Explain to us again how your policy proposal of the US slipping Ukraine a couple of nukes to hit Moscow and St. Petersburg is: A. Realistic. and, B. E...
Completely agreed. What is feasible in the far future is fairly wide open. The world has significantly changed from the distant past, and it is reason...
Agreed. However, what I would add to that is that the only moral goals are feasible goals. Political realism is not an anti-moral or even amoral persp...
Yes, this is the political realism perspective. The core problem with Western policy is that if you're not willing to go and fight with your own armie...
As for the actual situation in Ukraine. The West has backed off further escalation and current weapons supplies do not seem to even match consumption ...
Since the situation has not really changed, there's not much further to analyse. As predicted, the West is calibrating its support to Ukraine for a sl...
I've read the first few pages of the thread before the invasion, and I don't see anyone Triumphantly believing Russia. Mostly people seem to expect th...
Says the guy who thinks NATO handing Ukraine a few Nukes under the table to nuke Moscow and St. Petersburg is A. a good idea and B. Russia would be li...
... So when the use of nuclear weapons is inconvenient to your position, then there's simply no risk ... based on Russia's lying word about "existenti...
We agree there's basically zero danger right now or for the foreseeable future. We agree that Russia may likely win in Ukraine, survive economically, ...
Ok ... well then, when were they going to invade before? And how does this concern for Finland and Sweden square with the idea Russia is losing in Ukr...
This morning, the CNN headline was basically "Ukraine reports Russia is taking heavy losses". The headline right now is: Skipping over this front page...
Was about to post the same sentiment as @"Isaac", just with also a map: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/LNiJcw0LKfGKxi5jA9xqrqmyuas=/0x0:2537x2692/172...
We've already gone over this: it's entirely possible both sides are engaged in propaganda and we should be skeptical of both. Once upon a time you men...
I'm not cheering the Russians. I have no problem saying maybe Ukrainians have just cause, but also maybe the Russians have just cause, maybe neither h...
Or, are people upset—literally labelling anyone that disagrees with them FSB agents and "propagandists", professional ... or amateur!?—because the ent...
And for those who don't think it's fair to talk about nukes ... as obviously Russia could just Nuke Ukraine and win that way and obviously no one woul...
Peace mongering is a play on words, which obviously escapes you. Peace mongering is a term to describe this new inverted media landscape where people ...
Ah yes, by promoting peace and being appalled at Ukrainians dying and children being traumatised (and also dying) and wanting the horrors of war to st...
You're really asserting you have not supported the idea there are not enough Nazi's in Ukraine? Just fringe, Nazi's in every country, etc.? Be that as...
You have all these ad hominem attacks against "Russians" such as: Which ... noted, you seem to be saying here Nazi's were only "suspicious" towards Je...
All these qualities can be in other forms of authoritarianism. Jihadist extremists I would say have all these qualities. You may quibble that somethin...
Pointing out: the argument that just war justifies lies, that can always be repackaged as "myths", begs the question of whether the reasons for the ju...
I don't see the evidence for it ... and it seems incompatible with the idea Putin is a KGB soviet reactionary ... so I don't see how it's supposed to ...
Sure, great. This has not been omitted, but already been discussed. If Putin was too a Nazi, or supporting Nazi's, and so on, then that would only mak...
So ... pointing out the Western media accidentally undermining it's own propaganda today (because no one got the memo that Azov battalion was "hands o...
People then say "What Nazi's? What Nazi's? What are Nazi's? Who's a Nazi?" I post our own Western media (who we're now told to believe on face value r...
Apologising for what? I have pointed out, according to our own Western idea that appeasing the original Nazi's was a mistake and should have been proa...
They've become legends! Thanks to lies that people believed, and their belief created the legend, but also didn't believe and actually co-wrote a new ...
You do realise that this is a pretty pathetic cope for someone afraid of engaging with opposing view points? Or do you really believe you've made some...
Where do I defend the bombing of civilians? Pointed out a war crime (in the judicial sense and not internet-meme sense) requires a judicial process, i...
Nazi party was founded in 1920, which is 2 years after the Finnish plane. Additionally, it's a tiny party at the time, the symbol is a common and ther...
Which, of note, Naziism had not yet been invented in 1918. Hitler viewed Scandinavians ( + Finland) as "good aryans" and so borrowed a lot of nordic s...
The risk is obvious. Here are two experts discussing the very real risk of nuclear escalation, posted a few days after my comments: https://youtu.be/U...
Russia has nuclear weapons. Russia can use nuclear weapons to easily win battles. That is not a dream. Claiming Ukraine will be given nuclear weapons ...
You state NATO passing nukes to Ukraine to nuke Moscow and Saint Petersburg is not only plausible in some version of reality, but also that Russia wou...
Exactly, in terms of military logic, it makes enormous amounts of sense, not only vis-a-vis Ukraine if they ever did successfully counter attack, but ...
You assume Russia needs diplomacy with the West. ... and that the current situation is the West handing out fig leaves or something? According to "us"...
This was certainly plan A and the preferred result was either collapse of the Ukrainian regime or then accepting the peace terms on offer. But conside...
It wasn't fantasy. Ukraine was already being armed and trained by NATO for their war in the Dombass. The precedent of waging proxy war with convention...
In the current situation, I agree with your evaluation, why I mention some further escalation as the trigger, from Ukraine or from NATO and/or both. H...
Whatever else people want to say about Lavrov, Putin or the Kremlin, it seems pretty clear that the risk of nuclear war is far higher than before the ...
If this is true, then nuclear weapons are the next step. Why would Russia just call it quits? If it's not true, and Russia unambiguously defeats Ukrai...
Currently Russia is making gains in Dombass, so we'll see the result there. They have also already taken Kherson, the canal to Crimea, taken Mariupol ...
Well, this maybe why Russia denies the sinking of the flagship and the recent industrial fires are caused by Ukraine. For, the only escalation respons...
This simply isn't fear porn. We've talked at length how nuclear escalation is possible. It only seems less likely now because both sides have accepted...
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