US and NATO escalation of conflict with Russia is leading to war

[brilliantt]

He wants to establish a land corridor to Crimea.

but in WW2 Russia distracted the cities and moved the troops forward, they also sent in reconnaissance behind enemy lines,

The idea was to do as little damage as possible to the cities as you need it in the rebuild.

I can believe that

 

[Emjay]

So much focus on words instead of impactful actions. If only words were really violence, the Ukrainians wouldn't be in this situation. Just imagine. The ferocity at which the people in this thread demand acquiescence to their opinions, they could conquer all the Communists, Nazis and terrorists in the world.

Pretty sad they were nowhere to be seen when Trudeau used war powers to break up recent protests.

 

[vatie]

Reboot the current political system and it's parties: New New South Africa?

The idea of career politics is the problem. As soon as you do something like politics as a career you are going to defend your career at all costs and serving the people is of secondary importance. Personally I'd like to see ideas like Sortition explored. Or perhaps a hybrid system of Sortition/Party Politics. Won't happen though.

What if we replaced politicians with randomly selected people?

If you think democracy is broken, here's an idea: let's replace politicians with randomly selected people. Author and activist Brett Hennig presents a compelling case for sortition democracy, or random selection of government officials -- a system with roots in ancient Athens that taps into the...

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