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More speculation. The US cannot forever treat its European allies as poodles. Not France in any case. The French are perfectly capable of telling the ...

That's speculative, and far fetched. In NATO, the only nation ever pushing back against the US is France. Other nations may agree with the French but ...

I doubt Macron is trying to appease Putin. I don't quite see what the point of that would be, and he can't do that all alone anyway. I mean, the guara...

Macron is only stating the obvious: that Russia ain't going to disappear from the map, and Ukraine and her allies will have to live with it. I am not ...

And he is right.

You mean, living on Mars is not an option? I must share planet Earth with other human beings? What? Eight billion of them? Oh shoooooot!... (you ought...

Giving up one's virginity voluntarily or at gunpoint results in exactly the same situation: a lack of virginity.

And peaceful, too.

Irina Scherbakova from Memorial: 'No Diplomatic Solution' to Ukraine War, hasty calls for peace are 'childish' By AFP 13 hours ago There is currently ...

It may not matter to you but still matter to them.

L'obéissance à la loi qu’on s’est prescrite est liberté. (Obedience to the law one has prescribed for oneself is freedom.) Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Of ...

Not any more than you dish out.

Translation: some posters, including you, have tried very hard over 400+ pages to peddle the lie that Putin is only defending Russia against NATO, or ...

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What's in a name? did Juliet ask. Note my use of the scare quotes, which in this case implies ironic distance. As @"hypericin" picked up: "This "ally ...

Yes, and that will continue. Maybe I am wrong and Ukraine will manage to officially join NATO. I'm just saying that it will be harder than joining the...

It wasn't the reason for this war because Ukraine had zero chance of joining NATO before Feb 2022. IF they had been in a process of joining, then one ...

That's not what I am saying.

So far so good.

Indeed, an estimated 41% of common, everyday English words are borrowed from old French, and often without much alteration in the word's writing. Tabl...

The purpose of the Ukrainian resistance is precisely to tell the Russians to mind their own busines. I trust it will work. Once they're finished losin...

It says that there is an aspiration to democracy and human rights in the EU project, which conflicts with reality here or there. Note however that suc...

That's rather theoretical. Look at Orban from Hungary: he is aligned with Moscow, in disagreement with the rest of the block.

It'd be about more than flag color. There's also the language. French is hard to learn. You are already a monster in my book due to your despicable po...

So you'd have no objection to France taking over the UK? That would make trains run better alright....

Not really. It's all about having economic rules not too disparate so as to have a fair enough free trade areas.

EU membership should be fine. There's no good reason to oppose it. "I'll nuke you if you join the wrong trading group" sounds rather absurd.

Why yes, people do control geography to a degree, by building infrastructure or destroying them. Think of how a dam affects the landscape. BTW, humans...

I wasn't thinking of a neutral Ukraine, but of a country going the way its citizens want to go. EU accession would be on the table. Maybe even NATO me...

What about Ukraine being under the control of Ukrainians? Is that totally out of question?

Nukes have their military use, which is to wipe out all mankind and give the earth a well-deserved break from us critters.

I suppose the same way as you do it, just better.

ISW is of course staffed with US military types and they have their pro-US bias but they don't behave as a lobby. RAND on the other hand does, it chan...

I chose to believe it because it was reported to me by reporters I trust. "Ukraine" in this context should be taken as meaning "the Ukrainian people".

Because Russia is currently governed by a ruthless, aggressive dictatorship that attacked Ukraine and other countries such as Georgia. Ukraine is the ...

Or maybe this piece of emigration data means something different from what you think it means. Likely, it reflects historical ties.

Because I suspect the invasion has nothing to see with NATO blah blah. It would have happened regardless of anything related to NATO IMO. The real thr...

They are still better than nothing. How many allies does Russia have, again?

Because we are stingy and reactive rather than proactive.

A bunch of pretentious idiots, as far as I can see. Yes, NATO takes this risk seriously, I already mentioned that and you disagreed. Now you agree the...

Does he know that?

No, but he wants to.

Taiwan, for a start.

Of course they are, which is why the West helps them. I mean, I subscribe to your analysis. Ukraine is about the ushering in of a post-UN world, witho...

Never indeed, for the latter. RAND is a military think tank with good analysts but strongly connected to the US military-industrial complex, which imp...

You don't? I don't know even their organisations. Never heard of "Swift", for instance. I could come across one of these guys saying something I find ...

Because I don't know who these guys are, never heard of them, and have not assessed their credibility and biases critically and effectively as I tend ...

I don't read your posts much, so I wouldn't know. Last time I did see one of your "experts", he looked 20 years old and fatuous, like a young you, whi...

Speak for yourself. All you can do is parrot little me, incapable as you are to contribute original ideas. But what if your mission here was different...

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