Yes, they are happy to be “neutral” countries, because their neighbors are civilized NATO and EU countries that don’t want to annex their territories.
Finland and Sweden wanted to be neutral countries as well, until they realized they are too close to Russia to afford neutrality. After all...
It won’t join tomorrow or next year. It takes time for a country to do the necessary reforms in order to join the EU. The same things you say about Ukraine right now have been said in the past about other Eastern European countries, yet they managed to change and join the EU.
Ukraine is in the...
In situations like this, leaders must do what is right, not what is popular with the electorate. Russia has worked hard to spread its propaganda in Europe, and many people (like you and your friends) believe Putin’s lies and are willing to allow Russia to grab land by force.
This is when...
Remember that the Russian propaganda is actively trying to discredit Ukraine and create the sensation of futility in its resistance and an inevitable defeat. Those footage we’re seeing may just be isolated incidents that the Russian propaganda is presenting as the norm.
There have been plenty...
That’s where the poor strategic vision of Putin has been revealed. He underestimated the situation in Ukraine because he is stuck in his XIV century ways and cannot fully understand the realities of the XXI century.
Anyone with a brain knew that Ukraine will not bend over for Putin, after...
The US never tried to annex Iraq territory and it never claimed Iraq is not a country. You see, if Russia just tried regime change in Ukraine, and when it failed withdrew from the war, we wouldn’t be in the current situation. Where Putin failed miserably is when he started annexing territories...
You seem to have a hard time understanding the concept of legal and illegal. If you join an institution and sign treaties where you accept a certain set of rules, you should abide by those rules. The UN is not a Western institution. It is a global institution where all memebers joined on a...
There is only one LEGAL school of thought, and that is that Ukraine is a sovereign nation, active member of the UN and recognized by all other nations, including the Russian Federation.
The second ”school of thought” you mention is just delirious ranting from Putin and his followers.
The...
Of course that it depends on who and what they represent. When they represent something/someone, they are automatically not objective anymore, and what they say is simply support for a propaganda machine. It has nothing to do with the objective truth.
That’s why political analysts look for...
This is because the West is US centric, and only the interests of the US are taken into consideration. Russia is a big threat to Europe, while China is not. But from a US perspective, both Russia and China are just rivals for world domination, and they should just be kept weak enough to be...
You are the type of person that excuses rape and starts to ask questions like “how was the victim dessed?”, or “did she provoke the rapist?”.
In the world of sane people and decent human beings, there is no “neutral fashion” to talk about invasion and rape, and we don’t blame the victims or...
Kaya is right. The breaking up of Russia into smaller states would be the best possible outcome of this war. Just like the Soviet Union has been broken into several states and some of them have become democratic and prosperous, Russia should end up broken into smaller pieces, since this is the...
We shall see about that. Right now it seems that there is a big push for getting a large number of high quality air defence systems for Ukraine, to coincide with the arrival of F16s.
If the F16s come together with air defence and many missiles, they could turn the tide of war. If Ukraine...
This is a little over 9 missiles per week, which means Ukraine could do on average a serious strike every week if the missiles you mentioned are delivered.
Considering that many of the missiles will be available only after the F16s are operating, it means that the strike capability of Ukraine...
At 65 years of age, people see their youth through the effect of nostalgia. They remember the good old days when they were young, healthy and strong and had an active life, and by association they think everyhting was better back in the day.
I know many older people in Romania who are nostalgic...
Except that the US has a very low unemployment rate, and those Trumpists that have fallen for this type of propaganda are not young at all.
They are people frustrated with their declining health due to old age and with the current culture trends, and they are venting their frustration on...
Of course not. In every country, most recruits come from the poorest regions. This is exactly what I was saying in my previous posts. The West has a big problem with recruitment because it has very few poor regions, and the vast majority of the population has a high standard of living, so they...
