Even if Putin's successor adopts real democracy, it will take generations to change the national psyche that thinks they need a strong leader. As much as the west hates Putin, he does have real support among the people. At least as long as he remains strong.
Anti-zionist does not equal anti-semitic. Just as being anti-nazi does not mean you are anti-white.
It is amazing how many people understand the second one but not the first one.
International Criminal Court needs member states to enforce its decisions. So far it has been applied mainly to third world countries. But now that it is being applied to the richer countries, as it should, support is wavering.
We are quite far from a just world. But we are ever so slowly getting there.
Company ownership should be public and easily accessible information to begin with.
As it is, the EU is only attractive for impoverished peripheral countries.
We can wait until UK is one.
Because modern air war has little if anything to do with dogfighting (planes fighting planes with guns). It is all about using missiles to hit targets. Both on the ground and in the air. And those missiles can also be fired from the ground. SAMs (surface-to-air-missile) are used to hit planes, drones, other missiles. Also MANPADs (portable shoulder fired missiles) pose a threat to aviation.
In an air superiority battle overwhelming air power is used to take out the SAM batteries. This is difficult and costly. Something neither Russia nor Ukraine are currently able to do. So both are using jets in a minimal capacity.
Recently Russia has ramped up the usage of jets to hit entrenched targets on the front line. Which has predictably resulted greater losses. And relatively meager gains.
Yeah, look at the curves on that guy.
US does shit like this all the time. Guantanamo bay ring a bell? There are still people there who haven't been convicted of a crime.
Yeah, at this point they've broken so many rules of war that there aren't many left to break.
It's great that West African nations are taking care of this themselves. It is a moment of empowerment. They should take care of their own. Without interference from the outside. Neither from the West, nor Russia, nor China.
And still there are more Republicans that support him over any other candidate.
The ploy is that when Ukraine refuses it gives the US (Trump/Krasnov) an excuse to stop delivering military aid to Ukraine.