@StefanMolyneux Conveniently forgetting Christian reversals of non-Christian rule in the Balkans, the Caucasus, Spain, Sicily et al? The fact that not only can Christianity defend countries, it has played a vital role in forging new ones, right from d time of the fall of W. Rome to modern times?
@cremieuxrecueil Russia have accepted security guarantees for Ukraine in principle since the Mar-Apr 2022 negotiations with Putin himself reiterating the acceptance multiple times publicly in the past year.
@cremieuxrecueil Russia's conception of security guarantees for Ukraine includes them as one of the guarantor states and thus having a veto over when these get activated. This is an intelligence officer and sympathetic media trying to milk what they can from the events in Iran.
@cremieuxrecueil This is nothing but Ukraine trying to create the impression that Putin's been scared into conceding a big demand of theirs. But the devil is in the details, as they say.
@FistedFoucault The most hilarious part of the tweet is the claim that Macron prefers "diplomacy over bravado" when the guy does nothing but grandstand, at least with regards to Russia.
@slantchev "We didn't want regime change is Russia. We just wanted to surround its core territories with NATO n contain it; we just wanted to neutralize its Black Sea Fleet; we just wanted to sponsor anti-Russian forces on its borders. Why would they find this problematic? Makes no sense!"
@EosPengwern@DurhamWASP Religious extremists who want a violent revolution to turn the country into a theorcracy ruled be another country are already present in great numbers in Britain. Not to mention how those who executed Fawkes were just as 'theocratic' as he was. Did England not do well under them?
@fortisXbellum @RWApodcast Not to mention how the extra millions not showing up at the southern border in the first place is far more preferable from political, logistical, and moral standpoints.
@TobeortodoJBoyd@RWApodcast "Iraq will be successful like before!" "Libya will be free!" "Syria will be free!" "Putin will not dare make a move if we coup Yanukovich!"
@TobeortodoJBoyd@RWApodcast How did hopes for the magical appearance of a well-ordered state work the last time the US overthrew a government it did not like?
And many of those who do stay back, in search of quick bucks, will fall easy prey to drug-smuggling gangs. In addition to creating a push factor for large-scale immigration, the US will also provide a fresh pool of recruits to the kinds of gangs it has declared 'terrorist' orgs.