The Russian army in 2008 was basically still a Soviet army, in its equipment and structure. A very good version of the Soviet army, but still Soviet style. Russians have studied very carefully the results of the 2008 and started a very ambitions modernization program of their armed forces structure and equipment,…

At the start of the conflict nearly 400,000 citizens lived in Grozny, most of them ethnic Russians.

Resurgent McLaren? The last time McLaren had a good car was in 2012. After 2012, McLaren took a nosedive. Each season after 2012, Mclaren was getting worse. 2013 was poor, as well as 2014. I don’t know what went in the head of Alonso when he switched to McLaren in 2015.

There is still no escaping from the fact that it looks and drives like a tuner Accord.

That’s the nation that allegedly recruited Trump as Putin’s agent in DC.

Then it’s gonna take only a decade to raise a new generation of jihadists.

If lithium was worth so much, Bolivia would have been the richest country in the world.

Not only the Spanish forced the Muslims AND Jews to convert or be expelled, but the Spanish inquisition had executed pretty almost all those who chose to convert to Catholicism.

Afghanistan was already fucked beyond any repair by the time US troops showed up. Through the 1980s the USA fed, funded, armed jihadists, and treated afghan jihadists as heroes. In 1990s it was already an Islamic state, as in implementing the sharia law.

The Islamic extremism got going over there after the 1979 Soviet invasion, when through the 1980s the USA fed, funded, armed, and treated the afghan jihadists as heroes. I don’t think this can now be undone with a few years of schooling and new textbooks.

1. The US hasn’t been there since the Cold War. USA has been there only since 2001.

That has worked well in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Hasn’t the US already stopped importing oil?

So spend another trillion USD on pacifying Afghanistan, so a private company can make a few tens of billions? Great cost-benefit analysis.

We won’t be back at 9/11 conditions. The airport security and immigration policy were extremely lax back then. It’s far easier to secure your own country than trying to hunt down all terrorists in all countries. And let’s get real about Afghanistan. It’s an unwinnable war because Pakistan is was never really serious…

Jacques Villeneuve is still available.

Alonso has only himself to blame for this. He should have stayed at Ferrari.

Sauber is now a pay driver rental car team. They haven’t accomplished anything since letting Perez and Kobayashi go. So it hard to believe that Honda will ruin them more beyond where they already are.. I don’t understand why won’t just sell this team to more competent management.

First off, Honda is trying to catch up tech wise as they have been out of F1 since 2008

Honda hasn’t achieved anything good in F1 after they walked out from the good thing in 1992. They became a laughing stock of F1,when Ross Brawn picked up their grandfathered Honda car in 2009 and actually won the championship as Brawn-Mercedes.