Recent content by sirkickyass

Weak sauce. Didn't even try.

Well there's one other factor that I think it s little bit underrated. There's a significant advantage to valuing the lives of your own people at essentially zero. A place like Poland or Germany couldn't lose 100,000 people in a war and have it be politically irrelevant. There would be...

The rare instance in which I'm HOPING Russia has all the nukes.

It's also just an apples/oranges comparison. Ukraine is successfully defending with allied support from NATO in terms of material and training. In the absence of allied support, if support was withdrawn suddenly by the US for example, Russia's ability to bully and dominate its neighbors is...

What is the point here? Russia downed an unmanned aircraft over international airspace, and this means that somehow the US needs to stop supporting Ukraine? What's the principle at work in this situation?

Yesterday there was a Ukrainian community event in Los Angeles centered around the band Boombox (Бумбокс). The band actually planned a US tour in spring of 2022, but it was cancelled during the war because the lead singer joined the territorial defense. After being injured, and suffering some...

Is he really STILL complaining that I said he didn't have enough subject-matter knowledge to accurately evaluate claims about Russia/Ukraine? That's just demonstrably true. It's not a shame to not know things. But it's definitely not a good look to loudly insist you do know things, despite a...

That.....is a reach. The Nord Stream 2 situation is honestly confusing. We may never know what happened there.

Is this guy like 14? That's the vibe I'm getting here

For people interested in how unrealistic "peace talks" are with Russia at the moment, here's a snippet from a pay-walled article about the Russian "ask" in any negotiations.

Thank god I have someone here to explain Russia and Putin to me. My long search is finally over.

I'm still a lawyer, and I work primarily on catastrophic losses related to power grid failures. The most high-profile thing I've done in the last year was oral arguments against the Electric Reliability Council of Texas related to the 2021 collapse of the Texas electricity market. The best way...

I don't say this lightly sir: **** YOU There is no word strong enough in English, so I'll use the one that applies here: пиздец. Completely and totally. The idea that I "love" this war is atrociously offensive. I have spent, conservatively, 500-600 hours in the last year doing nothing but...

Moldova, Estonia,. Georgia. Belarus is kind of an edge case because of the common union, but it would probably be absorbed if Russia's push through Ukraine was successful. Honestly, this conversation is a little bit surreal. I don't think you're even pretending to know anything about any of...

Alright guys I tried. You were right, he's not worth the effort. It would just be throwing time down a well for me to keep engaging. He's just decided letting Russia win is cheaper and that's the whole analysis. Russia's pre-war army basically doesn't exist. They've suffered more...