I thought Ukraine should ask the Finnish if they could enter Russia via Karelia - encircle St Petersburg - and then negotiate.
... comparison between the USA and Russia at roughly the end of... I have said several times, Russia was lagging it's peers in... it, by the late 1800's Russia had all the potential to... in the wrong direction for Russia pretty much ever since.
Tsarist Russia was about as able to ... to the moon. 19th century Russia can be roughly divided into...
..., over a whole century. The Russia story is far more nuanced... looking through. For a start Russia would not be the sole... of century in 1900, both Russia and the USA had similar... if they had not. If Russia had been able to develop...
When Europe expanded they queued up with pens to sign the accords in peace. When Russia expands it looks quite different, they queue up to either escape or to be handed the weapons needed to expel them.
... sovereign choice between Europe and Russia. No-one invaded them, no... were not stupid. As for Russia - it is one of my...
... on balance he probably did Russia more good than not - but...
... the 1920's Ukraine expanded into Russia In the 1920's Stalin controlled... the only rational response to Russia invading and annexing Crimea in... the 1996 Belgrade Memorandum whereby Russia was obliged to protect Ukraine...
... legacy stockpile of nuclear weapons Russia is not a strategic - anything.... Nope the problem is that Russia ticks both boxes, nuclear armed...
That was also the Russia that signed the ... for a nuclear armed Russia to inherit the UNSC...carefully to the rhetoric in Russia, the internal narrative in... even those of Imperial Russia. If you recall early...a speech, Putin characterised Russia as a nation that ...
... West in the long run. Russia has a terrible demography, and...
Why does Russia remain a permanent member of the UNSC? That privilege surely expired when the USSR that was the original signatory dissolved in 1991.
... and autocratic behaviour of Putin's Russia, the theocratic fascism of Ayatollah...
... you if you lived in Russia. (Which if you were sincere...
Well so far Russia has ignored the UN General Assembly at every point. What chance do you think of a Security Council resolution that they would not veto - or even consider adhering to?
... for this year 2022 after Russia invaded in order to 'protect'...
Sometimes I wonder if redlogix is under the misapprehension that New Zealand is in a state of war with Russia.
... you just implicitly acknowledged that Russia does propaganda too? The simple...
... I lived and worked in Russia I encountered a casual anti...
... fine measure, but what if Russia vetoes it in the Security... anyone want a politically collapsed Russia; that too would come with... at present is to contain Russia to a standstill and accept...
Far more Nazi's in Russia than Ukraine apparently: https://www.....au/news/articles/2022/opinion/russias-long-history-of-neo-nazis...
... Eastern Europe moving away from Russia, no-one in SE Asia...
... detente with a resource rich Russia might well have made a...
.... (If you were living in Russia and chose to criticise the...
..., is an existential threat to Russia and this is the cause... what might be happening within Russia itself; the reality that this... existential threat to Russia and this justifies anything Russia might do in...
.... The fact of China and Russia having far fewer bases is...
..., highly intense confrontation with Stalinist Russia and Maoist China, both brutal... prison sentences or worse. In Russia right this is not possible...
The "interests" that Russia is pursuing lie on its ... authoritarian bastards of the world. Russia and China despite decades of...
Russia had good reason to invade .... An alliance between Europe and Russia is what America is trying...
How many people seriously thought Russia was about to embark on an invasion of a European country in January of this year?
... Ukraine became hostile it gave Russia the right – the moral right...
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