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Why the hell do you people keep using fictional entertainment media in debates about the real world? Reality isn't some third rate videogame, it's an absolutely incomprehensible network of cause and effect that none of us can properly understand - try though we must. There should be a name for...

The postmodern era (WW2 and onwards) really has brought about an end of honest discourse. You can't assess what someone thinks from their words, you have to muddle through several layers of Newspeak. And sometimes, what they say means the exact opposite of what it should mean. I sometimes feel...

Or just to keep out of wars that don't concern you.

Ask the Japanese and Qing.

Those days aren't gone,but they're fading. That's why Russia's annexations raised such a hue and cry. The modern world seriously thought that annexation through military force was a relic of an olden era.

No, the Shah was a son of a bitch. And to make things worse, not even a cunning one. Why do we get all the dumbest dictators and the Commies get all the cunning ones? Every single major Communist leader except Pol Pot died peacefully while in power, while anticommunist ones either get usurped...

If only China and Israel could ally together, and Saudi Arabia could remain neutral, Marxism may be gone and the West saved by the end of this decade. They definitely do have ambitions, but like Russia, their ambitions are far beyond their actual capabilities. But not hopelessly so, which means...