I could understand, if not approve, the US saying goodbye to Ukraine. It's their making common cause with Russia, by any measure a far weaker power than the USA, that is so despicable. (View Post)

That is my view. It's using your left hand to chop off your right. (View Post)

It’s worth noting the fate of the nation that coined the expression “the strong do as they will, the weak as they must.” Twelve years later, Athens had lost its empire, faced starvation, and was surr… (View Post)

It’s not really transactional though, for that would imply that one follows through, on one’s own commitments. And, it’s naively short-sighted, for it assumes that other nations won’t react according… (View Post)

Ukraine simply has to keep fighting till their enemies get sick of taking casualties. It does not have capture Moscow. That’s a strategy that plenty of smaller nations have pursued successfully (Nort… (View Post)