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I am still waiting for the last word, Honorentheos, about our Ukraine policy; I was hoping you would explain the metaphors you were using, since they were unclear. I am done talking about that, and give you the last word on all that. Come out to make that last word, and I am eager to read your repos...

While I agree many posters here have likely read your comments as echoing Russian propoganda for reasons other than the ones you propose, I think it is possible to be more clear. For example, I read your position as there being little difference between the use of propoganda by the West and by the ...

It may be good to be careful when arguing that others are engaging in ad hominem dismissals when also making points only a few posts up essentially saying that ones point is simple yet apparently, "too difficult to grasp, no doubt because it doesn't flatter one's sense of justice," and go on to ess...

Honorentheos, nearly your entire response is to tell me I know nothing. The rest is to paint me as advocating for doing nothing and thus for allowing a vacuum and promoting Russian nationalism by default. I would suggest your passion is hindering your reading comprehension. I have stated clearly wha...

Thank you, as ever, for the reply, Morley. It is an enlightening response, though I wonder whether any of those early 2000s predictions have really come true in the way that was often predicted. Another thread for another time, perhaps. But I'm sure they make little difference now to your Afghan fri...

Honorentheos, thanks for your reply, but you are still responding to something other than what I have written, except It is unfortunate you feel the conversation is breaking down over misunderstandings. I don't expect that will resolve itself, but perhaps the best course is for anyone interested in ...

My favorite Gaskill publication is the review in the old Review of Books on the Book of Mormon that Ms Jack linked, a review of an unpublished work entitled "“The Question of the Validity of Baptism Conferred in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” (unpublished), by Luis Ladaria." Unpubl...

The pull of this conversation is instructive, as well as quite typical. Our learned friend Physics Guy salubriously reminded us that one need not be an angel to deserve moral or material support in the face of an aggressor. I echo that reminder. All I have been saying is that, however that may be, b...

Morley, you are a true scholar and gentleman, and I understand why you have taken issue with the article I gave you about restricting the movement of Ukrainian males, despite the fact that they are not being drafted, because Ukraine has one of the large and best-equipped militaries in Europe. I don’...

Of the issues you identified, the one that jumped out at me as most concerning was this one: "Of course the most egregious example is the attempt to cut off water to the (again, very pro-Russian) population of Crimea." Then the story turned out to be the Ukraine dammed a man-made canal that fed the...