I liked Inquisition alot though the behind the scenes scoop was that the development process was a dumpster fire that only came together into a good game cause they got lucky.

BioWare has lost alot of it’s talent in the last several years. There’s almost no one left that played any hand in the Success of Dragonage or Mass Effect 1-3

No, the “the work load for me a person with a life to live is unreasonable especially in a age of sealioning” excuse. If you had a more narrowly phrased question, that would help. But in the name of good faith debate, I’ll point you in a starting direction. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revanchism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irredentism, then type “Russia’s Imperial Ambitions” into a search engine. When Putin was a boy, the map of his country was bigger than it is now and he wants that land “back”.

Any plan that starts with “if people would just”, they in fact will probably not

They’re also fascist countries where the government can and do set strict limits on content without concern for rule of law or the will of the people.

and/or they want field data from the real world conditions they’re being used in.

We were talking about Europe so I apparently wasn’t specific enough. Most countries in NATO let any capacity they had for large scale land wars wither after the cold war ended since they only saw conflict in small “police actions” in far away lands as being in their future. Things like Kosovo. And, to be fair, even the Russians (Putin aside) were confident that Europe was past large land wars too.

Some of us don’t “US bad, Russia good”. We look at each individual scenario, analyze it, and come to conclusions.

Ask Qaddafi’s victims how peaceful Qaddafi was

The main problem is the three big Empires on Earth: the US, Russia, and China.

Russian escalation came because Putin was feeling the pressure from Navalny’s anti-corruption campaign and other domestic problems. His popularity was suffering and successful military operations had always improved his popularity in the past (as they do for most national leaders). Coupled that with his Imperialist ambitions and invading Ukraine seemed like a win/win to him. Domestic concerns influence Geopolitics more than geopolitical concerns do.

An Alliance so aggressive that decades of peace lulled it into such deep complacency that they let their military capabilities atrophy? You’re being a try-hard

Unsurprising that a guy collapsing the Republic into a fascist dictatorship says that TikTok should be a mouthpiece for the Government. It’s time for someone in a country that ISN’T the US, Russia, or China to start a TikTok rival for people to switch to.

NATO encroaching

*Free Nations previously invaded and/or dominated by Russia desperate to join the Don’t be Invaded by Russia Alliance

Utterly unimportant. I could spend all day coming up with better reasons.

The immediate issue is Russian Imperialism. US hegemony is only at play here in so far as it prevents Russian hegemony. That 2 Empires are having a pissing match should surprise no one.

You say that like there was a serious risk of nuclear war. But the issue wasn’t Ukraine, it was the rules based internation order that the US set up and benefitted from (despite also frequently breaking the rules)

Yeah, but at the time the US could have fought every nation on the planet to a standtill and the USSR could have fought every nation on the planet but the US to a standstill, so there was no way to not make them permanent members of the security council with veto power since they could just ignore other countries if they wanted.

You left out the part when Israelis continuing forcing Palestinians off their land to this day.

Jewish people have more current claim to Brooklyn than they do to the land that corresponds to ancient Israel and Judea.