It makes little sense especially Turkey has limit Russian navy from passage.
They basically limit all passage of warships. so NATO warship cant get in too.
It makes little sense especially Turkey has limit Russian navy from passage.
I stopped posting “updates” because I just don’t trust much of the “news” that I’m seeing. The whole information environment has become so, obviously, politicized that it’s made me start to consider the less obvious politicization of all news I’ve read, previously.I just waded through the thread here since I've been gone. I'm a bit disappointed. Folks citing reddit...how far have we fallen.
Perhaps the Japanese Defense Ministry spied the Russian sailors wearing viking horns; and had a brainstorm that they were gonna manhandle the LSTs across the Bosporus overland.It makes little sense especially Turkey has limit Russian navy from passage.
15% is quite a lot for a single country, don't you think? Chinese exports to US isn't anywhere close to this amount, yet Americans think they were the sole contributors to China's success and China should grovel, thank them, and obey every single one of their demands. Also, considering the massive shift in global events which we are witnessing today, there is a possibility that Ukraine may very well end up Finlandized - at least what's left of it. But it's still too early to tell.Not really.
As a democracy Finland aligned its economy very much with the West, primarily the other European market economies.
Finland's export to the Soviet Union was on average only around 15% of its yearly total during the entire Cold War.
As the only market economy with normal bilaterally trade with the Soviet Union Finland did benefit somewhat economically but nothing as extreme as stated above.
It was a whole other story politically. Neutrality in the strictest sense of the word. Both externally and internally, never taking any position to openly offend the Soviet Union the slightest. Basically behaving politely in every way.
No doubt such a solution might be Putin's wet dream for Ukraine but I can't see the last part happening. Neither before or now.
Russia needs another 100k troops deployed. The current number committed is far too low for invading such a big country.I’m starting to wonder if Putin‘s being told the truth about the progress of the invasion. I keep remembering a scene in a movie about the ‘67 Arab/Israeli War (I think) in which the Nasser’s high-ranking advisors were reporting glowing successes on the ground and advancing model tanks on a map while, in fact, they were getting their asses kicked. Not to say that the Russians are getting their asses kicked, but that Putin strikes me as the type to surround himself with those that tell him “good news”!
Just heard a claim that Putin just detained the head of FSB under house arrest for giving him false information regarding the war yesterday, so i guess that's a real possibilityI’m starting to wonder if Putin‘s being told the truth about the progress of the invasion. I keep remembering a scene in a movie about the ‘67 Arab/Israeli War (I think) in which the Nasser’s high-ranking advisors were reporting glowing successes on the ground and advancing model tanks on a map while, in fact, they were getting their asses kicked. Not to say that the Russians are getting their asses kicked, but that Putin strikes me as the type to surround himself with those that tell him “good news”!
I don't understand why they doing it.
I’m fairly certain that the one lesson that China is taking from this conflict is just how determined the US is to not confront a country directly when it has strategic nuclear parity!