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"Unable to beat Russia on the ground"?? Then why are you taking home so many body bags, Putin? I think the key thing is that in Putin's theory of the war and international relations he's not in an undeclared war with Ukraine. He's in a war with America/NATO. With that context in mind? Not...

My god Elfdart, Sy Hersh is notorious for sourcing claims from single sources. They used to not show up in his articles in reputable outfits like the New Yorker because his editors wouldn't let him. Guess what happens when he no longer has editors.

Wizard's doesn't own any IP that wouldn't be trivial to circumvent in a TV series. The open secret about the OGL is that it doesn't grant that much that isn't already out there as the limits of what Copyright and Trademark law gets the owner, its just effectively a litigation truce line by indicatin...

What I did found silly though was, that in a universe with a million planets, the news of a couple of corp security getting their asses kicked on a backwater planet reaches the meeting room of the top brass ISB on the capital city, and gets high priority in return. Waaaay too much micromanaging. Ma...

I'm seeing suggestions that China would stand to gain from sabotaging the pipeline because it would mean they had exclusive access to cheap Russian gas. In the absence of anything really compelling, I'm going to default to it being Russia, because they're the ones doing crazy ill-considered shit ri...

That the Corbynites misjudged the value of the man as a standard bearer remains relevant, both in the UK and to his outsized foreign fanbase. Being reminded of this is part of the process of doing better next time.

The sense that he would was a pretty key reason he failed with his two chances to win the premiership. Removing all doubt isn't going to much for his political heirs either.

That's giving him a mountain of benefit of the doubt, and political leaders don't get a mountain of benefit of the doubt from anyone but core supporters. Going forward, this is important, because whether or not you'd be prepared to do something like provide material support to a democracy being inva...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ng-ukraine

From a month ago, but worth revisiting in light of recent Ukrainian success. On this issue, Corbyn remains objectively pro-fascist.

India is far, far far, from a model of good governance. If anything, its a known consistent underperformer in all sorts of developmental metrics. The tenure of your argument seems to be that New Delhi's rule has been such a smashing success that it should be extended all sorts of its neighbours who ...

Ok... What I like so far: War-scene has what might be orcs, and what's definitely a Black Dragon (horns at the sides of face, breathing/puking black acid that's actually acting like acid). Female Lead is Barbarian, looks like. Not sure if guy in shiny armor is the Token Paladin, or just a Warrior. ...

All states are artificial, anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something. Often selling you their right to tell somebody else what to do.

The fact that its no longer called East Pakistan is a pretty good hint that its not a British creation.

Bangladesh isn't a British creation, and has been doing much better than the rest of the Subcontinent in recent years. Its Pakistan and Sri Lanka that are in crisis mode. Also, if the entire region is having struggles, it seems agenda motivated disingenuousness to blame the borders for the crisis ra...

Redcloak having cosmic level arrogance and rationalisation despite formidable intellectual gifts is a great theme and I am here for it.

We all get that Oona knows Redcloak will choice "I am right" village over "best for goblins" village and thus the priority is keeping the bridge from going down, yes?

If Manchin is such a DINO, how does he keep getting the nod to run? Manchin is the West Virginia Democratic party. He's the top of the machine and the only viable candidate for statewide office. This is state that swings like, +40 GOP compared to the American mean. He can do whatever he wants. Even...

As Straha and I have discussed elsewhere, guaranteed that Musk had a very expensive brief from his lawyers telling him not to do literally everything he's done so far. We can also marvel at the decision making process that resulted in setting a cool billion on fire for no reason being the wiggling ...

As Straha and I have discussed elsewhere, guaranteed that Musk had a very expensive brief from his lawyers telling him not to do literally everything he's done so far. We can also marvel at the decision making process that resulted in setting a cool billion on fire for no reason being the wiggling o...

Stop fetishizing failure. Corbyn had two opportunities to win the voters of the UK over to supporting him as Prime Minister. He failed dismally twice. His job as a leader of a political party is to win current and potential internal supporters to support him. He alienated half the existing party. He...

Well Britain gave Poland the promise of aid in the 1930s and we all know how that ended so I'm somewhat skeptical about this, at least the idea this amounts to anything else then a strongly worded letter to the Kremlin. Nah, this is the way of saying Sweden and Finland are effectively in NATO for t...

Russia's neo nazi regime seems to accuse swedish celebrities of being nazis. Are they going to de-nazify sweden too? They are accusing Israel of being neo-Nazis. I think at this point the whole world is neo-Nazi in their eyes. To some degree your overthinking things. In Russian chauvinist narrative...

The notion that Canada or the other large Western states are American clients is one of those idiot memes that circulate as faux sophistication. None of them are functional American dependencies, have no reliance on American aid to sustain their ongoing existence and in none of them does America fun...

Who have you got in mind for helping you defend yourselves against the Americans ? They're about the only credible threat left at this point, and this only stays a hypothetical question if the Republicans don't manage to put someone even worse in the White House next time. Bear in mind the only rea...

Not just the art. Its a much, much better written story now than it was years ago.