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Nuclear war has often been treated as: "We push a button, everyone dies", with little changing from 1945-2020, save for the number of warheads, but this isn't even remotely true. In the early days, nuclear weapons were treated as just another weapon of war, back when atomic bombs were still relative...

I think my assumption had been that Hitler's invasion triggered a first turning reset for Russia, knocking it into cyclical alignment with the West, but I see that on the site John has the break up of the USSR as Russia's last crisis, which doesn't make sense to me given that it was largely non-vio...

Wars are easy to start. They're a lot harder to end. Trouble is, who can possibly trust Putin at this point? Even if the Ukrainians actually agree to this deal, which I personally doubt, what's going to stop Putin from trying again in a year or two, once some of the difficulties in his military have...

Russia's never recovered from the Great Patriotic War: the Soviet Union lost one-third of its 18-50 male population. Russia's population increased from 110 million to only 145 million. For context, the United States increased in population from 130 to 330 million in the same time frame. Their popula...

So would you say a regeneracy has broken out in Ukraine?

I've mentioned Generational Dynamics to others and my impression is that a lot of people don't want to listen because it's just too terrifying. Sure, there's politics involved as well, but the final conclusion isn't one anyone wants to think about. I still hope it's wrong, even if I don't find it ve...

I agree. I wouldn't be half as informed as I am if I didn't stumble onto this website. Funny thing, it was by pure chance when reading about Strauss and Howe's Generational Theory, read a couple articles here I thought was interesting, and here I am. I will admit, until the Ukraine invasion, the pro...

Difference is, in the First World War, Germany realized they couldn't win and decided to sue for peace rather than fight to the end. If China or Russia (or the U.S., for that matter) is in a situation where their choices are to surrender or use nuclear weapons, they'll opt for the latter. The Allies...

What the left says about China now reminds me a great deal of the beliefs surrounding Nazi Germany in the 1930s and even after the war: that they were this ultra-efficient juggernaut that we were lucky to defeat and only with overwhelming numbers. That they were so much smarter, so much more advance...

And now we're evacuating U.S. citizens. Biden might be a brain-dead fool, but I do believe Putin is going to invade Ukraine. Many in Russia consider the territory to belong to them. Moreover, Russia's always wanted a buffer zone against invasion. Most of its population is in the European portion, wh...