Actually no. He said he was going to defeat ISIS and basically he is withdrawing well before that has been truly accomplished. But guess who was naive...
Sometimes, if you back the winning side of the war. Of course it's a delicate thing to handle as people in the intervened country can have a long memo...
Not only capitalism and a free economy. Also you need strong institutions, political stability, a rule of law and a justice state, which are necessary...
There is nothing escalatory or basically different as those views do not differ from past administrations. It's you that is in denial here or simply i...
And what on Earth is wrong with those views? First of all, He's the secretary of defence of the Trump administration. It's his job to talk about possi...
Do you? Or is it just because there are over 300 million of you? Foreign aid given Per Capita 1. Norway $812.58 2. Sweden $701.10 3. Luxembourg $609.4...
Why? I don't. You see Mattis is your basic general who basically represents the normal US geopolitic strategy. And these strategists typically want to...
Not just these two countries. When some country disintegrates to civil war, there has been this lure historically (and still is) for other countries t...
Simply put it, Afghanistan has been extremely weak and divided after the civil war erupted after the Saur revolution in 1978. And not only it has been...
Mattis can retire very happily as I think he's the only person that has served in the Trump administration that hasn't gotten a stain on his career fr...
From the article: Now this of course was a joke. But many times similar "minor caveats" are admitted to various "scientific" tests where some agenda i...
That very likely is the truth. The war hasn't gone anywhere, for example this year the US and the small Afghani Air Force have dropped more bombs in A...
Yep. Mattis just get fed up with Agent Trumpov. His resign letter tells it clearly: no "Thank You" for Trumpov, who obviously doesn't care about US al...
This is true. For example, this is why Russia is so against the EU and would be extremely happy if it dissolved. Any European country alone isn't at a...
The EU was simply an awesome idea as an union for commerce. It's hideous as a vehicle for political union especially if the objective is some kind of ...
You are correct. The real winner of the Eurozone is naturally Germany. You see, during the old times when countries had their separate currencies, the...
Some Americans just don't understand what exports (or trade) mean to other countries. You just produce for yourselves and get the rest as imports from...
Great powers exist. And even small countries can be very hypocrite and have double standards, because states are utterly selfish in the end. Somehow m...
There you go. Gotcha! And that's why WISDOMfromPO-MO so apologetically added to his (or her???) OP that " I should probably add that somebody who is r...
Reading this thread comes to my mind the following thought: when will one specific hated and historically quite often persecuted minority be given the...
One thing is to get journalists themselves educated before anybody starts a disinformation campaign. Disinformation is most effective when people cann...
How many options were there? Yep. Sometimes what people say they thought earlier is actually what they thought earlier. Yet my point here is that US m...
Well, even if Malthus obviously contributed a lot, there was going on a revolution in agriculture in England, so he could have perhaps seen something ...
Trump surely isn't coerced, he was a willing partner here. After all, who could know that one of the main missions of the FBI is to keep taps on the a...
Handpicked Yeltsin??? Where on Earth do you get that idea? Did Clinton handpick Yeltsin to climb on a tank in front of the White House (the Russian on...
Up to a point demography is very accurate: that is when you make estimates going two three decades from now. This is obvious as the population that ma...
Great powers do that. They do influence especially smaller countries in their "sphere of influence". For example France meddles a lot in the politics ...
Please do check then and correct me if I'm wrong. Yet please understand how Russia works and how different it is from other countries. It's peacetime ...
People want to believe in doomsday hypotheses? Anyway, Germany built only 22 A7V tanks and some other prototypes, hence likely reasoning of the small ...
Likely some countries would want to clone their best athletes. If it would be allowed. With intelligence it isn't so straight forward as different peo...
Unknown? Really? Perhaps it might be even worse, but that it has happened is quite clear already. It was perhaps unclear in 2016, when Trump's apprais...
That the Russians have leverage over the US President and the president is compromised like this is the most outstanding intelligence coup of all time...
Perhaps with numbers and mathematics one should stick to the logic of math itself and not bother about physical time and physical doing, of what kind ...
I think that Putin plays his game brilliantly. Thanks to his earlier life as a career spy, who rose to be the director of the FSB. And he has a clear ...
I don't think so. I think age limits portray quite well how permissive and non-permissive the society is and how our societies have changed. Usually e...
I think that people have difficulties understand basically "agendas" and "bias" that media typically has. How these "agendas" can come out is simply l...
(I'll continue the response here as the answer was getting too long and the Computer for some reason was getting slow.) Naturally a lot of investment ...
Labour unions can haggle wage increases in whole sectors. Real wages just mean that you take into account inflation, and the crucial part then is not ...
What you mean by this? The last time the US experience high inflation was at the start of the 1980's and afterwards inflation has been low. Hence slow...
Although I'm not a leftist, one obvious reason for slow wage growth in the US is the small and shrinking role trade unions have had in the country. Th...
I would emphasis the part "very symbolic" as it has far more to do with symbolism than anything else. The fear that Americans have of their own govern...
Why on Earth, sorry, Universe you need a Monarch? This reasoning I don't understand: Do you know how rare it is for democracies go to war with each ot...
Humans look for and notice patterns. That's what we are wired to do. It's evident in the reaction we have when we see something totally new: we'll say...
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