Do I think Putin wants a nuclear war? No. That doesn’t serve his ends, and he has been very deliberate and patient in achieving his ends. What...
I was just thinking to myself before I read your post, “What’s Putin’s hurry?” I think we’re all agreed (no matter what our opinions are on the...
Oh, I wasn’t talking about the urban environment. Only a damn fool would put massed tanks into Kyiv (if they want to see them again). They will be...
Personally, I don’t believe that. I think man-portable anti-tank missiles certainly help level the field with infantry. The Yom Kippur War...
Oh, to your point, I think China will remember how to use its veto power in the unlikely event this move to strip Russia of its veto power somehow...
I believe the offer is not for Zelensky’s safety, primarily, but to let him address the General Assembly. There would be value in that, of course....
That was an expectation. India’s was a shocking, utilitarian outrage that would have shamed Ghandi, Nehru et al.
I have stated it already several times in this thread: limited intervention with air and naval forces to keep the Russian Air Force and navy out...
Is this a serious question? And are you implying that what we are doing is working?
I would be far more interested to learn how many armored vehicles and combat aircraft the Ukrainians can confirm they’ve destroyed. Believe it or...
Except for one thing: Even if you get the General Assembly to say that Russia no longer has veto power in the UNSC, China would just step in and...
It’s a means to an end for China to achieve nearer-term objectives in Taiwan and SE Asia. In the long-term China and Russia have territorial...
Where did you hear that? Great story if true.
… Then they came for the Ukrainians, but I was not a Ukrainian, so I did nothing …
Yes, it does. And we are capable of stopping it. And we won’t.
I am just not sure why you would assume that. They took it the first time in the 1600s, I think, and held it up until WWI. After a brief...
Well, pump the brakes for a second. Let’s see what Trump actually said, full context, and not whatever Russia wanted to show its people. I don’t...
Oh, listen to the criticism from the guy who thinks the existential crisis we’re facing is Global Warming or the evil capitalists instead of the...
Hard to determine. As I stated earlier, despots grow stronger with military victories and weaker with defeats. As long as Putin is winning, he’ll...
Only if Putin survives this. WWI Russian soldiers who returned after surrendering found a more forgiving environment than they were expecting … of...
