It's not like the US hasn't tried on both accounts. Iran is particularly important though because it occupies the bottleneck leading to both the Middl...
Kiev is not a victim. It made its choices, and carries the responsibility for the consequences. It chose poorly and is now paying the price. That's ge...
Current US grand strategy focuses on China, which is the obvious contender for global dominance (which Russia isn't), and the architects of this are t...
Hm. I'm honestly not one to ascribe a decisive amount of influence to interest groups and lobbies like the US Israel lobby. I think Israel serves US g...
I'm not denying the Ukrainians anything, though it would be pretty silly to expect NATO or EU membership to magically change Ukraine into a functional...
It's the same old song: the US overthrows a democratically elected government for 'reasons' and then proceeds to create a mess several times larger, l...
I think today's loss of independence started with end of the Cold War. That's when NATO and Europe's position with regards to the US fundamentally cha...
I live in Europe/a NATO country. We're literally a vassal of the US, with our politcians being literal stooges for the US. There's nothing independent...
That the Russians desire a neutral Ukraine is something that they've told us consistently over the course of some 15 years, and it's something they re...
It's hard to tell whether you're being facetious or not, because these caricatures regularly present themselves as genuinely held beliefs among this f...
Talks with the Russians / Ukrainian neutrality is a fate worse than death? People who truly believe that are obviously brainwashed. There were reasona...
When the situation is sufficiently bleak, 'balanced' analysis just betrays an unwillingness to face reality. Ukraine is strategically lost, and from s...
That's what propaganda and war do to people, unfortunately. They become radical, irrational and emotionally driven. In fact, if I were to be particula...
Clearly this incursion is going to be crushed in time. The idea that it will keep the Russians busy when they're in need of rest is upside-down thinki...
Ukraine's actions in Kursk make no military sense. It's Ukraine that is strapped for manpower, ammunition, etc. They cannot hold ground, their cities ...
Remember when the Israelis accused Hamas of brutality? Israeli media airs footage showing alleged footage of Palestinian detainee This is just an indi...
So? The previous Ukrainian offensive was a costly failure, and that's probably what this offensive will turn out as well since it makes zero military ...
The more apt question would be, how can Russia lose? The Ukrainians don't need money. They need manpower, ammunition, tanks, etc. Meanwhile, the horri...
My sense is that a total collapse is unlikely, unless the Russians dramatically shift their military operations to a more manoeuvre-style approach. Pr...
If Ukraine is neutral, and the West shows a sincere interest in peace, I think the Russians could have possibly been persuaded to agree to some sort o...
Now? No, not anymore. At the onset of the invasion there was still a modicum of trust which formed the basis upon which Russia could agree to a neutra...
A peace treaty ends the war, ergo the "armed" conflict - which is obviously what it was meant to do. Why not start with your own? :lol: But sure - you...
No, it wasn't. It was a draft peace treaty. But here you go again, bickering over minutiae because clearly you've got nothing better. Look kiddo, this...
The Istanbul Communiqué is a strong piece of evidence that points in that direction, so obviously it is not 'unsubstantiated'. Whether you find it con...
The terms of the Istanbul Communiqué did not include any territorial gains for Russia - not even Crimea. Both the Ukrainian and the Russian negotiatin...
I didn't take offense, nor was my comment a jab at you. Rather, it was a general observation that interest groups get people to spread their propagand...
I hope you're not talking about me, schop. But to respond seriously to your remark: Imagine paying people for that. Propaganda lesson #1 is to get peo...
As you all bicker over which clown should get to play pretend in the White House, US Congress gave 50+ standing ovations to a war criminal, who subseq...
"Criminal", "weird", "immoral" - what do these words even mean to people who live in a nation that's funding a literal genocide? :chin: It seems Trump...
That's right. There are plenty of western scholars who voice these ideas, and it fits neatly in the historic behavioral pattern we see from the United...
Who knows, whatever the US could lure the ignorant Europeans into accepting. Thanks. :up: I wouldn't expect someone who seems still to be stuck in "un...
If the Americans had their way, sure. They had hoped the Russians would more aggressively push Ukraine, which would have given NATO an opportunity to ...
The war in Ukraine is just the appetizer - not the actual goal. War between Europe and Russia is the American dream scenario here, and the conduct of ...
Because NATO insisted on threatening what the Russians believed were their vital strategic interests. Even when the US pivots, it doesn't mean the US ...
Because at that point they believed war to be unavoidable. I'm not sure what's so hard to understand about that. NATO was clearly propping up Ukraine ...
Of course not. The Russians believe NATO membership for Ukraine to be a threat to their vital strategic interests. They simply couldn't ignore it. Tha...
Because deterrence is supposed to make war less likely, instead of provoke it. Yep. That's something I've repeatedly argued in this thread: NATO, the ...
I'm not asking NATO anything. NATO leaders admitted to signing a peace agreement not with the intention of maintaing peace, but with the intention to ...
You're asking me how it is bad faith to enter a peace agreement in order to double down on what caused the war in the first place? There's nothing wit...
You're both mischaracterizing your own position (you're arguing there was "no reason" to invade Ukraine - obviously not a serious argument) and mine (...
This is another version of the "no reason" comment. The Russians clearly believed and told us otherwise, and the idea that a great power goes to war f...
It doesn't. Ukraine and especially Crimea are of great geopolitical and historical importance to Russia and always have been. They've fought several w...
Ukraine is more important to Russia than maintaining the status quo. That's exactly what they told us over the course of some fifteen years. Striking ...
Like I said: I agree completely with you on the need for deterrence. When I say Europe must get its head out of its ass I mean, among other things, th...
Let us take a moment to note that the person responsible for conducting the most well-documented genocide in recorded history, Benjamin Netanyahu, got...
Cute. You can accuse me of many things, but running away isn't one of them. If there is anyone who has laid out their arguments in painstaking detail ...
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