If we are talking about sanctions as a tool to influence immediate decision-making, such as starting or escalating hostilities, then it is the threat ...
:lol: I have a like/hate relationship with Dickens. After reading Copperfield some years ago I decided that I'd had enough of him for a while. I get t...
It doesn't. Russia's existing LNG capacity is a minor fraction of its pipeline capacity. Since Russia doesn't have mature LNG technology of its own an...
If Europe goes through with its divestment from Russian energy, then Russia's game doesn't look so good in the medium term. Oil and gas are not like g...
The "Transnistrian war" was hardly a war: the scale and the forces involved were tiny compared to Donbas. There were, I think, a few old Soviet tanks ...
You are losing track of the relative time scales here. The history of humanity is a point on the geological timescale. We could be living right smack ...
Huh. They would have to bloat like corpses in order for gasses to change their buoyancy. Either that or something would have to leak in or out. Us ign...
It's not a fair comparison: life in Donbas was pretty miserable even before the invasion. And among those remaining there, quite a few did want to be ...
Yeah, and no one appears to be keen on reigniting it. Russia has its hands full with its present war, which it doesn't know how to end without losing ...
The fake referendums would not be legitimate even by the Russian law. According to the Russian Constitution, parts of other countries cannot join Russ...
Does solidness exist? When you put it like this, this question will land you in hot water with some philosophers. A better way to ask would be: Is any...
Well, any explanation relates something to something else - that's just how such discourse works. But "something else" doesn't always have to be somet...
Explanations come in various forms. Some, but not all explanations take the form of a causal narrative, like your God example. Since causal explanatio...
Interesting topic. Entropy, macro- and microstates are notoriously tricky subjects, even to specialists. It is not very clear to me what you mean by t...
lol. I am not even disagreeing with the idea that we should be more concerned with that which we can influence, or at least that which can influence u...
And yet you started this discussion about a "Ukraine crisis" - events in which the main participants are Russia and Ukraine (in that order, since Russ...
Yeah... Not long after that they were doing in Chechnya pretty much what they are doing in Ukraine today. That's not to say that something is wrong wi...
I can't imagine how mods don't get to know about Prishon spamming every thread on the forum. He is hard to miss (which is a big part of why he was ban...
Rather than arguing about the racial origins of Crimean Tatars, let me tell you something about the actual people. I bet that most here have never see...
These posters (Street, Isaac, Benkei) are not just arguing in bad faith. They are trolling and intentionally derailing the thread. They made it clear ...
ISW and others have reported that loyal Russian military bloggers who generally support the war (such as "Strelkov," ex-FSB and former leader of "DNR"...
Dude, you are debating someone who believes that nations have a natural right to conquer and subjugate other nations based on their ethnic origin. I d...
January 2021 Russia: OMG! We suddenly realized that NATO has been expanding in Europe since 1997! And Ukraine might some day join NATO too! This is an...
Russia is still sore about the sinking of their Black Sea flagship and attacks on patrol boats near Snake Island. How else to explain this delirious d...
A striking illustration of how Putin talks to his underlings was this bizarre televised spectacle of his Security Council meeting right before the war...
Russian anti-war protestors brave police repressions, sometimes resorting to subtle subversion in an attempt to avoid being arrested. "???! ????! ???!...
So this rubles-for-gas confrontation that Russia got itself into is pretty bizarre. To be clear, there is zero economic sense in it for Russia - it's ...
Recently news media and analysts have been discussing a reported comment made by some Russian general about Russia's goals in the next phase of the wa...
That's the one issue Ukraine doesn't have (ironically, given the context). Since the Maidan Revolution in 2014, radicals have signally failed to make ...
Or D: Refuse to take the bait. Seriously discussing whether or not there were enough Nazis in Ukraine to justify an invasion, or even considering it a...
If you are in Russia, you can no longer watch this classic Soviet cartoon on Youtube (although Youtube hasn't been banned yet): https://www.youtube.co...
https://twitter.com/RuslanLeviev/status/1514966084167819270 This was supposedly filmed in Tumen (Siberia). Ancient Grads on ZIL-131 gasoline truck bed...
There is a sort of indirect acknowledgement of the missile attack version from Russia in the fact that they struck a factory near Kiev that produced N...
Russian military are making thousands of job postings on sites like HeadHunter and Superjob: https://hh.ru/vacancies/voennosluzhaschij-po-kontraktu Th...
So as you admit, the invasion hurts Russia big time. And it will continue to hurt for many years to come. In addition to the human cost (both from war...
Word is that many of the FSB officers from the 5th Division, the office responsible for Ukraine intelligence, have been fired and may be facing prosec...
Yeah, I saw the reports as well. It's unconfirmed at this point. We don't know whether the Russian army even has chemical munitions in its arsenal (po...
In the separatist "republics" they have been forcibly conscripting all military-age males right from the start of the invasion. Many men there are in ...
Nah, NATO will not intervene over an alleged use of chemical weapons (which Russia will, of course, deny or blame on Ukrainians themselves). They've b...
WMD news: Eduard Basurin, press secretary of the DNR (the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic) military command, said that "chemical troops" will need to...
You know we can just follow the link, right? You don't need to copy-paste the entire thing here. Yes, this looks like a typical presentation of the of...
I've been wondering about this phenomenon: Benkei, etc. are not even Americans, and yet they are as parochial as Americans are often said to be. Paroc...
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