How? I think Biden has backed up Ukraine since the start. He actually made the intel reports public that Russia was going to attack Ukraine. I remembe...
Spite? I think that Americans were quite unhappy with inflation, that actually was caused by deliberate policies starting with Trump, but effectively ...
If hotheads like you would be given the say how to fight the war, sure. The objective would be to get pleasure from seeking revenge, which is an emoti...
Ammo dumps are far larger than a side of a barn. Or you mean top of a barn? Besides, as the solid fuel propellants of the missiles go old, old invento...
Do note what I said: The ATACMS was developed in the 1980's. It has inertial guidance just as nearly all long range missile artillery systems have, ev...
So Bibi got a court order: And it seems that Bibi is really willing to take Israel to a dark place. But UN, ICC and other institutions don't matter fo...
Again dismissive lies about the Ukrainians. Ukrainians can use the MLRS system, and why wouldn't the US give them satellite imaginary? And they do hav...
Putin talk. Also, that Ukraine itself isn't an agent deciding it's own action is straight from the Kremlin narrative. The manufacturer of a weapon sys...
Even if Russia fired a ICBM into Ukraine with a conventional charge (pretty expensive going there), I think that Europe survives. Even Ukraine too. I ...
AND the insurance companies make a profit in everything. That also puts the price up. Now some might argue that Trumps 10% tariffs on everybody else a...
What I don't understand is why Trump voters are so eager to have more inflation. Talk about the obsession of having more sales taxes and making things...
Well, comes to mind a small curious anecdote: one of the longest conflicts happened between Sweden and San Marino. You see the tiny nation of San Mari...
To put it simply: Only American soldiers sent to a war on another continent see and feel the war. Many in civilian life in Continental US don't even k...
Deporting millions of working people will simply mean an economic downturn. I mean. this is just Silly-talk from Trump. 11 million is 3,2% of the US p...
There are no forever wars. All wars, even the Hundred years war, came to an end. The longest conflict that are going are the Kurdish insurgencies. Ano...
If Trump wants peace, he has to understand that Putin will accept peace only if continuing the war would be far worse, even fatal, than accepting the ...
What provocation or escalation is attacking ammo dumps? It's totally logical to destroy the ammo dumps of the enemy. It's not that Ukraine is doing pu...
No, It isn't. Ukrainians are totally capable using those weapon systems themselves. Besides, Ukraine has had cruise missiles and artillery missiles fo...
Exactly. Remember that then in Cuba it was Nuclear weapons themselves in Cuba that caused the uproar. Conventional Scuds (which were new during that t...
People of the UK are Europeans, actually. :wink: To have peace, simply prepare for war: Si vis pacem, parabellum. Deterrence stops Putin. Appeasement ...
Or then just leave the service. Let somebody else do the job that is better capable. Just go to your job at McDonalds or the supermarket. They have no...
The real fight is about influence. Russian tanks won't be physically occupying West European Capitals. (Theoretically they could go "as peacekeepers" ...
Well, Ukraine didn't wait for long. First ATACMs attack on an ammo dump in Karachev. Which Putin says that NATO and the US are fighting Russia (While ...
I agree with this. Putin doesn't care a shit about economics or the economy. He didn't care when the Russo-Georgian war started, he doesn't care now. ...
Don't think that Europeans aren't taking Trump seriously. They genuinely believe that Trump and his gang could take the US out of NATO. It's a genuine...
Finland and Sweden in my view waited for the right moment. Before 2022 there simply wouldn't have been a consensus to join NATO. If a conservative adm...
Let's then just think about this. South Korea produces a lot of stuff. I personally like K-pop. The country is finally a democracy after the 1980's an...
From the experience of Bosnia and the Balkans, the US Armed forces understood what it would take. And Chief of Staff of the Army general Eric Shinshek...
Hah! I wanted to use the Hitler card. :grin: (Ok, sorry, back to having an interesting discussion...) Yet the issue really is just what for example Uk...
When both the US and North Korea have nuclear weapons, then the question would this: How many Americans and what percentage of North Koreans populatio...
Why say that? You haven't made things worse. They would be far worse without you. Remember that the US is actually very popular in Europe. Was then de...
Would the UK even want that? I don't think so. Britons are past their Empire. They've accepted it. Even can laugh at it like Monty Python. Just like t...
Ever heard of the UN? Something like the Security Council is what humans can possibly do. Two nation states can become one (even if that usually is a ...
The last US win, the Gulf War, is very telling here. First, the US created a huge coalition, which had as it's members countries like Syria (one armou...
Well, you could also have a long list of when Russia has attacked it's neighbors. After all, it was Catherine the Great who said "I have no way to def...
The World definetly doesn't need an Emperor. Centralized powers have their weaknesses. Far better is that there's simply countries that tolerate each ...
The attitude of Putin towards democracy and democratic leadership with term limits is shown perfectly clearly in this comment. Something that people s...
Thanks, @"TClark". This is the line that has been discussed again and again especially the Ukraine war thread (which btw started before the large scal...
Perhaps for Dick Cheney and Haliburton, but not for the North Vietnamese soldier fighting the Americans. Or the young Afghan men that we called the Ta...
How delusional are these people? Which Criminal Organizations they are talking about? Which Weaponized Government? Might not be speaking of the DoD. R...
Nearly a month has gone from the last commentary on this thread. It seems quite bleak for Ukraine at this time. As still a lot of things can happen, t...
legitimate, legal and accepted by the people as I tried to convey. But we have to still remember that violence is still violence, even if we hope that...
Actually a very interesting commentary on Trump's future administration. Speaking to an Australian crowd, Niall Ferguson makes a well thought argument...
Well, I view anarcho-capitalist libertarianism as a prime example how once a successful ideology (that is liberalism here in question) has achieved it...
Lack of competition of what? The legality of the laws and legal system? I think Max Weber understood correctly what is at stake with a state and with ...
If over 90% of the people belonged to the same church, why not? Besides, nothing makes people less religious than you make the religion something clos...
Of course, If you have a thread called "In Support of Western Supremacy, Nationalism, and Imperialism." sooner or later it becomes a Trump thread. The...
State religion. The Monarch being the head of the Church should make it obvious. Lol. Nobody that doesn't belong to the church isn't forced to partici...
That's totally reasonable. But not all things are so easy to buy as the service when your lightbulb has gone out. Safety and the perception of safety ...
I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean the act against the "instrumentalization of migration", where Finland cut the rights to asylum seekers if pres...
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