As Reagan observed, if you're explaining you're losing. The settled view of most people who have an opinion it is that Brexit is a shit idea that was shittily executed. Absent some emergent… (View Post)

This is the crux of it; it's a really boring and complicated situation that involves a laughably small amount of money so the story is struggling to find purchase outside the perma-outraged gamm… (View Post)

So your thesis is that the Russian Army routinely, and in violation of the law, send tens of thousands of people doing their mandatory military service (ie not contrakti) into combat in Ukraine and t… (View Post)

Did we ever have a regular on here who was genuinely negatively effected by it? Somebody who drives a 1999 Mondeo into Hounslow every day and is now financially ruined? (View Post)

That's not going to be enough because at some point they are going to run out of people willing to go to the front. https://time.com/6962936/ukraine-lowers-conscription-age-war-troop-shortage-ru… (View Post)