Isn't it obvious? There's no side he is willing to take. He'll invent this "innocent people" group, who are totally separate of the actions. I think t...
I do also. And I hope that the Ukrainian casualties stay low, because there's a chance that they could be truly hideous. Yet that's the price to pay f...
There have been plans to create more Donetsk / Luhansk type puppet states. Which will now be even more grotesque Stalinist theatre as when the People'...
For me war totally obvious with the television speech that Putin made on the 22nd of February, two days before the invasion. This was never a dress re...
You have to ask from the person directly. But if the West doesn't oppose military annexations (which neither should the UN accept), then naturally the...
Ending a 200 year old policy that has been so successful that Sweden avoided two World Wars is naturally a big decision for any prime minister. But th...
As @"Olivier5" said, it's up to the Ukrainian government to decide what to accept as terms for armistice or for peace. How Ukrainians perform in the d...
They aren't either used by political pressure groups or by lobbyists. Due to similar reasons. It's been a long time since "Propaganda" was replaced ju...
When we both send arms to Ukraine and have already NATO troops training in our country (and B-52s training to mine potential invasion beaches), I thin...
Comes to mind that now Russia has repeated the threats of action (similar it gave to Ukraine) about the consequences of Sweden or Finland joining NATO...
Jesus. You are really are out of ammo. As if the reasons why I have said that Ukrainians want to join the West is something that I've yet not addresse...
Yet authoritarianism protects that corruption from the safety valves of a democracy... like people getting fed up with their corrupt leaders then voti...
We'll see. Similar war as now we haven't seen. So there can be surprises. The fact that Putin is willing to talk with the "neo-nazis" does tell someth...
I remember an interesting quote which a historian of Finnish 19th Century gave me. During the war of 1809, when Sweden lost finally Finland, a Russian...
Yet to understand this war of conquest one shouldn't forget the culprit. Your so sure the Ukrainians cannot force Putin to the negotiating table? Puti...
Oh don't let me get started. And there's a lot that we don't still know about infinity. If we knew everything, there wouldn't be things like the Conti...
The inability to Russia to create a modern vibrant economy similar at least to it's former Satellite states in Europe and similar to the Baltic states...
Of course not! The people here are fond of philosophy! Hence it seems they have to be critical of the US and the West because... they come from the US...
Is infinity necessary? Hell yes for mathematics!!! Just think about. The Natural numbers go from 1,2,3,... to number TT (Tired Thinker), when they end...
If it's frequently used by nation states, we should understand that anybody spreading ideas, information, or a rumor for the purpose of helping (or in...
Putin is fucking his countrymen and stealing the wealth from the Russian nation. Are you really denying that and becoming a true Putin apologist or wh...
And going down for Russia. But some other indicators, that actually tell something on this issue: Life expectancy: USA: 76.3 years Russia: 68.2 years ...
Uhh... this is a thread about the Ukraine Crisis. :roll: But of course we could talk about one if not the most obscenely rich and powerful, Vladimir P...
When it's reported by the news (Fox News), there has to be at least something true, right? In Pizzagate I think Clinton's election team sometimes orde...
Noam Chomsky first political book's name tells it all: "The Responsibility of Intellectuals". The thinking goes that in order to improve our Western W...
Diplomatic pressure? After all the sanctions what the EU has imposed? After sending weapons to Ukraine? Then apply diplomatic pressure? Of what? What ...
You noticed the point! Give a reply to my comment that you won't never give in this forum. Are there those comments that @"Agent Smith" doesn't give i...
:roll: Ok, then use the word salients. There are a lot of salients for the Russians. And for example encircling a huge city isn't so easy. Here the ex...
Why, when looking at the actions of annexing territories and then noticing what Putin has said for example of Ukraine and it's historical connection t...
Usually the mathematical paradoxes/logical paradoxes are structured this way. Do notice, with the same structure is also made theorems like Gödel's In...
I was talking about the line between the Ukrainian and the Russian lines. You do have the "front" stretched quite long now in Ukraine. Let's see how i...
..which tells what kind of a clusterfuck and a brainfart this "special military operation" has been. China has a frontline seat into looking how the U...
Here comes very apparent the problem that Russia has now: that "front line" drawn to the map is what? 1300 kilometers or so? In the map (on page 84) t...
The local National Defense University publishes a map with the assumed units in both sides. Unfortunately in Finnish. This picture of the situation in...
The thing is that when the Soviet Union collapsed, there wasn't a revolution. Actually the Soviet leaders could make a controlled crash without everyt...
I think it can. Many seem to have lost hope in this. The fact is that it takes decades for corruption to be erased as it's more part of the culture. O...
Bosnia, Serbia (not Kosovo), Libya and Afghanistan didn't have nuclear weapons. (Libya had a program, which was a joke, didn't go anywhere). None of t...
Use of biological weapons is really stupid. As if they could be contained. At least with chemical weapons you can observe where the wind is blowing. U...
Seems that you have been gone a long time for some strawman argument, in thinking I'm denying something. Or then simply haven't read what I say (or pe...
You keep dodging the answer. Or failing to understand it. Every country has strategic interest in their neighbors. Yet how to promote those interests ...
He has lost this. Even if he can declare a military victory. Just ask yourself: what does he win, if he conquers all of Ukraine? He would have to occu...
I think many understand what is happening, but then there are of course those who believe what is said. I think here the issue is that Putin is still ...
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