Sweden isn't and has never been a firmly non-aligned country. It's completely aligned to the West. The Baltic Sea is NATO-dominated, with or without S...
This might come as a surprise to you, but hand-waving arguments doesn't actually make them disappear, so I guess you'll have to try harder than that. ...
Again, Sweden is irrelevant. If it wants to join of its own accordance, fine - another useful idiot to wave the flag - or such is the sentiment in Was...
Sweden is an irrelevant nation. Ukraine, not so much. Had the US succeeded in creating a fait accompli in Ukraine, it would have pushed for NATO membe...
I agree that there is such a thing as self-defense. I just don't think it applies to war in general because what is actually being defended is not a p...
The first misstep is to believe there is such a thing as a 'just war'. Once a nation goes to war, and thus commits itself to mass murder, it must acce...
The German tabloids are reporting that Scholz and Biden have come together recently and are cooking up a plan to force Ukraine to negotiate. The origi...
'Neutrality clause' while NATO says it is going to incorporate Ukraine into its ranks and the US is funneling billions of dollars into Ukraine to supp...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkjRqAJYDUg For a while rumors have gone around about the IDF / IAF itself being responsible for a large amount of civ...
An ironic statement, considering the content of your post. :chin: It wasn't clear to me you were disagreeing with Schmitt. You could have just said so...
This is a gross misinterpretation of IHL. It is unsurprising one might find terms like 'voluntary human shield' in a DoD manual, but please refrain fr...
I did. I've provided accounts of the people directly involved, accounts of people indirectly involved, reports by prominent UN and NATO representative...
I don't see any evidence of that. It seems to me you're cherry-picking snippets of information (from Russian propaganda channels, no less) and interpr...
Given how deeply the US was committed to project Ukraine - given the size, state and equipment of the Ukrainian military, I find it unthinkable to be ...
Even a layman can understand that a country that has been receiving western military aid for a decade, with a large, well-trained and well-equipped mi...
It should be noted that Russia has voiced concerns about Ukraine joining the EU as well, because the EU features a military dimension such as a mutual...
What a disgusting and pathetic display of political opportunism by Washington: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOYh9rQcOC8 First giving Netanyahu a bl...
Not a terrible idea. In my opinion a "one-state solution" with equal rights is probably the only real solution to the Israel-Palestine problem, though...
It's very simple. They should stop illegally occupying Gaza and the West Bank, and stop committing human rights violations, war crimes and crimes agai...
I'm not sensitive to this type of moral framing. Israel spent the last month indiscriminately murdering civilians in Gaza, a large portion of which we...
Resistance movements are often very unpleasant in their methods, simply because they cannot resist the oppressor through conventional means. The Vietc...
The first thing that needs happen is for Israel to stop its belligerent occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Until that happens, Hamas is simply a re...
Because the Russians had been drawing a red line since at least 2008, so supporting a coup was essentially calling Russia's bluff. That the US was una...
I doubt the US was completely surprised by it, since they had just supported a coup in Ukraine. Perhaps they hadn't anticipated that the Russians woul...
Personally I think this war was going to happen no matter what. Many presidents, including Trump and Obama, tried to change the course of US foreign p...
There is some role for regional players, but their influence compared to that of the great powers or their intelligence agencies is negligible. I thin...
Which the US supported. Exactly. Countries becoming modern, rejecting colonialism, etc. Churchill was no less a scumbag. Perhaps even the worst of the...
A lot of countries in the Middle-East had undemocratic forms of government, but for a lot of those countries that's what worked. It kept those countri...
It might not have been what they wanted, but that's what they got. They were like children playing with fire, but it was someone else's house that bur...
It's a known trope that many of the people the US put in power through regime change turned towards communism on their own initiative. This of course ...
Excuse me, who put Nasser in charge in Egypt? Who started the string of coups in Syria? Uncle Sam's greasy fingerprints are all over the Middle-East, ...
The most important reason Israel is "singled out" is because it enjoys widespread western backing, and its special relationship with the United States...
Recently brought to my attention was a report written by former UN Assistant Secretary-General Michael von der Schulenberg, German professor Hajo Funk...
Since there has been some debate about what Mearsheimer actually believes about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I'll share this quote from a recent l...
I take media propaganda with a grain of salt, and if I binged on it as much as the average TFP poster then I would be very worried about my salt intak...
But this is ridiculous. What modern army is going to model their defense on 1940's France? Have you seen a Ukrainian Maginot Line anywhere? Holding on...
Supposedly they were also running short on artillery shells, yet scarcely a day has gone by that the entire frontline hasn't been peppered by Russian ...
The inactivity of the Russian forces in northern Ukraine during the initial stages of the war in my view reflects their purpose as I have described it...
I doubt the Russians expected a quick military victory, considering the fact that they invaded with a force that was way too small to fully defeat the...
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