What a curious remark, coming from someone who keeps referencing the battle of Hostomel Airport (24th - 25th of February by the way, when "the goddamn...
It was reported directly by the Ukrainian general staff. 31 BTGs, each comprised of roughly 600 - 800 officers and soldiers, amounts to roughly 21,000...
The Russians hoping to take Kiev with 20,000 troops is a laughable fantasy. Sorry. but it can't be put in any other way. It's pretty obvious that the ...
A diversion, most likely. There's a strategic element to it as well, where the West might've been persuaded to the negotiating table upon Kiev being t...
The dismissal happens when I measure your narrative to the 190,000 figure, and conclude that there is no way a 190,000 troops could have achieved the ...
I'd just like to point out how absolutely pivotal a piece of information like this (that has been public knowledge for a while) is to deciphering the ...
This reminds me a little of the Chinese balloon incident, which many claimed was merely a story purposely blown up to divert attention to various fail...
And not just the Russians. The US empire spanned the whole globe, and it's unlikely the Americans will let it crumble without a fight. The key questio...
The UN General Assembly can vote, but such votings have no actual power. Only Security Council resolutions do. So until both sides are interested in a...
As long as one or both sides are interested in continuing the war, UN involvement is practically impossible. For one, because Russia can veto any UN r...
It depends on what one's goal is. If one genuinely wishes to help a person, anything that might nudge them in the direction of self-reflection would b...
I never said it was simple. I said the fact that Russian air defense systems being able to take down anti-radiation missiles is a critical difference ...
Since Ukraine and probably also Russia will not meet that criterium at any point during this conflict, I don't see why this would be relevant. Of cour...
The idea that an air force is a "more effective" method of air defense is untrue, as I explained. It functions as part of an air defense network, and ...
Note that you stated fighters are "a more effective alternative" - something which is simply untrue for the reasons I gave. Of course fighters can pla...
I don't see why not. Every use of these F-16s will incur some risk. One advantage the Ukrainians will have is the intel they are getting from the US a...
Assuming the term 'incel' refers to this specific, somewhat radicalized internet group, the numbers probably aren't terribly high. But the amount of p...
This is an inaccurate idea of how air defense works. Fighters are not efficient at air defense at all. Consider the amount of resources it would take ...
Again, I think this incel problem is indicative of a wider trend among all the young (not just males) - increased isolation and social atomization, in...
That's my view, yes. Taking too much territory would greatly increase the risk of an insurgency materializing, which is almost certainly what actors l...
A recent talk by John Mearsheimer on the Ukraine war, in which he delves into quite a bit of detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-rHBRwdql8 Some ...
I wonder how many incels are also virgins. I don't think it's healthy for people to stay virgins for too long into their adolesence (unless they reall...
I'm not rooting for any team. I think you are, and that's why you're so eager to project that onto others who post here when things don't go the way y...
Bakhmut has finally fallen it seems. Both sides more or less confirmed it. One thing that popped out to me about the last weeks is the barrage of misi...
Problematic behavior almost always stems from suffering, and in the case of incels that's pretty clear. Recognizing that doesn't make you an apologist...
The addictive, 'social contagion/social pressure' dynamics of social media also play a big role. I agree. It probably doesn't help that social media s...
A good question. My take on this is that parents are more overworked than ever, and lack their own support network to fall back on, which in previous ...
It's an interesting dynamic, but I'm not convinced of its importance. For example, weren't high standards of beauty already available to everyone befo...
Certainly, but it's not that simple. Social media, cellphones, the internet - all of these things have hijacked young people's minds, and their capaci...
It probably goes a bit beyond the beauty ideal, but it's certainly a part of it. Consider rates of plastic surgery for example, but also the photoshop...
Young people everywhere are struggling with developing intimate relationships (and relationships in general), and that is a serious problem. I think i...
The issue with inflation and debt is how hidden their effects are, and perhaps more importantly, what kind of perverse incentives propel policymakers ...
Transgenderism has always struck me as seriously contradictory. On one hand it seems to dismiss notions of male/female stereotypes, yet on the other s...
Rose is absolutely right. Structures of political control are, at their very best, a necessary evil, and they need to be questioned and mistrusted at ...
It's a shoddy article. Luck skips explaining the key term for his question: morality. And this is where he goes wrong. He confuses morality with socia...
We can perhaps expand a little upon my earlier post in which I talked about how people are goaded into integrating ideology into the sense of self, us...
Well no, but I think those things will ensure social conflicts won't be solved by any other means than force, since communication is made impossible. ...
The problem of our time is that the ruling elite have turned mass manipulation into an artform that would have made even Goebbels proud. They know exa...
What makes him an idiot exactly? It seems he has a lot of guts, throwing down the gauntlet towards big pharma, the military-industrial complex, the CI...
It's probably worth mentioning that Seymour Hersh has been defending his Nord Stream story all over the internet, though has been rarely invited by an...
Yet here you are, conjuring up theories about people on this forum being 'Russian agents', literally using the words 'pretty high likelihood'. Perhaps...
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