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That's largely because Russia's pawns (for the US, the GOP; for Germany, the Neo-Nazis; the like) are gumming up the works.

This was done by Trump, who stabbed our allies in Afghanistan in the back, mind you. Biden was the poor sap with the bag, so to speak. It should be noted that Trump did everything in his power to ensure that would happen, up to and including releasing a few hundred officers of the Taliban...

The GOP? No. It's 'Russia first under the table'. In any other era, the two parties would be side by side, now though? Yeah, no. The GOP is going through the same insanity as the Know-Nothings...

@Marduk, strunkenwhite is surprisingly on point. Hence why I said 'worldwide for the time'. People forget that the view of what is considered 'the whole world' changed over the centuries as transportation technology and infrastructure improved and declined. The Punic Wars were considered world...

It isn't to that point yet, I'm afraid. We're still not in the tier of 'major wars' yet. We're still in the 'big minor wars' tier in the scope of history. What history calls 'major wars' tend to be worldwide (at least, for the time) conflagrations.

... what I meant is that it will only make it worse, which is why we've got to be careful. We can't further break up Russia because we'll make the situation that led to the rise of the Nazis look like a schoolyard brawl, and I don't know about you, but I don't want a leadership that is like the...

That... would make things worse... ... remember, the collapse of the USSR got us into this god-forsaken mess. If you want to make a persecution complex act like fast-acting cancer, this is how you do it. Here's the problem, reality has been doing a combination of taking plots from fiction and...

... is this lie still flying around? The British propaganda machine largely manufactured that to demonize the Germans. Remember, the Germans were the ones that built the rules of war framework, and the Germans in WW1 were still within that framework. This was why everyone not on the Eastern...

That heavily depends on who takes over in the aftermath. Given that reality has been skimming/taking more ideas from fiction than usual, we can't bank on that assumption.

That isn't the case. I think you're not reading what I've said correctly. In the ye old days of the mid-to-late 19th century (i.e., the 1800s), France got its ass handed to it during the Franco-Prussian War. This war ended so badly for France that it created a whole new ideology: Revanchism...

The biggest thing about Russia is that it is basically France during the years after Franco-Prussia and before WW1. In addition, Putin has been keeping a cap on the nationalism and Revanchism sentiment for decades, meaning that we're going to be stuck with him in a 'devil you know' situation...

From my understanding, they're very British regarding how ethnicities are treated... What history book did you read that load of BS out of? The pre-Civil Rights US wasn't anything like the dynasties of China, where the Han were preferred and allowed other ethnic groups into the system. The US's...

First, Russia is multi-ethnic, but in the sense that one ethnic group (Russians) rules over the rest (ala the US until the Civil Rights Movement came to fruition, where the WASPs were at the top)... but why ruin a narrative? With ISIL, some right-wing went to their side, but they were also...

... yes. Largely because Russia is everything they like. Like Anti-Gay, WASP supremacy, and similar. It isn't surprising that many right-wing (the left-wing, outside of a handful of exceptions, have universally condemned Russia for decades, some of whom saw this coming) groups consider Russia...

A partition would be the worst thing we'll ever do. Think of the geopolitical ramifications and the precedent it would incur. I'm not kidding that doing that would ensure that every future war will be one of the knife.

Great... that isn't cause for alarm... /sarcasm It looks like there is a possibility of Russia pulling a false flag with this...

No, re-approachment was never in the cards. The US is too much of their enemy for that to happen, especially with the Putin/ex-KGB leadership in charge. Hell, Putin had put out his own Mein Kampf a while back and it detailed that to get back to the glory days, the current geopolitical system of...