Recent content by DrZoidberg

You don’t think people around Russia hates Russia because of all the oppression and manipulation by Russia?

No, but it is an accident in history that a person like Stalin took power in Russia. There's an unboken chain of unlikely events that put him in power. The first revolutionary Russian duma was liberal and ddemocratic. If they had stayed in power everything would have been different

Your view of nations and nationalism is what led to WW1 and died with WW2. It's an obsolete way to view the world. Letting Abkhazia stay in Georgia is not being pro-Stalin. All national borders today is the result of accidents in history. All of them. They're all arbitrary. As is what language...

That's just delusional. USA's democracy is working just fine. It's one of the better ones on this entire planet. People who complain about how undemocratic USA is just doesn't understand how democracy works, when it works. Democracy is fundamentally a bunch of self stabalising institutions, that...

People have a very habit of thinking in terms of good guys vs bad guys in war. Ukraine is not a modern western liberal democracy. As far as corruption and abuses of power, It's quite similar to Russia. Sure, it's made plenty of progress since the days it was ruled by the Russian puppet...

I'm pretty sure Ukraine is asking for the stuff they thnk they might get. Obviously they want troops as well. But right now, nobody is willing to send troops. So there's no real point in asking for it. And I think the main reason for a reluctance to send troops, is because Ukraine is a corrupt...

Every country's military has at least one plan for every possible scenario. So what's your point?

People actually study this stuff. There's only a handful of countries less corrupt than USA. And most of them are tiny countries like Denmark and Sweden. Its way easier to manage corruption in a small country. Which makes USA's low corruption all the more imptressive...

Yes, the less Russian influence in Ukraine the better for the Ukrainians. This is not news

The thing with USA, and which makes it rare, is how critical Americans are of how badly USA is working. USA is exceedingly transparent and its easy to check where money is going. The average American also seems to give a shit. Most other countries are different. Comparatively USA is doing...

You didn’t Google it, did you...

That's not necessarily true. Everything is connected. At the start of the war Ukraine was a dysfunctional corrupt mess. It still is. If we (the west) wants Ukraine to reform we need some leverage. If the west would have put boots on the ground immediately, then there would have been no incentive...

I've been for it from day 1 of this war. The sooner Russia is stopped the better

It looks unlikely that Ukraine can win without foreign boots on the ground. Russia now has a 10 - 1 manpower advantage. And a 3 - 1 artillery advantage. And Russia just keeps increasing military output, while Ukraines arms donors are getting increasingly stingy. Russia needs to be stopped, and...

Any country that is a member of ICC can start a case. Until the case is won there doesn’t need to be any substance to an accusation. I see this case against Netanyahu as pure politics. Since Netanyahu can prove that the IDF has done there best to protect Palestinian civilians, while trying to...