Putin doesn't need to 'invade'. In fact, invasion is his last resort. What he does is two-fold: Firstly, he tries to subvert the democratic processes in countries he is interested in. … (View Post)

There seems to be a rather odd belief from the peace-at-any-costs camp that Putin is an honourable and trustworthy actor. None of them have been able to back up this belief with reasoning. Hence, I f… (View Post)

There's so much 'evidence' pointing in all sorts of directions, and much of it of dubious quality, that it's easy just to pick the 'evidence' that backs a position you w… (View Post)

As I've said many times before, the threat from the current AI technology is not it deciding to take over the world, but idiots taking what the AI outputs as gospel and doing it, without using t… (View Post)

I don't think who was president in the US had much effect on Putin's thinking. The state and capabilities of his own military, along with internal politics, would have been the significant … (View Post)