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There is no evidence the bugs actually did it either, merely Federation's very shaky claim that they did. And Federation's story has more holes in it than the Swiss cheese. The movie begins with militaristic society in which older generation of citizens has bought into state ideology, while the...

I don't see what does it matter. The "franchise", such as it is, has never had any kind of unified creative vision of the universe, be it Verhoeven's or someone else's. People holding the rights just tried to cash in as best as they were able, making B-movies and what not. Using them to discuss...

The only thing that's canon is the fact that BA (and three other places, I think?) went up in smoke. The rest of Federation's story about bugs and asteroids is just that - an in-universe story.

Eh, the film is not exactly subtle about who has done BA in.

Russia and Europe/US have engaged in mutual seizing of properties on the scale of dozens of billions, imposed sanctions and engaged in other hostile acts that run counter to previous obligations. It seems highly improbable that either side still cares about upholding the contracts or needs any...

Precisely. The "would glady sell" bit is so full of caveats, whether in the past or the future, that it's basically a lie. By buying hardware you can't produce or maintain, you are entering a long-term relationship with the provider - for years and decades. "This provider is likely to cut you...

India has been in the business of buying weapons for three quarters of the century. America and France have been in the business of selling weapons even longer than that. If America and France were actually willing and/or able to sell India much better weapons, they would have done it many...

Begun, Belloc Quotation Week has...

- Dugina was killed by Ukrainian assassin as a revenge for her public support of Putin - Dugina was killed by Ukrainian assassin to get more weapons from NATO - Dugina was killed by Ukrainian assassin to disrupt Russia-Turkey relations at the behest of the British - Dugina was killed by FSB...

Conspiracy theorists are already spinning stories how Dugin has persuaded Putin to stage an assassination of his own (Dugin's) daughter.

IRA is an actual entity with some actual people who can at least put on masks and record a video message. There is no evidence NRA actually exists beyond the words of one random guy.

Nazis came to power in a quiet coup by conspiring together with President Hindenburg's inner circle (the man himself was basically senile at that point) - what German historiography calls Machtergreifung ("seizure of power"). There was a convenient loophole in German constitution which was used...

The final twist fell through. Cameron can serve as a Terminator protector of John Connor OR as a platform to deliver her own chip to rebel machines in the past. She can't be both. As a protector she is exposed to violence, meaning there is an increased chance of her chip being damaged or...

Losing a fleet's flagship while conducting primarily land operation whereas the other party no longer has any naval assets is... Remarkable. In the end, it's just another (but highly visible) sign how badly Putin and his generals have miscalculated. This invasion turns out to be a classic case...

India was a goldmine of everything for the British. I'm not sure there was any colony in Africa of remotely comparable value.

In 1946 Great Britain was completely exhausted by WW2, heavily dependent on US to keep them afloat. "Just abandoning" India without a fight is not going to happen without Britain being completely broken by the world war first. Again, you are trying to apply 1942 circumstances to the pre-war...

A large uprising in British Raj. Britain isn't going anywhere until it's dealt with.

This. The scenario has no defined beginning (as "White" victory can mean basically anything) or the end (as there is no way to define what the next world war would be and when would it happen and who would fight against whom). And there are dozens forks in the road between these two poorly...

No, it's largely because there isn't much you can do in Ukraine that can be competitive on the world market. The workforce is neither all that cheap or all that great, infrastructure is nothing to write home about, and agriculture&resource extraction... well, those have gotten Ukraine just below...

Afghanistan is resource rich beyond imagination, yet somehow neither USSR nor USA have prospered by controlling it. It's almost like there are other considerations to economic growth and ability to extract profits beyond mere presence of resources. Ukraine is (was) a very poor country. It's GDP...