Republicans and the right-wing media were starting to talk about other politicians than Trump. Congress got even something done. (Like uh, accepted my...
Not exactly. To answer the question "Is the country mobilizing to save its citizens, or is it mobilizing to save the existing power structure?", you n...
How is it less painful? Death is a natural thing. It happens. When you have had a nice relationship with someone, when the person dies you will have f...
If I understood the picture correctly, the places were colder than average. And I've heard this argument that climate change can also make some places...
The Russian Empire granted autonomy both for Congress Poland and the Grand Duchy of Finland. Poland, which had been for a long time a large independen...
Peter Zeihan putting the problem with the grain exports from Ukraine into context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNQ98GQ0ATk Higher World prices com...
Well, if inflation would be calculated as it was in 1980, the US would be now experiencing 15% inflation. But that's not dangerous...only several year...
Well, lets see how much the net deficit will be reduced. https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/images/deficit-trends-viz.svg Usually ...
I just wonder how more spending will reduce inflation. Oh well, must be like the new definition for a recession: when the old definition was two quart...
You do understand that it's a great, enormous risk? And think about it from the invaders viewpoint. If you invade and annex a country and then give au...
And just why wouldn't the surrendered people then fall to what surrendered people have fallen in history many, many times: to be second rate people in...
There are legal terms in war too. Just starting from that combatants can be legal or illegal. That enemy soldiers are prisoners-of-war, not treated as...
Yeah, that was it. Well, thanks for clearing this. The basic problem is that only few of us have had great grandparents around to tell about their lif...
Do you understand then the difference between law enforcement and vigilantism? Look, they I see it, it was totally logical to push the war to Germany ...
Yet helping others, bringing them happiness, make us feel good (at least me). And yes, people usually don't whine about their problems. Yet I don't th...
But states go to war. Individual people do not have the ability to declare a war. War is something that has been formalized and legalized between stat...
I have many good memories of people that have died. They are not painful at all. Why would it be painful to have good (or even not so good) memories o...
Yeah, but when it really comes to our own lives, we are all such egoist whimps. :sad: If I die tomorrow, at least I'll be happy that my children are n...
Many people think they do good. Those that think that they can and will improve the society by killing others are not good people. But they sure have ...
I think that the British and people in their colonies were aspiring the same rights. And they also understood that the powers of the state ought to be...
I think defending your country from an attacking other nation is just. The threat of another state attacking your country. We have seen that such acti...
I think that conscription works if there is among the majority of citizens a collective understanding that universal military service is needed and th...
I'm fine with conscription, and so is the majority of Finns also. Of course, there is the option of siviilipalvelus, a "civil service" where you basic...
Well, if you would think to try to perform such a difficult military operation than a landing on an hostile island roughly over 150 kilometers away fr...
This is true, but when there is a will, there will be a way. At least with time. Sanctions are a way to hinder the ability, but when you have the abil...
China hasn't been such an actor as Russia, so I don't think they would do it. Of course, with out-of-the-blue surprise attack they would get strategic...
Yes. And the Soviet Union and the US didn't go to war either. And the other didn't attack the other's ones ally. Yet there was the Cuban missile crisi...
Guys, have you noticed that there's a (regional) banking crisis in China? First it was Evergrande, now it's protests outside some regional banks. Burs...
A Discussion with you is quite pointless. You won't even engage in discussion, just respond that others' answers are 'irrelevant', you can't find an a...
Votes aren't worthless. It's also in the interest of the two parties sharing power in the US to sustain the current polarization (or division) among t...
Good question. I'll take a try. When the documentary is saying "sanctions are working", first think what sanctions working would really mean? Would Ru...
Ukraine is economically absolutely devastated. But then it's fighting for it's survival. Economic hardships don't matter so much, when your facing eve...
Yes, but do note Transnistria is also tiny compared to the Donbas. Transnistria has a population of 347000 people, perhaps earlier half a million. The...
Training an army from civilians doesn't happen in an instant. In WW1 for the British Army it took one year to man a larger force into France after the...
I think in the case of Corona pandemic, which didn't turn into the next Spanish flu or the Black Death by death count, such a debate about relative ha...
Just from where the most participants are from (mainly from the Anglosphere). Which is quite natural as we use English. Well, let's hope participating...
Hopefully not. :roll: But this thread is now going to be 300 pages and some have this fixation that the most important issue talked about should be th...
States choose conscription or a volunteer force based on how effective the choice would be. This is essential to understand before answering @"_db"'s ...
This is a good point. Someone made this inquiry from the US and the results absolutely horrible. What the voters wanted didn't matter much if anything...
Motivation, the will to fight, is quite essential if a conscript/reservist army is effective or not. The classic view is that a professional/volunteer...
Conscription is basically a manpower issue: if you have enough people to man a wartime army on a volunteer basis, then you can have voluntary service....
Yes. Although there was the Transnistrian war in 1990-1992, which was rather similar (as the war in Donbas 2014-2022). The bigger player here that is ...
The simple fact is that there is in war a massive risk of harm and to be defeated in a war the whole society takes also a massive risk. And the people...
Well, just look at how high the Fed had to raise the interest rates in the 80's for the inflation to ease off. Real interest rates were back then posi...
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