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Without conscription there is no way that the Allies win WWII... I'm more than ok with Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese being defeated by armies largely made up of conscripts. Sometimes what is neccessary, isn't always "nice".

I fully concede that a day might come that we're (the collective west) at war with Indonesia and I can't say that I'm looking forward to it. Sounds like a lot of dead people on both sides of a possible war. But in that scenario, I expect both sides to use whatever tactics neccessary to win. If...

Then regional players need to step up and stop them. Have values, believe in them and be ready to die for them. I actually agree that it won't likely end well for them, but they're an independent country, with their own choices to make. They can choose to make peace with their neighbours, or...

I watched this interview the other day. I genuinely appreciated Youssef's dark humor throughout the interview. It's not surprising given that he is actually a professional comedian and a legitimately funny guy! His countrymen, the Egyptians teamed up with Syria and several expeditionary forces...

The Turks lost those lands when they got their asses handed to them in WWI. That's how life goes. Turks chose the wrong side of a war, got their shit pushed in and lost territory as a result of taking an L in legitimate war. Do the Lebanese want to give Lebanon back to the Christians, who they...

You say that Muslim / Arab countries will easily "back down" if Israel goes back to the 1967 borders, but do you have any tangible proof of that? It seems to me that there is a deep hatred for the existence of the Jewish state of of Israel among the Arab / Muslim countries in the region and a...

I have to push back on this. I'm going to use a hypothetical that I would like you to engage with. There are two countries. Country A and Country B. They live beside each other relatively peacefully for many, many years. At some point, Country A gets power / territory hungry under the...

While ethically, that makes sense, in reality, it's almost never true. Ultimately, almost every state / country has chosen at some point to trade a disproportinatly large number of lives, for a disproportinately small track of land. That's true both from an offensive perspective and a defensive...

If we step away from the fantasies about the Muslim nations teaming up in some great jihad and invading / destroying Israel, which of course would lead to Israel launching nuclear weapons against the most densely populated cities it could strike, what long term solution to this ongoing conflict...

There is no easy solution. As long as Israel exists as a nation, regional adversaries will have the will to destroy the Jewish state they see as occupying Palestinian land. In turn, Israel will slowly try to expand and consolidate their power in the region and grow control over Gaza and the West...

Good choice Erdogan. Good choice.

The UN is as corrupt and organization as there is. There is no reality in which they should be the arbiter of truth. That's a completely failed organization, with no teeth at all.

Been away traveling for a couple days, does anyone have a link to the 500 dead children and hospital patients that Palestine / Hamas claim were killed when ordinance struck what sounds like the parking lot of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital? Were there 500 people randomly standing in th lot at the...

USA 🇺🇸 officially requested $105 Billion usd in aid from Congress, with $61 Billion of it earmarked for defense and macro financial spending for Ukraine. Military support from USA remains steadfast in ensuring a Russian defeat.

USA 🇺🇸 officially requested $105 Billion usd from Congress, most of which will be spent ion military support for their Allies. $14.3 Billion usd is earmarked to bolster Israel's military capability. By comparison $61 Billion usd is being requested to support Ukraine's struggle for survival vs...

Germany 🇩🇪 sent a small military aid package to Ukraine, including 3 Gepard air defense systems (bringing the total delivered to 49) and reconnaissance drones. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/10/20/7425016/

It has been an absolutely devastating 72 hours for the Russian war effort. First, it was revealed (through satellite imagery) that the destroyed / critically damaged helicopter total from the Luhanks and Berdyansk ATAMS strikes was actually 16-21, after previously noted to be 9. That's a huge...

The weapons systems that the United States would be using in support of Israel are nowhere close to those that they are currently sending Ukraine to ensure the destruction of the Russian land army. USA is sending, largely obsolete, weapons that were designed to fight the cold war. Most of them...

USA will slowly feed M39 ATAMS munitions to Ukraine over the coming months. Eventually, they might get a few of the longer ranged warheads, but, largely, the USA has sensitive numbers of the more modern MGM-140 rocket and isn't building more in any large capacity (if at all) because they are...

. Are you suggesting that Palestinians should die en masse to foreign diseases, get their teeth kicked in by foreigners and lose control of the overwhelming majority of their traditional territory through trickery and being conquered? Because outside of the diseases, that's essentially what's...