Recent content by Isopod

I read this article earlier today on "Putin's mysterious Facebook 'superfans' on a mission". I've previously mentioned in this thread stuff about Russian bot accounts, I thought that it was an interesting article for anyone curious about the subject...

Yeah, I agree. The fact that even in this thread (on a forum full of supposedly smart people) there are people doubting the eye witness accounts of Ukrainians and spouting stuff like the Germans were a better kind of person in war in WW2 because they were from civilised backgrounds, is also...

Ukraine: Three ways this war could escalate and drag Nato in "The bigger strategic question," says one of Britain's most experienced military officers who asks not to be named, "is whether our government is engaged in crisis management or actual strategy." That would require thinking this...

"Ukraine to go on offensive after mass graves found with more than 1,200 bodies" https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/11/ukraine-russia-war-more-than-1200-bodies-found-in-mass-graves-16442381/ "Russian soldier arrested ‘for raping baby’ in Ukraine"...

For example: 1. The US rationale for the war in Iraq has faced heavy criticism both inside & outside of America stretching back to pretty much since it began. 2. Many people also argue that the war in Afghanistan was a mistake. 3. The US involvement in taking down Gaddafi and its role in...

1. I don't buy the premise that the people committing the rape & torture etc in the Russian army are all solely (or mainly) recruits from incredibly distant & backwards parts of Russia (that basically, Russians who come from the cities etc are quite frankly too civilized to behave like this)...

I've seen research done by different universities which increasingly agree that the Tanis site does in fact contain remains from the day of the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. "66-million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor" Fossil site preserves animals killed within...

Nah, I don't buy that. The Russian army is behaving as it has always done. Just look at this Russian veteran recounting the horrors he saw the Russian army commit towards German girls & women towards the end of WW2 (warning: very disturbing accounts, not for the faint of heart): ‘The Russian...

Ceasefires are also a mistake because quite frankly, everytime there's been one the Russians have ended up ignoring it. Ukraine's a land of rivers and swamps and this geography has apparenly been helping massively slow down the Russian supply lines, allowing the Ukrainian troops to then target...

I think that despite the vast scale of the information ocean that is the internet, what most people live & willfully engage in is the equivilent of tiny microscopic puddles. Apparently when the internet first started becoming a thing for ordinary people to surf, governments were worried about...

U'know, this is what I believed at the start. But now I'm not so sure. What we're seeing is Putin using an increasing amount weapons and tactics on Ukrainians which are being done to maximise fear, terror & pain amongst the people. And he's engineering an increasing amount of reasons to keep on...

Yeah, that bomb was one of the ones which was dropped on the crowded train station in the city of Kramatorsk yesterday which (so far) killed 52 people. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61036740 (Kramatorsk is also where the Ukrainians recently accused the Russians of dropping White...

The Ukrainians have accused the Russians of using chemical weapons on Ukraine already. More specifically, using White Phospherous bombs in Kramatorsk: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/urkaine-chemical-russia-phosphorus-bombs-biden-b2041973.html Obviously, Russia has already used...

It was pretty impressive! I think he in part learned so many because he really enjoyed learning the Russian language in general (he always loved a challenge haha 😅, he was a very smart man! He never stopped learning in his retirement). I can't speak Russian (so I have no idea how difficult it is...

Actually yeah, you are are right, one of my teachers was telling me about this recently (the whole Cold War fear stuff). He said that the 1980s he was a young guy living in London and back then, the Cold War situation got so serious that the government actually started drawing up mandatory...