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:100: :up: Free markets need a lot of institutions to remain free.
May 08, 2022 at 08:27
What else is new???
May 08, 2022 at 08:18
Hence that fog doesn't mean that a) we cannot say anything about the war, b) everything said is a lie and c) we'll have a more clear understanding of ...
May 08, 2022 at 08:12
And even if have a society that where women are in a more "traditional" role, as is said, by no means does it mean that they wouldn't have an importan...
May 08, 2022 at 07:51
I'd urge both of you not to think purely of companies as an abstraction. Cooperatives can be quite effective. Some of the largest companies that domin...
May 08, 2022 at 07:03
Sorry, but I have the problem here of just what Kurth describes "post-" here? "Post" means something after, yet many things can be far longer trends. ...
May 07, 2022 at 21:37
I guess you haven't been married.
May 07, 2022 at 20:41
I think that continuing old threads is a good thing to do. Far better that there is one long thread about some subject than 10 short ones. It also mak...
May 07, 2022 at 20:39
That's what he didn't say, troll.
May 07, 2022 at 20:27
So... that leaves you getting your information from the Russians. Right. :snicker: Or then you could listen to what the UN Secretary-General says: But...
May 07, 2022 at 20:18
Just like my country and Sweden are now pawns for US geostrategic ambitions? Right.
May 07, 2022 at 07:16
Well, I think we could leave it there and go onward. * * * How long the war will be and the possibility of escalation is another issue, which would be...
May 07, 2022 at 07:10
Of course our forum troll leaves out that when Erdogan made his putsch, it was Turkish officers working in NATO positions that were the first to be ki...
May 06, 2022 at 20:32
Are you really serious? How about that he annexed Crimea. How about the recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk Republics? Or the many times he has referre...
May 06, 2022 at 20:13
His intentions are obviously important. Likely he believes that the West has always been out to get Russia. And naturally that any opposition movement...
May 06, 2022 at 15:03
In this case I think what Putin says and does is far more important than what you, me, or someone else. He made the decision to start this war. And th...
May 06, 2022 at 13:22
Look, the thing is that Russia would have done something similar like this even without the expansion of NATO. Or do you genuinely think that Russia w...
May 05, 2022 at 19:11
Compared to central planning, a light touch of "free market" laissez faire makes wonders. And of course it's not a recipe for everything. And...that's...
May 05, 2022 at 18:42
Please stick to the thread. Where the West will go is another matter. What happens to Ukraine (or Russia) is the topic of this thread. Making a thread...
May 05, 2022 at 18:10
When it tried to "reinvent" itself. For some time, Russia wasn't a threat and the Cold War era thinking was genuinely thought to be totally obsolete. ...
May 05, 2022 at 13:15
The Mearsheimer / Kennan narratives just assumes that large countries ought to have "buffer zones" and "spheres of influence" and can do whatever they...
May 05, 2022 at 07:09
Let's go to NATO articles: It states that European states willing to join it are by unanimous agreement to be invited. A larger number of member state...
May 05, 2022 at 06:58
When it comes to international operations, especially the so-called "peace enforcing" operations, there is much to criticize. I think a military organ...
May 05, 2022 at 06:11
They are reurgitating the same message, but now it has grown old. Now there's no strategic surprise, it all can be anticipated and people do understan...
May 05, 2022 at 05:17
A strawman argument from you. The role of the US is obvious in NATO. One can arguably be critical of the actions that NATO has taken, especially with ...
May 05, 2022 at 05:04
That would surely happen. The underlying objective is twofold: to a) convince Russians that the evil Westerners are nazis and that they are out to get...
May 04, 2022 at 21:43
Wouldn't be the division of Poland in 1939 between the two be more than just collaboration, but cooperation? https://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/781/935/mi...
May 04, 2022 at 20:58
I think then one possibility is to enlargen the security council.
May 04, 2022 at 19:13
And of course for the Finnish Air Force, the Swastika, the emblem for good luck, came from the first aircraft given to the White Forces by a Swedish C...
May 04, 2022 at 19:10
I don't think you even bothered to read my argument. US is one player, but when it comes to Russia and Ukraine, it's a minor reason. Just as I said, i...
May 04, 2022 at 18:53
@"Apollodorus" is a genuine troll, so it's really not worth replying to him. Enough people have tried to correct his delusions. It hasn't been just yo...
May 04, 2022 at 18:34
HAHAA!!!! At least the Forum's Putin troll works like Clock-Work! Just as anticipated months ago, out comes the nazi card when Finland (& Sweden) will...
May 04, 2022 at 15:54
Ignorance and 'supporting the troops' make anything that otherwise would be satire transform itself to be the truth. Who knows, perhaps Putin will use...
May 03, 2022 at 17:58
Good collection. :up: Some videos have already been mentioned here. If one doesn't have the time to read and someone is totally new to the subject, I ...
May 03, 2022 at 16:14
Nonsense, Benkei. Just try for a moment the idea that not everything revolves around the US. Moldova had no intensions of joining NATO, it's non-align...
May 03, 2022 at 16:09
Delirious ramblings from the sites Putin troll. Russians lived in only a small part that would be then the Russian Empire even before the Mongol invas...
May 02, 2022 at 20:01
Hence it's rather wrong to portray as you wrote "became an empire because it was forced to defend itself against attacks by the Mongols and other Cent...
May 02, 2022 at 13:12
Then there's the pitfall where the League of Nations fell into. Or in what the ICC has fallen into. Meaning that the Great Powers can be happy to use ...
May 02, 2022 at 12:24
Good description of the left, Bitter Crank. One has to have little historical understanding to put things into context, as you have.
May 02, 2022 at 07:59
For the authoritarian like Putin, democracies look inherently weak and incapable of decisive action. Biden's US looked especially like that not only a...
May 02, 2022 at 07:49
First answer this: which organization has been more effective: the UN or the League of Nations before it? https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/p...
May 01, 2022 at 19:30
Do note the ribbon pattern of Saint George in the "Z". It's now commonly used to commerate WW2 and the Victory Day, even if the historical order of Sa...
May 01, 2022 at 19:20
Moscow and other Russian Duchies fell under Mongol control. And Muscovy worked for the Mongols to reinforce it's position: Hence Moscovy was a vassal ...
May 01, 2022 at 19:16
Well, you surely haven't shown that empathy. Simply just you repeat and repeat typical ragging and potshots at the US. Your first comment on this thre...
April 29, 2022 at 15:14
It worked for the Czechs, the Latvians, the Estonians, the Polish. Why would it for some reason not work for Ukrainians, if they are willing to make t...
April 29, 2022 at 15:02
This is simply delirious rambling. Anyway, as an Australian this doesn't concern you. Yet it's something that does affect my life, it's something that...
April 29, 2022 at 14:49
The separatism that Russia actually failed to instill other places in Ukraine (they tried, but failed) as they had done in other former Soviet states....
April 29, 2022 at 12:26
Especially if nothing happens in Moldova, it's again a positive sign. The first positive development is that Belarus has been able to keep out of Puti...
April 29, 2022 at 11:23
That growing confidence made him to decide that an all out invasion would be a great idea in the first place. What else was the annexation of Crimea t...
April 29, 2022 at 07:32
Yeah. Obviously you don't even read what others write. So why point out for example to policies that have been successful here, and how problematic is...
April 29, 2022 at 07:24