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Those who have built empires have not been madmen. Some perhaps have been, but not all. What counts is that one is against the idea of imperialism, th...

Here Putin showed both his ruthlessness and his intelligence in Chechnya. First he fought a really genocidal campaign against the Chechens. Even the R...

So if it's the harsh terms Treaty of Versailles, the internal problems of Weimar Germany, and other historical reason for fascism and national sociali...

Åland islands is a de-militarized zone. It's a really interesting question when Finland would send forces there. The only Finnish forces there are the...

Well, if it's just Gotland and not Åland, I hope we do the same for you and come to help! The unfortunate fact is that after few months, assuming the ...

Worthy to listen one view about Putin's objectives and his money. But what is true is that war is what has made Putin. His first Presidential campaign...

I'd be a bit sceptical about a hypothetical "victory article" published by one side. Things that are reported by several different sources that don't ...

No. Why? I guess I'd follow what is said in the Finnish constitution. (But really, I think that is unlikely. At least now. Yet if Sweden and Finland w...

Thank you for that, Isaac. For you, the least interesting thing is what Putin's motives and objectives are and what he does. What you focus is what th...

Interesting historical fact: Stalin asked the US to bomb Finland during WW2. The United States rejected this as the two countries were not at war. In ...

Words from 2014 from Adrian Basora, words that still apply. Extremely well: Putin’s Motives and Russian Grand Strategy Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine strate...

But he isn't delusional!!! I'm not sure where you see the illogicality here. He clearly states how Russia thinks. What is so hard to understand that R...

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OK. You see, the smartest thinkers not only saw that NATO expansion would get the Russian Bear angry. They also saw the obvious imperialism aspiration...

How about then reading what for example John Mearsheimer so well said far earlier: Mearsheimer in 1993: Yes, as John Mearsheimer said, giving up it's ...

Thank you. Then hopefully history will later tell that! But do notice that what is lacking is the smoking gun showing that indeed there was a far grea...

Napoleon and Hitler have been the real threats to Russia from the West. Neither of them is around, even if one is buried in a Mausoleum. The real prob...

Our thread troll, informing us of the official Russian view :smile: https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/Qsr68Owv80kmpjP0bp9Rwf6MjkA=/arc-anglerfish...

Things can happen, but listening to Johnson speak in the Parliament and then listening to the reply of the Labor opposition leader Keir Starmer to him...

Thanks for your answer, you have made your point clear. OK, It's an interesting topic, I agree, but I think one main question to you is the following:...

I have fireplaces at my home, and wood. So fine with me too!

I haven't said the involvement isn't proven. I've consistently said that yes, the US meddled in revolution, but that the revolution basically happened...

What Chechnya looked after the first war (which the Russians lost, basically). That's what a city looks like after the war having gone for 1 year, 8 m...

Putin won the war in Checnya. Putin has already used Chechen mercenaries in Donbass in 2014. And he has used them also in Syria. (From 2014) https://w...

Ok, fair enough, Isaac. Let me put it this way: If governments usually lie, there sometimes can be the rare occasion when the truth serves them and th...

Or put him in a mock trial, if they get him. That he's target 1 and his family target 2 is quite probable. It's very logical to try to strike at the e...

Notice that now Russia is de facto quite attached to China. If Russia can't sell the gas and oil to Western Europe, where can Putin sell it? Yet China...

I know this wasn't a question for me, but have to say: Yes, it is a mathematical object. Just as is even Cantor's Absolute infinity. (Which he didn't ...

Oh no. Here we go again. An Ayn Rand thread... 16 hours and 5 pages.

Observe that this was from a phone call that the FSB/SVR tapped and leaked. Then the Russian intelligence services worked far better than now. (Or hav...

Great, nice to hear that someone agrees that free elections and democracy can work even in Ukraine! I think that Ukrainian officials have tried to con...

:100: Here's the scary thought. Three days ago I referred here to the possibility of Russia "escalating to de-escalate". There are already hints of th...

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So to @"Christoffer" you answer: I think this answer tells it all.

Not actually. US military presence in a country is US military presence in a country. Especially with Kazakhstan, Russia's belly would be exposed to t...

Yes. But others likely wouldn't have gone to do it with war and military force. That is the point here. You see, there could have been a policy to be ...

Notice what you quoted yourself. Because I was exactly referring to with the quote you made: "the leading NATO countries, in order to achieve their ow...

Olaf Scholz has made a true 180-degree turn. Germany is giving arms to Ukraine. Scholz has promised that defence expenditure will be above 2% in Germa...

And this is the main issue here. You don't read what Putin actually says. He does explain his actions. He didn't need even the excuse of NATO having a...

Good to hear that. Sorry if people get confused when you talk about neo-nazis being in power and Putin saying that neo-nazis are in power in Ukraine. ...

Again waving frantically the Hitler-card and going with Putin's favorite "Ukraine is run by neo-nazis"-argument, Isaac? Or that US backed a coup...whi...

1000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stingers is a huge weapons delivery. Basically it will empty the stocks of the Bundeswehr (not all, but a big portion) ...

US and Russia as allies would have been that would have made a true global hegemony and made it even uglier. Many people here would absolutely loath t...

Do note how far more emphasis Putin made then to the message and the information campaign. The confusion of the Maidan Revolution, or the Revolution o...

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

In Russia they are totally silent about is that the fighting is all around Ukraine and in Kiev. More that this really would be a "peacekeeping operati...

That is the discourse or the level of reasoning for this war from Vladimir Putin. Words he has used to describe the enemy Russia going after. The And ...

Soon you will be nazis. Just like we will be. And we will both be an existential threat to Russia, because... the US is bad.

Too late to believe... let me see, that "Russian peacekeepers go to an artificial country that is headed by neo-nazis and drug users to de-nazify the ...

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