We'll definitely see in the days to come if Kiev is cut off or Ukrainians can hold their lines. However, as I say, unless Ukrainians can rout the Russ...
Definitely Ukrainians could keep fighting for a long time. Russian plan seems definitely to just siege cities and basically wait. As for poorly implem...
This is is interesting to know, that they do have cards, but only 21% have a line of a credit. If the those other 84% only have a card for online purc...
I don't disagree. Certainly, if they win, it will be a great victory. However, people have been surrendering since the beginning of warfare, we do not...
It's possible this is a smart move against some existential threat ... it's also possible it's a really dumb move if peace can be achieved by simply r...
Unclear what more the West can really do to escalate; Germany has already clarified it's not going to stop buying Russian natural gas (obviously). And...
These aren't really the stories nor videos of these executions. The stories are "finding" these people, holding them captive, and executing them, not ...
That's why I say it can be argued later "it was civilians" all along, to make exactly that point. However, right now the story is these people are Rus...
However, I did see this morning a Western journalist reporting from Kiev that the city is currently being surrounded and the ways out are closing; tha...
For this whole executing people thing. Imagine if there was video of American soldiers just pointing at people, calling them "saboteurs" and executing...
Dude, I already addressed this, you still need to have some process and some evidence they are saboteurs. Just calling someone a saboteur and executin...
They're all in NATO ... Russia has nuclear deterrence. Unless you can actually stop Russian conventional battalions crossing the country North-South i...
Then why does the comment I was responding to matter? Sure, NATO could defeat Russia in conventional warfare. How does that help Ukrainians to know? O...
That's why they have some thousands of nuclear weapons in the event NATO attacks them. Russians don't hold themselves to American military standards a...
The first phase of the war was to just take as much territory unopposed (or minimal resistance) as possible and take undefended settlements. This invo...
Go fight them then. And, what I describe is not unique to the Russians; if you use guerrilla tactics and arm civilians, then there's going to be more ...
The other thing that really pisses me off is the Western media taking at face value extra-judicial execution of alleged Russian special forces. I saw ...
And I say these things because, right now, if the EU stopped being little fucking bitches, they could negotiate a resolution that includes tracking do...
Also, we've seen this exact script play out before. When Russia intervened in Syria, the "resistance" had an amazing social media campaign, took out m...
The US already gave Ukraine some 3 billion USD of weapons since 2014 ( / loaned them the money to buy them). That so far hasn't stopped the Russians. ...
It's Reuters and they're reporting as Moscow's offer. What I mean is that there's no reason to assume if the offer was taken, that Moscow would contin...
There's zero reason to assume this offer isn't genuine. Unless Ukraine has some way to "win", then Russia will simply implement these conditions by fo...
I definitely agree. I bring up the "how many is too many" as it's honestly seems to me a complicated moral and political question to answer. Are we ac...
Obviously Crimea and the separatist regions they already occupy. You may also overestimate the willingness of normal people to throw away their lives ...
Ah yes, the point of handing out arms to non-uniformed civilians on live television and making them legitimate military targets and undermining the ru...
It's relevant because that's Putin's stated justification for the war. There are lot's more issues we could discuss. There are two sides of a discussi...
Yeah, sure, explain the position of Ukrainian Jews to Putin as a diplomatic response if you want. Or then ignore anything Putin says as your negotiati...
Guy, this is Putin's stated justification of the war. A response at the negotiation table can be be "we don't believe it" or "here's proof there's no ...
I literally quoted the response. And as just pointed out, there's a difference between saying it's exaggerated or "not exactly Nazi's ... but really c...
This has already been responded to, what's you're rebuttal? Furthermore, are you saying the West and also Ukraine hasn't been making any propaganda ab...
My point is the West should have had some policy response anytime since 2014, so as to credibly say there are other ways to deal with neo-Nazi's than ...
No one's saying otherwise, obviously it is also propaganda, will be exaggerated. Doesn't mean there isn't a neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine that has solid...
You literally prove in the next clause of your sentence that neo-Nazi's in Ukraine are a problem ... because they're a problem everywhere. Which, is a...
Certainly, you have in mind Finland's defense against the Soviet Union. ... However, Finland did "lose" the war and cede land for the sake of a resolu...
Yes, hopefully sooner rather than later. Also, though we need to try to understand the Putin / Kremlin / Russian perspective for the best chance of pe...
Clearly, I make the counter argument here as Western media I think makes the former in abundance. As I say, could be true that Putin "planned all this...
I think we're totally in agreement that a failure to understand (or even take interest) in regions before, during and after involvement in military co...
Not really puzzling. Nor more puzzling as the US arming jihadists and supporting jihadists to fight Assad or Qaddafi, as I've already mentioned. If th...
Your rebuttal is certainly legitimate and worth discussing. Bringing real facts to the table is always appreciated. And I think we do see more or less...
I'm saying I don't find it a credible premise (that the Trump administration and USA government as a whole was / is has more than fringe neo-Nazi elem...
We can get into it if you want, but the idea neo-Nazi power in the US is comparable to neo-Nazi's in Ukraine I don't think is in anyway credible. Trum...
And, to be clear, the leftist smearing of Trump with neo-Nazi association I felt irresponsible and a boy who cried wolf dynamic, likewise the idea Tru...
Yes, that's his stated justification. So, it's obviously relevant to discuss in terms of it being the stated justification for the war, in particular ...
There's a difference between moral justification and justification as such. It would indeed be morally justified to press a button that transforms Rus...
One overall point, is that, in general, the West seems to simply ignore the element of Nuclear weapons if it suits them for Putin-bashing. Obviously, ...
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