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I see that you make honest question and do think about it. Your not a preacher here, but open at thinking. The fact is that raising a topic like right...

I think that Western journalists have little knowledge on Syria (as they had on Libya) as these have been quite closed authoritarian countries from th...

Uh, do notice that similar sanctions were there also with the Soviet Union. And if they need artillery pieces and tanks, then they just use older ones...

If you criticize on side and when the other sides does it, you stay silent or just see "no reason" to mention it, many would interpret that as having ...

One issue is clear: the Western media is and would be very alarmist about the extreme-right having large influence in any European country. Just to gi...

Nah. Don't think everything evolves around the US. The US isn't at all this omnipotent actor on the World stage. The simple fact is that if you are su...

Yet one never should underestimate just how much perseverance Russians have. If their economy will falter, then they stand in line for bread. The sanc...

Compare that to Russia's major trading partners, here from 2020. With the sanctions, it's evident that China will have a huge role in Russia. And that...

Security policy trumps trade policy always. If you think that there's such an important trade relationship that it would deter war, there isn't. Just ...

Nuclear weapons are for posturing, not for use. Just look at how scared people are of any kind of nuclear accident: the accident in Fukushima didn't k...

Russia is a big country, so why would I want it to be diminished? So no. The Russians are genuinely nice, warm people and have a soul more of an artis...

I think that the rules when you can get in are NATO written in the articles of NATO and evident from the application process. If NATO doesn't want a s...

Oh that doesn't matter...according to some here. As I've said the legitimate reasons to use military force is when you are attacked. That you attack s...

When that "securing" happens through annexations, you do understand that is really classical imperialism. And you do understand that the whole motivat...

After the Osirak raid in 1981 I think Israel was complacent and people didn't notice that Iraq continued the research. Another example is how far the ...

How correct you are. And of course, the ugly parts in 9/11 like the people leaping to their death from the twin towers, or in war coverage of dead chi...

Situation of the refugees. That one million have fled in a week out of 44 million tells about the intensity of the war. And what is also telling is th...

First of all, NATO didn't attack Iraq, it wasn't an NATO operation. NATO countries belonged to the alliance, but so did Pakistan, Morocco, Egypt and e...

Or at least, it hasn't been a spectacular achievement like the annexation of Crimea. Naturally the reporting is biased for the Ukrainians (and why wou...

Actually, let's not forget that Saddam DID have a WMD's and a nuclear weapons program prior to the invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War. In fact, what ...

Putin says these things. Those are the reasons given to this war. That is the Stalinist narrative. What do you think the de-nazification of Ukraine is...

To talk about drug addict neo-nazi's ruling Ukraine is utter nonsense and just Stalinist propaganda rhetoric. It's the level Putin has fallen to. It's...

Notice that not only Crimea was different, but that the whole situation was now different than in 2014. Let's remember that Kharkiv was a mainly Russi...

Tomorrow both the Swedish Prime Minister and the Swedish Defense minister are coming here to Finland. Lot's of diplomatic activity. I think that what ...

For Zelensky to demand a no-fly zone isn't fruitful. It really won't happen and everybody ought to know it.

True. On the other hand, for example during the Korean War, Soviet fighters were engaging in air combat with USAF fighters routinely. Few Soviet pilot...

Well, uh, NATO reactions to air space violations... A news article from last January in Estonia: Of course, there's a wide range in the seriousness of...

Yes. I think it has to go like that. It will be more of a multilateral declaration. I think even the US and NATO have learned that by now. Notice that...

In my view a global recession has been on the works for a long time. But now, if you want to have one reason for such complex phenomenon as a global d...

But then there is the actual war that is bloody. And too much video materiel which isn't fake. If this war continues on with similar intensity as now,...

No. There are pacifists in this World. I'm not one of them, but anyway. Simply to put it, one doesn't have to choose sides. When one actor does someth...

I think it's so also. Even on the interview t hat a former prime minister that I referred on page 55 thought this. And Putin has made similar statemen...

Simple answer: Because it's constantly changing it's borders! It has problems to know just where it's country ends. Just look at Ukraine now and what ...

This is a very, very important point! Because Russia didn't have parity. It's economy is small. Here you would have needed "larger than life" politici...

First it was cultural figures, students and scientists in Russia who opposed the war. Now you start having grumblings from the corporations too: Enlar...

Russia isn't a superpower, not with Ukraine at least, and then this idea about US never wanting Russia in NATO simply is against the historical facts ...

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Actually yes. Well, if there would be a surprise attack that somehow would exceed so absurdly well to wipe out all the bombers and missile silos (or m...

Actually, that has totally passed. Sometime long periods can come finally to a halt even in the history of Sweden. For both of our countries, being no...

I'd say it's unlikely. Think about it. Let's assume Biden would have gone to lower (meaning higher) defcon level. If Putin would notice that, you thin...

Our President Niinistö going to Washington tomorrow to meet Biden. For the first time (like there in Sweden), polls say that more Finns are for NATO m...

Usually Russia doesn't have so many aircraft, and combat aircraft, breaching Swedish airspace. Yet the timing now is telling: Meanwhile, Russians hold...

Really? What is your source for this? I think it would be frontline news. And contrary to what New York Times reported: I think that raising the DEFCO...

I think that when Putin raised the readiness level of his nuclear forces, the Biden administration did the right thing: It didn't do anything with it'...

That's sarcastic.

Ah yes! Economic depression: time when wealth inequality decreases! When poor get poorer, but the rich also lose a lot. Same thing happens during wars...

What well over 100 dollar oil price does is that it stops the economy like a handbrake.

If we just have the patience to read thoroughly each others comments and genuinely try to understand the others points, we usually do that. I think th...

Same shit different outcomes? And notice how those ex-Soviet countries in the EU (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) have performed against their former Sovi...

And just when have I denied that NATO expansion isn't one reason for Putin to attack? All I've tried to say, that it wasn't the only reason for this w...