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    2 days ago

    Earlier in this thread, you said “it’s already annoying to know the summary.”

    What annoys you in this “very functional” book you haven’t read?

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      2 days ago

      The discrepancy between how the book and the media analyses the situation.

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            1 day ago

            Since it is you that keeps referring to this book on here, it is you who should be able to point to something precise that you find noteworthy.

            How come you’re not able to do that?

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              1 day ago

              You haven’t asked for something noteworthy.

              But in the meantime, it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus also of challenging America.

              That doesn’t have to be Russia.

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                1 day ago

                I don’t think it will be Russia. What’s your point? Do you know the sentence that comes before this?

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                  17 hours ago

                  Yes. It’s strange even if the sentence before would be the goal. What does it say about the EU?

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                    12 hours ago

                    It’s not strange. It’s the point of the argument made by the author in that book - which you would know if you wouldn’t just jump to conclusions by reading a few selected sentences from it that align with your opinion, but actually took the time and effort to understand the whole argument.

                    All you show here is that you didn’t understand what this book is about, which isn’t surprising as you only know the title and a few selected extracts that can be framed in a provoking manner. I tried to point out that your view on this book has been manipulated but you don’t seem to have a problem with that.

                    With the energy poured into this to-and-fro here for days, you could also have been reading the book you like to show here. It would enable you to provide well-founded arguments for your opinions and hence would have been far more beneficial to the quality of the debate. Maybe that’s something you’d like to aspire to.