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I guess they have a reason to that. But of course Hollywood will be there. People living their life and caring of their children and elders, attending...

Economy in the West has slowed. But I think here is that our debt-based monetary system is to blame. The problem is that the debt is not used for just...

And I think the part that it's a landfill tell it's well. But simply in the times of drones, ATGMs, instant artillery and good Ground Based Air Defenc...

Yep. It has come to that. That's why I also think that this war can easily now expand. Notice in the actual war of Independence that total lack of any...

I think it would be proper to list just what are those tipping points 2000-2020 that haven't been around earlier. And I presume that for what you have...

And as when the media is just talking about the two carrier groups to be positioned on the Mediterranean, one should note also this: If the US or the ...

Being successful in war doesn't give it either, but you do get the land. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSxxoFHMew64a6kXuUDN4oXf...

And yet the act of humaneness is especially needed the most in a war. The killing fields is especially where you shouldn't forget basic humanity, even...

Quite incredible statistics, actually.

When I visited Moscow during the second last year of the Soviet Union a lived with a Muscovite family, the father was Jewish and I remember his passpo...

In my view, it's quite close that this conflict will enlargen. Iran is using it's proxies. It's like a creeping start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I think that @"Benkei" and actually many others, including Western states do have questions if really Israel's standards are the same as ours. Many co...

On the contrary. The idea of "our society" having come to the climax and we've seen the swan song and from here it's just way down is an extremely pop...

This is true. One is fighting for survival, one for limited objectives. A small anecdote: when Hamas attacked Israel you had many reports of Israeli r...

Ok. So, after thousands of years where there indeed has been improvement, you think we are so special that right now is that time, that this NOW is th...

Overtime? Well, here will be the really huge problems, which will be quite important. After this the open air prison of Gaza cannot be just excluded l...

Ok, I got mixed up, I thought you were referring to this below, which you weren't. Case cleared.

Have done it all the time when discussing events with you. :snicker:

Yep, and that's why you don't get what actually happens in the World. And so does John Marblesheimer. After all, who care about EU and the West Europe...

Without the US, Russia has quite a say in Europe. Finlandization could come back as be trendy. And of course there is a new armaments program going on...

Wrong. Putin at his start tried to foster close ties with Europe. On his terms, of course. And unlike many think, there were indeed those close ties. ...

Positive? Hmm.. :chin: Might be something in the air...

Wrong thread...

Seems like John has lost his marbles, or simply gets his money from Putin nowdays: the idea of Russia being an ally of the against China is totally de...

To continue, the real issue here is what Israel really will do afterwards, if it wants to wipe out Hamas altogether. Again the lessons learned from th...

From the article you posted: Now how do you do that? Well, here's one example what US armed forces did before capturing an Iraqi city held by insurgen...

Uh, just where do you think people of Gaza have been living after 1967? Did they live under the same laws as Israelis? No. Have they had the same righ...

At least Azeris are happy, they got the Nagorno-Karabakh to themselves and the Armenians there are fleeing (or have left) the place. That conflict is ...

We usually have this difficulty of seeing someone or especially a country as both perpetrators and victims. For many, for some reason, it is very trou...

And in which religion murder wouldn't be a sin? Those religions with human sacrifices have dissappeared, and even they didn't that you can randomly mu...

Just two aircraft carriers is rare and basically a two carrier battle group is a wartime deployment. Four would basically mean all possible carriers o...

If the real intent is to kill civilians, then both are morally equivalent. Yet armament factories ought not to be in the same place where civilians li...

Thanks for the correction, I'm not so familiar with different sects of Israel. As now the US has retaliated on attacks on it's forces by attacking the...

So US has now made strike into two bases in Syria used by Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

I would dare to say that simply using google or any search engine is similar use of "augmented" intelligence. I still wouldn't think either search eng...

Especially when these it's these people that then the IDF has to safeguard in the occupied territories. I remember a great French documentary about th...

No, actually it comes down to my example of why reindeer meat is so far much healthier having less fat and many vitamins etc. than any domesticated an...

Fortunately the Jewish religious zealots aren't so deadly towards Christians as the Muslim religious zealots are towards them in many other Middle Eas...

How on Earth would it be so? The world has very few native wild herbivore compared to domesticated animals. And above all, why would you need reindeer...

I think that has seriosly been taken place for well over 150 years.

Some Christians might be OK in Israel, I guess. Assuming that they know their place... https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/c_fill,g_...

Yeah, once lab meat costs one tenth of the meat traditionally produced by animal husbandry, you know what you will be eating in a BigMac at McDonalds....

Actually, this isn't only limited to your favorite country that you hang around in. For example the Swedish government is worried about the rising ant...

Well, if we make a simple extrapolation from the present how now "woke" society condemns history, It may be possible for these kind of attitudes will ...

I think duels were usually not looked well upon. Totally different from how fighting well in war is respected. But yes, war and warfare is one of the ...

Umm, actually ISIL and Tamil Tigers actually were destroyed. There was no "peace deal" with them in the end. Of the end of the Tamil Tigers: With ISIL...

Sorry, but to kill over 1400 civilians, you really have to make the effort. It's not just civilians getting into crossfire and a conditional that "som...

And do you believe that Netanyahu has really a "strategic plan for a two state solution"? I think his strategic plan is to talk about a two state solu...

I don't think they have any desire to do anything on behalf of Israel, that's for sure. Just like Egypt won't assist Israel on Nakba II and take the c...

Not all prosperous societies are American. :snicker: Actually he was a professor of moral philosophy. That and logic is what he taught for a living. A...