Recent content by Kanzler

I think this was a whiff of propaganda. Wasn't followed up at all in the past few days. Didn't seem consistent with the overall tenor of reporting. The supposed assault on Kyiv hasn't happened yet although it might over the weekend. Probably is a lot of posturing to motivate concessions in...

Ukraine and Russia might be close to a deal. It's Zelenskyy's choice between independence or peace.

These are good points. Ukraine is too poor and its democracy not developed enough to join NATO right now. But the process to join NATO starts early and countries are incentivized to make democratic and other reforms in order to make them more ready to join NATO. Russia complains a lot that NATO...

Mistake to call them left-wing, I see. Sounds more like far-right, bad-faith, Russian-funded.

I disagree with the idea that the eastward expansion of NATO is at fault, even if it contributes to tensions between Russia and the West. These countries are trying to build ties with the West, they are consenting to have closer relations and military protection with the EU and NATO precisely...

Is Ukraine the endgame? Does Russia suffer through protracted economic and international sanction just to take Ukraine? Ukraine has no significant natural resources, it only serves to make Russia "more secure" from the laughable idea of NATO aggression by extending the border away from Russia's...

Capitol police needs to be thoroughly investigated, the collaborators purged and punished to the fullest extent of the law. These "watchmen" who "stood back and stood by" while a disorganized mob strolled into the Capitol building are the analogous to the people who would have facilitated a...

It's going to be hard to predict whatever will come out of this Presidency and both parties in the next four years, but I think the bar for Biden's expectations will be sufficiently low. Enough people will deem his presidency a success if he manages COVID better and consequently sees America...

Honestly, a lot of Trump supporters don't have the same priorities or perceptions as the rest of the population. A lot of people got radicalized in their social media bubble over the last four years. I don't think it's fair to blame your falling out on politics, because there has been political...

Biden probably wins by the end of the week (by which time Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania might finish counting) but Trump beat the polls.

I don't know why he's treated like a king. He's just the President, and not even a good one at that.

Under the Electoral College system, each state has its own number of electors, and all of the electors in a state go to one candidate or another (except for Nebraska and Maine, but that's 2/50). So the electors in any state don't really represent your vote but rather the candidate who won the...

A lot of people are commenting about this. It doesn't seem to be common knowledge, but both campaigns agree to the rules of the debate. If there's a feature that's absent, that's because they couldn't achieve agreement on that. A lot of reporting suggests that the moderator did a bad job. That's...

To be honest, I think demonstrating abuse of power in a murder should be an aggravating factor, in the same way that in many places killing a cop, or committing sexual crimes during a murder would qualify for a first-degree murder. It makes sense to me, as it's especially heinous for a police...