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simsa03Therapy: I don't believe in it. Or rather: I find it undignified. Therapy is an alliance between client and therapist against the patient. It's a schizophrenic setting from the start, a setting in which the patient will do anything, offer anything, to please both client and therapist. In fact, it's the attempt to switch sides, from being a patient to become the client, thereby re-establishing the strong and decisive ego. That is not healing, that is treachery and betrayal.
Cory Booker did not do a filibuster as his speech was not in the context of the deliberation of a bill. Also, perhaps a bit more knowledge on "fascism" wouldn't hurt.
« The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been barred from running for president in 2027 after a court found her guilty of a vast system of embezzlement of European parliament funds and banned her from running for public office with immediate effect. [...]
Judges handed Le Pen a five-year ban on running for public office with the added provision that it will take immediate effect and will apply despite the fact that she is appealing against the verdict. »
Ignore the clickbait-style headline. The conversation is worth listening to. Very thorough and knowledgable explanations.
Robert Fox (as Mark Galeotti) has quickly become one of my favourite analysts/commentators on the Ukraine war, on Europe, Russia, Putin, Trump.
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simsa03The danger is less that Trump takes the U.S. out of NATO or withholds nuclear deterrence thus minimizing the risk for Russia to attack a Europan NATO state. More dangerous is a U.S. military attack e.g. on Canada which will create an Article 5 incident that leads to the break-up of NATO from within.
(The North Atlantic Treaty (1949) has no provision for such an incident that member states of the alliance turn violently on each other. It was an unthinkable possibility in the times of Roosevelt and Truman but is now easily imaginable. A post-Trump NATO will have to amend the Treaty.)
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simsa03How do you decide whether the times you're living in and living through are "dark times" or "merely" "times of high risk"? To me, with all the turmoil around, it still doesn't (or perhaps rather: no longer) feels like "dark times". It feels like "times of risk" which, to me, every time of change is.