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Russia started the war, no one else. The blood of those murdered Ukrainians is on Putin's hands. I thought it would be in the hands of the death merchants... Very well, munitions being Russia's second biggest export after fossil fuels, I'll concede the point. Except that in the US the merchants are...

It seems that we are willing to put our (taxpayers') money where our mouths are too. https://asiatimes.com/2022/06/australians-want-way-more-defense-spending-poll/ I find it interesting that in the set of bar graphs re. Trust in global powers Australian respondents nominated among foreign countries ...

I notice that in your GLOBAL LEADER APPROVAL RATINGS bar graph that Australia's Anthony Albanese is given a high approval rating? Well, he only led his party to electoral victory less than 5 weeks ago and with memories of the disgraceful performance of his predecessor in office still fresh in people...

Kaliningrad? The northern half (before 1945) of the former German province of East Prussia. Forcibly taken by the Soviet Red Army and at Stalin's behest all of the ethnic German population was driven out to become stateless refugees. These were replaced by ethnic Russian settlers: I believe many of ...

India is an entire country built on racism and it will never be a great country until it overcomes that. But Milo, don't you mean caste discrimination rather than racism as we normally define it? e.g. (A Brahmin = a high caste Hindu, a pariah = a low caste Hindu, a Bollywood bad actor = a miscast H...

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Thu Jun 30, 2022 5:03 pm

After the fall of the Soviet Union Russia asked to join NATO.

So it seems NATO was then "the flavour of the month" throughout the region. Do you know why its request was rejected?

If Texas were to succeed in succession what do you imagine it's future would be like?

When asked about NATO Secretary-General Jen Stoltenberg's remark that Putin's getting the opposite of what he wanted, Putin criticized the nature of the alliance but acknowledged Russia may have motivated NATO. "Our position has always been... that NATO is a relic of the Cold War and is only being ...

While I concede that the Peoples Republic of China has become something of a power in the world at large I challenge you to define for me how India is anything better that a pretentious, supercilious paper tiger? It has the fifth largest economy in the world, the second largest active duty military...

Do they? Love them or hate them, they're both great powers in a multipolar world. I neither love nor hate either of them. I view each according to merit. While I concede that the Peoples Republic of China has become something of a power in the world at large I challenge you to define for me how Ind...