Let's hear Putin himself: There is no contradiction, if you read the above. It's not a wavering opportunist speaking, this comment from 2005 (I think)...
Then add to it "Russian national identity", if it's so puzzling to you what I'm talking about. Because we aren't talking about Russian cuisine, which ...
Well, do notice that I have emphasized, many times now, that I am talking about the identity that official Russia has, and what Putin and his follower...
By "cracking down on it" you mean restarting the war against the Chechens? That is totally in line with the imperialist cause. Putin obviously tolerat...
Jesus yourself, Benkei! How many Belarussians love their leader? Not a lot, but he is still in power. Are there Turks that don't like Erdogan? Sure, b...
The Russian identity is imperialistic. The official one and that upheld by Putin and his followers. And as we know, not all Russians support this. Hav...
It's far too annoying for many that sometimes the US President and elite can utter something that is totally right and justified. As if that makes som...
It doesn't make it a non-physical event. I am of the opinion that if something cannot be explained by physics, it's likely that our understand isn't y...
I think there can be, even if very rare, occasions and events that seem to be as some paranormal event happened or someone had psychic abilities. With...
If you take all the people who have done their military service in the last five years, you are talking roughly about two million men (and some women)...
The multiethnic Empire of Russia survived because of the Soviet Union. The Soviet ideology hid this obvious fact as various people were simply declare...
But remember... that isn't the case when he feels like the mission is justified and he will look good. Trump was all eager to go after the IS. That's ...
If you said yourself that it's a lie, then isn't believing a lie crazy? Conquering territory from another country and calling it part of your country ...
Trump is basically just a populist, if there is to be found any trace of an ideology behind the man (as narcissism and lust for power isn't an ideolog...
In my first response on this thread on page 2. I wrote: Actually now this thread is far longer than the original Coronavirus thread, which started bef...
Afghanistan was wrong from the start. Iraq was wrong from the start. At least with Iraq it was Trump that got finally the GOP to talk the truth that t...
You can be both critical and supportive of organizations or countries depending on the subject or issue. I have no trouble of being critical against N...
I think the prize should go to you by going so well along with the Kremlin line. NATO isn't fighting in Ukraine, but it is surely (just as is the EU) ...
I'd think the response would to increase the military aid. Have no limits like now. I think the pressure to stop the fighting would certainly increase...
Prior to the February 24th, the official line was "Finland faces no military threat". Going from "no threat" to "no immediate threat" it is a bit unco...
Ummm....assuming the forces are otherwise similar. Which they many times have not been. Operation Desert Storm (1991 Gulf War) US & Allied forces: 956...
And that is why I fear this option. I wouldn't underestimate the impact of a genuine "mushroom cloud" in videos and photos somewhere in the Ukrainian ...
Yet, if the ONLY objective would have been to create that land bridge with Crimea and help the Donetsk and Luhansk Republics, you wouldn't have had th...
And so, we are getting sham elections and a "partial" mobilization. So bad is the situation for Russia. https://static.dw.com/image/63189391_303.jpg I...
This has been said over and over again, but facts don't win an argument. Yet I think it's important in this kind of thread that someone points out the...
Well, a total defeat of Ukraine...which seems quite remote now, would only alarm more the eastern NATO members and put to existential threat a country...
So I attempt to make a clock and if it doesn't work and has no resemblance to a working clock, I'll just say my clock works just fine ...it's just not...
Seems that you aren't a von Clausewitz fan. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Clausewitz.jpg/260px-Clausewitz.jpg Hmm...so Cap...
For sanity's sake, here are two videos to watch: Just what is wrong with Meersheimer's idea explained by Alexander Stubb: https://www.youtube.com/watc...
Please now, Tzeentch, try yourself to back up your words and say that the battle for Kyiv wasn't a push to try to take the capital. The taking of Anto...
Really??? So @"Tzeentch" says: And then I note that the US was offering to evacuate Zelenskyi and I gave example of how Western think tanks thought th...
What backpedaling? I have consistently said that Russia attempted first a strategic strike, It's objectives that can be seen is to get basically the p...
Are you so absolutely clueless that you don't understand that this war started in 2014? That just for some time, it was called a frozen conflict, yet ...
I was answering to @"Tzeentch", not you. Are you refuting that Russia didn't try to attempt a strategic strike? That's brilliant! No. What I was refer...
Learn what a strategic strike means in military terminology first. The similarity with the occupation of Czechoslovakia and Crimea should be evident: ...
Russia modeled it's attack from the most successful military operation that the Soviet Union did post-WW2: Operation Danube. The objective was to capt...
How much troops did they need to annex Crimea? And the way Russia could interfere in Ukrainian politics before makes it easy to underestimate Ukrainia...
If the Ukrainians would not have defended at all, just why would you think Putin would have stopped? What Putin has said about the "artificiality" of ...
The only way Russia is going to the negotiating table is when it cannot obtain it's objectives through military means. What is so difficult here to un...
Yet Israel never agreed on to stop a military engagement before reaching it's military objectives. Usually there was a push from especially the Superp...
So true. The truth is that there's really only a few things Trump got right. Like talking to the Germans how being dependent on Russian energy is a ba...
There's obviously a lot of disgruntlement and dissatisfaction how this war is going in Russia. Putin is no Stalin and even if his Russia is totalitari...
Another thing Trump said he would deliver and didn't do. Yet far better than the surrender deal that Trump did with the Taliban. I mean talk about bac...
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