Ukrainian government websites came under cyberattacks today with messages written in Ukrainian, Russian and polish ,
Telling people to be very afraid and expect the worst
A bit like those Russian missiles used to shoot down a civilian airliner over Ukraine , imagine those Russians tanks destroyed in Ukraine fell out of the sky too .......
No, it sounds like the closest an undemocratic country like Russia gets to democracy. An interview on Irish TV with a minute number of Russians doesn't really give you insight into the reality of Russian politics. I would however totally accept that Russians have had worse, that doesn't mean that what they have is democracy though.
Some of the weapons that US forces ‘forgot’ to take with them when they pulled out of Afghanistan couldn’t have ‘made their way’ to Kazakhstan via Tadzhikistan or Kyrgyzstan by any chance?
Of course not, that’s a preposterous suggestion.
Median comes to mind
Ah, if it was so simple. The probable chain of event, as I see it: 1) Peaceful protests were triggered by rising gas prices, 2) Tokaev saw the chance to oust Nazarbaev and his people out of power, told police to do nothing, 3) then Tokaev invites extremists in. You may think that this is preposterous. But consider the next step: 4) Tokaev invites the Collective Security forces (Russian mostly) to come in to quell the protests. They duly arrive only to find that they have nothing to do, the protestors were cleared off the streets. Why would Tokaev ask for help? That's the clever bit -- to gain legitimacy by forcing Putin to support Tokaev. He, Tokaev, asked for help and Putin jumped in. And when Russian forces are there, he already has the situation under control and sends them back. What did Nazabaev do? Nothing, and that makes him irrelevant, which is the point.
Kazakh policemen were mutilated and decapitated by your gallant ‘protesters’.
That means they were murdered by bloodthirsty Jihadi terrorists. The Kazakh authorities were correct to clamp down immediately on terrorism, it’s the only language that these head choppers understand. There was nothing peaceful about these protests.
@MarkEadie If Russia invades or annexes part of Ukraine which seems likely at this point,s the US won't be responding with any military comeback and if they did it would be one of the stupidest things they have ever done,
Why would it be stupid
China only have one priority and that's China.
The chances they enter into a pan-eurasian war over a territory that has zero strategic value to themselves is zero.
Though large, the Chinese economy is not very diversified and they are absolutely dependent on selling huge volumes of crap to the West. While the opposite is also true to a large extent, China are more exposed and aren't going to choose Ukraine as the hill to die on.
Their red line will be Taiwan or the archipelagos of the South China Sea. The very reason you won't see the West pushing those too strongly.
If Russia invades or annexes part of Ukraine which seems likely at this point,s the US won't be responding with any military comeback and if they did it would be one of the stupidest things they have ever done. They really shouldn't want to get into a conflict with Russia here, who have the Chinese on standby as backup.
Absolutely the shooting was all over before the Russians arrived ,summarily executed,this doesn't bode well for the 8000+ people who are currently being detained by Kazakhstan's authorities ,
That's nothing more than a massacre
No matter who did the shooting, it's down to the Kazakh regime that allowed the circumstances to take place where protestors were murdered. Tokayev should not get off the hook and have the charges that need to be levelled at him added to Putin's wrap sheet. This is all Tokayev.
Death toll for the uprising in Kazakhstan is capped at 164 dead ,
But city morgues are supposedly full of bodies in body bags , and many of them have suffered a single gunshot to the head ......
Now theres questions that need answering
Cuba is a tiny country with little power and does not have Russian military presence there.
Russia hasn't invaded multiple countries and has no intention to. It had a violent dispute with Georgia also over NATO, it later annexed Crimea democratically.
US has rejected our demands on NATO, Russia says - and military specialists are talking to Putin about 'options'
-Sky News
The sham Russian engagement continues and the people of Ukraine get to live longer under an anxious cloud.
It'll soon be time for the combined Western military to squash Putin's fascist army like a cockroach and no longer have to put up with his daily paranoid diatribe and rhetoric of an era long extinct.
Yes sorry, I'm wide of the mark on that one. There hasn't been many widely publicised incidents of that.
They don't do that much anymore because it sends no message. The Putin regime would far rather poison people in public places, or report that they've met with an unfortunate accident in custody and died, or simply make whatever their political activity is, illegal and imprison them for open ended periods.
F**k you and your intelligence, did you get Putin's c0ck in your Christmas stocking again?
"Disappear their families" - don't be ridiculous. Even the conspiracy theorists haven't claimed that. You are thinking of the old USSR.
Come on, a little intelligence please.
The Daily Mail is not making it up - there are plenty of other publications with the same headline.
Putin has never done any of those things to his own people (only to a small number of individuals who have committed grave treason against Russia). See this is where there's a problem - when you start saying things like that about him with no evidence.
If we don't much like Meehole, it's not because he sends secret police goons out to poison us, or imprison us or burn out our businesses or disappear our families.
Your really need to stop with these bullsh1t comparisons.
It's the Daily Mail....
Are they seriously just taking the piss at this point?
I cannot fathom the mental gymnastics it would take to take this seriously to explain their FAKE and FALSE predictions that Putin was about to invade, which we all TOLD YOU wasn't going to happen.
I reckon if you questioned whoever came up with this it wouldn't be long before you got them skitting laughing.
Do the US particularly like Biden? Are they happy with Biden or just chosing him as the best of the alternatives due to a broken political system?
Do Irish people particularly like Mehole?
I'm not sure where this anti-Putin stuff comes from. Russia has its right to prevent aggressive military build-up around its border just as the US would object to Russian missiles being pointed at New York from Mexico.
The Baltic eu states who are Nato members are seeking an increase to deployment to their states and more regularly to deter outside aggression from Putin at the same time the Slovakia government has signed a military treaty with the US which gives access to two airports in the country which share a border with Ukraine , with the possibility of US troops be deployed to Slovakia at a later time ..
And to think Putin thought he was going to get rid of nato
Just because they ( supposedly ) don't want a return to Communism, is not quite the same thing as saying that they are happy with Putin. And believe it or not, compared to Putin's Russia, many would much prefer a return to communism. Go to Russia, travel around the Country, see what its like and ask ordinary Russians what they think. You might be surprised just how many wish for a return of the old communist system, bad and all as it was, so that's how desperate they are. But will they ever get a chance to vote on it in free and fair election's.??? I doubt it very much.
@Elmer Blooker The reason many Russians vote for Putin is not because they particularly like him .
It's because they have no other choice ,zero opposition ,
You have Putin
You have Putins running mate
You have Putins chosen runner from his party with zero support
You can't run against Putin unless you have permission to do so ,
Putin cannot lose because he controls the election even if 80/90% of Russians voted against him he would still win a landslide election ,
The reason many Russians vote for Putin is not because they particularly like him but it’s to keep the biggest opposition party the Communists out. They don’t want a return to communism.
The Irish Times interviewed Russians living in Ireland who were eligible to vote in the Russian election and that’s what they said- no return to communism please!
That sounds like a democracy to me.
Pre pandemic he was the same ...
Another excuse so .....
Wait didn't he claim Russia cured covid with Sputnik 🙈🙈🙈
Yeah, he's acting as if there were some sort of highly contagious and potentially fatal global pandemic virus that he would be considered highly vulnerable to.
So why the big deal at election time then if he is that popular? The suppression of the opposition? etc. Because that is happening, and in Russia, and has been happening since Putin came to power.
Is it definite he has that condition?
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