The only time that Russia tried to create a problem in my country was during our civil war after ww2 where they brought their agents here and tried to bring the country under Soviet influence and they lost. The british had a rather dirty role in the war though, it was essentially a prox...
The terrorist groups that bogged down the US- a country with an actual capable military, capable hardware, and capable leaders- in the middle east only ever made up a tiny sliver of the population of people that lived there. And all of this is a moot point as it stands anyway, ...
MH: nobody knows. There are the oligarchs and while Russia is known for the fact that much of the population is in poverty the fact is that they’ve created an awful lot of billionaires, almost more than anywhere else by giving them all of the land, resources, oil and the gas. So a...
Before that US used military power to influence Japan and annexed Hawaii islands. However, with a war against Philippine insurgents and Mexico US became scared of its own imperialism. It was reluctant to join First World War, it went into isolationism afterward and only after 1945 US fully und...
In 1915 the Germans captured Lithuania-proper during the First World War. In 1917 Russia surrendered to Germany (after the war hardships led to a revolution in Russia) and renounced any claims to the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, while the subsequent German losses in the Western Front led...
(FYI, mine is related to my previous specialty in the Air Force, before I started doing cybersecurity in the reserves. ) I prefer handles for myself because in today’s world, you never know what a**hole will come after you for trangressing against the latest in “correct ” thought....
I mean real blood connections between living people. Cousins and nieces living in Russia. Uncles, aunts, grandparents. The level of population mixing between Russia and Ukraine is probably more than between any other two countries on earth, except ones recently split up (Sudan maybe, or Eritrea...
The epicentre of irrational behaviour across global markets has moved to the fossil fuel complex of oil, gas and coal. This is where investors have been throwing the most good money after bad. The cumulative blitz on exploration and production over the past six years has been $5.4 trillion, ...
Self destructive Western climate policies have left major nations, including the USA, helplessly dependent on Russian energy, and unable to impose the one sanction which could financially cripple Putin's Wehrmacht.