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@JimmySecUK I would imagine a lot of people wanted to be on that last plane out of Damascus, so it could have been dangerously overloaded.

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@Yepe356 @ELINTNews Plane could have been damaged when taking off. Opposition was pretty close to the airport at this point, so simple machine guns could have worked.

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@russianforces @shashj Can you honestly imagine a scenario in which Russia demilitarizes Kaliningrad?

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@russianforces @shashj "the invasion featured Soviet soldiers wearing Polish uniforms" does not mean all Soviet soldiers were wearing Polish uniforms. Though I admit the wording is awkward, and might confuse someone who does not know the details.

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@russianforces @shashj Not Armia Ludowa, but the 1st and 2nd Polish armies with 5 infantry divisions each, organized by USSR to fight alongside the Red Army. 1-я армия Войска польского

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@russianforces @shashj She has in mind the Polish Communist army, ostensibly Polish but with key command positions held by Soviet officers wearing Polish uniforms, with Rokossovsky at the top. It was that army which provided the muscle to impose the Communist regime after the war.

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@tonyggir @deerretlaw Check what happened to Wilson in 1919. He was incapacitated due to a stroke for his last year in office, yet the VP did not take over.

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@adam_tooze @jameshawes2 The US, British and Soviet armies did not adopt a gun like MG42 after the war, which suggests it was not quite as superior as you suggest.

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@russianforces So, what do you suggest the USA should do if Russia starts using nuclear weapons in Ukraine? If what Sikorski suggests is stupid, surely you must have a much better policy in mind.

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@FRHoffmann1 Airspace deep inside Russia is still in peacetime mode, with hundreds of airliners filled with people in the sky. So Russia cannot just shoot a missile at a radar contact.

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@jakeshieldsajj @MattWalshBlog Problem was that in August 1945 Japan still held more territory that it did at the start of the war in December 1941. So while they were willing to negotiate, an unconditional surrender like the German one in May 1945 was not on the table for them.

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@johncarlbaker Interesting that the Allies developed huge quantities of chemical weapons during the war, yet the decision was made to never use them. What made the atomic bomb different?

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@russianforces An even worse outcome would be a Russia still turning out the way it did, but Eastern Europe not in NATO and ripe for Russian takeover.

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@russianforces The policy as a whole did result in the incorporation of former Warsaw Pact countries into the European Union and their recovery from communism. It should not be judged solely on what happened in Russia.

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@leonidragozin There is a big difference between a victorious Russian army on NATO's border and a defeated one, as the article clearly states.

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@russianforces How would Ukraine have maintained its nuclear warheads if it kept them? All the facilities for that were in Russia. A Ukrainian nuclear arsenal would have become unreliable over time, introducing a new source of danger.

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@CrowNips @Gerashchenko_en Ukraine is small enough to get by without civil aviation, Russia is not.

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@marcbennetts1 They were opposed to law and order, which Putin represents as president. So yeah, they were against Putin.

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@spiderstumbled @marcbennetts1 If they first took over the biggest airport in Alabama, then the USA would probably flip.