I would put it in a different way: Big powers justify (or portray) their imperial aspirations with reasoning that they are threatened by hostile power...
If the US states that they are artificial countries, they belong to the US and would continue annexing parts of their territory, I guess both Canada a...
Tightlipped? If I remember correctly (I may remember incorrectly), you are the one making accusations of me keeping here a blog and putting links and ...
It's likely true. I've heard this also and many ex-intelligence officers here commentating the war have noted this, so it might be very likely. Putin'...
Russia may dip into the vast reserves of those that have served their military service. But that would take a month to bring them up to speed. And pop...
Yep. Russian logistical support is confined to railways. This actually had been known earlier. Somehow we have forgotten how extensively during the Co...
That low intensity war with Ukraine since 2014 wasn't cheap. And the about 13 000 casualties before this invasion tells that there obviously was a war...
At least he has had no troubles of doing that partly for 8 years. So why take some more? There's no reason why he now would have to stop. Do notice th...
After the catastrophic "3 day war" or whatever, the next round Russia is seeming to do the way at least the Russian manuals say. - Aleksandr Dvornikov...
Many are going. It's only to get worse. One of the interesting things about the exodus to Tbilisi is that the country had a war with Russia. But lucki...
And that the obvious reason just why it is important to discuss what is happening in Russia. But I cannot do anything else but agree with this Russian...
Most important part? Most important part surely is with the Ukrainians and Putin's armed forces. Well, my government is assisting Ukraine, sending the...
I think that in a thread about the war in Ukraine you should dare to talk about what is happening in Ukraine. Why are you so defensive about talking a...
Other than NATO enlargement being this reason for Russia to attack Ukraine (and for many, the absolutely only important reason) or that the US gave su...
But are Europeans here "the lapdogs" of the Empire? Some enthusiastically promote this view even in this thread, but it hasn't gone so easily with the...
At least not openly, but otherwise can be very much so. And of course, especially in the US these groups are infiltrated with typically the most arden...
Do notice the universality of this, which obviously can be seen from Putin's rhetoric. Of course when it comes to Putin, he is willing to aid neo-nazi...
Newsweek has to be fake news. Or then Trump is losing it. Or then finally, finally this thread will come to it's end (I guess after reaching 600 pages...
It's no wonder that in totalitarian systems corruption is rampant. Because in the end it is about rule with fear and that doesn't bring legitimacy for...
Actually prosperity and wellbeing emerges from trade. Not from closing the borders and confining to oneself. But don't let the real world hinder your ...
In the 1930's the division was more between moderates being for democracy and radicals being for totalitarianism, be it right-wing or left-wing. Far t...
High gas prices make Biden unpopular. So a rush to use the strategic oil reserves: But the inflation problem has been something far longer in the maki...
This reality has been something that Russians do know well. There is things they say and have to say publicly, and then there is the totally different...
From the article: Now if with using that brute force one has indeed achieved gains in the past (second Chechen war, Russo-Georgian war, the annexation...
Also there were the language laws, which actually were raised by other neighboring countries as Ukraine has a vast amount of different ethnic minoriti...
And do notice that 1987 Milosevic changed from the Titoist Communist line to the nationalist. Also do note that he was deposed by an opposition openly...
Actually this is one issue worth wile to point out: the role Putin's Russia has taken to itself as the protector of ethnic Russians everywhere. Abkhaz...
And where have I denounced or denied NATO enlargement being one reason for Putin's actions? Quote me, don't just assign views to me you find convenien...
If you want to give a serious counterargument, how about actually engaging in what I say and not a strawman? In short: My point is that Putin invaded ...
I agree with you on that. The most probable outcome is a lengthened war. (Which I guess some people will argue has been the objective of the US right ...
No. That's patently false. You don't annex a whole peninsula just for a naval base and incorporate it to Russia. You are simply ignorant about the his...
Hypotheticals are difficult as you yourself implied, but simply use your head here, Benkei. I know you have one. If all of this would because of NATO ...
That's my whole point! It doesn't mean that I wouldn't criticize (or haven't criticized) NATO when it has done stupid things. But dare to say somethin...
Bullshit Benkei! Crimea is part of Russia now, Russia, not a proxy state but part of it. Part of holy Russian motherland. And a lot more would have be...
The Mearsheimer line that Chomsky is echoing is the typical US focused view, which totally disregards the other totally obvious agenda that Russia has...
Yet notice that even the Ukrainian government has urged people to leave eastern Ukraine now, and with the reality of what denazification looks like on...
In continuing to be annoying on this thread, I have to disagree and make a correction: Finnish schools do have homework. (What they lack is nationwide...
Ah yes...and don't forget Finlandization. The wonderful term that the Germans invented to describe our relationship with our beloved Eastern neighbor....
For those arms deliveries to happen (basically paid by the US taxpayer), you needed Putin to invade in the first place. Hence there's that slight prob...
By the looking at various estimates of those being killed in the separate wars. Of course, for you I guess those are just propaganda and you cannot re...
No, the question that Benkei assumed was that people would have more interest on the plight of Ukrainians because they are white than with the plight ...
Your government fought in Afghanistan for 20 years. In quite similar circumstances against many times the same enemy as the Russians had. And what see...
Then make the revelant link by all means. Just as I made the the link that the decision for Saudi-Arabia to intervene in the Yemen Civil War was as st...
If a war effects for example your work, I think it's obviously more important for you than something that just notice every once in a while in the pap...
There's not enough trust between countries for that, unfortunately. And things are now getting just worse as military spending is going to increase. W...
Ah, the race card! I think I would accept more the distance card here. This is an event happening in the neighboring country to me and for both for me...
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