tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post8191129185822915505..comments2024-03-29T06:44:19.414-04:00Comments on the daily howler: Aleksandr Dugin is suddenly hot!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-44095024466475188222022-03-25T18:41:55.927-04:002022-03-25T18:41:55.927-04:00Not only did Trump threaten other countries with n...Not only did Trump threaten other countries with nukes on many occasions, there was also that poor hurricane.<br /><br />Cites? Type it in Google, there are tons. Right wingers push the Cult of Work, but personally are the laziest people you will ever meet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-1440834134400535152022-03-25T06:12:46.693-04:002022-03-25T06:12:46.693-04:00Anybody with even a fraction of a moral core would...Anybody with even a fraction of a moral core would not piss on Donald J Chickenshit if he was on fire.<br /><br />That leaves out David in Cal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-75433995363166735282022-03-24T19:20:26.797-04:002022-03-24T19:20:26.797-04:00@5:09 can you provide a cite for Trump threatening...@5:09 can you provide a cite for Trump threatening other nations with nukes? <br />Thanks.David in Calhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10222355423128534221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62122154133482929742022-03-24T17:59:53.921-04:002022-03-24T17:59:53.921-04:00You have to remember that you are not an expert on...You have to remember that you are not an expert on the issue of Putin or Russia or international affairs and that most of what you read is propaganda.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-12540939543410908232022-03-24T17:41:10.304-04:002022-03-24T17:41:10.304-04:00"the defense will have a lot to say about W a..."the defense will have a lot to say about W and Tony Blair."<br /><br />That's one. But what about Bubba the Demigod bombing Serbia and seizing, militarily, one of its provinces? Barry the Demigod vis-à-vis Syria? Turkey and Northern Cyprus? Etc, etc, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-50313531259410750832022-03-24T17:09:55.297-04:002022-03-24T17:09:55.297-04:00You reach pretty far back for examples. But if Put...You reach pretty far back for examples. But if Putin ever shows up in Court (such a dream) the defense will have a lot to say about W and Tony Blair. <br /> As for the rational question, in 2016 we seated a President who almost gleefully threated other nations with Nukes. Geraldo thought that this was "the good crazy." Bob thought it was crazy, so let's movie on to something else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-83141331022811637472022-03-24T17:04:47.708-04:002022-03-24T17:04:47.708-04:00Interesting your idiocy is a blending of the worst...Interesting your idiocy is a blending of the worst of both the idiot left and right. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-28968351274617326702022-03-24T15:02:50.006-04:002022-03-24T15:02:50.006-04:00And don't forget that our own national westwar...And don't forget that our own national westward expansion and acquisition of territory was justified by "Manifest Destiny." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-48758338368164530412022-03-24T15:01:20.865-04:002022-03-24T15:01:20.865-04:00"A person could imagine the novel several dif..."A person could imagine the novel several different ways."<br /><br />Somerby talks about these explanations for Putin's behavior as narratives, stories, novels, but those are structures used to impose order on past events, not to explain actions.<br /><br />It is more appropriate to discuss human behavior in terms of motives and goals. A motive is like a vector -- it gives force and direction to behavior. Goals are the desired outcomes of motivated behavior. These accounts are attempting to understand Putin's observed actions -- the invasion of the Ukraine. Somerby's use of the term novel implies that these are made up, as fiction is, but they must fit the observed facts (Putin's actions, his own statements and speeches and writings) in order to be plausible, and that is not a requirement of fiction.<br /><br />It would be nice if Putin would just tell us why he invaded Ukraine, but the statements made have been propagandistic not believable. It seems correct not to trust Russian disinformation. That leaves a vaccuum, and these speculations by those who are interested in and knowledgeable about Russia and Putin are trying to fill the gap. It is hard for me to see what Somerby's criticism is of them. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65673942342731925572022-03-24T14:53:51.405-04:002022-03-24T14:53:51.405-04:00Whoa, look who's talking: Timothy Snyder.
Su...Whoa, look who's talking: Timothy Snyder. <br /><br />Suddenly all kinds of liberal-neocon scum are crawling from under their rocks. <br /><br />We believe Matt Taibbi wrote about it recently. ...one second... Oh yeah, here: <br />https://taibbi.substack.com/p/john-podhoretz-you-suckAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-32021274118942934422022-03-24T14:50:39.062-04:002022-03-24T14:50:39.062-04:00Would I be completely off-base to point out simila...Would I be completely off-base to point out similarities with this?<br /><br />While the Monroe Doctrine’s message was designed to keep European powers out of the Western Hemisphere, Roosevelt would strengthen its meaning to justify sending the United States into other countries of the Western Hemisphere. As a result, U.S. Marines were sent into Santo Domingo in 1904, Nicaragua in 1911, and Haiti in 1915, ostensibly to keep the Europeans out.Rationalistnoreply@blogger.com