Catherine the Great said: Russia can portray itself as the victim defending itself, but in fact it is an imperialist entity which basically only durin...
If you think that Adolf Hitler was a peaceful guy and would have satisfied after gaining Danzig and the corridor to East Prussia and hence no WW2, you...
It's a bit ironic that Vladimir Putin was earlier the most popular politician in Ukraine. If he hadn't annexed Crimea, the World would be really, real...
I think the closest thing that people can understand is BHP, break horse power (with motors) or simply horse power. They can imagine a horse pulling a...
Yes. It's like the ludicrously idiotic idea that if Poland would have accepted Germany's demands (Danzig and the corridor to East Prussia), WW2 would ...
Those kind of comments would have more weight if Russia wouldn't have attacked Ukraine, which makes them a bit dubious in the case of this war. The im...
Costa Rica? :chin: It's a long time since President Oscar Arias was angry at the US for using the country as a staging post for Contras. Something nea...
Which in the end you cannot disprove. So countries wanting to join NATO because they fear Russia might invade them...which then becomes reality and Ru...
OK, at least with this you agree. Yet you continue... Umm...just who is saying that the Russian army is competent and very effective? :roll: There are...
Ukraine is recovering it's territory, not losing more. It's fighting a conventional war against Russia and not fighting a hit-and-run insurgency. Oryx...
Russia has gone so much backwards. Now there are fewer troops behind the Finnish border than anytime. The garrisons have only a skeleton crew and new ...
The rail line is extremely important to Russian logistics. Russian supplies depend on rail. Seems that it is quite repairable. https://www.youtube.com...
I think there was far more belief in the strength of the sanctions. But I guess someone than predicted the dire situation that Russia would be now six...
I have no idea what you are talking about here. You really think people were disappearing prior to the Russian invasion? Why don't just refer to that....
Mainly on the hope of the sanctions than the Ukraine military defeating them in open battle. The thinking was that Ukrainian could only fight successf...
The sad fact is that if Putin had ended with Crimea and not had started a war with Ukraine for Novorossiya, likely the World would have de facto moved...
AND THAT PROVES MY POINT. Thank you. :cheer: The Vichy government a) sent Jews to extermination camps, b) fought against the resistance and the Free F...
The claim I'm making is that from the treatment of the Chechens showcases the way that Putin would handle the territories that he has annexed from Ukr...
And how many of the British Jews that would have saved? At the start of WW2, there were about half a million jews living in the UK. Add the over 50 00...
The major factor is of course the human relationship when to people are in love. Yet then comes then question when people look for a mate to start a f...
So why didn't your country surrender to Hitler and join the Third Reich and then "swell the ranks of the dissenting voices in Germany and increase the...
I'm not sure if literally on day 2 people were talking that. You have to give a reference to that. With what troops, that's the question. The newly mo...
And anyone with a post-kindergarten level of understanding Russian/Soviet actions understands that it will happen. Not perhaps with the ferocity as du...
Have you inherited anything? Inheritance, a family farm or a beautiful rare painting is something you pass on to the next generation. Or then you are ...
Yes. Wasn't (or isn't) the current UK administration right-leaning (read, anti-EU)? Who are against the support of Ukraine are usually the right-wing ...
Isaac the apologist seems to be on the roll, again. When a war is over, there should be NO killings, no war crimes or human violations. But somehow wh...
Except where Putin has succeeded in gaining a military victory: In Chechnya, the Chechen Republic. Of course, Russian officials and Putin and Kadyrov ...
I don't think anyone is now eager to jump into Putin's place. As it's just now speculated that the north of the Kherson front might be collapsing (or ...
The other one, which I had in mind (and apparently many in Russia have thought about also), is the Russo-Japanese War. That was a war started by Russi...
Ummm...depends on just how old you are. :wink: I don't. Russia has seen it's share of defeats (just like the US with Vietnam and Afghanistan), which h...
We shouldn't forget how many Ukrainians have died too. This is a huge conventional war and likely it will cost over 100 000 killed in less than a year...
Obviously Putin wouldn't stop at Ukraine. Perhaps the territorial annexations might end there, yet the fact is that Russia would want to enlarge it's ...
Russian warfare can look like an epic fail to observers. But the key is that where everybody else would simply quit, they can keep failing until the o...
Since the Russo-Georgian war, it ought to be clear that Putin doesn't care at all about economics or business relations. Good business relations are j...
That was the time when people where genuinely thinking that Russia might someday join NATO. And the Cold War was over. An NATO was interested in "new ...
I think the response to Putin using nuclear weapons wouldn't be a nuclear escalation. And naturally the West is trying to make a sincere warning that ...
Bold claims without justification like prior 24th of February that Russia was posed to attack Ukraine. :smirk: Bold claims without justification like ...
Yes, the later waves coming by cargo aircraft couldn't land as the fighting continued. Basically the Hostomel Airport (or Antonov Airport) I guess was...
With the assumption that the airborne force can be then quite quickly be relieved by a ground force. Nobody thinks of making a landing deep in enemy t...
Not with landing paratroops on them. This was classic way to use paratroop landings to ease the attack towards the capital. Do notice the location of ...
But I do agree with this: once the defender will defend, then any kind of "Thunder run" into the city is nearly suicidal. Russian's learnt this during...
Not the failed attempt of quickly reaching the capital? Or not the "special military operation" having to resort mobilization of reservists after a su...
Consider the question the following way: A) Which one of them can simply be terminated by a degree from a judge? B) Which one of them can terminated b...
You just hold your racist hints to yourself. Corruption makes it Russia what it is. And Putin has created a kleptocracy. It's not the people themselve...
I'd say it like this. After the Russo-Georgian war in 2008, which Russia won only because Georgia was even more unprepared for the war (basically the ...
These "problems" were already called out, when Siemens did provide the services. But of course this is just theater, basically. Everybody agrees with ...
Likely heightened security on oil infrastructure, apparently. Let's not hope it goes to things like in Saudi-Arabia... https://i0.wp.com/theaviationis...
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