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17-23 is still less than 36, and this is only about replacing the modern jets lost. Now add the Su-25, Su-24, Migs and Helicopetrs lost (which are far more than the new deliveries), and you see a big decrease in combat aircraft. On top of that, we must also consider the pilots who were killed...

That tweet presumed 4 jets have been delivered this year to the VKS. They lost much more than that this year (they lost two jets in a single day in May). Now add the high number of helicopters lost (they even lost some in the Wagner mutiny), and the crew that died in those crashes. The VKS is...

Yes, the West ordered Putin to invade Ukraine, in order to fulfill its Machiavelian plan of ruining Ukraine and Russia at the same time. It is always the West’s fault.

I think Kaliningrad should become an independent state of pro-West ethnic Russians. It should be like Taiwan, and it could become the 4th Baltic Country, joining the EU at a later stage. It should not be annexed by Poland or Lithuania, as this would be a Putinesque imperialistic action, and it...

This is simply wrong. One thing cannot be black on a personal level and white on a grand scale. Stealing on a grand scale is not civilized. In most capitalist economies, there is nothing such as ”stealing from the poor by the rich”. Generally, it is the rich who pay the most taxes, and the poor...

What you consider “civilized” is more accurately referred to as “developed” or “advanced”. The term “civilized” implies some moral standards and manners. One of the definitions of the word “civilized” is “polite and well-mannered”. You can’t be polite and well-mannered while waging war...

But don’t you remember that the rest of Europe intervened in the war to stop the Serbs from commiting more genocide? Most Europeans clearly didn’t agree with what the Serbs were doing, and NATO interfered in the war and the leaders of Serbia ended up at the Hague. That was not very different...

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.