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The difference is Hamas doesn’t have artillery. This is what makes the Russian-Ukrainian war so special, because it is the first war in a long time when both armies have heavy capabilities and are able to use them on the battlefield. Most other wars are conflicts when one side has excessive...

And why would the Chinese want to repeat the Japanese error and start a losing war? If they’ll wait for Russia to close in on Kyiv, they have a long time to wait, so they can stick to their long term army modernization plans.

Refraining from carpet bombing Gaza would have been a good faith way of demonstrating to the Saudis that Israel is a country worth fostering relations with. But they missed that chance. Netanyahu is too worried about clinging to power. He doesn’t care about the long term interests of Israel. He...

Add drug consumption, the Welfare State, high salaries for state workers and high pensions compared to private sector pay, and you get high youth unemployment and a declining population. Defending Ukraine is in Europe’s interest. Sending aid to Israel would make no sense and be extremely...

I don’t know about that. I know that the propaganda they put on TV is still pro-Israel (they still show only the families of the Israeli dead from the terror attack every day, as if that day was the only day when people died), but I assume that the more knowledgeable people are not pro-Israel...

Yes, that is totally ridiculous. The US is embarrassing itself by licking Israel’s boots. The Evangelical Christians in the US are for normal Christians what ISIS fanatics are for normal Muslims. They are a nutty bunch, a deranged sect that has nothing to do with mainstream Christianity...

Unfortunatelly, Europe ticks all the boxes of the “Age of decadence”…

Europe has become too socialistic to be able to compete economically. It’s all about populist politicians trying to kick the can down the road a few more years and continue to keep the welfare state on life support. The economy cannot grow under such circumstances.

I don’t even know where to start with your comment, because it is too silly to take it seriously. “Templar Christians of USA , England , France , Germany , Netherlands” ? Reallly? Is that a serious statement? The Knights Templar have disappeared since the XIV century. And the countries you...

That’s the biggest mistake Israel is making. By killing women and children, they increase the pool of fighting men that Hamas has.

How can you call it a crusade when Israel is a jewish state? It has nothing to do with Christianity.

That happened a long time ago. Different people, different weapons, different cultures. People were more willing to sacrifice themsleves back then, and war required less skills and training than it does now. Now, when we have women in positions of power and with more rights than men, why would...

That’s why conscription is not a solution in the XXI century, at least not in devloped / high income countries. People who have a good life are not willing to fight in a war. They can’t be effective soldiers if taken by force, because their only goal will be to stay alive, not to inflict damage...

That’s fine as long as they are volunteers. But when men are drafted to war against their will because some crazy leader thinks they need to sacrifice for the greater good, than that’s a different thing. Maybe because of the Eastern cultures, the pool of volunteers would be much higher, but...

I’m not saying a country shouldn’t defend itself from aggression. What I am questioning is conscription-based armies who defend the country against their will. If the country can get enough volunteers to fight a war and defend, they should go for it, but the moment you resort to...

That’s because most states / countries are and have been ruled by murderous psychopaths who care more about a presumed personal “legacy” than about the people they are supposed to lead. Most wars happen because both sides are ruled by evil psychopaths. The current conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza...

So easy to say from the sidelines that others can “afford” the casualities. Arabs are humans too, and their lives matter as well. Why would they sacrifice their lives just to destroy a country that will fall anyway sometime in the future? Human lives are more valuable than some stupid state...

You can’t challenge a country in modern long range war based on demographics. The high population of China won’t help in a sea and air war, but it would be very costly to maintain and feed during an embargo. If China and the US shared a large land border, your theory would make sense. But...

This is another reason why China won’t start a war. They don’t want to be cut off from Middle Eastern oil.

If your economy collapses, the last thing you need is a war and international embargo. China needs seabound imports. It is dependent on that. The US can easily shut down the seabound trade routes. China is in no position to fight a war against the US. That’s why the US keeps pushing this...