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I have to disagree here. Russians comprise almost 80% of the FR's population. The second largest nationality group is Tatars, which comprise 3% of the...
June 22, 2023 at 11:32
Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia has demanded from oil companies that they increase the sales of gasoline on the stock exchange as there are def...
June 15, 2023 at 08:52
We know from Girkin exactly how committed Russians were to peace. Why should we not believe him?
June 14, 2023 at 17:30
Here is what one of Wagner commanders had to say about that yesterday (start with 'They have a lot of ammo!'). You do have to read between the lines a...
June 14, 2023 at 16:03
Yes, I would think something along those lines. As all our perceptions (and therefore concepts) are just differentiations, a baby does not have a sens...
June 14, 2023 at 08:53
Yesterday Putin has stated that Ukrainians blew up the dam. But in the next sentence he said that it is a major obstruction of the Ukrainian counterof...
June 14, 2023 at 06:51
Do we know that it fires significantly more shells than Ukraine now? Can you provide any sources? As long as Russia had artillery advantage, it pushed...
June 13, 2023 at 23:49
Russia has long ceased to have any artillery advantage, with missiles it is clearly at a disadvantage - it has spent most of its stocks last year, now...
June 13, 2023 at 17:42
Dmitry Medvedev, a former president and prime minister of Russia and the current vice-chairman of the Russian Security Council decided to celebrate th...
June 12, 2023 at 10:59
Mearsheimer said that Russians wanted to topple the Ukrainian government. Explain how does that 'dismiss the entire western narrative of the Ukraine w...
June 10, 2023 at 10:52
Yes, that was another point I wanted to make. A 'threat' is not necessarily a feint. When a bully says 'Give me your money or I will beat you up' it i...
June 10, 2023 at 10:47
What is untrue? I gave you a specific quote that Mearsheimer believed one of the Russian goals was to install Russian-friendly government, contrary to...
June 10, 2023 at 10:42
Mearsheimer himself tells you that one of the Russian goals was toppling the Ukrainian authorities and installing a puppet goverment, as I told you th...
June 10, 2023 at 10:07
Chotiner: You don’t think he has designs on Kyiv? Mearsheimer: No, I don’t think he has designs on Kyiv. I think he’s interested in taking at least th...
June 10, 2023 at 09:03
So you have the numbers? Great, can we see them?
June 09, 2023 at 21:21
No, you have not. The communications by the Ukrainian General Staff DOES NOT give the number of troops, only the number of BTGs. So you DO NOT have a ...
June 09, 2023 at 08:52
No, we do not have that information. Your flawed argument is that 31 BTGs equal 21000 involved troops, because of your faulty assumptions. If you have...
June 09, 2023 at 07:51
That depends on where the Russians would be. With todays means of intelligence you cannot have a large grouping of forces without the enemy being awar...
June 08, 2023 at 22:43
So what is the source of the 21 thousand troops in the northern campaign OTHER than multiplying 31 BTGs by about 700? Because that one does not work, ...
June 08, 2023 at 21:12
:) Yes, that is a quite reasonable conclusion for BTGs, given that their logistics is pretty basic and they need to rely in their tasks on other force...
June 08, 2023 at 19:30
If 31 BTGs = 21 000 is pretty solid, then 1 BTG = is about 670 is also pretty solid. We can learn that, if we use division on those very numbers: 2100...
June 08, 2023 at 19:01
Nobody claims that they had large territorial goals - they were supposed to take the capital and major cities - every move they made confirms that. Th...
June 08, 2023 at 17:43
You were already given many clues what their aims might be: Putin's speech, claims of propagandists, the order of the battle etc. You just ignore them...
June 08, 2023 at 15:52
No, it does not, for the reasons I have already explained and which you are not even trying to engage. Do you believe that getting 15 thousand troops ...
June 08, 2023 at 15:19
But obviously Russians DID try to commit more forces, that is why they moved their 60 km column. The fact that it was unable to sustain its movements ...
June 08, 2023 at 14:11
I have looked at other sources and indeed the number of thirty plus BTGs might refer to the northern campaign (without Kharkiv). Given that the initia...
June 08, 2023 at 12:55
The sources you quote list 31 BTGs ona single salient. I am talking about the total number of troops involved in the northern campaign. It is estimate...
June 08, 2023 at 12:12
This is the number engaged on 26th of February, which does not comprise the whole northern force. As you seem to accept Wikipedia as credible, here is...
June 08, 2023 at 10:00
And claiming that the battle of Kiev was a 'diversion' is not laughable? You have failed to actually address any points I have mentioned, you just rep...
June 07, 2023 at 21:28
A diversion? That theory does not fit the facts - you do not send your best paratroopers to be decimated in a diversion. You do not commit the bulk of...
June 07, 2023 at 20:33
So your narrative is that 20000 of Russian troops were just on a stroll in the vicinity of Kiev? That the battle of Kiev, was actually not a battle of...
June 07, 2023 at 20:11
The plan was to take Kiev, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Odessa, possibly Dnipro. If it suceeded, there would be little to no resistance, as the ...
June 07, 2023 at 19:27
The really significant difference is that the middle men are pocketing the lion's share of the profits, so Russia is getting paid much less. And it is...
June 07, 2023 at 08:29
It makes little sense to base projections on 2022, in which Russia indeed had a short surge due to short-lived spike of gas and oil prices and inabili...
June 06, 2023 at 08:25
This reply is completely irrelevant to my post, which pointed out the factual inaccuracies in your previous post. That is why I will reply to this one...
June 06, 2023 at 06:39
Sorry, I did not answer your questions, because I have realized that I might have misunderstood you and we might be talking past each other. It should...
June 05, 2023 at 17:55
Let us clear something up first. Most people with AIS have XY chromosomes. If you send their genome to a geneticist, he would tell you they are male, ...
June 05, 2023 at 08:20
The whole discussion started with my objection to your claim that 'sex' is objective. If your claim now is that 'sex' is 'what we divide by' and we pi...
June 04, 2023 at 19:17
1. That is exactly my point. Your claim is that transgenderism is NOT a result of biological expression of sex difference - how can you be sure? 2. Th...
June 04, 2023 at 17:59
Not if attraction to women is just one biological feature that aligns with features typically attributed to men and her other psychological features a...
June 04, 2023 at 14:38
Then you are inconsistent in your definitions – you treat physical sex expression in genitals differently than physical sex expression in a brain.
June 04, 2023 at 13:38
But you just assume that transgender people are not transsexual, because 'the society does not care about brains'. We were supposed to talk about obje...
June 04, 2023 at 10:22
If we agree that different parts of the body can have different expressions, how do we actually know whether a person is fully expressed as a man? Jus...
June 03, 2023 at 17:32
Exceptions are important in demarcating the differences, if sex is supposed to be objective. As i see it, objectively, there are two possible cases: 1...
June 03, 2023 at 14:54
I must disagree. While indeed most androgen insensitivy syndromes are genetically based, it does not mean that their genotype itself is not male or fe...
June 03, 2023 at 13:43
One look at the map is enough to see that the above is not true. The Sloviansk/Kramatorsk complex is much bigger than Bakhmut and much better defended...
June 03, 2023 at 12:54
Hello, this is my first post, so apologies if I do something incorrectly (I did read the site guidelines)! I would disagree with the OP claim that sex...
June 03, 2023 at 11:55