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You have bad reading skills (stupid, in other words) if you think I'm anti-American. Most of my wealth is connected with the USA, I'm a USA passport holder, last thing I want is demise of the USA....

Article on Gorbachev, including all the things he said that aren't reported in the western press, because they too closely echo Putin's complants:
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Not sat it out entirely, but no reason to favor USSR versus Nazi Germany. We could have negotiated with Hitler and thus pitted a weak Germany versus a weak USSR (possibly with independent Ukraine)...

Latest from Pat Buchanan, American political commentator, columnist, politician, assistant and special consultant to USA Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan:
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More serious discussion of corruption in Ukraine:

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/08/18/ukraine-veterans-us-aid-soldiers-war/

USA "corruption" is not really corruption, since its perfectly legal...

It never ceases to amaze me when people think exports matter. If no buyer, throw it in the ocean. Imports are what matter, exports are what you use to pay for essential imports. China imports oil,...

Ukrainian military is fighting brilliantly. But that's tactics. You need think strategically, big picture.

If Russia is humiliated in this war, they will retaliate by fully backing China in the...

Russia cannot lose, in both senses of the word cannot: they cannot lose because they can escalate to ensure victory, and they cannot afford to lose because it would have serious geopolitical...

I'm with my Ukrainian girlfriend now in Chisinau. She arrived a week ago and everything is going well between us. For a short while in March / April, she was back in the small town where she grew up,...

From some news source: "Of course we want peace, but we also want our territories back," said Anna Ockmanko, 57, whose house in a small village outside of Kharkiv was destroyed when Russian forces...

You write about realism but you don't understand what it is and in fact you are another idealist.

Humans are territorial animals. Territorial borders are set largely by assessment of comparative...

Yes, that's the most likely outcome, as cooler heads have been predicting all along, which is why they warned against trying to pull Ukraine into the Western orbit and thus provoke this war. In other...

This is a recent short video clip where Mearsheimer clearly explains the extreme danger of current USA policy. To summarize, there are 2 conditions under which Russia will use nukes: (1) someone uses...

LOL. Ukraine is being ruthlessly used by rogue elements in the USA who think a,weakened Russia somehow helps the USA. On the contrary, USA would benefit from a strong Russia led bloc as an ally...

I mentioned Chisinau twice in this forum, but upon further investigation, Chisinau is not good for girls from Kyiv or central Ukraine because Transdniestria has blocked borders. My new plan is fly to...

I have misgivings about posting this, because it's hearsay, but I've been reading reports in other forums about hostile attitudes towards foreigners in Kyiv recently, worse in April than in March....

I'm not going to debate with a moron and I don't care much about the future of Putin or Russia. My concern is with the future of Ukraine. In particular, preventing the utter destruction of much of...

I understand you are using "you" rhetorically to mean "any person" but the above paragraph suggests you think that, because I see Putin's / Russia's point of view, I endorse this view or that I'm...

Thankfully, Zelensky is finally being reasonable, or maybe it's the extreme nationalists who are finally allowing Zelensky to be reasonable rather than threatening to kill him for any signs of...

I checked the Poland forum just now. Maybe I didn't sort right, but only a few comments about refugees. Looking forwards, however, there will be tons of desperation among Ukrainian women, whether you...

Mearsheimer (https://www.mearsheimer.com/) discusses this silly idea that geopolitics is different now from 200 or 2000 years ago. Technology is different but geopolitics follows sames principles as...

2013-2014. EU will eventually be same thing as NATO. If corruption was the issue, why elect Yanukovych in the first place? Why wait until 2013 and the rejection of the EU agreement to revolt? Why not...

My regular, who is the Ukrainian I know best, argued with me when I said last year that Ukraine was better than Belarus because it is a democracy. She and her family are from a small town south of...

The single most important thing we can do is precisely to analyze, etc. Ukraine got into this mess because it didn't think. To get out of the mess, it has to start thinking or get help thinking,...

News from my former Russian teacher. Russians bombed her native village about 20 km from Kyiv, maybe because there was some military base nearby. Some bombs hit civilian areas, including a school and...