skepller@lemmy.world to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 months agoChina Is Joining Russia’s Shadow War on Europewww.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up177arrow-down14file-text
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minus-squareQuittenbrot@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoAs you apparently regularly keep on referring to this book of Zbigniew Brzezinski, have you actually read it?
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoNo, it’s already annoying to know the summary.
minus-squareQuittenbrot@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoI find it rather difficult to regularly use a book as an argument for something if you haven’t even read it.
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoThat is a good attitude. I obviously don’t see the need in this case. It’s not prose but facts. They can’t be significantly altered in the summary.
minus-squarerandomname@scribe.disroot.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 months ago@plyth@feddit.org That is a good attitude. I obviously don’t see the need in this case. It’s not prose but facts. They can’t be significantly altered in the summary. Ah, now it’s clearer how your comments come about. Very illuminating. Don’t read. Just the summary and Wikipedia.
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoDo you think my comments are wrong because I haven’t read the book?
minus-squareQuittenbrot@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoYou want to judge something you don’t know. That’s never a good idea.
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI don’t judge the book. I judge the situation of a war by a summary of an analysis of the geostrategic relevance of the area.
minus-squareQuittenbrot@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoWhy are you regularly referring to this precise book?
minus-squareQuittenbrot@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months ago I obviously don’t see the need in this case. You don’t think you’d benefit knowing what you regularly cite? It’s not prose but facts. What facts?
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoFor the most part I reference the Wikipedia page. The quotes were on your request. The Wikipedia page describes the way the situation is conceptualized.
minus-squareQuittenbrot@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months ago I obviously don’t see the need in this case. It’s not prose but facts. Since you “obviously don’t see the need” to read it, yet still feel the need to regularly cite it, I’d like to know which facts from this book you are talking about.
As you apparently regularly keep on referring to this book of Zbigniew Brzezinski, have you actually read it?
No, it’s already annoying to know the summary.
I find it rather difficult to regularly use a book as an argument for something if you haven’t even read it.
That is a good attitude. I obviously don’t see the need in this case. It’s not prose but facts. They can’t be significantly altered in the summary.
@plyth@feddit.org
Ah, now it’s clearer how your comments come about. Very illuminating. Don’t read. Just the summary and Wikipedia.
Do you think my comments are wrong because I haven’t read the book?
You want to judge something you don’t know. That’s never a good idea.
I don’t judge the book. I judge the situation of a war by a summary of an analysis of the geostrategic relevance of the area.
Why are you regularly referring to this precise book?
You don’t think you’d benefit knowing what you regularly cite?
What facts?
For the most part I reference the Wikipedia page. The quotes were on your request.
The Wikipedia page describes the way the situation is conceptualized.
Since you “obviously don’t see the need” to read it, yet still feel the need to regularly cite it, I’d like to know which facts from this book you are talking about.
The concepts
They are facts to you?