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The biggest Western delusion about the regimes like Russian may be that they can be successfully challenged by some sort of βoppositionβ. Reality check: The King is most likely...
National Divorce Within the next year Russia will spiral into a deep political crisis. There is a nonzero chance that it may scale up existing separatist tendencies leading to the...
I prioritise feedback over outreach. There is no way I can get a quality conversation without blocking a few thousand people. Valuable comments, ideas, references would drown in th...
A new round of donations for the Ukrainian soldiers & civilians 𧡠1. While suffering from the Iranian drone attacks, Ukraine was able to increase efficiency of its air defence wi...
The Pope being Pope. This line of reasoning is based upon a premise that Russian people may not be responsible for the Russian aggression. It's always someone else's fault, in this...
Well, most of modern Ukraine was either conquered or incorporated to Russia under Catherine II. She was probably the most aggressive ruler of the Russian Empire, not counting Peter...
Rearmament of the Russian military industry based on the technological import from the West scaled up once Putin took power. Local peaks were reached around 2007 and 2013. Most rec...
You are not wrong. European companies provided Russian military producers that manufacture everything you just described and more with: - hardware - software - training to do the...
I think that the USG should explore the possibility of incentivising German, Italian, Austrian, Swiss, Taiwanese, Korean and Spanish companies to shut down their machines on Russia...
On a highway leading from Chechnya to Dagestan there is a traffic light. It is always red. Every day thousands of cars have to drive through this 24/7 red light to pass from one re...
πWhen we are talking about a truce or even peace, we should keep in mind that Russia won't be honouring it. Any ceasefire will be used for regrouping, restocking and then attacking...
I'd say that is a false dichotomy. Logic may help to do what you do in a more or less efficient way. But *what* you choose to do - this choice is arbitrary. You may pursue your goa...