Yes, and if someone says things that seem to be incorrect to me or I disagree with, then one should point it out. FYI, the thread about the Corona-vir...
Selective? This is a thread about Ukraine and the only thing you throw is strawman argument and hints that I somehow wouldn't be against the atrocitie...
In a thread about Ukraine one would assume that Ukraine would be discussed. If we would have a thread about the war in Yemen and somebody would start ...
That's totally illogical and basically a strawman argument. It is Putin who is saying that those forces in the picture are Crimean volunteers. And the...
What's your argumentation here? As if we didn't want to have trade with Russia? On the contrary, the Europeans would have just loved to have that comm...
No. But you can use your own judgement. Some of the most blatant lies are so obvious. Or is that too difficult for you to understand? Again. Let's loo...
Being dependent on energy from a totalitarian regime like Putin's Russia, which will use that dependence as a way to imply pressure has been a wrong p...
Those who see sphere's of influence as an obvious reality, greater countries dominating weaker ones and annexations of territories of sovereign states...
How can you be certain of that? A nuclear change could have also resulted in just millions of dying yet in a stalemate like in the Korean war and the ...
And you don't see an obvious lie when it's presented? In your postmodern life you are totally unable in every issue to do that? Because when truth fit...
Of course not... :roll: OK: Consider for example the case of Putin's little green men. A picture from the 2014 invasion: http://www.atlanticcouncil.or...
I think people can explain themselves better. But at least @"Isaac" has been pretty consistent in his reasoning that he doesn't want that the US would...
I don't think I was an optimist in any way. I just explained that even if nations can be theoretically against warcrimes and try preventing civilian c...
But of course. In the case of the shooting down of MH17 there was an extensive investigation by the Dutch Safety Board and the criminal investigation ...
When you are killed as an Ukrainian nazi, A Chechen islamist terrorist or a Syrian jihadist... or a supporter of them, you don't choose yourself that ...
At least there are differences. The most obvious difference between US warfighting and Russian warfighting is simply scale as history has shown. At le...
I think Russia can change and it isn't destined to be in a vicious circle of totalitarianism and gangster capitalism. The future isn't an extrapolatio...
That description was closer to what was happening: an attempt (that failed). But of course now the focus should be on the present and what seems to be...
Basically the situation in Kyiv and in Mariupol are quite different. One is under siege, one isn't. Little things like that, yes, should be pointed ou...
I'm not sure if it is so simply that the good things happen because of good people and bad ones because of the bad. Things can improve even in Yemen o...
I don't think all roads save one were cut off. And I think the trains have been moving also. If Russia would have disrupted the supplies going into Ky...
Thanks for the articles. Yes, I agree with you. And in the Russian way likely people will say one thing publicly and one thing in the kitchen with peo...
It's been now 28 years since the first exoplanet had been discovered. Now there's 5 000 found with over 300 multi-planetary system been found. It's go...
A lot of the assassinations have been more warnings to others especially in the intelligence services. Some like the assassination of Boris Nemtsov or...
Earlier Putin had a different and somewhat more clever strategy. He firmly controlled the TV and mainstream media, but did allow small independent med...
Yet did Putin need to consolidate his power? I think after over 20 years he has consolidated power quite well. Of course, now after starting a large w...
I've explained my views already and don't wish to just to repeat them over and over. I'll just leave those people that don't think Putin is a dictator...
Definition of siege: This hasn't at all happened, so what are you talking about? Quite baseless remarks. The attempt of a siege isn't the act of succe...
I have no trouble in mentioning those times when they have acted as such. When it comes to information warfare or classic "propaganda", I think both s...
Lol. Well, in the case of this thread (and with subjects that are targets of active information warfare) it might be useful to occasionally say this. ...
You just read what the Forum's official Putin troll has said here: And there would be a multitude of other references. Case closed. I'm not accusing y...
Learn history. If you think that everything revolves around the US and it's actions and everything happens because of the US, you are not only ignoran...
Putin doesn't care so much about sanctions. The risk was that the Ukrainians would put up a fight and that has materialized. If Putin would have assum...
Putin simply doesn't care. He hasn't been interested in the economy at all. If he would be, Russia would have played a totally different game in inter...
Putin hasn't backed down from a war before. It might be difficult for him cut it and stop and just declare victory. I think the next timeline for Puti...
The arms race of the Cold War is only a minor reason. The centrally planned economy itself would be a larger reason. Or that unlike China, the Soviet ...
I'd call that genuine Western hubris, if Americans or others think that the Soviet Union collapsed because of them. The Soviet Union c ollapsed on its...
Then we simply would have to talk about the real reasons for Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Those are: a) Putin's personal views about Ukraine and the "...
And the Iraqi invasion had the neocons starting from Cheney who immediately after the 9/11 attack started (to the surprise of others) talking about Sa...
Everything. Why bring up the idea of Russia having legitimate security concerns when it didn't have them? Think about those guys that years ago defend...
Russia has no legitimate security reasons to invade a country that wasn't planning to attack it, didn't represented any threat to it and even it's hyp...
Fun fact, if and when Germany will now put it's defense spending at 2% of GDP, it's spending will be more than what Russia has in previous years spent...
:100: :up: This is the correct way to proceed. I think the correct thing is to engage in discussion that is worth wile. If some have problems to see t...
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