Except Kosovo is recognized by most countries.  So no.

I remember origins of conflict very well. Independence of Donbass and Luhansk, recognized by no one, backed just by Russia with their army in region. It's same like referendum in Crimea.

NATO or US soldiers are not involved as such (thanks to suchmoon for stating the obvious), some of them have left their countries to fight in Ukraine. In fact, some of them are now deserters in their own countries because they left their countries' armies without permission.

Branko, you are suffering from confirmation bias. You only accept information that appears to prove your existing beliefs and disregard anything that may disprove it.

Ways you can avoid that:


https://www.miraeassetmf.co.in/knowledge-center/confirmation-bias

Of course, I forgot that you are the owner of the truth and the knower of all objective information - for example Chomsky speaking about communism. You have to be kidding.

Anyway, please, give your version, how many people died under Stalin's regime (please include Holomordor, dying of hunger is a violent death IMO)? How many people died as a result of the invasion of France, Poland and the USSR by Nazi Germany? Hint: You will have to make some assumptions, none of that data is really uncontested.

Feel free to compare these, in reasonable terms with US wars or even US induced wars.

Bottom line, authoritarian regimes are much more prone to enter into wars. Most people by default do not want war, if given a voice, they would tend to request peaceful solutions. Tyrants need wars, countries ruled with strong military influence tend to like large armies and these tend to like waging war.

You consider that all governments are equally legit, so North Korea and Denmark are at the same level to you. I disagree - legitimacy comes from the will of people, period. Anything else is slavery and serfdom.

Ukraine, as far as I know, is not accepting NATO bases nor troops in its territory as of now, although the people could decide so if properly informed of the consequences. They certainly know now the consequences of not being protected. I never said that this lunch is free either, but stands a better chance of increasing living standards while keeping a reasonably representative government.

As said, if the people of the SI, properly informed of the consequences, decide to enter an (extremely asymmetric) treaty with the CCP, they are free to do so. The key is being properly informed and properly represented when making the decision. This is not entering and agreement with China, it is entering an agreement with a ruling elite that has China under their thumb.

On the Ukrainian topic, I partially agree. Would be an Ukraine under Putin's control be stable: most likely yes. Would that be a country that could develop, advance and have a choice about their destiny? Not a chance.

Again, if you take a short term and practical approach, Ukraine joining the EU and looking west makes no sense. If you look into the future and want a higher degree of freedom, social progress and development, it does.


Oh, sorry, I did not answer this. The regimes that have caused the most violent (no-defensive or otherwise reasonably justified) deaths are Communism under Stalin, Japan imperialism under the military junta, Nazi Germany and, to the scale of it's time, the Roman Empire. I you want to count the number of wars, the Roman Empire probably.

However the answer you are looking for, as profiting from war, US & Russia. Both are major weapons dealers.

I do not see Cuba supported.

Cuba, Grenada, Serbia, ...

A fast Google search shows me this:

With this old hardware, you may find some profitable coins but looks like you can't mine ETH.
Sorry, find out yourself what you can mine, or upgrade hardware.

I'm not sure where did you got that Russian invasion become surprise for Ukraine, NATO and West. IIRC, few days before inavsion, USA intelligence warned that inavsion can begin at any moment, on 23th February state of emergency started in Ukraine. Though, Ukraine admitted that they didn't expected invasion in North, from Belarus side.
And I'm not sure why you're saying about too small forces, when there was close ti 200k troops near to Ukrainian border.

Jokes aside, We need to put the Russian Oligarchs as well as Putin at a Nuernberg 2.0 Trial once this is over. The men manning the nuclear missles have heros like Stanislav Petrov in their ranks. Petrov, who disobeyed orders and saved the world from nuclear war. I doubt Russians will let Putin end the world. Russia needs to become a free democracy like Germany after WW2. Maybe the western world will even prop Russia up, like they did for Germany.  Their people will thank them in a few decades.

Isn't it amazing how Ukrainians are able to hold the Russian forces with their six remaining tanks.

I didn't say it did. However Russian propaganda destroyed two more TB2s (negative 10th and 11th I think) and also uncovered a secret Ukrainian plot to kill one of the esteemed propagandists. Same "plotters" were also planning to set army recruitment offices on fire, which is very convenient because such fires have been happening recently so now propaganda can blame Ukraine. Oh and the "plotters" had Hitler's photo with them. Just think about that one for a moment.

Normally I'd say people who read all that shit and think "yeah, this sounds plausible" must be utter morons, but this being Russia I guess we can make an allowance for extreme brainwashing.

The revolution in Russian is gathering steam, more targets are now under flame....

We witness history, the final disintegration of russia.

https://twitter.com/spook_info/status/1518428523484098560

No, bullets are not cheaper when you are aiming for mass killings and you need to get close to the target to use them. The Nazi psychos, similarly to Putin's psychos, decide on more "efficient" methods.

There are 8000 of this "flechettes" in a shell. There is only one possible use for it when fired on a civilian area.

the Russian army of impotents lost this war completely. The Russian army is unable to conduct combat operations, there is a rout on all fronts.
This is not surprising, in the 20th century Russia fought 6 wars, lost 5 of them.
Russians can only rob, kill civilians.
This is what they do well.

All Russian soldiers, their collaborators, and their families will be liquidated, one by one.

This is not true. Don't listen to Putin's propaganda. They brainwash you and people like you. I'm living in Kiev right now, and I never heard or saw a negative reaction to Russian speech during the war, let alone before it.

Of course I understand that in a big country like Ukraine anything can happen, but those are rare cases and propaganda is feeding you with them.