Very true! Sifting through a friends list too!
Making the observation much easier now: "In tough times I choose to not rely on you my former friend, based on your Covid time choices."

Popularism makes us all end up with maybe the most chosen but also the most generic sludge. All excitement gone. And this noise now obfuscates or at least makes it much harder to find true treasure in a world full of treasure waiting to be discovered.

Yes, and those people can read about that too if they care to get closer to the truth. And with a little unconditional help from a friend they may get some help with a list of good books on the topic.

Yes

It's working! 😂😂

Well then in your specific case, in order to spare your feelings and keep your views I would suggest to NOT read the book I suggested, or any book that would confirm literal US involvement.
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The book is literally written by the director of antiwar.com an American who did his research and printed all references to the documents he got his statements from about Americas involvement in a war between two different countries Russia and Ukraine.

So no, no need to cherrypick, Scott's work is not about who did the right thing, you'll be the judge of that, he "just" wrote down in sequence what happened when and how America was involved every F step of the way.

Very helpful, thank you!

I think this is exacly why Scott chose this title.

I am still going through its contents as it is a massive book. A great reference though for people to check what actually happened when. The book goes from American president to president and which administration promised what. It includes all references too, which results is a few references on each page. A very well researched book, where Scott still has not been challenged on legally for being wrong on something, which is quite extraordinary imho!

If we have to admit that Russia was no longer posing a problem to the West since the fall of the Soviet Union, we also have to admit that there was no longer a reason for NATO to exist.

The current NATO is a farce, incl. the role it's been asked to perform.
The current NATO has NOTHING to do with the original concept of why NATO was required. NATO was without a job since the 1990s.

One could imagine another speech similar to Eisenhower's Farewell Address about the Military Industrial Complex, but about NATO.

"We" chose to keep pretending NATO is required by pretending Russia poses a threat to the West. The "only" thing required is prolonged provocations, changing presidents, blowing up pipelines, U.S. gain-of-function labs on Russias doorstep, causing proxy attacks by funding corrupt countries, causing a civil war that leads to the killing of Russians... Etc!

Ukraine is not a NATO country. Our reasons of having to be there are based on lies. Except for some elites, we have no business there. We are there for the benefit of some elites, yes. Like all wars.

Now I think as soon as name calling / smearing starts, those are the people who can't hold a decent conversation and are probably scared one continues to make sense.

This book is without a doubt the best attempt to write down all that was promised back then versus what you're being told now and a crazy detailed history lesson:

https://scotthorton.org/product/provoked/

Yes, "we" the West were supporting literal Nazis and "we" provoked Russia to attack a neighboring country that was slaughtering Russian people for years in a civil war "we" triggered.

Very pretty indeed!

And as much as I agree with these buildings being very nice to look at
... I am very much happy that I can now keep my money for other stuff I choose myself, like more support for the family and heating the house.
I am pretty sure that back in the day not everyone was as happy as these buildings were build with most expensive materials and with mandatory payments from plebs, also: taxation.
Back when there was no separation between church and state yet.

The workmanship was crazy good back then by those crazy good people who were allowed to build it.
To enjoy it, one would need to have the luxury to even be allowed to attend church, have nice clothes and then your seat was ranked by how much you pay the church extra and ofcourse family status.
To be able to enjoy the buildings now without the mandatory stealing of money or people telling you how to behave and the freedom to move is the real privilege.

Just my two sats and probably unpopulair viewpoint