Recent content by VorZakone

I'm not sure if "provoke" is the right term. I associate the word provoke with an act that is deliberately aimed to get a response. But that's a semantics game. I do think it is also somewhat of a moot point. We may think whatever we do is not a provocation, but the Russians perceive it...

I think Ten Hag will get plenty of leeway in his first season.

I share the same question of this Reddit comment. Over and over and over again we see isolated small groups of Russian units just getting picked off. It is hard to fathom how incompetent it all looks.

I guess Mearsheimer-esque folks would say that yeah. Ukrainian neutrality at all costs.

He really is an obnoxious fella, ain't he. Hard to fathom at times how such a manchild gets so wealthy but here we are.

My basic problem with this argument is that if we keep thinking like this, then no smaller country ever will be able to get out of some major power's influence if consecutive regimes in that major power don't change course and keep having imperial ambitions. And that counts all ways, including...

Madman.

"People standing with Ukraine tend to be standing with an imperialist vision of selective war-support." Let me reframe that: standing with a country that has been invaded by an aggressor. It is that simple. By the way, for a country that talks so much about "security concerns", maybe they...

Wasn't Crimea already annexed before the war in Donbas really took off in the course of 2014? By the way, how bothered are you that Russia's invasion is not going well? Blame America all you want. If Russia doesn't invade, they don't have to suffer tens of thousands of casualties.

Thank god Russia's invasion isn't going well. Wouldn't wanna see Putin's regime succeed.

Well one is in jail, no?

Zinchenko way too eager there