There's no reason to assume Kremlin ever planned to conquer Kiev a la Mariopul (whether the motivation is high to destroy Azov and symbolism is high a...
Sure, but pulling back because it's a debacle? Or pulling back because they achieved their core goals through force? Yes, at a cost, but also many goa...
Crazy according to whom? There are people who have lived by themselves in the woods, sometimes for many decades. We call them crazy, but maybe they ca...
You don't "have" to trust anyone. And, of the people and sources you do trust, to the degree you decide to trust them, you may insist they earn it ......
Before the CNN article, I thought the following took the take for nonsense: The very last minute of the clip there's this exchange. Notice how proof t...
... Of course, there is some sort of internal consistency in the sense that the CIA, and other western intelligence agencies, discovery that intellige...
We better all keep it on the down low. Our protectors just discovered a few weeks ago "intelligence" could be "weaponised". What will they think of ne...
It would be impossible to makeup the following article as satire. But my favourite is the whole basis for the "Ministry of Truth" and that we should t...
The game is played now, the score is tallied in 300 to 1000 years. It's not really so much about being smart, although that certainly helps, it's abou...
Look, I'm just "a guy" who found at around 12—after reading all the popular physics books I could find, the complete history of WWII and Hitch Hikers ...
@"Benkei" is a lawyer, @"Isaac" is a shrink of some sort, and I'm a board director of corporations. You underestimate the infectiousness of ideas, the...
Ok ... so if I understand correctly you are in favour of certain actions but are not advising those actions you're in favour of be carried out? To be ...
This is the usual route to democratisation. Someone concentrates all or a lot of power and, what goes along with that, is that no one in the second ec...
It's not "arguing" a "talking point". It's an undisputed fact that people who can launch nuclear weapons ... can launch nuclear weapons. That "it coul...
You want a violent revolution in Russia with blood pouring in the streets? If this then, in itself triggers WWIII and nuclear exchange, or then hundre...
Yes, we're in agreement. If anything, I think it would be more Lukashenko wanting "to jump in" and demonstrate what he can do, and Putin calming him d...
This has simply not been a topic of discussion. You have been morally condemning the Russians and advising the Ukrainians to fight the Russians, and a...
This seems unlikely for the simple fact that Belarus is not so stable internally and they add little firepower anyways compared to Russia (i.e. the ri...
I can comment, I just can't say if what he suggests to do is actually the best course of action. Or then, if by "revolt" against authoritarianism coul...
We non-Russians. I spend a lot more time thinking about what I can do, and I have spent very little time on what Russians should do. However, history ...
I've made it pretty clear that I don't like authoritatianism ... but, precisely due to the nature of authoritarianism that I don't like, we have very ...
Agreed. This may also be a sign of calling out the West and Zelenskyy on the referendum idea. If there is a referendum on Russia's demands ... and win...
I literally mention the author by name in my response. However, if it's not views you agree with, then you should make that clear, that, for example, ...
Ok, so let's go along with this new assumption that your main concern, or at least a big concern, is the welfare of the Russian people. Well, what can...
... Two years ago I wouldn't say is "starting" to do something now. But I don't see what Jonathan Littell is actually predicting ... and you can't hav...
Someone who is able to say: Connected to a wider body of analysis. Two years ago—before massive bailouts, bone throwing, and the predicted inflation w...
If you bother to go and understand anything about geopolitics before weighing in on a geo-political issue, then you may start to see there could be re...
Again, every single Western analyst, generals and academics alike, told us the Russians have not amassed a force large enough to occupy and passify al...
We don't know what they think. They may know what they think and have very clear goals. To achieve their goals, using warfare, may include deception t...
... I seem to remember discussing inflation and it's impact on the global system a couple of years ago. Literally 2 years ago, 17, 03, 2020: Policy ma...
Although this could be accurate, again I feel the need to debate it. Agreed, total capitulation is what Putin, Kremlin and the Russia military would p...
A picture's worth a thousand words. ... obviously I'll be also writing many thousands anyways, but for now I need to go do a little partying; forget a...
My original phrasing is simply that this is the last remaining objective on Russia's list of objectives, and it's certainly seems achievable. Exactly ...
Why would it be "illogical" to assume someone's states objectives aren't their real objectives? Now, of course everyone always rather things go even b...
Again, the effectiveness of asymmetric handheld systems against Russian armor (without which NATO pouring into Urkaine, would have been totally routed...
No, no, no, Whitehouse is just taking a page out of the Kremlins playbook, and gonna beat Putin at his own game: That's why you hear the Whitehouse co...
23 days ago: Also 23 days ago: 22 days ago: 20 days ago: Literally yesterday: We will fight to the last Ukrainian!! — (applause) — There will be costs...
I don't disagree if you're talking about non-military things. For sure, war and sanctions isn't good for normal Russians. But the competition is betwe...
To be fair, Rocky's epic duel with Ivan Drago is both a cinematic master piece and "feels" how reality actually works by divine scriptwriter intervent...
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