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For those preoccupied with "no new wars" rhetoric.

Canada has a middle-class peacetime military. If the prospects of a wartime military include becoming a statistic in a muddy hole somewhere in Ukraine, the profile might change.

A wartime military isn't going to be as selective. Generations or cultural blocs which have convinced themselves - rightly or wrongly, doesn't matter - that society as currently organized puts them at a disadvantage or is penalizing them to give advantages to others don't have a strong stake in...

I guess we better pass the hat.

There's nothing to regret. My reasons for my position are not theirs.

Good point. Nothing should have been inferred about guarantees from UK and US other than that they pledged to not attack/invade Ukraine.

Doubtful that they'll get the same kind of cooperation from the Egyptian et al governments as they are getting from the Nigerian.

Good for them. And the sons and daughters of the EU elite today? Which is my point, and what people 80 or 110 years ago doesn't guarantee a repeat. And they'll also have to overcome their tendency to look down their noses at the cannon fodder classes.

No, some flavours of leftists, mainly in academia. The people who argue that things they don't want to hear are "violence". [Add example]

Those who believe words are violence might also believe that violence is debate.

There is no particularly compelling reason for multi-culturalism to be a goal. Just stop trying to mix liberal and illiberal cultures. When we figure the latter are ready, they can join.

List of conflicts in Europe List of conflicts in North America Europeans are pretty darn quarrelsome. North American has to include sports riots and enumerate almost every battle of single wars to try to keep up the size of its list.

Sure. Wait and see how many of the family members of the people in "European governments" line up to make sacrifices. I encourage the yobs and chavs to sit this one out for a while and let the blue-hairs and recent immigrants and sons and daughters of the elevated classes prove their worth...

The social media companies want to make money and the EU wants to fine them massively.

Sure. Title of thread: "Political impacts of Ukraine war". Hardly unreasonable to drag Ukraine into it.

Sure. What's the point of the question? Does a "yes" or "no" mean anything other than being a short word? Is the question meant to provoke some kind of debate or thought? It could just mean that no-one has ever been willing to go to war with a US ally and thus risk going to war against the...

Because there's so much speculative bullshit here about the fate of Ukraine that all seems to hinge on various flavours of "duty" of the US to step up, and so much speculative whinging about whether Trump will honour a NATO article 5 call after the US did one. There's so often the implication...

Sure, the US hadn't made any guarantees, but really, that narrow definition is just a puddle of spit compared to what actually happened. Europe was completely fucked and incapable of saving itself by fall of 1940. Irrespective of promises made or not made I'd weight very heavily the US...

Security guarantees going forward are not going to be any more reliable than the ones of the past.

Works both ways, and the left in the US was demanding political purity for years before it recently became an issue on the right. That is one of the themes I choose to weigh in on. Someone: "Look at this shit that happened today!". Me: "This has actually been going on for years. What makes...