How about and It only shows you've not read much about Russian history, Russian politics or Russian security policy. Like the fact that in Russian mil...
And just how few years ago exoplanets were a hypothesis? I guess some 30 years ago, but I'm not sure just when it was generally accepted that we had p...
And this is the reason why you get a country like Sweden to throw away it's 200 year neutrality, that it has avoided both WW1 and WW2. Finland tried l...
What??? That's your counter line? If he spoke with the ghost of Mullah Omar, the deal he made was really a surrender. Yeah, right. Listening to the WH...
? Finland or the Baltic States, or Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechia, Slovakia, Crotia etc. have not had colonies. Russia has been and one can argue...
Well, we've finally seen the ugly head of inflation come up and take a place in the World economy. Hence the monetary policy and the spending during t...
And to say something positive about Trump, he did scare the Europeans into thinking of raising the defense expenditure (far more better than Obama had...
Uhh... the German people and others too, I guess. So much, that they still have these Hitler-Welles of every generation asking just what the hell hape...
I saw on a Finnish fortress island in 2002 maxim machine guns still in stock, and now they have been finally taken away. If you have water and bullets...
The leadership qualities of Trump can be seen just how effective he was when he had also the legislative branch in control, with both houses with a Re...
Thanks for very interesting links! In the first graph about military personnel, this refers to peacetime and not the present. I've heard that basicall...
How have we made an enemy "for no reason"? Putin chose to annex territory from Ukraine when Ukraine was suffering from a revolution. Then last year he...
And thus the decision to do this would be just bizarre. First and foremost, we discuss these issues here to understand them. We discuss here a lot of ...
Unfortunately that's one of the saddest reasons incompetent populists do get elected. People will fall for the boisterous guy who declares the "He can...
Reasons for voting Trump are like these. Yeah, he was a protest vote. And it doesn't count to vote for Donald Duck. (A fictional cartoon duck might be...
OK, so you don't like the establishment the establishment, Washington, the 4th estate, the political dynasties, and their stooges on the world stage. ...
Apart from Trump personally adoring Putin, the pro-Russian stance of the Trump team was actually very brief and basically when Trump was running for o...
This would be the proper antidote. And politically it's totally impossible. Perhaps the money that people have in banks should be secured. That actual...
Oh it was the Fed. It simply wasn't in the news. Only later we found out that the whole financial system had been close to collapsing. And just how mu...
Russia is a police state and has firm control of it's citizens. If it's GDP actually goes down 15%, it doesn't matter for Putin. Sanctions and economi...
I think the Fed is now busy saving the banking system... again. And with that of course, it doesn't have to be worried about the money having the same...
One interesting remark came from retired Lt. General Ben Hodges in an interview. His thought was that assuming Ukraine gets enough support from the We...
In the examples what @"neomac " gave about the Bellingcat critique on Sy Hersh, I noticed the following. Small world, isn't it. Well, I think Sy Hersh...
You should understand that this thread is the general thread about the war. So I'll rephrase my point that you understand. We others can talk about wh...
One of the catastrophic decisions that China made was the one-child policy. It has been well shown that if the prosperity of the people rises, then pe...
Uhhh... :roll: Peraps you shouldn't go all in with the conspiracy theory. Authorities intervening in the housing market usually backfires. This happen...
If you aren't willing to discuss the role of Russian politics, Ukrainian politics or other European countries, then just step aside then when others d...
I agree. Objectivity isn't limited to the scientific method used in natural sciences. With an engineer, who designs a machine for some intended purpos...
Right, this argument is basically that the only thing important to us is to influence our own governments and since we aren't nationals of foreign cou...
And with Taiwan, the question is about the Chinese civil war. Interestingly, only 13 countries (which are usually tiny states) have full diplomatic re...
To my mind, this was a really great OP on this forum. Thank you, @"Jamal" In the 19th Century they had a far more apt name for economics. They called ...
Ah! Wishful thinking. Or should I say that you have an optimist view of the US justice system? Well, belief in the system keeps it up, as they say. Th...
Trump not getting the candidacy of the GOP and then going third party and making sure that the Dems win would be a very likely, logical way how things...
So everyone that opposes Western governments is put on a pedestal and hailed, because they oppose Western governments and their actions are "understoo...
Above everything, it's Ukraine's leaderships choice to come to an agreement of a cease-fire or terms for peace. Naturally Russia portrays Ukraine as a...
I have known for a long while that you don't want an actual conversation. I think others have noticed it too with you. Again an example of your curiou...
U Well, the real issue here (from anti-war.com article): ...is just what those peace terms are. Russia simply should exit from Ukraine, including Crim...
The future is the only thing real, along with the fleeing moment that we call present. The past, well, it's existence is defined differently. We are j...
Garry Kasparov hitting the point when it comes to Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReUdUc5GBVo Especially what he says starting 12:50 should be...
Oh that's your argument for how you judge comments: from thei relevant academic qualifications. Well, that what I call putting people on a pedestal an...
Glenn Grant made a thorough and good critical article about the weaknesses about the Ukrainian armed forces (see Glen Grant. 2023 – a time and chance ...
Again nonsense. You have to check the sources and verification and not judge / dismiss them just by looking at what the source is. US has it's agenda,...
The question was, would you really need a state actor to do this sabotage or not. If only a state actor can do it, I guess then that means that no pri...
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