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While there are different standards of what “civilizied” means, there are some common concepts that are universal. Living in peace, not stealing, murdering, raping, etc is the basis of being civilized. You ca’t call yourself civilized if you engage in such actions. These things are universal...

Yes, you are right, but this also stopped after a period. With time, European powers lost their colonies and gave up on the ideas of imperialism. When all Western European powers gave up on their imperialistic ambitions, it is extremely insulting to see Russia trying to expand like an Empire...

Maybe it’s because Europe has become more civilized than in the past, and we no longer accept the barbarism of war. In Europe we managed to achieve free travel between countries (without needing a passport) while 75 years ago we were murdering each other like psychopaths. We find the Russian...

I think this has to do with incendiary statements made by Erdogan, such as coming in one night and invading a Greek island. Such statements create the impression of a dangerous leader, and in extension country. While in the past 50 years the UK and France have been involved in more conflicts...

It’s the rivalry between republics and emirates.

Europeans are contributing a massive amount of weapons to the Ukrainian war effort. The total amount of weapons shipped by Europeans is higher than what the Americans donated. Even if the US would stop helping Ukraine, the Europeans will continue to help and Russia will be defeated.

“Divide et impera” is from the Roman times. Nothing new about this.

Not only Armenia, but also China! So much with Putin’s eternal friendship with Xi.

So you think 3-5 million people left to starve to death while the food they produced was being exported was an “improvement”? This is how it looks from the outside? Genocide is an improvement?

We can only hope that they will succeed.

You summed it up pretty well.

They simply can’t do better than that. At least the whole world will finally see who they really are, because their massacres during WW2 and the communist times have not been publicized since they won the war.

I don’t think the WSJ would have published that leaked document if it ws actually true. The way I read it, the leak is about emboldening Russia to use their jets over Ukraine, in order to down some Russian jets.

The problem is that this casualty ratio was achieved when Russia had much more firepower than Ukraine, and at the cost of lots of tanks, artillery pieces and ammunition. Russia had a huge fire rate of artillery shells that it cannot sustain long term, and they still managed to lose more men than...

Poland and the Baltic states have been Ukraine’s greatest allies.

I think the West has chosen a slower approach where equipment flows in small steps and gets adjusted based on the battlefield results. NATO doesn’t want to make Ukraine‘s army stronger than most NATO countries. I think they will be helped to recover the lost territory, but with smaller steps...

I don’t think Rafales are in the cards. If Ukraine gets any French planes, it will get the Mirage 2000.

They should just use Bitcoin for trade, instead of using the US dollar. No more sanctions, no more forced kyk, blocked accounts or blocked transactions. It’s senseless to try to make new arrangements to trade in very weak local currencies that nobody trusts, instead of moving directly to the...

The big difference is that the Ukrainian government is a natural one supported by the people of Ukraine, while the Afghan and Vietnamese governments were artificial ones with very little local support. There’s a huge difference between the two. The heavy task of changing the natural government...

Again, you are comparing two very different wars that have nothing in common. In Afghanistan, the US went without local allies to topple a regime and impose a friendly one (something very similar to what Russia tried initially in Ukraine). The US had to create a friendly Afghan regime from...