Tbh i wouldn't read much into it either way, just interesting imo.

Tbh they might have had better success by immediately attacking Berlin

They don't have only 1/10 of their army on the field. You can just take their entire personell/10, as that includes air force, navy, logisticians, officials, generals and what not. Have seen multiples military analysts say that Russia deployed about 60% of their entire ground force, and you apparent...

Well, I don't think he necessarily intended to start a war. He just wanted a show of force for negotiations. Look I have 100,000 thousand soldiers on your border, fear me. He got cornered and had no other option to invade at that point. The dramatic increase and steep rise of army from 100k to 200k...

I suppose part of the problem is that I mostly care about the bigger issue matters and that I also strongly believe in centralized governing. In my head the local government just needs to make sure that things are up and running. So at the moment I'm on the fence vs not voting, voting blank, voting...

Tbh, I'm not very knowledgable about Dutch history beyond a very rough understanding of what transpired. I dropped history quite early. So I can only give some rudimentary answers here. I believe the primary reason for the revolution was the oppression of the protestants. The revolution resulted in...

lol

Also 'off topic' but local elections in the Netherlands are happening tomorrow. I still don't know what to vote. I tried to fill out some 'stemwijzers' (questionaires that tell you which party is the best match, I don't think there is an appropriate english word for this), but those just made me re...

One of the earliest national identities are arguably the french and american ones starting with their respective reovlutions. Sentiments of belonging for sure existed before the existence of Nation states, but the concept of a Nation, a people that is supposed to be united in a statehood, generally...

I mean i will admit that i thought he had said this a bit more clearly, but considering that 3 days ago you urged duck to read between the lines and extrapolate from what the journos are reporting this seems a bit weird.

the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster [in which] tens of millions of our co-citizens and compatriots found themselves outside Russian territory Ukraine is not just a neighboring country for us. It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space wa...

Honestly, if Western European leaders took the warnings of your politicians more seriously, BEFORE shit hit the fan, much of this could have probably been avoided.

[mention]u11413[/mention] there is imo a (cynical) case to be made for leaving Chechnya out, because if we define "peaceful" as the absence of using military might against other sovereign states, poc is technically right in saying that Chechnya was Russian territory, making it therefore no...

Ngl but if you have to make the addendum "before 2008" your argument might be kinda shit as peaceful states generally don't invade sovereign countries at all, therefore making that addendum obsolete.

And let's say I agree about successor state and everything. Even then soviet union failed and a new system is now in place. Russia which has been a subset of soviet union shouldn't be seen through same lenses as USSR in 1991. 1) There is nothing to agree on. It just is legal reality, and Russian in...

It lies with both, quite obviously Fine, I give up, you are just arguing for the sake of it He isn't, i am gonna extrapolate here a bit but for political candidacies this can be referred to as aspirants and selectors, i.e. people or entities wishing to get an office and those choosing who gets an o...

It was a genuine question if you want to apply that logic consistently, because i wouldn't necessarily use expansion in that context. Either way, i don't know what Media you consume, but the amount of people being understanding of Russia in "the west" is very damn low, especially among exp...

So if you apply to be a member of your local sportsclub, that club then expanded?

There's no way in hell that China falls for this. The best result for them at this point is probably Putin achieving a very very costly pyrrhic "victory" with sanctions being upheld so they can buy Russian assets for dirtcheap and make Russia a chinese satellite.

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British completely abused the people and their only intent was to exploit the colonies. If otherwise most colonies would have never revolted. Britain didn't engage in scorch earth policy at least not on physical material scale. Russian intent isn't to abuse and exploit Ukraine. Unlike Britain, Russ...

Because the alternative to fighting is submitting to Putin's reign of terror, hope that explains that.

https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1502499687290617856 I really wish people weren't retarded and would actually inform themselves about the Nazis before making such comparisons. German Jews were German. German communists and socialists, German LGQBT people, German disabled people, German dissiden...

Not my fault that 'muricans use liberal in a weird way

I mean most liberal parties usually do support that sort of stuff.