As ever, politics is about choosing between bad courses. Voting Trump, or abstaining, is choosing a worse course than voting Biden. (View Post)

Indirectly, we're responsible for a ton of Russian casualties, by retraining Ukraine's army after 2014. (View Post)

Russia has always practised assassinations on foreign territory. It's always been a hyper-aggressive power. (View Post)

People have to learn that politics is usually a choice between better and worse, not good and evil. (View Post)

Most were due to disease. This was not directly battle-related, but very much so, indirectly. Cholera and dysentry followed the soldiers wherever they went; yellow fever and malaria took a massive to… (View Post)