At any time, Putin can declare "mission succeeded, the Nazis are gone, rule of law back in place" and roll the tanks home. Given that there weren't any Nazis (meaningfully) that is ess… (View Post)

Really? When <1.5% of the population are regular attenders of religious worship, and a whole bunch of those are probably not that radically superstitious, a 10x multiplier on that number seems a b… (View Post)

One thing that doesn't help is retired (and therefore now armchair) Generals providing aggressive quotes-for-cash for newsmedia clickbait. (View Post)

It's just a special electoral operation. (View Post)

I'm all for grass roots efforts to highlight the global social and technological challenges of climate change (especially in the face of head-in-the-sand westerns politicians and their villas on… (View Post)