Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "WION" channel.

  1. Or, she knew that her coalition was finished and she would be a lame duck continuing in that position. OR she resigned in protest against the opposition's proposals which they could pass without her. Stop assuming a woman is having an emotional outburst. Some folks resign their post in protest against a system stacked against them because they refuse to be part of the problem.
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  2. If they accepted that Crimea was Ukrainian, and acknowledged Ukrainian sovereignty, I seriously doubt that the Ukrainians would force CIVILIANS to leave. That is the thing about moving into another country; you HAVE to accept the local laws and customs and endeavor to be a citizen. To refuse to assimilate is to be an invader, occupier, and colonizer.
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  3. Makes me wonder if this is the reason why they told people to stock up on food.
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  4.  @fnuvikas8883  Ever heard of speech notes? Most public speakers use them. A sign of a good speaker is how little they look at their notes.
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  5. Is this why the Red Government told people to stock up on food supplies?
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  6.  @7F0X7  Sure, as if every other prime minister in the world didn't want that as well. I at least give her credit for being brutally honest and sincere, unlike your patently dishonest ruling caste (neo-feudalist oligarchies) of Europe. I trust someone who is upfront about their authoritarian desires much more than I do the suave snake-oil salesman who pay lip service to empowerment then rob their constituents blind.
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  7. Oh, there WAS testing. the US DoD had quite a bit of it, but the data was ignored by the politicians (ie Obama and company) who wanted to sell off the frequency ranges to the highest bidder.
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  8. As if Russia hasn't supplied weapons to African insurgencies. Spare me your moral outrage.
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  9. The cost for Ukraine was going to be high no matter what they do. So, when you have nothing to lose, you fight like a cornered badger. Better to die on your feet than live on your knees as a slave. And the Ukraine understands slavery to the Soviet State.
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  10. OR, she has principles and knew that with a united opposition she was wasting her time being a lame duck. It is amazing how people automatically jump to assume her actions were an emotional outburst. Some people resign as a sign of protest against a system stacked against them.
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  11.  @wartome3196  The US didn't indiscriminately target civilians the way Putin has.
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  12. It was started when Obama sold off to the highest bidder much of the frequencies that the DoD had reserved for operations. Doesn't help that 5G is also the emission frequency of water vapor. That is significant because it will make meteorological satellite analysis difficult with all of the "signal pollution".
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  13. The 5G band also is the emission band for water vapor, a major component of meteorological satellite, particularly during nocturnal hours. So, weather analysis is also going to be affected by 5G implementation.
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  14. She was overruled as if it was a presidential override vote. Tell me again how being a lame duck constantly being overruled is somehow more responsible and mature than stepping down in protest?
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  15. Crimea was never Russian homeland, it was Ukrainian. Now, if those folks accepted Ukrainians sovereignty and jurisdiction, then something tells me the Ukrainians would have let them stay IF they assimilated and became citizens of Ukraine.
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  16. And how many of those conflicts have had the USSRs hand behind the scenes? You do realize that the Korea war was instigated by Stalin? You realize that the USSR encouraged Naser to fight Israel? You realize it was the USSR who invaded Afghanistan in the 1980s? It takes two to tango. You are blatantly ignoring the aggression by the Soviet bloc.
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  17. They knew it was coming but really could not do anything about it. Politicians and Bureaucrats made the call, ignoring the warnings of both the FAA and the DoD.
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  18. Ask yourself why Poland, Czechia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Croatia wanted to join NATO. Nobody forced them to do that. Nobody forced Sweden and Finland to join NATO. When former members of the Warsaw Pact want to be part of the defense alliance against the Soviet-Communist bloc, you have to ask yourself why.
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  19.  @nickngunjiri4282  Sometimes. Certainly, with both Obama and Biden "I have a Phone and a Pen". They basically act first and abuse their power as much as they can before Congress and the Courts can put a stop to it.
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  20.  @UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana  That is pure wishful thinking. NATO by providing arms to Ukraine shows that it IS willing to militarily support others against incursions and invasions. Finland and Sweden joining NATO with Austria considering it is a complete and unmitigated disaster for Russia as the frontier they now have to defend is two to three times as long as it was before the invasion.
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  21. What a lot of these arm-chair quarter backs fail to realize is that the strength of nukes is in their deterrence factor. Once used, that effect is lost. An opponent unfazed by threat of first use against them will not stop once they have been used.
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  22. Indeed. They could have helped the US to keep the Taliban from retaking power. Instead, they turned a blind eye and did nothing. They are upset? They have only themselves to blame for driving out the folks who were protecting their rights.
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  23.  @shafqatishan437  What do you consider as "help"? Sure, the West is giving them equipment and training, but that is the limit. Ukraine is still a Soviet Army fighting another Soviet Army. Only the Soviet-Ukraine army is being augmented by Western tech and tactics.
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  24. To be fair, India has always tried to play the neutral third-party card. But recent developments are making that position more and more untenable.
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  25.  Doc V2  Apples to oranges false analogy. Nice try. Modern Japan is NOT fascistic Imperial Japan. Most Japanese today would rather make love to Chinese (particularly Taiwanese Chinese) than war. My point was that having been on the receiving end of nuclear warfare, they who know when it is and when it is NOT appropriate to actually use them. They know firsthand the terrible cost of unleashing the power of the atom.
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  26. Some of those frequencies happen to be the emission wavelengths of water vapor. That is significant because the signal pollution will negatively impact meteorological satellite observation and analysis. This is especially significant during nocturnal hours.
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  27. Oh, I agree. And I hope that the Ukrainian soldiers show great magnanimity (food, safe passage, etc.) towards the civilians to further drive hope the point that this conflict is against the Russian government and not its people.
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  28. The Corona is very diffuse, which is why it can be so hot. Believe it or not, the upper layers of the Earth's own atmosphere (thermosphere and exosphere) are several million degrees, but the particles are so thin that it barely raises the temperature in the cabin of the spacecraft.
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  29. Japan is a VERY traditional society. Respect for elders is ingrained into them practically from birth. Abe may not be in office, but he IS a mover and shaker behind the scenes. And current leadership WILL listen to what he has to say.
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  30.  @cliffordting8650  Zelesky could negotiate, but do you really think the Ukrainian people would just accept whatever terms he agrees to? The people of Ukraine have made their intentions clear. It will be up to THEM to decide what terms are acceptable. And right now, it is clear that noting less that the complete withdraw of Russian troops will satisfy them.
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  31.  @tomsuh1362  CCCP troll.
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  32. If he is still a mover and shaker behind the scenes, playing king maker means people SHOULD listen to what he has to say. Japanese are VERY traditional, and they WILL take heed of warnings from a prior leader.
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  33.  @pfroudzdo  Dude, you don't remember the Russian theft of South Ossetia from Georgia, do you? This war is exactly the same, with the EXACT same false pretexts.
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  34.  @lemarcoX  The Iran nuclear "deal" is a joke: Iran has already violated it and it was never actually ratified by the US Congress. In effect, the US will not do anything if India arms Taiwan with nukes.
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  35. Indeed. Ukraine has stated for years they didn't want the bridge across the Kerch Strait because it would block shipping to the ports on the Sea of Azov. Make no mistake, that bridge Putin cherishes so much is right in their crosshairs; this was practice for taking out that bridge.
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  36. Make no mistake, this is a Soviet-Ukrainian Army fighting a Soviet-Russian Army. Only, the Ukrainian Soviet Army is being augmented by NATO technology and tactics.
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  37.  @svanimation8969  Yeah, how did that come about? Was it because Russia deported most of the ethnic Ukrainians? Joseph Stalin, Putin's hero was well known for doing that. Take Konigsberg, for example. That was a GERMAN city before Stalin changed it to Kaliningrad.
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  38. Cold but true. America's Flag officers are all oath breakers and traitors.
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  39. Smart people know you do NOT kill the golden goose. China's communist leadership are not smart people. They are narcissists who think the rules don't apply to them.
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  40. The problem with this guy is that he would gladly silence new reporters such as WION.
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  41. I love how people lecture Americans on gun ownership while conveniently ignoring that place where gun ownership is unlawful, STABBINGS are five time higher. The problem isn't the weapon, it is the people. You can use human hair to kill someone via strangulation. The hands can be a deadly weapon.
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  42. Wuhan Virus Hysteria is a purely human caused situation. The Volcano is uncontrollable nature.
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  43. At this point, I would rather watch a Bollywood movie than anything that comes out of Hollyweird.
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  44.  Janitor Queen  First, you got things bass ackwards. it is the Liberal-Progressive Democrats that run roughshod over the Republicans. And the Republicans establishment let them because most of them are neocons who agree with the liberal agenda! Yes, most Americans are ignorant of other countries and systems of government. But that does NOT mean the Parliamentary system is better. The American system is loosely based on the Roman Republic and the Greek City-States rather than straight democracy. The biggest problem with most European multi-party parliamentarism is the lack of stability and the rampant bureaucracy. Why should the functionaries of government worry about getting fired when their boss changes in less than a year? That encourages the decay phase of the cycle of Empires. While MOST ELECTED OFFICALS in US government behave exactly as you say, there are a FEW rare statemen like Jim Webb of Viriginia who DID step down from power. Now you can claim he only waited to the end of his term, but choosing to not run for guaranteed reelection is the same as resigning. And if the US has been a joke to you for 40 years, it is because we no longer have the existential threat of the Soviet Union to keep us focused and unified. Again, looking at the Cycle of Empires, with the loss of the USSR, the United States transitioned from the Stabilization phase to the Decay phase with the election of weak leaders like the Bushes and the Clintons, a neo-feudalist psudo-monarchist oligarchy. And with Joe Bite-Me, who favors YOUR political persuasion, we have entered the Long Night Phase. Time will only tell if we emerge at the dawn's early light reinvigorated or finished off.
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  45. Deportation of Taiwanese to Mainland China is awful! Rather, Chinese mainlanders deported should be sent to Taiwan. If countries like Thailand send North Korean defectors to South Korea, why can't they do the same with regards to China and Taiwan?
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  46. Why must Taiwan be reintegrated? Historically the Chinese Emperors couldn't be bothered with it. When Qing Dynasty finally took notice, they only occupied the Western half and ignored the mountainous Eastern half. It was Japan that united the Island under one governance.
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  47. Part of it comes from how diffuse the particles are. Individual ones can have lost of energy but be so spread out that they barely raise the mercury on a thermometer.
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  48. They will not. They had 20 years to secure their rights and did nothing. They did not lift a finger to prevent the Taliban from retaking power. They made their bed, now they can sleep in it.
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  49.  @Iknowthismeme  You must not be paying attention. The US supplied the Mujahideen with weapons in the 80s to fight the Soviets. When the Taliban took power in the 90s, the US had long since stopped giving weapons to that part of the world. The Taliban was in for a rude awakening when they thought they could use US made Stingers against US aircraft; it only gave away their position for a retaliatory strike. The more recent weapons the Taliban acquired were CAPTURED, not given. Why the hell would we give weapons to an active aggressor? Your logic is fatally flawed on that. But I get it, you want to blame the US for all of the world's woes instead of considering that there really is true evil in the world. You cannot possibly contemplate that the US is the only one trying to actually do something to address them, unlike most countries in the world. You may despise the US, and that is fine. But the world is less safe without the US. You bite the hand that feeds you.
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  50. "War is unavoidable. It can only be delayed to the advantage of one side," -Carl von Clausewitz. Remember the lessons of Munich. Appeasement NEVER works.
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  51. A railway hub IS a strategic asset. But I understand that you folks in the Middle East don't have regular rail service so i forgive you for your gross ignorance.
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  52. As I recall, they were some of the most effective troops in the Pacific Campaign despite the mistrust the British had in them.
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  53.  @70dreadnought  He doesn't trust American news sources, the very people to railed against Trump. But I get it, you are a shill for the establishment power mongers who want the "global reset".
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  54. Yeah, I think that does more harm to the trees. But then that is classic virtue signaling; do more harm than good to score cheap political points.
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  55. I think you have been drinking way too much vodka.
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  56. The Tongan government had already put out warning due to the eruptions from earlier in the week. That means most of the population was already on high alert to the danger. It is actually a credit to them and their disaster preparedness that there was not a higher fatality rate.
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  57. Sure, keep telling yourself that. Just like the Bltizkreig on Kiev was "just a diversion". First Tank Guards, the pride of Moscow is effectively non-existent as of now.
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  58. I blame the politicians and bureaucrats. Both have their heads up their rear-ends fighting over turf. This could have been resolved years ago but ego, pride, and arrogance of people preoccupied with protecting their little fiefdoms got in the way.
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  59.  @ekaterinalokshina2043  "Crimea voted to stay in the USSR in 1991. But they were betrayed." You mean like how the people of Iraq voted for Saddam at 98% of the votes cast? Or Kim Jong Un getting 99% of the votes cast in his election? Spare me you Kremlin talking points.
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  60. The value of nukes is in their deterrence. Use them and they lose about 80% of their effective power. Someone unfazed by threats of first nuke against them will not be stopped once they have been used.
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  61.  @maggiemae7539  The Chinese tried to screw around in the Solomon Islands, but it blew up in their face (no pun intended).
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  62.  @jimmywest8684  Because other countries have a stabbing problem instead. When guns are banned, people resort to knives, tire irons, and other implements of destruction. Seriously, stabbings are FIVE TIMES HIGHER where guns are banned.
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  63.  @jimmywest8684  You numbers are cherry picked. First, you did NOT differentiate gun violence from other kinds of violence. You are trying to be clever by half. Then you ignore that some violent crimes which do not result in serious injury (such as fist cuff fights) are not reported. You are a totalitarian shill who wants a disarmed population so you can exploit. A disarmed population is easier to abuse.
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  64. More to do with understanding how stars operate and exist. Knowing the characteristics of our star makes it easier to look for other stars capable of hosting life.
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  65.  @rob-8928  Ukraine does not have nukes because they gave all the ones they had to Russia at Bush's urging. But to your point about retaliation, I do agree that if Putin uses one, then the West has every incentive to give Ukraine a few to use as they see fit.
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  66. The power of nukes is in their deterrence. Once you use them, they lose the effect. An opponent unfazed by threats of nukes against them will not be stopped once they have actually been used.
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  67. China has no interest in emancipating Tibet. Strategically, most of China's water comes from the Tibetan Plateau, so whoever controls the Plateau controls the Chinese heartlands. THAT is why they will never tolerate India or even an independent Tibet in the area. Keep in mind that while I agree it SHOULD be independent, that does not blind me to the geo-political realities of the situation.
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  68. As if the Wuhan Virus hysteria didn't already cause mayhem for their tourism industry. But you are correct that this is going to hurt them even more.
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  69. Yes, they are. Public office seems to attract the worst of humanity, particularly the sociopathic and narcissistic. Throw in Machiavellianism and you have the Dark Trifecta of destructive personality.
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  70. Then how do you explain the frequency bands overlapping with water vapor emission? Meteorological satellites use those wavelengths to detect and identify atmospheric features. The US Department of Defense has known about this for over a decade, but the data has been ignored by the politicians who approved the implementation of 5G.
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  71.  @mggentry  Believe it or not, aircraft trails do show up on water vapor metstat channels. So do ship trails in the ocean.
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  72. No, we cannot see the sun's core. What we can see and treat as "the surface" is called the Photosphere. But to your point, the Chromosphere and the Corona are transparent to visible light.
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  73. Not just the FAA, but also the FCC. Didn't help that American politicians (namely Obama), sold off those frequencies to the highest bidder. The DoD has known about these issues for decades, but the politicians and Bureaucrats simply ignored the warnings.
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  74.  @7F0X7  Everyone today calls their opponents authoritarian despots. Does not make it true through. I will agree that Democrats in the US today have gone full Bolshevik. And they have dragged the GOP into the socialist sphere as well. TORY socialists, much like the UK's neo-conservative party which has abandoned the precepts of Margaret Thatcher.
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  75.  @Rnankn  While I nominally agree with you. Your rejection of how the Indians see it shows a certain lack of historical understanidng. The Indians have always had more in common with the West than the Communist Block. But history as a colony of the UK has caused them to reject BOTH sides and advocate for the Third World movement.
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  76. If it was, then why are people not dropping dead like flies from radiation poisoning? Stop pushing hysteria.
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  77.  @captmack007  I am familiar with the tungsten-carbide rods. And they have NOT been deployed as it would be a violation of the international treaty regarding the weaponization of space.
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  78. Could have been far worse. Krakatau has a nasty habit of killing thousands with its tsunamis. Tonga is fortunate that they did NOT get something that deadly.
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  79.  @jimlewis1332  I would agree, but the Japanese threw a temper tantrum when it was revealed that the Air Force placed Strategic Nuclear armed Bombers on Okinawa. While I trust the Japanese with nukes, THEY don't trust nukes.
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  80.  @parmmohan4603  With regards to the "East Turkmenistan" movement? You bet. The Taliban already supports that Islamist revolution in Xinjang, it is only a matter of time before they drag Pakistan into the spat. And I hope both them and China choke on the sands of the Taklamakan Desert. Fitting that the Tarim Basin where Europoid mummies were found shall once again be the site of conflict between powers. PS: incidentally, the mitochondrial DNA of those mummies are East Asian meaning that their closest living descendants are Chinese and Korean, not Muslim-Turk.
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  81. The US Air Force has known for decades it could be, which is part of the reason why the frequencies were reserved by the DoD. Unfortunately, Obama sold them off to the highest bidder.
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  82.  @theobserver9131  Trump was simply better at playing the establishment's game than they were. Politics is always about capitalizing on the ignorance of the masses. You are just pissed he put your tribe to shame.
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  83. That is possible. But there IS a ceiling to the number of aircraft and naval vessels they can field. Provided you know that absolute ceiling, underestimating the capabilities of individual vehicles becomes less of an issue.
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  84. US DoD communications also cause issues in Japan and Korea. Which is why not all of the equipment used stateside can be employed in East Asia.
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  85. They could and they have in the past. The problem is that now, that would be a declaration of War. In the Eyes of the CCCP, that becomes an occupying force that must be driven out.
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  86. If Ukraine becomes for Russia what Afghanistan was for the USSR, well then that is Putin's fault. There is a lesson to be learned: people defending their homes have the force multiplier advantage of terrain.
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  87. Agreed. Starvation and dehydration are bigger concerns than a virus with a 99.98% survival rate.
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  88. The power of nuke is in their deterrence. Once you use them, that effect evaporates. And in doing so, it WILL alienate the neutral powers, turning them against Russia.
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  89. Agreed. Feed them and arm them, but this is their fight, not ours.
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  90. "Hundreds of Years of Peace"? You do realize WW2 was less than 100 years ago? Further if by "peace" you mean under the bootheel of a dictatorship, you could be correct. But the Ukrainians have rejected that as a workable solution. They remember the days of the USSR and don't want to go back.
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  91. Well, the probe IS impacting the plasma of the Corona, but that part of the sun's atmosphere is so thin and diffuse that it is not strong enough to destroy or deorbit the probe.
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  92. Brave? Where were they when the Taliban drove the Americans out? It was the blood of Americans who gave them their liberties and they didn't lift a finger to help preserve them.
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  93. Well, that area of the Pacific is usually patrolled by the Aussies and the Kiwis. The US Navy Pacific fleet rarely goes south of the Marshall Islands.
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  94.  @70dreadnought  The Davos group isn't even hiding it anymore. You are like the ostrich with its head in the ground. But I get it, you are a good little lickspittle for your feudal masters, regurgitating talking points on cue like Pavlov's Dog.
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  95.  @Mark5mith  Criminals can use knives to kill. Just look at Londonstan.
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  96.  @supergamergrill7734  that is a red herring argument (logical fallacy). I do agree that "no tolerance polices" make the situation worse by empowering the actual bullies.
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  97.  @supergamergrill7734  Whether the stabbing results in death or not is irrelevant. That is a red herring argument. A murderer is still going to murder whether it is with a gun or a baseball bat. And I would argue that bludgeoning someone to death or stabbing them over and over is far more brutal than getting shot.
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  98.  @supergamergrill7734  You are deflecting. You somehow act like a POSSBILE higher chance of survival somehow makes things better. it does not. But I post this for you. Plano, Texas, the "gun nut capital" of the world with the highest gun ownership has the LOWEST homicide rate in the world. Now contrast that with "gun free-zone" cities like Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Stockton, Kansas City, St. Louis, Newark, Philadelphia, Memphis, and Atlanta where most of the killings in the US occur. Each of them by themselves would occupy one of the top 10 most deadly if they were their own country. Incidentally, Honduras and Venezuela have the highest per capita murder rates in the world, and BOTH have made gun ownership unlawful. The problem isn't gun ownership. The problem is politicians who take away gun rights.
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  99.  @supergamergrill7734  Again a false narrative based on feelings and not on facts. Straw purchases are already unlawful, which is why most gun sellers will not permit them lest they lose their FFL. Second, it is unlawful to carry a firearm across state lines without an FFL. The problem isn't lax gun laws, it is that those laws are useless and would do nothing to actually prevent violent crimes. Again, you are blatantly ignoring cold hard facts because they run counter to your narrative.
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  100. The problem with this guy is that he would censor and silence reporters like those at WION.
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  101.  @yusefdelacruz4811  Yeah, how many times have claims that something is non-toxic turned out to be incorrect? Just because people claim it is so is not always true. Some folks simply lie. This is especially true among the American leftists who push neo-Pagan Gaia worship disguised as climate activism.
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  102. But can he afford to simply hand over free weapons? The USSR believed they could but got out competed by the US.
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  103. Keep dreaming. He has already rejected offers of evacuation. In that he is more heroic that cowards like Charels deGaulle.
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  104. 15-year-old American equipment outperforming the best that Russia has. What does that tell you? The Russian Bear is Geriatric.
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  105.  @Day.Of.The.GroundBreaker  Apples to oranges false analogy. Nobody forced Poland, Czechia, the Baltic States, Croatia, and Slovakia to join NATO, they joined of their own free will. Sweden and Finland joining NATO was a direct result of Russia's invasion. The expansion of NATO was a direct result of just one man-Putin.
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  106.  @georgewhite2469  Putin is a fascistic dictator who murders his critics and political opponents. If that is your idea of a hero, then you clearly love totalitarian despotism.
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  107. Bugged or full of bugs?
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  108. Because they are TRYING to play the neutral third world position as they always have since WW2. Recent developments are making that more and more untenable.
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  109.  @assertivekarma1909  Indeed. My understanding is that while the Ukrainians have been shelling Belgorod, they have been VERY surgical in their strikes, hitting only obviously military targets and choosing to forego striking valid non-military targets such as power stations and war production factories. Me think the Ukrainians (with Western prodding) are trying to make it abundantly clear to the Russian people that their beef is with the Kremlin, not the population.
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  110. They same reason why Epstein got away with what he did for so long; the establishment is in on it and is providing cover.
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  111. They had years to help the Afghan government stabilize the country while the US was there. Why did they not lift a finger to help keep the Taliban from retaking power? Why did they stand by as the US was driven out? They made their bed.
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  112.  @svanimation8969  Actually, pointing out KONIGSBERG IS an appropriate analogy. In both cases Russia (because the Russian SSR dominated the whole of the USSR) forcefully ejected local populations and replaced them with colonists. Then you have other examples such as the forced expulsion of Poles from the areas annexed by the USSR under the Molotov-Ribbentrop alliance. Same goes for Romanians in certain annexed areas such as Moldova. Likewise, the Baltic States had lost of their population deported by the Russians after WW2. The point is, Russia and its various governments have a history of doing the very thing you accuse the Ukraine, yet the Ukrainians have NEVER done the same. You are a Bolshevick propagandist who is pathetically trying to rewrite history.
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  113.  @ekaterinalokshina2043  You think democracy under the USSR is legitimate but that recent elections that reject a return to the old Soviet system are not? And with that you show your true colors. You don't actually care about the will of the people; you only care that elections act as a rubber stamp to legitimatize tyranny.
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  114.  @ekaterinalokshina2043  Proof by verbosity is not an argument, it is a logical fallacy. You are not convincing anyone; you are just putting them to sleep with the trite Kremlin talking points.
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  115.  @ekaterinalokshina2043  Good, so don't conflate OPINION and wishful thinking for facts, which is what many propagandists do. The best (ie most effective) lies and myths contain half-truths to give it the appearance of legitimacy. Your is just that, partial truth surrounded by missing context and misrepresentations to make the preposterous components seem reasonable. "Tell a lie often enough and people will take it for the gospel truth," -Joseph Gobbels
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  116. I don't know about Dagestan, but I would like to see an independent Sahka Republic in the Far East. Maybe even a Kamchatka Republic as well.
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  117. The power of nukes is in their deterrence. Once you use them, that effect is expended. Further, it would guarantee that India and China would throw him under the bus, wanting nothing to do with a first-strike nation. Why do you think that China has never let North Korea nuke Japan?
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  118. Rail lines that supply the main areas DO make it more valuable than it first appears.
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  119. Russian military occupying that power plant is a war crime. Even the UN, particularly the IAEA has called it out for being verboten.
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  120.  @khaleesid5285  That is not an argument, it is an emotional outburst. Try actually looking up the Law of Armed Conflict. While power stations ARE legitimate targets for military strikes, using them as munitions dumps and supply locations IS a war crime if done by individual units and a crime against humanity if done broadly by military leadership. The nuclear component only further reinforces the fact that what Russia is doing occupying it as a strong point is criminal. It is no different than the Nazis in World War 2 using Catholic Churches in Italy as defensive positions.
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  121. Nobody forced former members of the Warsaw Pact to join NATO.....except for maybe Putin himself driving them that direction. If you want to blame anyone for NATO's expansion, look no further than the Kremlin.
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  122. There already is one. It is the Convention on the High Seas with 63 nations having signed it as of 2013. China, OPEC, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Syria refuse to acknowledge it.
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  123. Not that it is the same, but Hanja and Kanji are variations of the same pictographic script. An analogy is English and German.
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  124. Yeah, there were fifth columns in the west during WW2, but they were not Japanese. Most were German and Italian but were quickly identified by intel such as MI-5. Western counterintelligence puts former KGB to shame. Only Mossad is better at that game than the West.
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  125. The power of nukes is in their deterrence factor. Use them and you lose that effect. Further, first-use WILL turn neutral powers like India against Russia.
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  126.  @JohnDoe-hf4te  You give me WAY too much credit. I just happen to have a father who handled what the US Navy called "nuclear shapes" (ie simulated nuclear devices). To your first question: it is hard to say. if he thinks he has nothing to lose, he very well might (especially true if he thinks a coup from within is in progress). He also knows that he cannot afford to alienate folks like the Indians by using them. To your second question, it depends on what the target is. Should Putin nuke London, Berlin, Paris, or any American city, I guarantee you that Trident Missiles will be launched against Moscow and Petrograd. If not by the US, then by the British or the French (if Paris is nuked, they WILL do it). A Polish city will also likely trigger such as response, though at a slower pace. Ukraine being struck by nukes is a harder call. There WILL be a response, but not an automatic one. It could end up being something of a Potsdam Ultimatum. Third Question: The Indians will most certainly condemn their use immediate, the Chinese will be more reluctant, but will eventually also condemn the use but more likely several days later. India will find itself forced to act on sanctions or other economic means, but China will try to drag their feet like they always do. I hope that enlightens you.
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  127.  @rob-8928  Seriously doubtful. All of the activation and authorization codes were in Moscow so barring Western intervention in arming/disarming, there was no value in holding any in hiding.
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  128. Yeah, there has not been much progress and development of former Soviet technology since the 1980s. The fact that the MiG-31 and MiG-33 are not that much different from the 29-Fulcrums is not a good sign for Russia.
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  129. Not used all of the toys? You realize that thanks to Russia's rout in Izium, they are now the largest supplier of tanks, artillery pieces, and bullets to the Ukrainian Army? 1 Guard Tank Army, the pride of Moscow gave away most of their equipment!
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  130. Nevel Chamberan capitulation huh? I guess that means you should just roll over when Red China comes for your country.
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  131. Sure, as if just laying down and surrendering would spare them. You have never had to fight for your home, so I don't expect you to understand. Pray that you never have to experience what the Ukrainians are living.
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  132. Except, the AK-47 was never meant to be used for targeting. It followed the philosophy of "spray and pray". It was always nothing more than a buttle hose for the Soviet solider.
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  133.  @keyfitter  You are engaging in the logical fallacy of presentism. Namely you are trying to apply today's mentality to when it was created. Jungle Warfare had NOTHING to do with the AK-47's production. It was made in response to Soviet performance in WW2, in the Ukraine, ironically enough. Now, I agree that today, the philosophy no longer applies because personal targeting systems have rapidly advance to the point that spray and pray is an ineffective tactic on the battlefield.
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  134.  @bringbackthefruits3281  That may be true, but the fact is, the Russians are NOT demonstrating en-masse. The Ukrainians showed in 2014 what real resistance protesting is.
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  135.  @theobserver9131  MetSat doesn't emit signals, it collects them. It is a passive system. So, the sensors can be washed out with signal interference, kind of like how light pollution in the night sky interferes with stargazing.
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  136.  @propagandasheep  Pot meet kettle. The Russian Duma is nothing more than a rubber-stamp on Putin's agenda. Putin is an absolute dictator in the mold of Jospeh Stalin.
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  137. Indeed. The Russian citizens could stay IF they accepted Ukrainian sovereignty and jurisdiction. Assimilate and become citizens of Ukraine that just happen to be of Russian heritage and I'm sure the Ukrainians would not have a problem.
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  138.  @svanimation8969  You have that bass ackwards. Most of the atrocities in Donbas were the RUSSIANS. They were purging the people sympathetic to Ukraine. It was ethnic Ukrainians who were being "cleansed" from the Donbas. Do keep in mind that since 2014, Ukrainian authorities had zero control over the area; it was Russian agents who were in charge. Kind of like Transnistria.
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  139.  @svanimation8969  More hyperbole from Pravda. Spare me. The deaths in Odessa were solely because of Russian artillery and airstrikes.
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  140.  @svanimation8969  Russia unofficially occupied Donbas in 2014. Ukraine had ZERO influence in that area. Further, the Finns, Swedes, Austrians, and Swiss don't believe your claims. The fact that both Russia and the local rebels in Donbas refused outside NGOs from investigating both those claims as well as the Malaysian Flight 17 crash site and debris further puts to lie your false claims.
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  141. Put down the copium. Remember Putin's "Not one Step back" order?
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  142. The problem is that airframes are easy to identify. Russia is never going to be flying a Boeing aircraft. Nor would they fly a British Tornado fighter. The inventories and operators of the various airframes are well known. The stickers are more to prevent "friendly fire" accidents.
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  143. A city of 25,000 pre-war is not small by Russian or Ukrainian standards. But I get that you have Western bias. Everything is big in the West making the cities of Eastern Europe seem small.
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  144. You realize the Tongan's already knew there was a threat of a tsunami from the eruptions earlier in the week. They were already on high alert which means that when the boom went off, they already knew to run to high ground. it is actually a credit to their disaster preparedness that the body count is so low. They did practically everything right.
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  145. Or American politicians just don't give a damn, selling off the frequencies to the highest bidder. The DoD has known about these issues for years, but their warnings have been ignored.
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  146. This was an andesite rather than basaltic lava. You are thinking of basaltic lava flowing. Strato volcanos rarely have that kind of lava. Typically, they have the dome building lava like Mount St. Helens, Mount Unzen, La Soufriere (Monserrat), or Vesuvius.
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  147.  @vincentlee7359  Wrong perp dude. Trump was trying to bring people like these to justice. Your guy Biden let Epstein's handler, Ghislaine get away.
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  148.  @vincentlee7359  No, you were falsely trying to connect Trump to Epstein when in fact, Trump's Justice Department was the one trying to bring Epstein to justice. That was until he was murdered in prison by Mueller and company.
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  149. A lot of so-called experts not thinking things through these days. "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should," -Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park.
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  150.  @captmack007  Why? To what purpose? There is no logic in what you propose. It is just hysterical delusion.
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  151. The power of nukes is in their deterrence factor. Once you use them you lose most of the strength of the weapon. Someone unfazed in the face of first-strike use against them is not going to be stopped once it has been used.
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  152. To a point. Do keep in mind that Vlad Lenin said a good capitalist will sell you the rope you eventually hand him with. Taqiyya, Tawriya, Kitman and Muruna philosophy in Islam teaches something similar. Expect an eventual betrayal.
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  153. Why were they not willing to risk their lives while the US military was there? Why were they not willing to defy the Taliban before this? Why is it only now when the US is gone that they now suddenly have buyer's remorse?
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  154. Blaming the parents is fine, but it is NOT the legalization of guns that is the problem. People will resort to knives in the absence of guns. Stabbings are five times higher where guns are unlawful.
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  155.  @Tropxxxx  You would be surprised. My grandparents got me a knife for Christmas when I was 9. I turned around and had my parents hold onto it because I did not trust myself at the time. I was afraid I would cut my own fingers off with it.
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  156. Pyrrhic victory maybe. And is that truly final victory?
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  157.  @Bizzare77777  You don't understand the Law of Armed Conflict. You are a moral equivocator with zero experience on the battlefield. There is a word for people like you: CHIECK HAWK. Try putting on a uniform and understand that the Uniform Code of Military justice WILL hold you to account. Just take a look at what they tried to do to Lt. Colonel Alan West.
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  158.  @TheDynamicmarket  Wrong. You do realize that Estonia, Lithuanian, and Latvia ALL share a border with Russia? And that NATO troops ARE already on that border and have been since their ascension? Your argument ignores hard facts which eviscerates your claims. Putin very much DID care about all of those former Warsaw Pact nations joining; it removed the historic buffer that the old Soviet Union enjoyed. You want to accuse NATO of belligerence and yet NATO HAS NOT invaded any country. And before you go "but Afghanistan!" I will remind you that the Taliban was given the option of handing over Bin Laden and could have avoided the hammer. By harboring an international terrorist, they violated the UN charter.
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  159. Yeah, it is a shame we don't have a better relationship. I get that India wants to be the champion of the third world/independent movement. But that doesn't preclude the US and India having a closer relationship.
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  160. If he does, Russian will have alienated even the nominally neutral nations. That is a bridge he cannot afford to cross.
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  161.  Moskva the Sinkable  Not really. American "intelligence" is more focused on Midwest "memaws" than outside threats. I trust British intelligence MORE than I trust American intelligence. And I say that as an American.
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  162.  Jack Hui  I am fully aware of what they would consider a declaration of war. And some of them NEED to be crossed to call China's bluff.
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  163. Tell that to Pele's face.
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  164.  @vanlin9107  Actually it DOES matter. As a Korean you of all people should know that Democracy south of the DMZ is better than the squalor and famine north of the DMZ.
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  165. "Testing the West"? Have you so quickly forgotten the 2008 Russo-Georgian War over South Ossetia? Or the 2014 theft of Crimea? They both followed the playbook Putin is using now. Difference is, the Ukrainians are putting up more of a fight than they did in 2014.
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