Admittedly the organization had a pretty strong case during the Cold War. What's your take on the Triple Entente?

Huzzah!

Syriza were ideologically confused and political incompetents who basically earned the contempt the creditors had for them. Working out some sort of deal for a temporary Grexit (as even some right wing German figures wanted) would have been a more politically dignified step. The Syriza referendum and subsequent…

I'd be interested to hear why you think NATO is so unambiguously a positive benefit to all member countries (or the international community as a whole).

The bees are the mujhadeen, the Moose is the Red Army.

In the end, Syriza ultimately did what the creditors wanted, and is Greece suddenly filled with rays of hope and sunlight? Or was the acceptance of the creditors demands the least hopeful and most hated event of all?

We haven't seen Corbyn in his leadership capacity yet. I think it would be premature to either hail him as a great compromiser or imply he's unable to compromise. Obviously many of his policies are quite radical, but this has very little (almost nothing, really) to do with the ability to make compromises. Ideological…

Someone needs to make Antlers, a knock off film about a Canadian resort town terrorized by a murderous, rabid moose.

To say that Russia's actions were not unprovoked merely seems to indicate that modern Russian expansionism emerges from a position of weakness, not from some sudden desire for world (or just European) domination. That seems like a highly defensible position. As for whether Chavez was ultimately horrible for Venezuela,…

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I certainly agree being on the margins allows one greater freedom and scope for what one can advocate. But that also indicates he had little reason to advocate those policies if he didn't believe in them. That's why I see the "drumming up discontent" charge as unfair in his case.

I agree that him winning the election is less important than the fact people were willing to vote him in. I just think it's fucking phenomenal where you find it dismaying.

He's explicitly said he doesn't like "Russian expansionism". Putin's actual supporters would deny Russian expansionism is even taking place. One can take issue with his views on what proper relations between the UK and Russia should like without accusing him of being some kind of rabid Putin fan. As for Chavez, who…

To say that Corbyn is merely tapping into discontent , presumably to win the election, without actually thinking about the implications of his policies is kind of an unfair criticism for a guy who almost nobody , including himself, expected to win the leadership election when he first entered, no?

Not an expert on either British or Greek politics, alas, but Corbyn's personal appeal and messaging seem difficult to simply equate with left wing populist parties in other European countries. Corbyn is a representative of a fairly old and well established ideological faction within a party with a long history of…

Corbyn is admittedly way to the left of Bernie Sanders, which is all for good.And being opposed to current foreign policy strategies towards Russia is not the same as being a fan of Putin. And be real, Corbyn's not going to actually focus on implementation of the most radical of the things he advocated as an MP. If he…

Eh, if someone who other MPs nominated as a token candidate winds up winning the leadership election by a landslide, who's to say he can't unexpectedly win in 2020?Even that is based on the assumption the 2020 election is the most important long term effect of this election, which seems dubious.

Inexplicably, Chevy Chase will still be living and will appear regularly on the internet to report on his status.

She's been doing some really good interviews lately. Thanks for the link.

Truly, Francisco is no longer the worst Franco brother.