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You've got a lot of very confused, misinformed people on this site, Dan -- and that's assuming the very best of intent. If patiently correcting them is considered "battle" then I g…

I don't think it's necessarily better or worse than email It's greatly worse than an email because it (1) primes the candidate with a false set of a (highly positive) expectations,…

That's the spin of those two observers. But there was a lot to more to the actual chain of events at the time. And lo and behold, the fact of two guys stating a certain narrative a…

That "peace deal" would have required that Ukraine permanently recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea and the Donbas (on top of other concessions). This is why Russia is called …

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2027 is the target that both China and the US have projected for the invasion of Taiwan The US has not released a definitive assessment. Jinping apparently did make some announceme…

No, it's just that the dead Russians seem to start piling up with greater frequency after the 2022 invasion.

2027 is the current aim That's what some say. But how do you know? Outer Manchuria - including Vladivostok - will be the next target. Very unlikely, even if Taiwan collapses quickl…

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First of all, many people in Ukraine speak Russian. So those people very clear 'speak essentially the same language'. Yikes - you definitely lost me there, man. I'm going to have t…

Seems you're drifting away from the scope of the issue I was referring to. And are basically talking about something else.

Since you're still dodging the 2009 issue - you'll need to put forward actual evidence re: 2014. I acknowledge my quote was imprecise.

This is a dodge, and you are (rather verbosely) wiggling away from acknowledging a plainly counterfactual statement you just made: In 2022 Ukraine shut down the pipeline to the EU …

This isn't worthy of a flame war, but we'll just note what you're telegraphing to us here: Namely your view that the basic situation with the current blockade of food and humanitar…

The basic point is that, while you seem to think that if people oppose Operation Iron Swords, it's because they take issue with "Israel taking necessary action to defend itself" --…

Attitudes towards the Iraq war changed massively during the presidency of George W Bush [1]. Sure it changed once they saw the (wholly predictable) actual reality of the war. But t…

I have been studying Russian history as a hobby for decades If you've been studying the topic for "decades", and then you say things like "they speak essentially the same language"…

We assigned a task to one guy in Ukraine and two months latter he didn't complete it. One of our colleagues did it in three days. Given the vast discrepancy in turnaround times -- …

It looks a lot like they've set up a puppet government in Ukraine It "looks like", but only if we glance casually at a couple of articles (or sometimes even just headlines of artic…

A mild annoyance within Ukrainian politics. But in reality, bearing no connection to the problem that Putin makes it out to be. A bogeyman basically. Per the Wikipedia definition: …

A UN resolution by itself, perhaps not. But you're getting off track here. We were discussing the total package of US support for Israel as a driving factor in the current, grotesq…

[US financial, military and diplomatic support] is far from the only reason for the war [and genocide] is Gaza But it's clearly the most important. To an extent that it dominates a…

The Soviet Union, witch was a country An empire, not a country. Which dissolved itself peacefully enough and with no outside prodding of any kind on 26 December 1991. In the proces…

^ Was meant to be attached to the sibling comment (rather than to its current parent), obviously.