Again, how do you actually prevent a Russian victory? Sanctions haven't worked, international fighters haven't worked, the great Ukrainian offensive h...
To continue my analysis of the military situation, the UK, and I believe Poland as well, sending main battle tanks and the US sending Bradleys now is ...
Even if true for some reason, that somehow Russian defeat would make other states look at nuclear weapons and not be as "attracted" to that sleek cold...
Defending a nation state is not self defence, the nation state exists only ideologically. If the cost of the defence far exceeds whatever the purporte...
Unfortunately your reading comprehension is so low we need here a dictionary intervention. "Legitimate grievance" is a mainly legal expression to make...
Although I agree with the basics, they still require economic strength to pursue their personal and legislative agendas, which for decades has involve...
Ah ok, I haven't been following the conversation for a couple of weeks. It is truly a bizarre transformation of it being totally normal to criticise U...
They definitely do have meaning on the battlefield, but I understand since Ukraine isn't achieving these "victories" as of late you've made up some di...
These are just facts. I don't claim these are hypotheticals. Yes, these totally factual things, documented by our own the Western media (before they g...
And if you want some analysis of equally credible people who say Ukraine is "winning" in some sense (but maybe at a great cost), this is also excellen...
Ah, I see, you're just virtue signalling that you've found the extreme-right association after 420 pages. Ok, well, if you want to make an argument ra...
This is just a general point, I don't say you made any predictions. I'm contrasting this "extreme right" of yours with the mainstream media. The key w...
I don't care about your life work. What I do know is that I post one video of a break down of a video that Forbs references (so vetted to some degree ...
I never said you did, I was pointing out the value of considering what someone who has made accurate predictions says, maybe they have some insights i...
You're in the true adherent to cancel culture category. However, even when would-be-critical thinkers see what the online mob can do, they hesitate to...
The Syrian conflict that didn't overthrow Asad as mainstream media promised and where Al Qaeda was literally a moderate faction of the "rebels". Again...
In this recent exchange with and I think it's quite illuminating the effects of cancel culture on analysis and decision making. Neither rebut anything...
Before I posted 6 videos from BBC to Vice, investigating the Nazi's in Ukraine, and all concluding there is definitely Nazi's in Ukraine, with weapons...
Azov is literally riding around making Nazi salutes with the Nazi iron cross and the SS wolf's angle painted on their vehicles. https://youtu.be/PPR8C...
I have no problem with the idea such a narrative is true. My position on this issue was that clearly the Russian military had a plan B of securing the...
Ukraine had a pretty sizeable army before the army: https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/INTERACTIVE-Ukraine-Russia-head-to-head.png?w...
No issues with your statement vis-a-vis the US. The cancel culture aspect is to explain why Europe goes all in on the war and sanctions, which is a fa...
This was maybe true at the very start, and had Ukraine sued for peace then, it would have been significant Ukrainian agency just as you say, both the ...
I'd have no problem believing this is true. It could have been the policy just to avoid an embarrassing result in the next round. A lot of decisions r...
Ukraine is 100% dependent on NATO, in particular the US who calls the shots in NATO, for arms, intelligence, training and planning support, and bankro...
Two other things worth considering in explaining why the policy isn't all that coherent: Cancel culture is now the preferred method of the elites to c...
I think we can agree it's not all that coherent. One driver of NATO expansion is simply you need to be in NATO to be able to buy certain weapons, but ...
I agree it's not coincidence, just that it may not have been completely thought through, or then arming Ukraine post-Russia invasion was not the origi...
Ignoring an issue does not imply "has never been mentioned once" it just means paying little attention to it. If you're ignoring someone or something,...
I don't see much discussion about this interview in Western media, seems to me very much "last weeks news" that was pretty much ignored. Something can...
Any issues with the actual analysis? It definitely seems to me that Zelensky is being pushed to the side, didn't even get to address the World Cup as ...
Yes, if the priority is to harm Russia, and not "defend Ukrainian sovereignty" then Ukraine is an instrument of this policy. You can argue that the re...
That you perceive my pointing out the cost of your "endgame" for NATO, who you support, as emotional blackmail, is just demonstrating your cognitive d...
You're really now trying to say you're just engaging in objective analysis without a horse in the race? Moving the goal posts all the way from: All th...
It could be, but that's far from certain. Conventional war theory is that an army that is merely not-defeated (doesn't even need to win), is stronger ...
Scott Ritter's take on this interview is essentially as follows: First, this is not some spontaneous off-the-cuff remarks by some low level commander....
Your words are absolutely clear: No where in this is Ukrainian welfare or Ukraine "winning" requirement in your endgame, whatever definition of that t...
I'll respond to this as well, as it's such a dumb strawman. Obviously, my recommendation (my position in this argument) of a negotiated resolution to ...
You're just so delusional. Obviously this statement is not compatible with a concern for Ukrainian welfare. The goal is to just harm Russia, not actua...
They've mentioned their previous policy before of using nuclear weapons if attacked with nuclear weapons or to defend against a threat to the existenc...
I know what the words mean, obviously you don't. You could have said "normative and legal force" (and then explain your non-legal theory and your hege...
Clearly the situation is different than in 2014, there is a full scale war. However, it is not first and foremost rhetoric. The nukes are very real an...
Sending funding (basically bankrolling the entire Ukrainian military payroll), sending weapons, providing intelligence, covert meddling, are all in th...
First, this is no longer making the point that nuclear weapons are somehow not useful militarily, so I think we agree there, that there are useful. We...
Again, "normative legal force" is just pseudo-intellectual bullshit. Are you adding "normative" to "legal force" because you are aware there is no act...
Sure, if you see no reason explain what your point is, then yes, hopefully the moderators will remove this sort of content. If you are not supporting ...
To update my analysis of the military situation: The new NATO Wunderwaffe is the German Flakpanzer Gepard, latest entry into the weapons drip-feed to ...
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