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With figures from the World Wars you get high numbers of course. My point is that Russia's way of fighting a war increases both civilian and military ...

Again this seem to be false. Even the Russian Federal State Statistics Service put only the first Chechen war to be 30 000 to 40 000 civilians dead. T...

Civilian casualties during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (9+ years): 562 000 - 2 000 000 killed Civilian casualties during the American invasion ...

Not yet, at least. But the numbers from Afghanistan, Syria and the two Chechen wars simply show that Russia doesn't care so much about civilian casual...

Zelensky has already made the proposal of going back to the pre 24th February limits, which means that Russia gets Crimea and the part of Donbas they ...

1) Russia has had losses. It has had to limit it's objectives. 2) Yet it is making some progress, even if little. 3) It is extremely unlikely that it ...

Wrong. Methods do matter. In fact, it's all about those methods. The US hasn't approached every other country in the world as it has gone with sociali...

But this doesn't make sense. Russia is attacking in Ukraine, in the Donbas, right now. What on Earth is for Ukraine to "stop fighting at the smallest ...

From the political history of my country, I can really see that this isn't the case. Russia is a genuinely different actor than let's say the UK, Fran...

This is so true. For a modern public sector to operate you do need that modern bureaucracy. When this bureaucracy is professional and doesn't fall int...

Bondarev's public statement is a clear sign that all isn't well in Russia. As actually is quite clear to see.

Russia's response to Finland and Sweden joining NATO clearly shows that actually NATO enlargement was more of an excuse than the real reason for invad...

So uh, an officer ordering the killing of civilians or prisoners of war isn't a war crime? One should remember that behind every eccentricity of our t...

I have. The numbers tell it instantly. Although the topic doesn't make it random. I've just assumed that you don't have anything else to say. And like...

Yes, the 1990's and basically early 2000's were the time that something really radical could have been done in Russia-US relations. As I've said earli...

You really think that the Soviet Union would have altered it's policies toward the Eastern European countries it held under it's control? Nonsense. It...

Which as it's only military operation occupied one of it's own members. And that just tells where the real threat was: the main aim wasn't only NATO, ...

Referring to the Prussian military model I really didn't think about Max Weber, actually. After all, there are different models and ideologies that ar...

There's differences. There's a difference in how the US has acted in Europe and how it has acted in Central America and the Caribbean. Just as how Rus...

Stalemate is what we have seen in Donbas after the larger battles in 2014-2015 before February 24th of this year. When both sides have no incentive or...

Lol. Oh boy, are you clueless. Last time big business was indeed "blatantly railroading" was with the EU membership. And that was a close call, actual...

Can you think of a polygon with an infinite amount of sides? Can you think of a circle? An 10 cm diameter polygon with 1 trillion same length sides mi...

I think it was evident to everybody when every large city or town was bombed and the country was occupied. The corrupt Nazi organization couldn't (and...

For those (like me) who aren't mathematicians, a great way to understand this is to look at the history of mathematics and how much great minds have p...

Thanks. Perhaps it would be proper to say that the set of paradoxes has more paradoxes than just one's with negative self-reference.

OK! So she mentioned that. So I stand corrected, enough to be corrected earlier in the article that I didn't notice it. Yet the issue is that now in e...

I didn't notice this earlier, so I'll try to give an answer to this. I'm no mathematician, so the answer can be quite difficult to understand. Hopeful...

The question is why would there be a ceasefire. Ceasefires happen when either one side sees the situation totally unbearable or are close to defeat an...

Far longer than it should, unfortunately. Russia cannot obtain it's objectives. But it can prolong the war if Putin wants to prolong it. Putin hasn't ...

That was interesting. Especially when you look at the sources on the new left review article. A quote: Luckily the article gives the link to the Helsi...

Except that Stalin made the region with a majority Armenian population to an autonomous oblast of Azerbaijan in 1923. Furthermore, in the last war it ...

Egypt had already earlier food riots when the high oil price affected food prices some years ago. Troubles in the economy will in some places become p...

This is something that unfortunately seems to happen. The upturn in global inflation (thanks the enormous money printing efforts during Covid and befo...

As you have said you don't read what I write, there's no use to interact with you. :grin: (Noticed it too.)

The only source you seem to refer to is the Jacobin magazine.

Of course. Why would you participate in a discussion? Tells everything about your contribution to this thread.

Well, a country that has basically collapsed, that has parts of it declared independent (Somaliland) and a major internal conflict, it's not surprisin...

Well, if the new elected Somali government goes further with that US deal, you just have made your case then.

@"Boethius", I'm responsible of what I write. And yes, others might get offended at the insults hurled at them and respond accordingly. The last time ...

Maybe. And sometimes we have agreed on issues. Besides, if people can make myself to change my opinion / views, learn something or see something from ...

I'm not sure about that how much panic there is. It's just usually that when you don't have anything to say, any actual objections on the topic, anyth...

? I think you are referring to the Algerian war, not the Algerian Civil war of 1991- 2002. The Algerian FLN wasn't at all islamist (or what we would c...

Somalis that I've talked to long for the times of Siad Barre. Again someone you wouldn't be in favour.

Actually not 'all of it' as muslim extremism has happened far earlier too and there's for example Algeria. The US hasn't been involved in Algeria and ...

A national flag is usually the government of the country. It's used by the government in charge. The Somali government is happy to see American troops...

Learn what flags mean, for starters. Actually it would be an interesting topic of how much of the emergence of jihadist organizations is a direct cons...

All I'm saying that "Stand with Somalia" with the Somali flag in the background isn't interpreted the way you think. At least the twitter handle @Stan...

:100: :up: This is the actual reality. There are so few participating on this forum, that single opinions effect where the discussion goes and what po...

Well, what then you think of John Mearsheimer's correct forecast in 1993 published in Foreign Affairs? See The Case for Ukrainian Nuclear Deterrent Nu...

Except I've said about the mistakes like the Kosovo war and of course leaving Ukraine hanging dry with promises of NATO membership in the distant futu...