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If you know that the other side is going to attack, then by all means, why not go with mobilization. You won't lose anything. If you think that it rea...

And you should understand just how reaching any strategic objectives is compromised by the disastrous decision to make a large scale, or basically an ...

You think that understanding that Putin is going to attack even two days before is inconsequential? The Ukrainian government could have mobilized the ...

Of course NATO isn't an innocent bystander. Not even Sweden or Finland are bystanders as both countries are arming Ukraine. I personally don't think t...

OK, I'll bolden myself. Hope it helps.

Exactly. Zelensky's objectives in a peace deal start from the obvious things that are decided in the battlefield. First would be that all of Ukraine i...

Well, Isaac, because if you haven't noticed, there are on going peace talks. How genuine Putin is at those peace talks, can be observed from what he t...

Let's just think how according to you, what "the only correct strategic move" has produced so far: - The primary planned operation of a quick strike (...

Just to put into the proper context issues like the idea of the US sponsoring biowarfare labs in Ukraine. It's like someone ardently wants to discuss ...

Aren't the Palestinians similar here to the Ukrainians? There's a link, except that: - There was no Independent sovereign state of Palestine, whose te...

Something from the pro-war rally that Putin held: https://www.thenomadtoday.com/asset/thumbnail,992,558,center,center//media/thenomadtoday/images/2022...

This thread is about now about the war in Ukraine. Earlier it was about a crisis in Ukraine. But when you say "to now cry foul about Russia is just hy...

I'm not misrepresenting you at all. I understood that you were talking about the 2003 invasion. But I was referring to another war. But the question i...

But then do you think that the war to liberate Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion illegal? Do you think the United Nations going to war against North Kore...

Yes. The Saudis do pay hard cash for the M1 Abrams tanks, for those F-15 strike aircraft and smart bombs. Donald Trump was happy! https://www.youtube....

Comes to mind my country's history: Choose you side when on one side there is Stalin and on the other Hitler. The choice doesn't mean morality doesn't...

If there's one book in history I'd want to be discovered, it would be Zeno's book. If I recall correctly from Parmenides, the book had been stolen. A ...

I think there simply has to be already a fancy term for this. But it's basically that leaders start believing their own lies. They gather around thems...

Well, if there's a will there's a way and those powerful nations can get their hubris shoved up their ass. It really healthy for them. What I cannot u...

Yet notice the subtle difference of having a military as deterrence and not using it to the option of having a military and starting wars with it. Pak...

Trying to invade Ukraine and overthrow the Ukrainian government was totally delusional on divorced from reality. Yet Putin did it. Having the grandeur...

There is Taiwan. The island held by the enemy from the Civil War.

If feel threatened, they will act. It's a different play then. And they don't care about corporations. If a corporation is troublesome, the owner or t...

National security trumps always trade with the West. If the Chinese truly feel threatened by the West, they will dump all those trade relations with t...

Basically China has to do a balancing act. If it goes all in with Putin and strengthens it's alliance with Russia, that's basically the end of globali...

That's why the urge to have no-fly zones or an effective SAM cover. Yet I wouldn't call it free rein. In the way we have seen Russian Air Force roam a...

One can always argue that everything is fake: things just become more and more complex and more elaborately staged and larger conspiracies. Of course,...

Well, The Germans did pocket whole armies when they attacked in 1941, so encirclement of enemy forces can be done basically anywhere. In Kiev 1941 the...

I'll look this up. But do note that this was before the current war. What is totally obvious, coming from so many various observers is that Russia arm...

Chilling out for Putin likely means resupplying and rearming his forces. He'll likely at least push for the land corridor to Crimea, so Mariupol has t...

Imagine what the outcry is if they seriously try to then press reservists into going to war, those who have done their military service and haven't ma...

I agree, and also believe it's not limited to one side or World view. Perhaps the thing with propaganda that it's basically very aggressive. Propagand...

I would urge people to listen to a thoughtful discussion with Princeton history professor Stephen Kotkin, who has written on Russian and Soviet histor...

And of course, it's bad what the bully did. But she really shouldn't have existed in the first place.

Exactly. She was a woman! She shouldn't have existed, hence then the rapist bully wouldn't have raped her.

Absolutely fabulous! :100: :up: If there's a video telling what I've tried to say, this one is it! The only thing it left out was a) NATO's war in Kos...

That's actually the point of conscription and a reservist army: it's not that you may need training, you need training. And that basically takes at le...

Well, 90% of 280 000 is 252 000, hence even if you take into account the National Guard units fighting in Ukraine, not so much is committed to Ukraine...

I'm not accusing you of that! I'm only making the point that it's wrong to say only 1/10 of Russian forces are deployed to Russia. There isn't the 9/1...

Just add up the figures and you do get the nearly one million. 280 000 + 340 000 + 200 000 +.... The basic fact is that they don't have a reserves sim...

Especially in the West there is one huge disadvantage, or actually an advantage in some perspective. Conscripts or reservists that have done conscript...

That's actually incorrect. Armed forces and land forces are quite different. Russian Ground Forces consist of only 280 000 troops. If you have 190 000...

I think that the red means that people are less willing to fight for their country (like with Germany only 18%) and the blue that the majority of peop...

With Ukraine we have seen something that usually has been extremely rare, especially in this Milennium. That is that all males between 18 to 60 are ba...

Looks like Russia is taking a breather. Simply to stack on supplies and some brigades that have endured losses have been withdrawn. Here's an interest...

Both the acceptance and the effectiveness of conscription starts from things like this... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNwKkM1WQAUwuuV?format=jpg&name=...

Actually, the most leverage on Russia has now China. Russia is now dependent on Chinese imports, while for China exports from Russia aren't so importa...

At least I have tried to say where the US and the West has made errors, with the crucial one being promising to Ukraine and Georgia something that the...

Not to forget that this is like instead of Churchill (or basically Chamberlain), the British would have voted Charlie Chaplin to head their country in...

Yes. If there is a credible threat to the country. If there isn't, if let's say your neighbors are as peaceful as Canada, why then bother? The threat ...