These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge (James Kirkpatrick · Apr 5, 2013) https://twitter.com/James_Kpatrick/status/3201509233368...
Yeah, someone will get scrambling. I recall Obama (and others) suggesting as much. Plus, European countries will have to cooperate in some ways. The G...
These folk comprise a fair percentage of Clown'ers... 45% of Americans Say U.S. Should Be a ‘Christian Nation’ — Gregory A Smith, Michael Rotolo, Patr...
I guess the Swedes are (uncharacteristically) ramping up defense efforts, including in Latvia. :/ Reacting to the Kremlin. Probably shouldn't be that ...
Belarus refuses to invite OSCE observers to monitor this year’s parliamentary election — Yuras Karmanau · AP · Jan 8, 2024 I guess they bother at all ...
I guess there are any number of characteristics, transparency, freedom, ... And non-characteristics, authoritarianism, oppression, ... There's no magi...
Should one take the Kremlin's irredentist promotions seriously ... Putin: Russians, Ukrainians are ‘one people’ — AP · Jul 20, 2019 On the Historical ...
(peripheral to the conflict) Well done :D Inviolability, life support and protection: guarantees for Lukashenka after the presidency have been determi...
, hmm well ok, no response to my response to your comments before. Should those comments of yours be disregarded then? Cheering on BRICS as if they we...
, I've only lived in the US for ? half a year, it was in the past and mostly business related. Not that it matters. But you're still not answering the...
, did you ignore my comments on purpose? They were responses to two of your comments (this, this) plus about promoting authoritarian regimes (maybe yo...
, right, this is US colonialism. :lol: , known nuclear weaponry placements as of ? Oct 16, 2022. Belarus (bordering Latvia Lithuania Poland Ukraine Ru...
The present war started around Feb 27, 2014 when the Kremlin initiated grabbing Crimea; hardly a shot was fired. A direct pretext ("neither evil nor i...
Kicking off 2024, Sauli Niinistö and Oleksiy Danilov commented on the Ukrainian situation. As you'd expect, the outgoing Finnish president was measure...
Hmm... Are you saying that our experiences are not part of the real world? Sure, they might be existentially mind-dependent, yet aren't (also) minds p...
The Gremlin circle, with Pukin at the helm, has been telling a particular story, a tale of doom and destruction, a vast plot and dire existential thre...
, I guess it's customary to discuss the context from world war 2 onwards. Both parties lay claim to religio-historical areas (+ there's a contemporary...
, the (supposedly) religious aspects aren't quite as innocent as you seem to describe. Persecution of Zoroastrians — Wikipedia Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khal...
Parnas confession or story-telling? Lev Parnas didn't testify in Trump Ukraine scandal. Will he appear in Biden impeachment? — Antonio Fins · Palm Bea...
Informative reads, spanning roughly a year: Russian fighter jets are struggling in Ukraine, but Ukraine can't beat their missiles and radars, research...
The zone would include all of Ukraine (well, it's at Kyiv's discretion). Whatever the gory details of such an initiative, I don't know. Members, sure....
What about the surprise to Xi? Maybe that shouldn't have come as a surprise; reportedly it did though. In other news: Takeaways from AP investigation ...
@"boagie", are you a bot...? Well, it wouldn't be a NATO operation (under the auspices of NATO), except the combined force would include NATO members....
I'd go further and call this crap a cultural or human thing. Democracy has always contained the possibility of its own undoing, it just takes a majori...
Continuing earlier suggestions, this can work to free Ukraine (whatever links are embedded)... no-fly zone in Ukrainian airspace officially declared b...
(apologies for the copy/paste) Neither evil nor ignorant: More copy/paste that pertains to the comment: Questionable in terms of evil/ignorant: Prejud...
, that's too bad. There are observations evidence references documents developments whatever — specifically related to Euromaidan — not exactly all fr...
UNICEF Photo of the Year 2023 Make that Photos (plural). At first, I thought that the kid in Saprunova's 3rd photo was holding electronics in their ha...
Hmm , you kept repeating your grievance with the US without responding to the Euromaidan comments, which was a response to a comment of yours. Stay on...
Sure, there was "US involvement" (+ other involvement) supporting ... (There's a bit more at Euromaidan (Wikipedia).) Part of this stuff was about she...
The most direct cause of Crimea 2014 was the 2014 Revolution. It was a loss of control and influence for the Kremlin. Ukrainians explicitly started lo...
, @"Tzeentch" is just going to recite Mearsheimer again. :) I'm just thinking that the Kremlin can't be that dumb. :) Then again, it's just conjecture...
, it seems unlikely that Russia will attack NATO countries. They're more likely to insert covert operatives/agents in such cases. It's less so about N...
Hmm... Worries have been raised that the fighter-bombers were shot down by arms supplied by the West... I suppose, had they been supplied by Moldova o...
, toss the occasional envy in there for good measure. ;) But there are political and cultural problems, lots in need of improvements and attention. Fa...
Happy solstice or holidays or whatever. :) NASA gifts us with 'out of this world' views ahead of the holidays — Scott Sutherland · The Weather Network...
Orbán has Trump's back. 'Evil is eating away at Western democracies,' says Hungarian PM Orban — Euronews + Agence France Presse · Dec 21, 2023 https:/...
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