Not a good idea - at all. An exact recipe for the kind of blowback that occurred from Afghanistan, to the entire world's cost. (View Post)

I think what we can do at the moment is really in the range of sanctions. There's a good argument that stronger sanctions earlier than last time might deter him from going further ; but there�… (View Post)

Agreed. The only difference was that the Soviets stopped the Holocaust of the Jews and other minorities that the Galician SS had played an enthusiastic part in. Only seven years later, Stalin was sta… (View Post)

The Ukrainians clearly have right on their side in this case, but it has to be said that the World War II history of Ukraine is rather different from that. I'm not sure that ahistorical connecti… (View Post)

Slightly OT, but fascinating, nonetheless. Following the mention of Nostradamus's prediction of the "fish boiling in the black sea" for this year mentioned in the previous thread, I ra… (View Post)