Fascinating perspective, thanks for this. The European conquest of North America was an atrocity, but I do not think there is moral equivalency between what happened in the 18th and 19th century here and what the Russians are doing today. I think it's bizarre to retroactively impose 21st century values, though academic liberals seem to make this mistake repeatedly.
A more fair comparison would be the Iraq war and late 20th century oil wars, but these were waged by "Republicans"-- e.g., fascists, I don't make any distinction between MAGA and neocons, and the oil wars were broadly unpopular here. The protests against the Iraq war dwarfed Vietnam war protests in size. Anyway, the fact that those wars were immoral doesn't make the Russian invasion acceptable, or mean that the US should step politely out of the way, so Medvedev's line of thinking doesn't make any sense.
Why do you care? You seem to have already defected, so you'll be moving to Russia soon, and you won't have to worry about any of this, right?
I don't diagnose people I'm not treating, but Biden's occasional stumbling for words (anomia) is consistent with normative age-related cognitive decline for a 79-year-old. He's probably right about Stage 2, I don't see any evidence he's at Stage 3, which is MCI.
In order to make his presentation look weird, you have to cherry-pick clips. Video editors often do this for fun-- and you could do the same thing for any public figure with selective editing.
Trump's poverty of vocabulary and word repetition -- e.g. "beautiful" "the greatest ever" "the world has ever seen" etc. -- suggests far more serious deficits. It's not just forgetting or flubbing a word or phrase, or poor vocabulary.
“People with Alzheimer’s rely more and more on these fixed phrases and produce fewer novel sentences,” says psycholinguist
Vitor Zimmerer, adding that their ability to use words in a creative context is also diminished. “Take the word know, for example – people with Alzheimer’s will use it more often in formulaic sentences, such as “I don’t know,” and this is something we can detect quite early on with the right tools.”
Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia significantly affect language skills. Researchers are testing the possibility that spoken language tests could aid in diagnosis of these conditions.
www.dana.org
I didn't realize that, Handle-- he has not actually stepped down, he probably will, but we should wait until the ink is dry-- so thanks for that, fair point. But it will be a brighter day if/when he's gone. You probably disagree, but I thought Corbyn was a pretty interesting candidate. At one point I did a pretty deep dive into the antisemitic allegations against him-- didn't seem like there was a lot there.
Very interesting, Mr. C. I had not been considering the wear and tear on ordnance. Just like bikes, cars and guitar amps-- using them means you're gradually destroying them. When I think of Russian weapons, I think of the Makarov, which is nearly indestructible-- had no idea artillery had this kind of problem over time.
