminalized as antisemitic.

Well to his credit he, as of now, still murdered less people than Kissinger.

I encourage everyone to at least read his wikipedia page. Judge for yourself if someone with his experience might have something of substance to say.

Ok, lets take a look at the IISS table because the sipri only uses estimates for Russia. When you look at the source of the IISS table you get to a graph which shows that while for all other countries expenditure, the one for Russia and China have been ppp adjusted, meaning that the actual expenditure is different. The adjustment tells you what worth of goods you could buy from I'm assuming US market. Why the wiki table shows only these recalculated values for just Russia and China is beyond me. I also found an actually accessible article version of the FT https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/russias-2024-military-budget-exceeds-total-eu-defense-spending-ft/ar-AA1yWN0u To sum up the Russian expenditure DID exceed the european as in the FT, it only may be unclear what weapons they bought with it, but for the argument that EU outspends them, that is wrong.

https://www.ft.com/content/93d44b5a-a087-4059-9891-f18c77efca4b source?

If the Palestinians had that power they would hand Bibi and most of his cabinet over to the ICJ for their war crimes. Then of course large part of the parliament and probably most of IDF members who participated in the genocide. Then they would hand over the settlers for their crimes. And maybe later they would hand over most of the european colonialists that call themselves israeli now. Now even though IDF is the most moral army in the world, I see no intention of theirs to adhere to not commiting war crimes like genocide, so I don't think that they will 'remove' themselves. Though if they did I also wouldn't blame them. As for Palestinians, they seem to stick to other means of resistance for now.