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Yes, Ukraine’s budget is already stretched to the limit, but with the few resources they have, they must prioritize paying those who risk their lives to defend the country. And they could also punish the political thieves who stole millions from the war effort to enrich themsleves, by executing...

Yes, this is true. Ukraine is in a very difficult situation. Those being forced to fight have no freedom anyway, so there is nothing for them to lose. The other Ukrainians will indeed lose more freedoms, but those being forced to fight are already at a minimum.

Well, it seems that conscripts do get paid too, but forced labor even if paid is still forced labor. And when it’s something that can get you killed, it’s even worse. Conscription should not be used in a society that pretends to be democratic or free. Individual rights are the backbone of a free...

Ukraine should first care about its troops. Equip them and pay them well. Social services are irrelevant when your country is at war, and you ask people to die defending it. The absurdity of the situation in Ukraine is huge. Some Ukrainian men are sent to die for the country without pay, while...

Eighty years ago it was a different world, with a different system of values. Human life and freedom were not considered very important. Conscription was just one of the many abuses of power the governments of the era did. Now we live in a different world, and forcing people to their death...

The competition between France and Germany just shows how unable to cooperate Europeans still are. France has a decent military and weapons industry, but the economy is weak. Germany has a weak military but a better economy, which is not great either. They should cooperate instead of being...

The problem with the West is that it is not a monolith, but an “alliance“ of countries with diverging interests. What you say it’s true for the US. They don’t want Russia to collapse, because it poses no danger to them, and it can be used as a weapon against Europe and China. Right now, the US...

Imagine how many missiles and drones for Ukraine could be bought with $33 billion…

Great news regarding the Ukrainian strike on the Novorossiysk oil terminal. Not only that Ukraine hit the oil terminal causing massive damage that took it offline for the forseeable future (some say that it might take six months of repairs to be able to restart exports), but it also destroyed at...

It’s sad that European politicians are so incompetent.

I think this is the first time I completely agree with you.

The war is not a trap, it is an invasion. Russia unilaterally destroyed its economic ties with Europe by invading a European country. The energy landscape is evolving rapidly, with rapid expansion of renewables, and more efficient energy storage solutions. You also have the electric vehicles...

Unfortunately you are right here. There is a lot of mistrust between European countries, and this is why the integration process is very slow, and why Russia and the US are able to bully Europe. If Europe was truly united, it would be on an equal footing with the US and China, and would wipe...

Could you quote when and where did Russian officials stated that they will invade Ukraine? Oh, they never did. They were actually ridiculing the warnings from the US about their invasion plans. If you believe Russian officials on their words, you are beyond fixing. In both cases you...

A russian soldier brags about stuffing explosives into children’s toys to murder Ukrainian kids, and calls it “having imagination.” https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ0PNGlAKRf/ But some people in Europe still think that we should be friends with them…

We had no foreign debt because our retarded dictator paid it all, by starving the country. We had no debt, and we had no food… And the debt he repaid was just the debt he took a few years before, to build an outdated industry that went bankrupt soon after. No it wouldn’t. While the Russians...

It comes from our history with the Russians. The way they treated us after WW2, stealing our resources and imposing their Communism on us, that kept us poor for decades. When we were under Russian occupation, it was the worst time in our history. And when we were under Russian influence, the...

It’s good that the Russians are wasting some of their weapons on a lost cause like Venezuela, as it has the positive effect of angering Trump. Trump is an adept of the Monroe doctrine, and he considers that no foreign powers should interfere in the Americas, which is the US’s playground. He...

The truth is that any GDP stats we now have from Russia are estimates made without much concrete and credible data. The IMF makes some estimates based on the little data available, as Rosstat publishes less data than before the war. And everyone knows how good the IMF is at valuing an economy...

My experience on how economic data is reported in totalitarian countries tells me that their GDP growth has been negative since the war started, and only fake numbers and lies have made it look positive. Remember that this is a Russia that wants to become the second Soviet Union. In the Soviet...