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The argument was that the US somehow stopped peacetalks while the re-invasion of Ukraine was not even a month old. - Now the war is over one year old ...
July 19, 2023 at 20:18
I’ve noticed, actually in other threads also, that the most frail, most weakest arguments rely on advocating the expertize of the person who is quoted...
July 19, 2023 at 20:01
Again and again several people have given sensible and well thought refutations on just why they disagree with your opinion and have showed the bias o...
July 18, 2023 at 05:59
Ahhh!!! The deep insightful wisdom of Jeffrey Sachs, Mearsheimer & co. We are not worthy! https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/72/9/34713523-notworthy.jpg
July 17, 2023 at 18:11
Perhaps the sneaking in part isn’t so easy? My guess is that the missiles or rockets they use simply don’t pack the punch to demolish such large struc...
July 17, 2023 at 17:58
Great point! Unfortunately in the school and even in the university science and especially math isn’t taught like this: how not only the mathematician...
July 17, 2023 at 17:31
An interesting an multifaceted question. I think the total acceptance and normalization isn’t beneficial. Going to brothel shouldn’t be as normal as g...
July 17, 2023 at 17:00
Seems that the Ukrainians attacked the Kerch bridge again.
July 17, 2023 at 15:59
Your right. It isn’t odd. And if we would be discussing war that was in Afghanistan or the war still continuing in Yemen etc, suddenly we would have a...
July 17, 2023 at 15:52
Jeffrey Sachs is an economist, actually. And has written about povetry. And now is rather famous for his pro-Russian and pro-Chinese views. And the re...
July 17, 2023 at 15:14
And on what terms were they (the Russians) negotiating with the neonazis they were meant to denazify back then? Apart from the anti-US stance where ev...
July 16, 2023 at 23:46
Scarcely a month into the war Russia was speaking of denazification of Ukraine and on the offensive, so your argument that it was Washington’s ego tha...
July 16, 2023 at 18:23
Seems like Sweden is finally getting into NATO. All of this wouldn’t have been possible without Putin.
July 10, 2023 at 22:27
Lukashenko says Prigozhin is in St Petersburg. I think this mutiny hasn’t reached it’s conclusion yet.
July 06, 2023 at 23:59
It’s an interesting issue, but perhaps on another thread about US-Chinese tensions. Hope we don’t have a thread like ”The war in Taiwan” in the future...
July 06, 2023 at 23:52
As one can say that the war started in 2014, it’s still quite some time to be as long as the 30-years war. But likely the high tempo of this conventio...
July 06, 2023 at 23:49
In that case guess he has good chances with the hard-core Republicas, I guess.
July 06, 2023 at 16:59
So the Russians have mined the nuclear power plant. Luckily winds can blow to the east and northeast. But if Putin really wants to create a wasteland…
July 06, 2023 at 16:49
Again something telling from Biden administration: today it was formally announced that Biden is visiting Finland. Yet it did ’t come as a surprise as...
July 02, 2023 at 16:36
A very good, detailed synopsis of what just happened: https://youtu.be/tP8VPkWXOfU Also goes well through what a coup is (which has been debated here)...
July 02, 2023 at 16:04
Seems you have no understanding of how NATO works.
July 01, 2023 at 19:27
That talks before Feb 24th show this quite obviously. It wouldn’t have been Hungary, it would also have been Germany. Just as a decade earlier the Wik...
June 30, 2023 at 19:14
Yes, haha, that’s the perpetual problem in pushing your borders further for ”protection” and ”safety”.
June 30, 2023 at 19:02
A simple show of force by Russia would have put Ukrainian aspirations to NATO into limbo. Just like the Turkey’s aspirations into EU are. NATO isn’t t...
June 30, 2023 at 18:49
Again what is revealed is that a) NATO isn’t a rubber stamp for US policy, which again and again has disappointed Washington and b) a lot has happened...
June 30, 2023 at 18:35
A good question then would be: What is left out when we dismiss both feminine and masculine traits of a human? I think far too many human characters a...
June 29, 2023 at 14:35
According to Biden, Putin is losing in Iraq.
June 29, 2023 at 14:25
Surovikin was with Prigozhin in Syria and the two worked well together. Hence Surovikin is in jail. What is very likely true is that Prigozhin had at ...
June 29, 2023 at 14:11
Why would there be troops defending a city deep in Russia when Ukrainians are nowhere near Rostov? Air Defence unit perhaps could be found there, but ...
June 28, 2023 at 18:49
Has it disbanded? So why on Earth the weak timid response then from Putin and the references to 1917 and civil war? How many Russian politicians backe...
June 28, 2023 at 14:49
Let’s think what a mutiny is: simply a force that disobeys orders or won’t follow orders is basically a mutiny. Seizing the military HQ in Rostov, sho...
June 28, 2023 at 00:30
Katrina Doxsee isn’t CSIS. And then everything said before and after doesn’t at all give your impression. And then there is whar Putin has said about ...
June 27, 2023 at 23:59
1957, 1991, …1825?
June 27, 2023 at 23:24
And naturally of ownership and staus in the community. For starters, people behave differently to things and propertty if they a) own it, b) if they r...
June 27, 2023 at 18:46
Well, Yeltsin needed only to climb on an IFV and give a speech. And then all those milloin of troops (then, actually million) and their official leade...
June 27, 2023 at 18:20
Yeah, maybe shooting down helicopters is just a form of protest.
June 27, 2023 at 18:05
Exactly: the countries embraced it. But those who fell under Russian rule didn’t, as is obvious. If you have problems in seeing the obvious difference...
June 27, 2023 at 17:51
It’s been said that Putin fled to St Petersburgh. Of course it’s a rumour. History will be written later.
June 26, 2023 at 06:42
Humiliate those in power, I guess. The establishment was already trying to contain him and Wagner. And do notice the enthusiastic response he got in R...
June 26, 2023 at 06:33
he has been building his brand for a long time. Or have you seen antbody else from the Russian leaders at the front, talking next to his fallen men ab...
June 25, 2023 at 22:47
Lol, wasn’t Trump?
June 25, 2023 at 22:42
Prigozhin can now tell the truth, like there was no genocide against Russians in Donbas by Nazi Ukrainians etc. If he survives, he can perhaps be the ...
June 25, 2023 at 22:18
Wagner troops occupied a HQ in Rostov. Hence if forces would have been deployed against the Wagner forces, the likely place of combat would have been ...
June 25, 2023 at 18:46
The coup was stoppable…but likely would have ruined Rostov and weakened Russia internally even more. Putin and his chef avoided that debacle, but this...
June 25, 2023 at 12:45
Now the role of the Wagner group is really akward. Their usefullness is quite questionable.
June 25, 2023 at 08:19
Actually Putin referred to 1917 in his speech, so he is already using the dolchstoss argument.
June 24, 2023 at 08:03
Besides, Putin has now the perfect ”Dolchstoss” reason just why the war in Ukraine went bad. He can forget now Ukraine. Internal security is more impo...
June 24, 2023 at 07:38
Quite the opposite. Russia can sign peace, just as made peace with Japan (during the Russo-Japanese war), with Germany (WW1) or Poland (Polish-Soviet ...
June 24, 2023 at 07:30
This is an important question perhaps only in sports. Otherwise the discourse reeks to a media frenzy, politics and at worst transphobia. Testosterone...
June 21, 2023 at 21:53
Isn't overcoming your worst failings one of your greatest triumphs? It's not that your celebrating your existing failings, like an "Holiday for income...
June 21, 2023 at 21:09