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I remember someone eagerly quoting articles from 2014, when the right-sector had fought on the streets of Kyiv yet had not lost in the elections (whic...

But seems like not to some. :wink:

Yes it was. But notice how eagerly it was employed even on this thread by some very active participants.

The illiterate....

Nonsense. If his country is attacked, it is totally logical for him to try to get as much assistance. That's the urge for a no-fly-zone earlier in the...

At least he's not the US President, so you likely won't have every media outlet repeating what outrageous tweet he made last night. Republicans should...

Of course not! I'm implying that if there is an unfortunate accident, let's say Russian aircraft shoots down a NATO aircraft of vice versa, things won...

The idea of one incident then leading to another and then leading to WW3 is the typical unreasonable scaremongering of some. But it's quite natural th...

I think it's pretty obvious that their casualties and overall losses have been substantial. If the US military is estimating about 100 000 casualties ...

This seems to be the most likely scenario. And that Zelensky had a stupid gaffe that he is now backtracking. And one should note, this wasn't the firs...

Impossible. They aren't the Dutch. (Btw, thanks for the Leopard 2 tanks and the MLRS systems you sold us.)

We surely have seen that. And hence as you cannot comprehend them, your views aren't much worth of discussion. Just gaze at your own navel.

I disagree. Your attitude is Western hubris in short (assuming that Ukrainians wouldn't fight if it wasn't for the West). I think the Ukrainians would...

So you think the Soviet Union would have gone fine on with unlimited weapons armament during the Cold War. One fifth going to defense spending wouldn'...

Basically both sides are simply forced to make agreements. And this is with this war in Ukraine too. Negotiations will be successful if both sides, Pu...

And cooler heads seem to have prevailed.

:smile: Yeah. And the center-left has also a quite familiar agenda too. We have the left and the right in politics, you see. Really? Lol. How much did...

It relates in the way that even if you have parties, it's actually difficult to know just what a candidate stands for even if there belong to parties....

? Russia, or Putin and the five men or so who decided to escalate this to an all out war, didn't get what they wanted. That was basically shown in the...

Term limits is smart, but it's another issue. But if new group are formed after each election, that could be detrimental also: you simply wouldn't kno...

You saying that makes me feel optimistic about the political right in the US. Insanity has to come to end sometime.

Democrats holding the Senate is a huge win for them and a loss for Republicans. I think finally the GOP can come back to it's senses. Trump is a losin...

The Russians surely didn't give ground for free. They avoided a possible encirclement of their forces. There's nothing odd at that. Remember that the ...

What is odd? The reasonable explanation is that Russia cannot simply supply a force of tens of thousands of troops over the precarious few bridges (th...

The Soviet Union couldn't continue the arms race and actually did collapse partly because of it (even if Americans tend to overemphasize this). Soviet...

Where do you get this idea? By what judgement you made this idea that Russia gave a "guarantee"? The Ukrainians had made it impossible for Russia to s...

Nothing new, but dramatic changes can happen. Alexandra Polinova from the now banned Memorial said the obvious: it is actually Russia that needs to de...

First and foremost, this is a sabre rattling response to Russia's sabre rattling, the potential use of nuclear weapons with conventional forces. And t...

At least the discussion of talks shows that there might be a deadlock in the battlefield. I agree. The war can still continue. Also crossing the Dniep...

"I have to remind you again - for those deaf ears who hear only themselves. Russia has the right to use nuclear weapons if necessary," Medvedev said, ...

First of all, don't get angry. Perhaps the title of the thread was a bit confusing. Notice the site guidelines and follow them and Baden shouldn't be ...

As pointed out, there isn't actually credible nuclear ransom. The US or NATO isn't fighting Russia. Russia isn't attacking the supply lines in Poland....

I think the real problem arrives when there obviously should be the same premises, like in natural sciences. Some chemical reaction (etc.) happens or ...

I'm not sure what was the problem with that??? Why indeed was it removed? Before this is removed, I just like to comment: Yes, basically when we have ...

Again a strawman. It's not that we shouldn't worry about escalation. I've pointed way earlier the potential danger of the "Escalate to De-escalate" -d...

Going just to ad hominems shows that you don't know much if anything. But I guess when your line has been to attack the Ukrainians as being neonazis a...

The primary problem in my view in the US is the two-party system. I think that Trump was symptom of this as is the "perpetual leftist candidacy" of Be...

And my country doesn't have a real right wing party. All countries have a specific history that has molded the political landscape to be what it is, h...

You should understand how nuclear deterrence works. And just how lousy the weapon is, actually.

Put people into the shoes of Americans, and many would vote for Republicans. All those Bolzonaro's, Viktor Orban's etc. show that too much left libera...

Unfortunately nearly every article behind a paywall. One article by Mearsheimer, well, he was right in the 1990's about Ukraine giving up it's nuclear...

A Good informative comment. Of course we have to remember that during the late Soviet times " ideological messaging from the top was amorphous, incons...

Obviously as there are so rare. But when you take all of the mass shootings, then you can obviously see that something has changed. Naturally just wha...

Compared to what era? I think the 60's and 70's were still far more violent. https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/VOH-weekly-br...

What recent Batman movies remind me was of the incredible scare that Joker would provoke people to riot. Well, it provoked people to go and see a good...

Inflammatory rant has been in US politics for a long time. That's not the problem. To live in an alternative reality is the problem. The scary thing i...

:100: :grin:

This is true and sad. Hopefully the end will be such humiliating that the kind of nonsense will finally be brushed off. Yet that might be too much to ...

Russia has a long history of similar views of Putin and Patrushev (or Dugin). We often forget that either the Mensheviks or the Bolsheviks weren't the...

A far more deadlier conflict came hopefully to an end with successful peace talks just now. Ukraine likely hasn't yet reached similar numbers of kille...