The New Place

Ethnic Russians have lived for generations in those lands, which have long been Russian. "Long"? It depends on how you look at it. Russian settlement there dates only from the time of the Tsarina Catherine the Great which is to say from the latter 19th century. Prior to that some other people would...

SENIOR US MARINE CORPS OFFICER EXPRESSES ADMIRATION FOR THE ‘REVOLUTIONARY’ WAY IN WHICH RUSSIA HAS FOUGHT ITS WAR IN UKRAINE https://southfront.org/us-marine-corps-officer-expresses-admiration/ Ordinary people in the West reading and listening to the mainstream media have been presented with a ser...

Fortunately the Taiwanese aren't subject to that sort of cowardice or they'd likely have been subjugated already. Why cowardice? The Taiwanese should be trying to find ways to reinforce their institutions within the one-country-two-systems alternative, to make sure that they would not be undermined...

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taiwan-rejects-chinas-one-country-two-systems-plan-island-2022-08-11/ Gee, I wonder why, when it worked out so well for Hong Kong? :roll: I would say that one-country-two-systems is better than one-country-one-system...Which is what Taiwan will get if Chin...

cassowary wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:56 am

There is no American empire. This is communist and now Russian disinformation.

neverfail wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 10, 2022 8:46 pm

cassowary wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 10, 2022 6:54 pm

Very true, Neverfail and you have shown a very Christian way of thinking. Be humble and not proud. Thanks. I need to be reminded.

We all do!

Lots of non-Christian people are humble and not proud. Maybe more so than among the so-called Christian people...

Africans seem to have an inferiority complex. Their lack of success so far is blamed on past western imperialism whom they believeTheir inferiority complex prevents them from seeing their own faults causing their lack of progress. I lived a few years in Africa, I have mixed blood people in my famil...

The Ukraine has never been part of Europe, it has always been part of the Russian Empire, in any of its past or present shapes. It has not been part of the Russian empire since 1991, and its people shouldn't be forced to become so now. What's 20 years compared with over 1,000 years?... Even if it w...

The Ukraine has never been part of Europe, it has always been part of the Russian Empire, in any of its past or present shapes. It has not been part of the Russian empire since 1991, and its people shouldn't be forced to become so now. What's 20 years compared with over 1,000 years?... Even if it w...

SteveFoerster wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 10, 2022 10:21 am

Sertorio wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 10, 2022 10:15 am

The Ukraine has never been part of Europe, it has always been part of the Russian Empire, in any of its past or present shapes.

It has not been part of the Russian empire since 1991, and its people shouldn't be forced to become so now.

What's 20 years compared with over 1,000 years?...