Are things really fine? Let's see. As I've explained many times, if you wanted to conduct a totally by surprise out-of-the-blue first strike, you coul...
That's why I explain the importance to the Black Sea. Maybe why the West keeps on repeating the war is "existential" not only for Ukraine but also NAT...
That's why, if you followed the exchange, the Russians say their main concern is the ability to convert the cites to launch other kinds of missiles: E...
First, my statement that they could obviously deploy nuclear weapons there is in response to your statement that the nuclear threat is "nonsense", but...
We literally already went through this trope several times: But if you want to go through the same tropes again, I'm pretty sure I have time to entert...
The willful ignorance of basic common sense is honestly stupendous. Why was the US concerned about missiles in Cuba when the Soviets had silos, and su...
This is the key exchange that created the discussion on this topic: You start by dismissing the 'nuclear threat' as nonsense. I point out the obvious ...
Though I agree with you here, using martial law to ban critical media, ban any dissent of the war policies, banning political parties, postponing elec...
Oh really? Hmm, let's see. Let's put aside you're already admitting ABM is a first strike capacity and just directly answer your question. On the page...
So let me get this straight, your process is: 1. Ignore ABM as itself a first strike system 2. Trivialize the missile bases as 10001 compared to 1000 ...
They are not "insignificant". That's just dumb to say. Why would they be there is they were insignificant? Ships operate in the ocean where you can ha...
Basically yes, Macron and Scholz represent the US interest to: 1. Harm the Euro and remove that competition to the Dollar. 2. Create a permanent schis...
That is my point, there are some differences but even if you removed those differences and even if I accepted completely you're and others account of ...
I'm putting into practice your 1000 points of capability already exist greater than the base. This is your reasoning. To actually get these 1000 point...
So well said. There's so much wrong with your reasoning here I'll put it in a nice list. 1. We're now far from your 1000 to 1 ratio here. 2. If politi...
For the sake of people following who don't want to live in total delusion, I'll explain things again to you. Your ability to not think, even for a mom...
Guess what! Extremists also were in the FLQ, later sheltered by Cuba (maybe supported by Cuba or then the Soviets all along!?!?! who knows). I said th...
The point experts made was just noting the distance to Russia (which you shouldn't need experts to point of the obvious, but in our conversation it se...
You are so ignorant of the key issues that you are basically not worth talking to. I will continue to do so, however, as I think you are well represen...
Yes, obviously, that's why all the focus on nuclear submarines. However, in any large scale nuclear war, you need a lot of nukes so forward operating ...
Each side is going to use information to make their case and mix both truth and untrue information to do so. Israel has used October 7th to justify th...
I literally have no clue what you're trying to say and how it relates to the conversation. You state they "covered their bases" and answering that is ...
For the obvious reason that they could deploy nuclear weapons there. Furthermore, the US started the dismantling of the non-proliferation architecture...
Ok, the context of your question was: ... "something along those lines" ... "The question is what might we then have expected from the Kremlin. Seems ...
I'll go ahead and assume you're responding to me. It's literally raining straw these days. I've spent several long posts (and many dozens at previous ...
Again the Nazi's are definitely there and definitely a problem (mainly for Ukraine). One of those problems I, and others, explained at length was the ...
It's honestly difficult to keep up and I don't have an over abundance of time at the moment. But to take your very next sentence under consideration: ...
Your reading comprehension continues to degrade and I will only fix this first error. What I stated was: What I am stating is that Ukrainian politicia...
It's really unclear what your point is. What I'm pointing out is that evaluating the likelihood for Russia not reinvading Ukraine later if a peace dea...
They obviously don't. American and Russian politicians are quite aware states can break their promises. Ukrainian politicians as well. The story that ...
"Security guarantees" have been discussed for dozens of pages. The fact that no contract is ever actually "guaranteed" as some sort of ontological sta...
I literally stated: After explaining all the military and intelligence problems of trying to keep and reverse engineer the nukes while developing a lo...
The opinion experts on the subject, as cited by Wikipedia, as well as the common sense reasons behind those opinions is "nonsense". No, it's not nonse...
The issue of the nukes is far more complicated than you say here. Let us consider first just the military aspects. Ukraine didn't have the arming code...
First a "holding pattern" is not a stop. Ukraine declared both simultaneously that it was neutral and also intent on joining NATO, and that also their...
This oscillation is honestly stupendous. One moment of course Ukraine has a right to join NATO and has a right to form closer military partnerships wi...
In other words ... what you're saying is ... in the real world Ukraine is not important enough to NATO for NATO to let Ukraine in ... Congratulations ...
Well what is your drift then? If we agree that NATO isn't "making a stand" in Ukraine and no one, outside Ukraine, is actually "standing up for freedo...
Obviously, has thousands of nukes. The problem vis-a-vis Ukraine is that Ukraine is not a legitimate area of strategic defence for NATO. If Ukraine wa...
Russia hasn't invaded a NATO country nor an EU country. Ukraine is neither in NATO nor the EU. Ukraine also (in the before times) owned Crimea which w...
Again with the marketing, never stops, but I'll unpack your commercial for the benefit of anyone following along. An ad hominem attack is a fallacy in...
And look on the bright side, you win too! You get to engage in 2 years of moral masterbation at no real risk or cost to yourself, but rather live true...
Russia is not comparable to the Third Reich. And, as we've gone over a dozen times at least in this conversation, we are not "standing up" in Ukraine....
Really, typical? It seems to me @"boagie" is literally the first participant in this discussion to present things as BRICS are good and America is bad...
Obviously the no-fly zone is more wishful thinking and will not happen. However, I don't think the role of the Russian airforce should be minimized. T...
My prediction is that if Trump wins the elections, for sure Ukraine will have outlived its usefulness. To what extent it outlives its usefulness befor...
Seems we see eye to eye after all this time. The no-fly zone idea was analyzed also at length at the start of the war, here and elsewhere, especially ...
The articles are written at different times and represent a trend, going from a "danger to democracy" and acting (violently, including murder) with im...
Really? You go from stating my predictions, such as Ukraine could not possibly retake significant territory without heavy weapons (that Javelins, NLAW...
That's what choosing to "win", which I believe is your position, means. You're genuinely surprised by the result? Has the cost been worth a small sliv...
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