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Very simply: a free Ukraine and a free Russia.

LOL. How could you possibly know that I’m not one of ‘them experts’, for one, and that the reason is precisely that my analysis is limited to two hist...

If there’s no historical precedent for it, how likely can it be?

As a matter of facts I posted it in response to one of your posts.

You of course, eternally confused as you are.

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I keep being amazed at how confused you can be, and then I keep remembering myself that you probably just pretend to be confused; i.e. you're trolling...

I don;t think they were different in any significant manner. You are welcome to try and make a case that they were. if you have time to waste. In my o...

Superpowers are perfectly capable of losing a war without using nukes. It has hapened before. Or did the USSR use nuclear weapons against Afghanistan?...

You cannot process evidence, though, so there'd be no point in giving it to you.

Which position, again?

No problem at all.

So why do you ask me? Ask your qualified experts, if you trust them rather than me. You have no idea what you are talking about, displaying all the hu...

Well then, don't ask questions that require armchair reckoning... We take decisions based on gut feeling, most of times.

No, you are just saying something you have absolutely no clue about and no evidence for. Uninformed opinions have zero value; and when taken as facts,...

There is no evidence of that. Arguably, a thousand year Russian reich over Ukraine would kill many many times more people (over thge years) than a qui...

I don't rule it out. The two options are not mutually exclusive and can be pursued concurrently. Why rule out the first option?

Each case is unique. History is not done in a laboratory with interchangeable mice, history is not replicable, and hence the course of history cannot ...

What a fucking stupid answer... The situation in Ukraine is totally different from women vote in the UK or apartheid in SA, and routes available there...

Other routes to freedom.

Are there?

They ought, if they want to be free.

Nobody is pushing for WW3 here. We just don,t understand why you guys would chose this hill to die on. What is the point of defending mass murderers o...

Which one?

I call them putinistas.

I posted a call by Jonathan Little for a revolution in Russia, here: My Dear Russian Friends, It’s Time For Your Maidan (source: https://www.lemonde.f...

Interesting piece on Kherson, on the conundrum people faced there under the occupation and on some's divided allegiances. https://www.washingtonpost.c...

Then why did you object when I called for a revolution in Russia? And why don't you hope for a Ukrainian victory, which would likely trigger a revolut...

Russians cannot reform their being Russian -- so this is not about race -- but they can reform their polity, their government -- so it is about politi...

Where did I do that?

Nazis are not a race. They are just folks like you, who despaired too much.

Yes, really yes…

A lot has changed in Crimea. The odds for that are minuscule. The Nazis did not reform from within. No, I have proposed plenty of options for that. It...

Oh, you lost the plot again! You can evaluate or criticise everything you want. Even Putin, if you ever wanted to…. Ha ha ha. It’s no skin off my nose...

I don’t know what the Ukrainians would be willing to endure. My country sacrificed 2 millions men in WW1. The USSR sacrificed 9 million men in WW2.

We can say so, of course. We must. An enormous sacrifice is being paid by Ukraine for the common good, which must be recognised.

Decency?

I compare it with the alternative, which is Russia getting its way in Ukraine, which would result in attrocious consequences for both Ukrainians and R...

I’m not in the business of putting price tags in human blood over territories, if that’s what you are asking.

You’ve been saying that for 8 month.

The only reason they left Kherson was the suffering they went through there. What is it with your obsession with little me? This war is not about me. ...

It’s not my position. You’re very easily confused. I just tried to provide you with an answer to your question, based on what I heard and what seems r...

I am struck by how quickly our good friend @"boethius" here is prompt to lose the plot, or change the goal post. First he says Ukraine is part of no c...

Did you read my answer to that question, re. the tanks? Maybe we can stop asking queestions that have been answered already. For the airforce support ...

This is a pretty ridiculous canard, even by your standards. Nobody here repeats Ukrainian intelligence service material or whatever Zelensky says. I w...

Seems to me that Russia is far more isolated than Ukraine at the moment. Its one and only ally is Belarus, and it is not helping much. Thanks for the ...

The UN Charter, which starts with: WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice...

Glad I could worry you a little more than you normally are.

Hope springs eternal, but the support they got so far has been quite significant. Biden is evidently interested in checking Putin and their support wi...

Answer your own question, please. What is your interpretation of what Zelensky meant by his 'action is needed'?