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not really, the frontier there is too valuable to give up, and besides the populace integrated very well. (Personally I would have preferred the Ultimas proposal there. besides moving the border would only move the green regions you showed. the Donbass is the way it is partially because the...

Well yes, but that is nothing new. The frontier of empires always resembles that. You would even see similar features on the US Mexico border.

Not really, the blue saltire on the red background was developed because all the other confederate flags looked to similar to the Union flag at a distance, and so they developed a more distinct one. Also since the Russian czar backed the Union the confederacy wasn’t going to copy them.

The blue saltire on the red field is a historical standard of the Russian navy, similar flags were used as far back as 1700. https://tmg110.tripod.com/russia1.htm

There is no good side in any conflict, and my answer is we should support neither side, the US can and should be self sufficient. And as others pointed out Ukraine shelled the Donbas for years ignoring the Minsk agreement, so no side in either conflict has clean hands...

you do realize we are funding and participating in Saudi Arabia’s genocide in Yemen, so neither side here is non genocidal. https://www.genocidewatch.com/single-post/genocide-emergency-saudi-arabia-and-the-war-in-yemen

I mean that we lost there isn’t up for debate. You can say it was a political failure, but in the end it doesn’t matter whether the failure was from the generals, or the politicians a defeat is a defeat.

To be fair given isis was also the moderate rebels we were supporting to topple Assad were we really trying?

Africa, the Middle East, and China. Ohh and Ukraine was the main exporter to a lot of Europe and the Middle East and their farmland won’t be productive for a while.

Arma footage, in a war with Russians. Are the Badgers operating in Ukraine?!

I think he meant the Chinese, who did have a war with Vietnam. After, but them and the soviets never had a quarrel

We have oil interests everyehere.... hell we have oil interests in Russia, should we intervene on their behalf to protect the oil market? After all gas below $5 looks mighty appealing

1. Countries invade each other that is how the world is. There was no need to get involved in a regional fight 2. My example was to show that claiming an intervention or war is justified because one possible alternate scenario is worse is pointless because there is no way of knowing how the...

No arming both was the correct decision, the correct thing after was to wash your hands of the two and walk away.

yeah those things he did are standard, also the chemical weapons were given to him by us. So if we didn’t intervene in the beginning that wouldn’t have happened. as for your maybe it could have been worse, I would point out that the Arab spring was another regime change backed by us and europe...

Yeah you went from Saddam a fairly standard dictator for the region, to now thousands of dead Americans, a million dead Iraqi civilians, ISIS, and that “democratic” regime is an Iranian proxy state, you know another enemy of ours. If that is your definition of success what on earth do you define...

Because our peacekeeping operations in the Middle East turned out great.

And now slaves are traded in an open air market..... ahhh progress.

To be fair does the modern press count as journalists, i feel propagandist is more accurate.

More importantly than that we also have to worry about what happens if Russia fully aligns with China, chinas main weakness is their lack of resources like fuel which Russia has plenty of. By forcing the two together we wind up producing a significantly stronger problem than we would have...