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We in Eastern Europe love this free police service that allowed us to develop without fear of being invaded by Russia and while spending only a tiny amount in defence compared to the huge military assistance we receive from the US. Thank you USA for defending us for free.

When you equate ISIS controlled territory with a legitimate democratically elected government, you are engaging in extreme mental gymnastics to try to defend your point. What’s next? Legitimizing drug cartels when they control a town by force as “legitimate governors” and calling the police...

Mosul and Raqqa were basically a military operation where the Iraq government was helped by a coalition of international forces to remove the cities from the hands of terrorists and liberate the people there. That was not invading a country. The people in those cities were basically the...

Again, you ignore what I said before, that the West has not done this in recent decades. There is no denying that this type of war was done by everybody until a few decades ago. The big difference is that only Russia is still doing this in this century. You mostly cite horrific acts done in...

Well said! If only more people would understand this. Totally agree with you.

That was a terrible accident, and a shameful cover up, but it was not something done with intent, like the bombing of Mariupol. Accidents are different from deliberate actions.

The examples you give are exceptions to the rule, when low level officers made some terrible things. They are not huge campaigns of turning cities into rubble sanctioned by the higher ups. While the Americans are no angels, their military doctrine is not about killing everything indiscriminately...

No. What I’m saying is that the likes of US or France no longer do the atrocities they did 50 years ago. Because the public is more informed and the feedback from regular people to the political class is much stronger now due to technology, democratic countries must be a lot more careful when it...

Well said!

You present events from half a century ago. I was talking about recent decades, when the US greatly improved accuracy and efficiency, and has a professional military without recruits. This century it’s only the Russians doing this kind of staff, as they remained stuck in the last century.

Correct! Yes, that was disgraceful and it showed the lack of education and logic of many people in the so called “civilized” West. Yes, that’s another example of idiots in the West. Yes, I am aware of that trend among the far-right and it is very shameful. There are lots of idiots in both...

The US at least cares about its public image, so it restrains itself from doing the most horrific things indiscriminately. While they do bad things for sure, they try to limit the useless killing because it hurts their image. On the other hand, the Russians are proud of their destruction and are...

This was not about what you are saying, but referencing to the many people in the East who cheer for Russia in this war. If you read Youtube comments on videos related to the war, the amount of support for Russia is disgusting.

Totally agree with you. It’s one thing to be anti-American, anti-West or anti-Israel (there are many reasons why some people would feel this way), and another thing to support Russian Imperialism. By all standards, Russians have been more brutal than any of the “Western” nations in the last few...

In countries such as Britain, France and Italy it would not be seen as peanuts since they all have very difficult economic problems. Politically it would be problematic. I think it would be much easier to finance such a deal if the US would pay half, and the EU the other half.

It comes from various sources of Western folklore and myths, and it was popularized by the Tolkien’s novel Lord of the Rings and by the game series Warcraft. No. Orc represent some brutish demonic humanoids that are savage, cruel and stupid. Nobody cares anymore about what happend centuries...

Is this serious, or is it meant as a joke?

But lots of people in the East complain about the killing of Palestinians while totally ignoring the killing of Tigray people or Yemenis. There is hypocrisy on both sides.

No, they are called orcs because of they ways they behaved. They pillaged, raped and tortured the civilian population of Ukraine, so they earned their “orc” name. It has nothing to do with their history, but with the way they are acting right now. If you act like a savage, people will call you...

The thing is, people in Eastern Europe knew about the Russians being savages for a long time, so we are not waking up from some sweet dreams. We’ve been through this before. Our countries have been pillaged in the past by the Russians. Ironically, people in Eastern Europe are not responsible...