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Not really, no. You should be able to figure that out by yourself. It's elementary.

It was not a peace agreement.

No switch at all. Even ethical discussions have to be logical. Ethically, Russia should withdraw its troops and try and negotiate a peace agreement. w...

The UN cannot enforce anything. Therefore, there's no enforcing power here. Therefore, your conceptual framework doesn't work. Come to think of it, th...

Ok so your "supplicantS", plural, would be Russia and Ukraine. Who would your "enforcing power" be?

Not sure you are referring to here. What "enforcing power" do you have in mind, and what "supplicant"? The latter term is odd in the context of a nego...

You realise that the concept of 'agreement' implies two (2) entities agreeing on something, right?

It is a requirement IFF you want to make peace with said entity. Logically speaking, you cannot make peace with a non existing entity, can you?

You can't make peace with someone without acknowledging the existence of said someone. So when Russia signs a peace deal with Ukraine, it will have to...

In liberated Kherson, residents between jubilation and disbelief After eight and a half months of Russian occupation, the Ukrainian forces were greete...

Catch 22!

You know as well as I do that the Ukrainians are much freer than the Russians.

The opposition paries are not banned. Likewise, only pro-Russian media, were banned, not all independent media, and people can leave the country as mu...

That's just another blatant lie.

Yes but then, according to the same Kremlin buffons, there is no war in Ukraine...

Kherson is free. That was fast . Ukraine is "almost in full control" of Kherson according to Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine's defence ministry. Chee...

So a bunch of unknown dudes off the Internet guessestimated that there is a 9% chance a nuclear warhead is detonated in Ukraine or Europe over the nex...

Nice piece. This journalist, Igor Kossov, seems pretty good. I’ll follow him from now on.

Yes, and that’s what the Russian top brass is counting on: a more defensible position, from which they can bomb Kherson to the ground. Reason for whic...

There is no such thing as a happy love Poem: Louis Aragon - Music: Georges Brassens Man can take nothing for granted, neither his strength Nor his wea...

Those experts are not on the Internet yet? You found about them how?

There's no actual 'nuclear ransom' here. Putin himself ruled out the use of nukes in Ukraine. Of course an escalation is always possible, but it is no...

There's indeed that threat. The theory is that the Russians leave Kherson only to flood it once the Ukrainians step in. But the terrain in Kherson is ...

That'd be because you wallow in ambiguity like a pig in his mud. But here too, you seem to be making progress. :-)

You're making progress.

Thanks for the maps. Reuters give some more detail: they cannot supply Kherson well enough for its defence; they are afraid to lose too many men for n...

That could be a big victory for Ukraine, or a trap: Moscow orders retreat from Kherson The Russian defense minister ordered on Wednesday, November 9, ...

You could throw in the whole of Europe after WW2.

Indeed, republicans and anyone voting for them are destroying the US. Especially their crass, totally anti-american rhetoric of constant lies and hatr...

Mr Putin did vote for Republicans, though.

Note that contrary to you in that older exchange, I just did explain clearly and simply what my position was as soon as your confusion about it became...

You conveniently ignored the empirical part of my post, which was: It's not my fault if you are wasting your time chasing windmills. Next time try and...

LOL. They do do guess, not totally randomly of course. Sometime they don't even care to guess. Someone has to pay for the info, otherwise why collect ...

The cost is not actually measured. You are talking of an economic theory, which is to say that everything and every countries are connected, and thus ...

Worth what? The voices of Africa are heard in the UN General Assembly, among other places. Only half of them voted for the UN resolution condemning th...

Why yes they do. Macky Sall, the president of Senegal and acting chair of the African Union,, pushed for the cereal export deal brokered by UNCTAD and...

It won't surprise our most faithful readers who know you as a serial liar, but this Unicef quote has nowt to do with Ukraine. This quote is from a pre...

I am not talking of getting an overview of the strategic position, though.

Speculative. I would think that this is false. They live through this war, and have friends and brothers on the front. So your question was unclear th...

Indeed. But then, aren't these Ukrainian intelligence units and command structure better informed than you and me? I am not trying to make a case here...

One of the few civilians left in Kherson describes his daily struggle to survive under Russian occupation and keep the dream of liberation alive. By a...

Quite a few Ukrainians of both sex are "visiting" the frontline. But all these sources like ISW are available to Ukrainians too, on top of their capac...

Pushing the idea at an extreme so that you can fathom it: if you were visiting planet Kepler-186f, landing on it and exploring it, don't you think you...

This is a very general statement. You want to make it more specific, otherwise it's not empirically or logically testable. What's the actual propositi...

It's an irrelevant question. It has no import on the issue at hand, which was: I answered that the Ukrainians would be best placed to answer that. You...

I never said the Ukrainians were a mass, nor that Google translate did not exist. If you think that from you basement you know better what's happening...

Simple: it is legitimate for NATO to help Ukrainians fight this war but not to force them to do so. By virtue of being on site, having relatives and f...

They are better informed than you and me though. These are the orders of other Ukrainians, not NATO officials. So nobody (non Ukrainian) is forcing Uk...

You should take the obvious truth a little more seriously than that. War has little to do with virtue, usually, and much to do with strength. Nobody h...