Russia has been fighting for 20 months, to take Pokrovsk. They’ll probably take it, at a cost of tens of thousands of casualties. But, the point of defence in depth is that you retreat a few kilometr… (View Post)

And, you think that declared result reflected the actual votes that were cast? (View Post)

"Elected" in the same way that the National Front of the German Democratic Republic won all 500 seats in the Volkskammer, in 1986. I have a small suspicion that that might not actually have… (View Post)

That election was blatantly rigged. (View Post)

I would never have hoped for the obliteration of the Republicans, till recently. But, following the previous header, and that national security document, this is as close as we have to an anti-Wester… (View Post)