Germany is experiencing a combination of low birth rate and aging population. That might be the reason for recently allowing a large number of refugees in.
The problem with those refugees is they...
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Germany is experiencing a combination of low birth rate and aging population. That might be the reason for recently allowing a large number of refugees in.
The problem with those refugees is they...
Europe is dealing with Russia already: EU slapped her with economic sanctions and the Western European members of NATO sent soldiers and jet fighters to the defense of the East European NATO members....
1) Putin is quite likely happy with the support Israel gets from the US because that support helps Russia sell weapons to the Arabs;
2) US is the middleman in the Middle East in spite of openly...
Last time I've checked Russia was the pariah among the democratic countries while Germany's standing was fine. So what kind of diplomatic support could Russia provide to Germany?!
As for Putin's...
Russia is just a gas station with a grotesquely oversized military structure on its roof.
Inside the gas station one can find a tiny group of people stealing anything that isn't bolted down and...
Right now China's resources come mostly from Africa, which would be a major liability in case of a conventional war with any of the likely enemies possessing a more powerful navy than China's.
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Dugin is not taken seriously by the Russian leadership. He was just useful to Putin for a little while for stirring up the nationalist fervor among a small and otherwise motley minority of educated...
Seeing how the sultans ran the empire into the ground I think you're quite right about Erdogan deserving that title.
The Second Treaty of Sevres would result in integrating the more interesting...
Actually those would be the anarchists.
The fascists, the nazis and the communists tend to want to strengthen the state and enforce order and discipline. Little wonder some of them choose careers...
18% of the population. The Socialists got 45.7% out of 40% voters turnout. The 60% who didn't vote because of being disgusted with politicians in general, made the Socialists' victory possible.
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The situation in Ukraine is indeed the West's fault in the same sense WW2 was the fault of the French and British.
Russia didn't do much in the '80s, not even in 1989 when it was obvious it...
Russia is not entitled to any "strategic buffer" just like no other country is.
Not to mention the fact Russia's large nuclear arsenal makes the "strategic buffer" argument even more ridiculous....
Putin being in power today combined with the Russian invasion of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine (plus the invasion of Georgia in 2008, the Russian support for Assad in Syria and the meddleing in the...
How else would you describe what Bulgaria was doing to Greece and Serbia?
In 1941 the Romanians had the opportunity to stop at the 1940 border, like the Finns did, instead of crossing into the...
The only practical outcome of that law is the Muslims in Slovakia would simply continue to use "illegal mosques" just like they do now. And the government would have to divert more resources to...
The most idiotic and suicidal thing a Turkish government could do is to start a war with Greece. Especially in the current West-European context where the far right's popularity is on the rise and...
There was a similar law in communist Romania.
At the time the age of consent was 14, even though a person under 18 could only marry if the parents agreed.
To make the matters even more...
Stopping the negotiations with Turkey would be stupid. It's not only the refugees issue at stake, it's the strategically more important issue of completely abandoning the secular and pro-Western...
Russia shared a border with Czechoslovakia since 1945. The direct result of annexing the north-eastern part of Romania for good at the end of WW2.
The purge of the Jews was the consequence of an...
Since when are all those bordering the USA?
Indeed, Romania has invaded Russia on June 21th 1941. It was an unprovoked act of Romanian imperialism, obviously totally unrelated to the 26th of June...
Just officially announcing a nuclear sub is on its way to a general area from where it can hit Dubai might make the city look like it has already been hit by a neutron bomb.
Given a sub is not...
Nothing a British Vanguard class sub cannot cure. That kind of landscape gardening might help others in the region see the errors of their ways.
You are abslolutely right, the USA has indeed invaded Canada in 1812, Mexico in 1848 and Spanish Cuba in 1898.
That's quite an impressive track record of invading its neighbors compared to the...
The thing is every coutry is supposed to be "caged" by its own borders. Surrounding Russia with military bases happened because Russia has the merry habit of paying visits to its neighbors uninvited.
I can confirm a lot of highly educated Russians see the things the same way. The average Russians even more so, hence the very high popularity Putin enjoys.
What the Russian highly educated...
To put the things in context:
1. Guccifer had already been sentenced in Romania to 7 years imprisonment for similar crimes (illegally accessing computer systems). If anything, the American judge...
So much did they want to become part of Russia that Russia had to fake the referendum.
I think a lot of European and American Jews (if not the majority of them) eat pork. And also meat together with cheese, and many other meals forbidden by their religion.
As for the deportation of...
According to the OP, the restaurant owner was not the one who had seated them at the table. He therefore had no clues as to their religion based on what they might have said (say from them asking if...
Err, not really.
1) Crimea was first occupied by Russian special forces then "voted" to be annexed by Russia.
2) Whatever had happened in Ukraine was not in any way authorizing Russia to invade...
With France and Great Britain firmly on the side of Czechoslovakia Hitler would not dare to start a war in 1938.
There was no Siegfried Line at the time to protect Germany from a determined...
Past CIA-backed coups happened well after the target governments have seriously challenged the US one way or another (like say by becoming commie or by nationalizing American companies).
Erdogan...
Why would the CIA want to remove Erdogan?
At the time the plot was hatched (beginning of the year) Erdogan had not become friends with Putin yet, therefore there was no reason for the Americans...
The Orthodox Christianity has to be privileged because as the very name says it, it is the correct form of Christianity. Given Christianity is the only true religion anyway, it makes sense to favor...
Breaking up the Russian Federation just like the Soviet Union was broken up is much more beneficial for the West. That way the Russian resources can be accessed directly, without having to go...
I lived under a communist regime until I was 20 so I can tell you first hand the difference between living in a police state and living under the threat of a terrorist attack.
In a police state...
From the strictly technological point of view, the War on Terror can be won by the West. The last 200 years of European history show opposition can be eliminated at home by any government willing to...
You do realiase that it is technically feasible to pacify the banlieues the way the Paris Commune was dealt with?!
If the discussion keeps going in circles about unemployment, exclusion poverty...
This failed coup will help Erdogan consolidate his power and distract a lot of people from the problems caused by a rapidly deteriorating economy.
My Turkish contacts (mostly business people) also...
It is not a matter of backwardness, it is a matter of having Putin's oligarchs leeching the Russian military as contractors for logistics and maintenance services. The end result was the Russian...