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Here's an surprisingly good take on the tactical nuclear weapons -question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTFyMBeG9oE Discusses also their potential...

I don't think that the Taliban wanted the US to come after them. I think Al Qaeda wanted for the US to come after them. And you hit the nail here. 3 0...

The question is, do you use the DOJ/FBI/CIA or do you invade and occupy a country? In fact, even the Reagan/Clinton answer of punitive strikes into th...

That's the myth that those promoted War-on-Terror told us. Deterring terrorist attack hasn't happened by fighting the Taleban in Afghanistan. It's bee...

I think it was not. Afghanistan had as much to do with the 9/11 as basically Sudan. Both countries had given refuge for Osama bin Laden. And just wher...

Well, was the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan necessary? Has now Afghanistan turned into a terrorist safe haven? That was the main reason given...

Putin has basically cut the relations. For example, the relations are so bad with Finland that the Finnish President doesn't see any reason to be in c...

A good documentary. Shows just how long it takes for the effects to be noticed.

I think that the malaise Brexit has done to the British economy won't be over in 2024-2025. Sticking along this sad time will have a deep impact on th...

Ukraine and Russia could have had a splendid relationship like for example we Finns enjoy with Sweden, a country we belonged to earlier and whose lang...

Wokeness is pretty new. But there are similar small paths for example in France also. Yet I think for a democracy to work you do need people with diff...

And here's the Boris Johnson thread waiting to be continued... :snicker: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfiuxciWIAgK6Eo?format=jpg&name=900x900

I would assume some resentment on such elitism in the UK for the cradle of prime ministers to be so tiny. Oxford has about 3300 undergraduate places a...

Very well put. :cheer: :100: But it's meaningless for some trolls who don't see even a trace of imperialism in Russia's action. But enough of those. W...

So what's then with your Prime Ministers all coming from Oxford University? Keir Starmer is btw also from there. (And Gordon Brown is the only excepti...

Liz Truss started with one sovereign ruling and quitted with another sovereign holding the crown. That usually would mean that Truss would have been a...

I think in this case making the most obvious and clear case doesn't matter to some members here.

This is simply trolling. Good bye.

So finally Putin declare martial law... to the territories his army has taken over and are now fought over. As if those territories wouldn't otherwise...

What else would it or could it be: Yet for the Trumpsters, this doesn't matter.

Oh false narrative? You must be trolling. https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/107127344-1664546716521-gettyimages-1243615777-RUS_Russian_President_V...

Or several people here on this forum, who thought it all was American propaganda. It's hard to know what will happen to Putin and his hold on to power...

NATO pushing? NATO is made of sovereign states, hence it's like the idea of EU pushing something. Earlier Yugoslavia/Serbia, later Iraq, Libya and Syr...

I would agree the way you describe it: US supporting a regime change. Yet notice that a lot of Ukrainian administrations have gone since then as there...

I'm guessing that is not only confined to Ukraine.

Spanish civil war was truly a civil war: no other country had territorial ambitions on Spain. The Syrian civil war would be more similar. Better examp...

Not only that would have guaranteed that Ukraine wouldn't have become a NATO member, Ukraine was neutral and there was large support for Ukraine being...

Ukraine wasn't let into NATO. Not for two decades. That is a fact. And extremely likely that would have continued because Russia could easily pressure...

Isaac, I have been pretty consistent about this. I haven't denied that NATO is one reason. What I have said again and again is that it isn't the most ...

Did it? Really, look at that text you quoted. And then that was in 2008. That it was said over fourteen years ago and again just proves my point. And ...

Bravo. :cheer: Have to put this quote to this thread:

Well, you'll see it in 2027-2030 when you buy a BigMac. If it's still 5 dollars, I was wrong.

Before. Did you notice me talking about the dam breaking? Before the dam breaks, everything is just fine and dry. Then when it breaks, things get wet....

That's not even a counterargument. :roll: Agreeing with @"neomac".() If Ukraine wouldn't get the huge Western assistance, Russia would likely win this...

It is true. Bush ago something years ago. Even if he would be a President for life in the US, it's not his decision. It is totally another thing for U...

The real reason is the fiscal and monetary policy implemented for decades. I think the basically all the Corona policies implemented just broke the da...

In a way it's just like Finland in 1940. It didn't win Russia. It survived and wasn't annexed as the Baltic States. Finns don't refer to winning the w...

I would say that the combination of Trump's and Biden's policies especially with the Corona pandemic did long term damage, because finally it got the ...

I don't know what your obsession here is for "winning" the war. And what is your argument that Russia cannot be stopped? I think Ukraine has made a go...

No. Actually the West did. Ukraine wasn't going to go into NATO. Period. But then Russia started to annex territories of Ukraine. It's not about regim...

This is simply nonsense. 1) Nuclear armed countries have lost many wars. Afghans have now gotten victory over to two nuclear armed Superpowers. Nuclea...

Reminds me that the Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West) was written by Oswald Spengler in 1918. And I presume it was not the first of ...

Let's remember that Russia has a long history of liberalization of the system after disastrous lost wars. The Crimean war - > Afterwards the end of se...

Americans use superlatives often. And as the key part of US foreign policy is to talk about (and create) these threats, because Americans don't unders...

Actually now Putin is a burden for Russia. Like Slobodan Milosevic was for Serbia. Starting a conventional all-out war with Ukraine, which basically n...

Well, Putin basically started the civil war that in Yugoslavia happened immediately (thanks to Super-Serb Slobodan Milosevic) now happens decades late...

I think now most important is for the war not to get bigger. So I hope that Belarus can stay out of this: it is a balancing act, but I think that thei...

Best military operations are those, when you accomplish your objectives without any shots fired. When it's something else than a war. Believe me, mode...

In a way, the war in Ukraine has given the chance for the West to avoid the really important debate about the War on Terror and especially the war in ...

You are talking to a Finn, you know that? And I do know what Finlandization is in reality. You see, the Putin's ideologist (that was tried to be kille...