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Bullshit. Blockading Russian shipping is an entirely reasonable way for Ukraine to retaliate against Russia.

Looks like some sort of team building activity.

There is no such thing is international law. There is a body of treaties that most nations sign onto, but the enforcement of those treaties on any nation that decides to break or renege upon the treaty is iffy at best, especially during war time. Also war crimes tribunals are neither matters...

Ally is a very strong word. One that implies both consent and reciprocity. The German-Russian relationship has neither of those traits. The Germans are just useful idiots that Russia can puppet.

Only if induced by a culture that puts value on race. Children don't understand race until it is taught to them, before that someone's skin being a different color is just a curiosity. The idea of race supplanted a much more narrow ethnic identity only 3-400 years ago, and before those ethnic...

This is literally just mixed race children getting confused when people try to teach them to be racist. If they were being taught to have a national identity rather than an ethnic one, then they wouldn't have any problems.

Trump has a blind spot due to being a buisnessmean, where he doesn't quite understand naked coercion. He thinks there is always a deal to be made, and that people won't negotiate in bad faith.

There are no drugs capable of producing so potent a form of stupid as hubris, you over dose on them and put yourself out of everyone else's misery before you get that far.

I don't think we have ever seen full wartime production since before guided missiles have been adopted. It will be interesting to see what bottlenecks show up in the supply lines. There are many ways it can turn out, the silicon is an obvious one, but there is also the issue of missile...

Do you know what Treason is?

The A-10 is also a gunship rather than a fighter, and won't work to its full potential if you try to use it light a fighter.

I am now imagining a russian tank being carried off by a dogsled,

How many people do they need to employ for cleaning and maintenance? A building that big needs staff to take care of it.

Probably some translation errors during the game of telephone given the grammar.

No, that sounds like a demand for surrender by an enemy.

It is a mortar, those tend to have very wide bores, relatively short barrel lengths, and much less powder charge than direct fire artillery.

Not really, these are pretty standard talking points to drum up any invasion for conquest.

The problem is anti-colonialism. Rebuilding a conquered country as a future ally requires engaging in blatantly colonialist activities. Hell, just restoring order after a conquest requires colonial acts. However even the scent of colonialism is such a taboo that conquerers would rather allow...

This is basically going to be like the Korean or Vietnam war, except in europe with the sides flipped as far as strategy goes.