DogOnPorch

You keep saying this...but I never said nukes were okay. I don't think Canada or NATO should be anywhere near this fight lest nuclear war does get to be the last option. And we getting there thanks to yappy little mutts like yourself clamoring for battle from your supposed safe place.

Not to my knowledge. You know...since the Cold War ended. The US and Russia even worked TOGETHER to defeat ISIS in Syria.

Indeed. Paper, too. B-29s had been using regular high explosive bombs on Japanese cities without the desired effects. The simple oil-pot incendiary bomb from under 10,000 feet proved to be the ticket.

About 100 thousand Japanese died when LeMay firebombed Tokyo with conventional weapons. It was the worst air attack during WW2. No radiation or huge shock-waves involved and the people still couldn't escape.

Yes...I feel your pain.

The US certainly did...Korea comes to mind.

You are indeed a war monger playing with nuclear fire. It's amusing that you think you'll survive a large thermonuclear explosion. If I didn't have to die in the process it'd be fun to see you try.

Both Georgia and Ukraine had large blocks in the Politburo. Gorbachev would be another inconvenient Ukrainian in this discussion. Chernenko was Siberian and Andropov from the Caucasus.

Well, "the Russians" picked a Georgian then two Ukrainians as their leaders. ?

Yes...really. As I understand it, the Russians inside Ukrainian borders have similar complaints re: their treatment at the hands of the Ukraine Army since the war's actual start years ago. Thus they want to be part of Russia. They'll all figure it out if we let them. Less casualties if they do it. But NATO has their bio-lab interests not to mention all the money laundering via the corrupt Ukrainian government...so it's tough seeing them letting go. In for a penny...in for a pound as they say.

No...the Soviet Union's Politburo made the leaders.

That's a possible result. There are other possible results on the table...I notice.

So what what? You appeared not to know. Stalin was Georgian and Khrushchev was Ukrainian...oh, he's a Russian now....thanks Wikipedia. ?

That's Ukraine's problem. Not yours. But you seem pretty sure that victory is just around the corner...so what's to worry?

Well, Hitler was Austrian. Yet still thought Austria a part of Greater Germany which he said included parts of Poland, Czechoslovakia, France and a few others I likely missed.

I mentioned Austria...top dog in the AHE.

You believe it. But to me it is magic. You still get another beer around the campfire.

Oh...trilobites win at 270 million years on Earth.

Communism is always a dictatorship.

I suppose the big difference was that countries like Czechoslovakia were the creation of the Allies post Great War. Keen to punish both Germany and Austria in particular. A big load of asking for trouble, in my opinion. Especially seeing that Serbia kicked off the whole affair...an Allied nation.

Of course...

Yes, Stalin & Mao liked doing it that way, too.

As you know, the fossil evidence does not support that. Dinosaurs hold the record so far. Then possibly the trilobites. I'd have to check. Individual freedom is essential for innovation. Even the Commies released their scientists from the gulags when they needed a rocket capable of putting a man into orbit or a nuclear armed bomber that could reach America.

You'd think that the various cycles of stars in general...we have a lot of samples to study there...and our star in particular would figure big in all of this climate crisis narrative. But instead they rattle on about CO2 like it must be defeated. I noted no crisis this summer (rather nice, actually)...your experience may differ. Planted a few trees...take that mean ol' carbon dioxide.

I doubt they want the whole thing for that reason. But they do want a Moscow friendly government there which makes sense. NATO broke an old rule about spheres of influence that the Big Three ironically created...shattering not only the post-Cold War environment, but WW2's in sympathy. Well, there goes the neighborhood...