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Citizens elect their representatives who make decisions on their behalf, that can be challenged in the court of law. No one is above the law. No nominee not former president not the Pope in Vatican can be above the law in a democracy. How is this not obvious? To who?

Well, yes. Not everybody has to and can be on the ballot in a democracy, obviously. That is fully compatible with the principle: everyone is equal before the law, obviously not equal "everybody can do anything they like and still be on the ballot". How is this not obvious? Ohoh. I didn't defend anything. A democratic office can make a decision based on their interpretation of the law and it can affirmed or overruled by courts. Only the normal democratic process and nothing "illegal". OK I see little point in this kind of hot air word games. Nothing can be gained by anyone.

The situation now is more troubling than in the period leading up to the WWII: back then, Germany and Italy were no match for the combined power of the free world, if it stayed determined and united. In two decades, can the same be said of the rising dictatorial axis of Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba and the bunch that supports them, openly or tacitly? Is it the time to throw them a bone and see what happens next? This is about way more than Ukraine. The buffoon cares only about hot air in his cheeks and the chair for his bum but this is about the future of all. By what miracles can it be avoided, with what hot air? Amazing carelessness. No. This if factually incorrect. The Allies Trio had agreed to division of Europe, it was wrong and was admitted so. Nobody has agreed to and accepted Russia's occupation. Why couldn't you see things for what they are, factually and objectively? What's wrong?

Did you miss multiple leaders admitting this as the wrong choice?

It's not "illegal" for offices and courts to disagree. And not "illegal" neither to appoint a consul a dictator. Only a choice. When cornerstone principles of the democracy are eroded: consciously and deliberately, it will go. There will be no miracles and cannot be.

All citizens are either equal under the law or they are not. This is one of the cornerstones of the democracy. It either exists or not. No one can be fooled here: yes one can do away with democracy; out of difficulties, boredom or other reasons; but no: it cannot exist outside of its main, defining principles. Doing away with the democracy itself is the trampists's real, genuine goal.

You mean this: "Eighty-seven Coalition members have committed themselves to the goal of eliminating the threat posed by ISIS". Is that what you recall? What "compromise"? How would it look like and stop the aggressor from coming for more? This is the same false premise that failed grotesquely in the days before WWII. Why do you want to bring it up again, and again? Hitler is back and he's keen on a rematch. His missiles were flying in the NATO space. He's running a sabotage campaign in the NATO countries, with victims. What makes you think that throwing him a piece, making him bolder and stronger would do anything for the "compromise"? Obviously you have no answer to these questions. Hitlers cannot be wished away, you would be fooling nobody else but yourself. Who's that? That was just dumb, in plain language wasn't it? And it's hardly a virtue.

Dead brain. See no evil.. no, just nothing at all.

Dead brain just cannot have good answers. See? (not ISIS)

Only to make sure it's clear enough:

Dead brain doesn't have the answer. Obviously.

But you're only repeating coin phrases - lies actually, because a regular guy in a democratic country cannot be so dumb to not see it that something called "peace", with Hitler or his likes cannot exist in this reality, while tongues and cheeks can produce any sound, right? So, how do you go about "peace" with Hitler? How do you obtain "peace" with ICIS? Please think and answer only to yourself, but honestly so that you can understand it and believe it.

It helps to try to understand the meaning of the words. Just because you want to end something, no matter how much you want it, it doesn't mean that the solution that a) costs you nothing and b) achieves your goals exists in the reality. These questions are nothing new: why wouldn't you, in place of repeating coin phrases have a reading on the relatively recent history? What was the cost of the free countries of the West, whole of Europe plus Britain plus some help from the US coming together to stand to and show real strength to Hitler in 1937-1938? What would be the cost of it, compared to that of the WWII, and the division of Europe that followed all the way to 1990s? The answer is there, it cannot be changed because it's given not by some lying cheeks but by the history itself. So throwing the question up again and again speaks only of ignorance and maybe, carelessness. But in history, there's no office to send belated explanations and regrets to. Those who wouldn't learn just pay the going price; or perish.

I don't think the free world can allow itself to go into the fatalism mindset. If the freedom is worth defending the commitment to it cannot depend on any one face or any country. Those who value it in the world would need to unite and press ahead. Or it could be the end of it, in the whole world: the only alternative. If freedom could not stand to the evil of Russia how could it to the united Axis of dictators? Not a chance. Blind may not see it but it wouldn't change anything in the outcome.

Well for that we do have the facts: The buffoon "fixed" North Korea problem, but only in his fat cheeks. In the reality Un simply led him around his finger and will do it again and again, any time. While in 2022 Putin set ultimatums to the West and NATO. Today he can accept lifting sanctions but no one is talking about that. That's the reality and it means something. But only for those with eyes to see and brain to understand it.

He will come to love Xi too. Like why an exception? Illogical.

Some time in the future (if we have one, that's an if) it would be an interesting exercise to estimate the total cost of the panic, world-wide. The recession, economy upsets upon upset, infinite delays Ottawa LRT being the world-famous one; cost of living crisis; housing crisis; the inflation; the political and social backlash on the background of the inflation; who knows where it would end, the upset of the world's order? An ascendance of the dictatorial Axis? All thanks to you, little friends. All because some little bureaucrat in the office, and some half-qualified doctor on TV just knew the right answer, no evidence needed and got some juicy crumbs from the high up for spreading it. Independence? Duty to the science? What the heck was that about, here want a cookie?

To everything that lives Time has to give these tests, once in a while or how would it it know that we're still alive or didn't go bonkers? Our ancestors last century did many dumb things but when they faced their test they came around and passed it. Of course, very obviously and clearly, to the one that we will face now that doesn't add even a grain of guarantee. None. Non existent. We will pass it or we will fail the test of Time, it's in our hands and nobody else's. Only the citizen's test.

Right at the time when the new Axis of aggressive dictators is rising Trump threatened to cut the aid to Ukraine if reelected. There's no question who is he cheering for, and will be working for. And he never really tried to hide it. So, no pretending ignorance. Not a fun lottery: only the citizenship test.

The U.S. democracy is in a crisis; there's no clear ways out of it. The last more or less functional institute: judiciary is going down the partisan drain. Democracy is not the rule of an angry mob; that phase ends very quickly in one of two ways: an oligarchy; or authocracy/dictatorship. Democracy is a product and responsibility of active and responsible citizens. Keeping it requires nothing less than ongoing reason; responsibility and commitment to its principles. And if/when the responsibility becomes an entertainment and the citizens become pueblo interested in little else but bread and circuses, the demise of democracy becomes all but inevitable. It was tested two millennia back and uncounted times since. So nothing new here. Only the citizenship test.

Wow. Is it a product of thought and reflection or another split-brain spillover though? What are we saying now about "give Hitler what he wants now and then more" and "Munich was a good scenario"?

That's the idea, of course. Useful id!ots and honest admirers of thuggish brutality all come handy in the program, everything goes.

But they can't. That's the sole, one and only foundation of their case: take it out and what's left? "Munich was a good scenario". The history is all wrong.

OK, short: 1. Cower to the thug and beg to "negotiate". 2. Munich was a "good scenario". Let's see if there's more. It would be an astounding discovery.

So he proposes as a "good scenario" giving aggressor what they want and hoping that they wouldn't come for more. Why wouldn't they if you just gave them what they wanted? Why wouldn't they come for more and more until they take all? Like he has an answer that doesn't and cannot exist. This is the same exact: word to word adage that was used to justify the Munich deal on the verge of WWII. As the whole world knows, it failed grotesquely, causing immeasurable suffering. There's no good paths giving brutal thugs what they want. They will always come for more, and you will achieve nothing by bleeding the strength and will to stand up. And they'll keep drumming this old and tired adage on and on, in a complete ignorance of the lessons of the past and the reality. Is it a surprise the the suckers, inspired by their fetish want nothing less than to rewrite both the reality and the history? Four billion years, and for nothing. What a failure.