If the head of state is ordering top military generals on matters of military actions, isn't that like killing generals on the battlefield? — Christoffer
If Putin is in direct line of command, it's strategic to take him out in order to disorient the chain of command of the ongoing conflict. — Christoffer
Isn't what you are referring to regarded in peacetime, ... — Christoffer
Otherwise (and if our modern international laws of war existed back then) if Hitler didn't kill himself, having the invading alliance troops in Berlin send in an operation to kill Hitler would not have been a violation in such times of war. — Christoffer
But you already know these things. You're just looking to start an argument for who knows what reason. — Tzeentch
Atomic scientists are not scientists? — Olivier5
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Yes, so one makes an assessment.Simply saying there's 'information' in them all is insufficient for you to choose between them.
It’s unlikely to be false if it’s also being reported on multiple global news outlets, for example.How? Everything said in this entire thread could be false. The fact that you find it to be intelligent doesn't have any bearing on whether it's actually the case.
So your description of a settlement absent an iron curtain, is one indistinguishable from one including an iron curtain? Or in other words, no answer to my substantive point.I doubt it, not with only one person
You keep repeating that journalists are suspect, while treating as gospel — Olivier5
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Yes, so one makes an assessment. — Punshhh
It’s unlikely to be false if it’s also being reported on multiple global news outlets, for example. — Punshhh
So your description of a settlement absent an iron curtain, is one indistinguishable from one including an iron curtain? — Punshhh
The conflict that the West calls Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and which Moscow calls its special military operations for Ukraine’s demilitarization and denazification, is not a conflict between Ukraine and Russia; it is a phase in the hybrid war that the West has been waging for decades against any country that chooses an economic path other than subordination to the United States.In its current phase, this war takes the form of a US-led NATO war over Ukraine. In this war, Ukraine is the terrain, and a pawn – one that can be sacrificed.
This fact is hidden by wall-to-wall Western propaganda portraying Russian President Vladimir Putin as either mad or a devil hell-bent on recreating the Soviet Union. This pre-empts any questions about why Putin might be doing this, about the rationale for Russian actions.The United States, having sought without success to dominate the world, wages this war to stall its historic decline, the loss of what remains of its power.
This decline has accelerated in recent decades as neoliberalism turned its capitalist economic system unproductive, financialised, predatory, speculative, and ecologically destructive, massively diminishing Washington’s already dubious attractions to its allies around the world.Meanwhile, socialist China’s productive economy performed spectacularly and became a new pole of attraction in the world economy. This conflict, therefore, has long roots in the decaying capitalism headquartered in the US.
And if the little country they take interest in cannot be in any way a threat, then it's the hypothetical argument of another great power using that little country. — ssu
You may have your own views on this, but at least in the modern nation state there is a clear division between political leaders and military leaders. But even the assassination of military leaders is a controversial topic, as we have seen with the targeted killing of Iranian general Soulemani.
Military leaders plan and execute military operations and Putin cannot be said to be "part of an operation" in a military sense, though he is of course involved, but indirectly. — Tzeentch
Things can be strategic and yet impermissable under international law. — Tzeentch
No, the UN charter and similar international legal documents are active at all times, unless specified otherwise, like with International Humanitarian Law, for example. — Tzeentch
It's hard to say whether Hitler couldn't also be considered a military leader, and therefore a legitimate military target. — Tzeentch
Besides this, even if we consider him a strictly political leader (which he certainly wasn't) he was the orchestrator of a genocide. — Tzeentch
As much as I condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I don't think Putin matches either of these criteria by any stretch of the imagination. — Tzeentch
That talks about Russia's military success in Ukraine.
It is always possible – although assumed to be highly unlikely – that Putin may decide to launch a long-range ballistic missile attack against the US, but he knows – as do all his officials – that this would be the end of Russia.
What Russia is doing is still awful and criminal, they shouldn't have done it, the punch is coming back with interest added. But from a "realpolitik" perspective, it makes sense. — Manuel
I trust my own assessment — Punshhh
Do you have an unbiased source that you trust? — Punshhh
My point about emigration is that it is one of the reasons an iron curtain will be introduced. Along with commercial reasons. I can’t see how this can be avoided, can you? — Punshhh
An assessment of Russian capabilities from last week, based on Russia's actual effectiveness in a war, seems a lot more relevant than assessments from 2016. Of course Russia experts were publishing on Russia's major efforts to modernize its armed forces after the Georgia debacle. Performance in Syria, while limited, was impressive at first (at least compared to low expectations). — Count Timothy von Icarus
Vis-á-vis the nuclear threat, if you like Chatam House, look there: — Count Timothy von Icarus
Yes easily. By the things you imagine happening, not happening.
We should probably treat people who think a tiny bit of nuclear armageddon is OK the same way we treat pedophiles but also alot worse. — StreetlightX
Enlighten me. I really can’t see a way back from my conclusion (short of total regime change in Russia). — Punshhh
Now what does a resolution to this conflict look like, without an iron curtain between Europe and Russia? — Punshhh
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