Charlie Kirk is known for engaging in respectful Socratic dialogue with people that vehemently disagree with his political views, which is something that is desperately needed today.

The fact that he was attacked during one of these events is an attack on the medium itself and an admission by the radical left that they don't care to engage in dialogue, but prefer to brute force their views on the world.

A very sad and frightening day.

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You don't seem to have a very good grasp on geopolitics or why this war is happening.

The US intends to remain the only global superpower, the hegemon. In order to do that, they must defeat China both economically and militarily. But if they went after China first, all the smaller countries in support of China would make that a very hard fight. So they have to start with the smaller countries and work their way up. The US has perfected "soft power" where they use deception (news media) to trick a nation's people into voting for their preferred candidate. If that doesn't work, they bomb them (or they have Israel do it). This has happened now in about 20 - 30 countries mostly around the middle east, but it (CIA operations) has happened in Ukraine multiple times around elections. After they capture Iran, I believe they will go after India. And then Russia via it's former SSR states, which they have been setting up for a long time. And finally China.

In December, Putin asked Biden if Ukraine would be added to NATO (an anti-Russia MILITARY alliance right on their doorstep!) and Biden told him it was up to Ukraine. Putin took that as meaning that it would. So in February he took actions to put a stop to it. Actions that he threatened to take over and over again throughout the prior 25 years as documented in countless places, red lines which NATO crossed and Russia didn't retaliate to. Finally Russia feeling like a boiled frog took decisive action, even as they didn't want to... they were cornered at that point.

Ukraine didn't do anything wrong, except be dumb about geopolitics, and make decisions that were unwise given the context. Ukraine is just a pawn in a much larger war that you don't seem to be aware of.

Taiwan will probably be a theatre of war in the next decade some time. And they will call it Chinese aggression. And that will be correct, but will represent the less interesting half of why China will feel the need to take control of Taiwan: to hold back the military aggression of the United States.

That is my view, based on lots of data. But I'm not an expert in geopolitics, more of a curious hobbyist. I've heard "Provoked" by Scott Horton is a good book explaining the Russia Ukraine war... but of course you won't read it. You will remain in your world of anger and simple explanations.

As to matters of fact, I am at a disadvantage. I can only argue from what I believe is true. And that information is certainly likely to be corrupted through propaganda efforts given we are in what people call 'the fog of war'. So I will accept your versions of the facts given that you live there and I don't. And I'm sorry if I inadvertently spread any propaganda or misinformation. But where we disagree on facts and I still think I'm right, I'll try to find sources.

I don't really have time for debating, nor the inclination. But I am a curious person still.

I guess Russian language was taken out of schools. And the Russian Orthodox Church was banned because it was seen as a tool of the Kremlin. You can see how people would have opinions on both sides of those facts.

I don't believe "might makes right." Nor do I believe in stupidly defending your rights when you know it will get you killed. If you came to take my home by force and I couldn't defend myself, I would find another place to live. But of course I would leverage my relationship with the NZ government to get you kicked out.

As to matters of fact, I am at a disadvantage. I can only argue from what I believe is true. And that information is certainly likely to be corrupted through propaganda efforts given we are in what people call 'the fog of war'. So I will accept your versions of the facts given that you live there and I don't. And I'm sorry if I inadvertently spread any propaganda or misinformation. But where we disagree on facts and I still think I'm right, I'll try to find sources.

I don't really have time for debating, nor the inclination. But I am a curious person still.

I guess Russian language was taken out of schools. And the Russian Orthodox Church was banned because it was seen as a tool of the Kremlin. You can see how people would have opinions on both sides of those facts.

I don't believe "might makes right." Nor do I believe in stupidly defending your rights when you know it will get you killed. If you came to take my home by force and I couldn't defend myself, I would find another place to live. But of course I would leverage my relationship with the NZ government to get you kicked out.

Luhansk declared autonomy and requested assistance from the Russian Federation way back in November of 2004, and Donetsk put it to a referendum.

But if you want to keep those regions full of Russians, oppress their use of their language and their church, and kill all the Russians, go ahead. I think you should cut off the foot with gangrene rather than let it kill your entire nation. But you do you.

Luhansk declared autonomy and requested assistance from the Russian Federation way back in November of 2004, and Donetsk put it to a referendum.

But if you want to keep those regions full of Russians, oppress their use of their language and their church, and kill all the Russians, go ahead. I think you should cut off the foot with gangrene rather than let it kill your entire nation. But you do you.

Yeah I don't know who they think they are fooling.

I wish you safety.

We (US) need to stay within our borders for at least the rest of my lifetime. I’m 45, so take bets, lol.

The situations in Ukraine, and Gaza makes me sick.

I wish we’d provide aid, and charity - not through the government - and beyond that, mind our own business.

God have mercy on the USA for our part in all of this.

So the US/German/France/Britain have told Ukraine they are now allowed to strike deep into Russia, no more restrictions on the use of Western supplied missiles.

In any normal situation, if country A and B are at war with each other, and countries C, D, and E supply weapons to country A, country B does not retaliate aginst countries C, D and E. That is, supplying weapons isn't the same thing as waging war. Normally weapons suppliers would not put any restrictions in place (except maybe "don't fire these at me!")

And Western news would have you believe this about Ukraine and Russia. That Germany, France, Britain and the US are just supplying weapons.

But most people already know this is a stretch. We read about the CIA bases along the Russian border in the NY Times. We have heard about targetting assistance from the West. We know that Ukraine and NATO have been tight since the 1990s, doing military drills together all this time, practicing to fight Russia. We know there are boots on the ground in unofficial capacity. And the economic sanctions are also a form of war. Russia knows all this and more.

The West giving Ukraine permission to make long-range strikes into Russia with their weapons is just another escalatory step. It doesn't mean we will soon see Russia striking into other Western nations. I think Russia will retaliate in a different way (I have no specific prediction). But escalation has a way of getting out of control, and every escalatory step is dangerous.

I suspect Russia has retaliated to previous escalation by covertly supporting Ansar Allah in Yemen via Iran. How else would the poorest people in the world have hypersonics to fire at Ben Gurion airport? Russia threatened this, the West ignored it, and Russia seems to have kept their word.

Sure, these murdered children would have thrown liberals of buildings, better murder them in the most brutal way possible on the daily to prevent that.

#disgusting

I'm sorry but it's not like that. You are repeating European, English and Ukrainian propaganda. They are points of view. The truth is always in the middle. Maidan's coup in 2014 was piloted by viktoria nuland who was there in the square. Ukraine from that moment became a Nazi state and armed for all those years in anti-Russian function and then lashed out after a few years against Russia. Even Merkel admitted it in her last book. Europe is now Nazi. France, England and Germany are the next to fall after Ukraine. The Russians are your brothers but the British have convinced you that they are your enemies. Russia cannot be destroyed. Napoleon tried us, Hitler tried us. No one has ever taken Moscow. You think Zelensky can do it. You should turn against him and hang him in the square after all your children and friends that he sent to die for a war already lost at the start. Wasn't it better to have negotiations in 22 in Istanbul with Russia? Wouldn't you have avoided millions of dead Ukrainians? Deaths for whom? For Biden and Boris Johnson? Never trust the English my friend. I speak to you as Italian. Here is a pro-Ukrainian and anti-Russian propaganda that is scary. But people are understanding...we're not going to die for vonderlayen or macron. Unfortunately you trusted each other! By now, even the United States has abandoned it. Honor to all the innocent Ukrainians who died in these years. Unfortunately, trusting the English makes this bad end

I'm very sorry for your situation. War is brutal and you certainly don't deserve to live in a situation like this. I'm just saying that if Ukraine didn't submit to American orders to arm itself and lash out at Russia (forming a de facto Nazi regime in Ukraine) you would have avoided all this. Putin would never have invaded Ukraine. As far as I know, the Nazis of the Azov battalion from 2015 to 2022 killed about 20,000 Russian-speaking people in Donbass. Putin invaded Ukraine: 1) to defend the Russian-speaking people from the Ukrainian Nazis 2) because for Russian existence itself he could never allow Ukraine to enter NATO and be armed to the teeth to attack Russia. Would America ever allow Cuba or Mexico to be armed by the Russians to attack America? Those who have put the most in this war are you Ukrainians who stupidly believed in a clown like Zelensky who led you to the massacre. England and the United States have made you believe that you can win a war with Russia. Giving you money, weapons and intelligence. You have had a bad end and you have lost generations of innocent people who have believed in that clown who governs you who by the way is a dictator. What doesn't it allow elections in Ukraine?

Russophobic = impregnated with Western Ukrainian propaganda of recent years that does everything to overturn the truth and hate Russians for no reason. At least here in Europe in the last 3 years there has been a hallucinatory anti-Russian and therefore Russophobic propaganda. The reality data was not analyzed but Ukraine was cheered and the Russians and Putin were passed off as the new Hitler. When it's absolutely not like that. Russophobia is the effort of Western propaganda to dumben people and make them believe that Russia must be destroyed

Absurd how a bitcoin genius like Peter Todd gets lost in a glass of water like that. He wrote a Nazi and Zionist white supremacist idiocy. And Russophobic. An idiot.

yeah bro that's what I suggest 🙄