boethius

I am not Russian, I have in fact trained to fight Russians and would do so. It's precisely because I have actually trained to fight against the kind o...

Cheerleading others to fight for your own virtue-signalling on social media is far more disgusting. Actually fighting a war, at least there's skin in ...

Russians aren't cheerleading a war, they are fighting a war. They are fighting a war their political representatives have told everyone they would fig...

The Kremlin does not care much about neo-Nazi's in themselves, they care about institutions that can threaten them ... and if those are explicitly or ...

If you support the Ukrainian war effort ... but aren't in Ukraine fighting the war, nor even proposing troops from your own country go and fight with ...

Like what? Maybe provide at least some examples of what's misunderstood. How are you sure you're not serial misunderstanding your understanding of ser...

This isn't an "Afghanistan". If the war is quick, it may cost lives but doesn't slowly ground down morale and domestic support over time. Right now Pu...

... of course, that being said NATO can always hire Marvel and DC script doctors to do a clean reboot a la The Batman and Spiderman: Far from Home. Bu...

The script literally writes itself. My only worry is we can't go "bigger" in the next installment of the NATO cinematic universe.

Oh, you mean like the literal head of the CIA accusing, unnironically, the Russian's of waging an "information war". Or ... do you have more in mind t...

By recommending diplomacy be engaged with in good faith to try to end the war? And, simultaneously to that, diplomacy be used to protect civilians ......

Yes, but these pipelines across thousands of Kilometres do take time to build, so my reading is the nuclear ice-breakers are a plan B to ship oil out ...

I find cheerleading a war to continue and for arms to be poured in to fuel it with zero consideration if that even helps the victims of the war and si...

I guess post it when it actually happens. Agreed that some infrastructure adjustments would be needed if the EU stopped importing ... but I'm not sure...

I totally forgot about all those unpaid extras! Can't make a war epic without them. I feel so silk stocking liberal right now, you have no idea. But y...

The backlash is people getting into severe cognitive dissonance which disrupts the war horny trance like state they were in previously, when they enco...

Completely familiar ... but even more familiar is the exact same script in Syria: 1. Russian army is incompetent, hahahahah 2. "Resistance" is winning...

OMG!!! Putin must be terrified!!! But, even if that was true, there's clearly a big backlash to the neo-Nazi's and so on, otherwise the Western Media ...

This is simply not true. Putin's "allure" in the West is exactly the same as it was before: dictator, evil, murderer, Hitler, chemical weapons user, f...

Well, to be fair, I'm falling for this narrative this very moment.

Dude, the whole current war is precisely because NATO isn't Ukraine's friend ... or it would be in Ukraine right now shoulder to shoulder, protecting ...

I can't respond to all the responses to me just yet. However, I wanted to drop this analysis that seems, so far in my research, the best overall view ...

This is literally what has just happened with cold war 2.0. It's not a Soviet dream ... soft power didn't matter much in the cold war, but mattered a ...

The BBC and other Western media are starting to "prepare" people for a negotiated settlement ... whether to encourage that to happen or then it's alre...

This is literally the BBC ... yes, state media, but the British state media last time I checked.

Indeed, perhaps it's enough for Zelensky to just publicly say neo-Nazi's are bad and should not have their own paramilitary brigades and bases, where ...

The senator was totally shocked that the answer wasn't no, and changed the subject to his next question (aka. damage control) that any chemical attack...

Nuland is not commenting on the war, she's answering the direct question of whether there are bio-weapons in Ukraine. And, this theory: Is just more e...

It's her own words, even specifies whatever these biological materials are, shouldn't fall into enemy hands. We wouldn't be talking about it if it was...

Maybe, but I'm sure they would say "liberating" Mariupole from Azov brigade is for the greater good of ethnic Russians. But how do you know what Putin...

I mean the idea NATO doesn't give an actual shit about Ukrainians, ethnic Russians or whoever, in Ukraine ... doesn't exclude the possibility that the...

Sure, yeah, I don't see how the proposals are mutually exclusive. My basic thesis in this discussion is that two sides of the story are needed to reac...

Anyone that can watch this video: https://youtu.be/kaZwODzpXZ4 And maintain the West and NATO are sincere in their sudden concern for war victims ... ...

Yes, but the Germans pocketed soviet armies using armor. Motti tactics are about encircling columns without armor, which was possible if the Soviets a...

That's why it gives really context of what Russia's strategic doctrine may have been before going into the war. The analysis is not biased by trying t...

For those confused about the current mainstream maps getting more and more ambiguous, such as replacing Russia "territory" with arrows, there's 2 reas...

My first comment on this thread was mainly asking for insight into how Russian's perceive things, to balance out the inundation of what Westerners thi...

Here's some analysis of the fog of war situation from someone who's actually been in a war. https://youtu.be/Igq2fqa7RY4 He also comments on the use o...

This entire process is Zelenski and the West calling Russia's bluff, and now Russia calling the West's bluff. Who's actually bluffing ... we'll find o...

Completely agreed, and those governments will therefore soon want the conflict to be resolved one way or another. The party (that they can influence) ...

Legitimate grievances are rarely directly addressed in a resolution, rather compensation is represented in some way to make the deal acceptable. For e...

Completely agree. However, Russia is also currently holding the world's food hostage. This is going to create a log of diplomatic pressure from all so...

Thanks for these insights, always pause for thought someone describing something happening today ... about a century ago. Reminds me of a passage from...

Even if true about the cannon fodder, which is certainly difficult for us to know, is this leverage Ukraine has on Russia, or leverage Russia has on U...

Definitely if they need to start forced conscription, this would be a sign of strategic troubles. However, a military recruiting like mad during a war...

I am aware of this, I mean they will first try to recruit conscripts as full time regular soldiers voluntarily, as you describe, before conscripting p...

I have done a bit of digging into the numbers, all of which seem to come from US intelligence estimates and refer to troops "in and around" Ukraine, w...

Yes, this seemed to me extremely likely that they'll just make reservists "full time" and so avoid calling conscripts (who don't want to go) as much a...

Russian's really don't like the original Nazi's or neo-Nazi's, and the Russian government nor the Dombass breakaway regions have any evidence of any i...

Russian's are legitimately aggrieved by the neo-Nazi's killing Russians in Dombass. You can engage in apologetics for the neo-Nazi's, but that doesn't...