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@"StreetlightX" Could you please stop lying, both of you? Nobody here is cheerleading anything. We just have different opinions than yours, that's all...

There must be a lot of anger in those kids sent to die in an absurd war. Of course you could say all wars are absurd, but in their case, the nationali...

I for one believe the prevalent military analysis among experts, ie that this war is going very badly for both sides, while the expectation was that o...

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I propose to cross that bridge if and when we ever get to it. As of now, lots of news outlets in the West want you to be very afraid of the Kremlin 'm...

Russian Minister of Defence Sergei Shoigu disappears from view, rumored to have 'heart problems.' Apparently the same applies to Valery Gerasimov, Chi...

I see. Another poster who needs an English course. We normally use WILL to speak about the future. It is always combined with another verb. Examples o...

They communicated, in NATO's general direction, that they will not use tactical nukes in Ukraine. So I don't think they want NATO to believe that they...

As I said, learn to read.

Where did I say he is a monster? And where did I say he is for sure a decent person? Learn to read. I said: PERHAPS he's got SOME decency left. Do you...

His spokeperson said yesterday that they will use nukes only in case of existential threat. He didn't mention failing to take Kyiv as an existential t...

:smile: I'm a humanist, sorry about that.

He is still a human being.

We're not built for it but neither is he. Putin is weaker than he thinks. If his army can't subdue Ukraine, it can't defeat Belgium. His regime cannot...

Pride, I think. Doing so would be to accept that he lost the regular fight. Perhaps he's got some decency left, also.

Then what did you mean by:

You're not quite rational if you believe that anything said here can have any impact on the battlefield.

Ok, so you think the Russians can't be beaten. Just watch.

Rather, it's what you haven't said. You keep talking about Ukrainians as if they were the only ones dying, the only ones who can stop this, the only o...

Millions of Russians don't want to die for Donbas either, but you don't seem to care for their lives so much.

Russia will come to regret this Nazi adventure.

But why would anyone post the opinion of other person than himself, of some random dude out there? Yuliy Dubovyk is welcome here if he wants to contri...

We have a few guillotines left, we could lend them to the Brits if they seriously want to get rid of their kings and queens.

Documented, recorded, with satellite images backing it... Your buddies are taking a beating, me think.

So what? A guy says something and?

It seems the Ukrainians are successfully dismantling the group west of Kyiv, and have retaken Irpin. An intercepted phone call recording was released ...

And the Brits call the French Frogs, and the French call then Roastbeef. Cry me a Dniepr river.

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By the time when the multilayered Clearstream affair hit, lots of folks started to unplug from the judicial sagas, that developed mani pulite style in...

The whole Chirac crew were small time crooks, and they did many dirty political tricks. Chirac was long embroiled in trials then let go on account of ...

Une massue = a big club Un argument massue = a sledgehammer argument ? He's got a point there. The contempt paid to the South is coming back to haunt ...

Definitely so. He is convincing. He believes in what he says. His aura in France is that of a looser magnifique, a flibustering poet-diplomat. A bit p...

Apologies if that was a miss. A lot of the arguments against NATO here boil down to: the US is worse. Or: the West is worse. Or: there are many other ...

The totalitarian screw is tightening in Russia, and the economy will suffer. I am truly worried about the aftermath in Russia as well, not pretending....

I can't get out of my mind Villepin's caricature in Quai d'Orsay, a graphic novel on the French foreign ministry under Villepin during the build up to...

Let me guess: you think that I am not doing precisely that? That @"ssu" isn't looking beyond propaganda? That @"frank" behaves as a valet of US imperi...

Why, thanks for writing clearly. The accusation that anyone is 'cheerleading' the Ukrainians is a bit odd though. I'm trying to be open minded, but it...

In short, because such political nihilism facilitates the work of exploiters. It leads to inaction, to 'they are all equally corrupt so why bother'. A...

You are most welcome. I was responding to: "Any insights on how the Italian and French diplomatic corps are looking at things?"

The future will come soon enough. I don't need to engage, and least of all solve, a dispute between rival prophecies here. I suspect you don't really ...

Read it, it was as expected, naïve if well intended. A ruin can be rebuilt, that is very easy, but a fascist regime cannot improve. It cannot be refor...

I liked Frank's question to you: how do you fight power without power? Did you respond?

I'm following the French news. There's nothing particularly original there that I can see. Of course they are not gung-ho like the Daily Beast or the ...

Indeed, your clichés are lost on me.

A point of order: are we allowed to speak of anuses here? Because there's been a trickle of sexual terms coming from your side, re. @"ssu" and I "jerk...

We shall see.

It's pretty much meaningless, but thanks for saying nothing.

You are of course right that no one can possibly win this war. The question now is more about who will lose the most, who will be crippled the longest...

The marxist viewpoint, huh? It's another way to take some side, and often the worse one.