@MFPM As for Coveney, he actively facilitates the US war machine through Shannon .
passenger flights that's what comes through Shannon , Russian forces too along with another 40 other countries who use Shannon or Dublin...
Russia isn't going to invade this was said 7 years ago and guess who currently occupies Ukrainian Territory oh yeah Russia
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China is the oldest Imperial power in the world, by some margin.
Russia has a long, long imperial history.
Sweet Jesus, what a post in the context of what we are witnessing. Every Western media outlet is full of slavish propaganda on behalf of the US and their allies, there is hardly a dissenting voice in the media of the rank hypocrisy of the US. One wonders how Blinken and his ilk can keep a straight face when talking about standing with democracy and defending the sovereignty when the US undermine both when and where it suits them - though they've been doing it so long they're expert at it. They spent much of last year covertly and overtly intervening in Chile to try and ensure that Pinera wouldn't win the election, thankfully they failed and ironically the granddaughter of Salvador Allende who the US helped topple and murder in 1973 is now in government...That's Chile, never mind Venezuela, bombing Libya, 750 military bases in 80 countries, financing mass slaughter in Yemen, supporting IDF slaughter in Palestine...Where are the questions on any of this, where's the objective and critical journalism?
As for Coveney, he actively facilitates the US war machine through Shannon, ignores many of the crimes of the same war machine but is whinging about some Russian manoeuvres miles off the coast!
Lastly, Putin isn't going to invade Ukraine and was never going to, this is a response to NATO expansion in the East, the Germans and the French have been far more circumspect in their response than the US and the Brits because they know it's not going to happen. The US approach here is nothing to do with Ukraine but everything to do with the changing global balance of forces as we move from the unipolar globe they have dominated since the early 90s to a position now where the growing economic and military power of China, India and Russia to a lesser degree is a challenge to the dominance of US imperialism.
Would I be right in thinking that for ordinary Ukranians the choice is between oligarchs that are allied with the EU/US and oligrachs that are allied with Russia?
If nato is cancelled I suppose you would be willing to help reconstruct the Berlin wall.
No nato Russia invades and we go back to 1945
Ukraine is going to be a boxing ring for nuclear powers who don't want to get their house dirty.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov press conference on January 21st.
A few calls from the Kremlin to South and Central America in recent days (Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua)
The presidents discussed further coordination of Russia’s and Cuba’s actions in the international arena in line with the principles of strategic partnership and the traditions of friendship and mutual understanding.
They have units already in Ukraine mainly special forces (possibly Green beret's) Canada also has special forces deployed , there's been numerous American units in Ukraine over the last few years including an marine exercise very recently (seabreeze )
NATO needs to be cancelled if you ask me.Keep the yanks out of it and get Germany, France, UK, Poland and Russia to sit down and have a good old chat and try to sort this crap out, 2022 and all this **** is still going on.
Interesting article
Remember putin had a treaty with Ukraine based on non aggression and friendship in return ukraine handed over its nuclear weapons ...
Several years later who invaded and annexed Crimea and currently occupating parts of Ukraine......
Vladi does like a good binding agreement
8,500 US troops backed by tens of thousands of nato troops you can bet Poland and other Eastern Europe will be preparing to call up more forces
Well this is certainly heating up.
Where could they even send them without resulting in a major international incident?
Could hardly drop them into Ukraine...?
Czech Minister for Defense saying, if asked, they will consider sending troops to Ukraine 👍️
While they're considering that, they may annex Germany and pay for a testicle implant.
Pentagon has just put 8,500 troops in standby for deployment.....
He is indeed very popular.
In to-day's press conference Russian ambassador Yuri Kilatov is reported by RTE as saying "there are no plans for Russia to attack Ukraine or anybody else". I wonder if any journalists had the wit or opportunity or courage or inclination to ask him a simple question: "In that case why is such an overwhelming force equipped for an attack camped on Ukraine's border?"
I reckon this wasn't a press conference as we would understand it (lots of Q and A), but a one-sided pronouncement. I just wonder will our fearless journalists treat this with the same critical attention as they do our own democratically elected politicians.
Seems like NATO are showing a display of actual force after initial talk of purely sanctions. There's a US aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean under NATO command now. Aircraft and ships coming from other NATO countries too.
That's a great article.
One can bitch all they like about the USA, but if it were not for them the headcase putin would already be in Ukraine and planning his next move
One can talk all the bollocks they like about Russia having the right to amass troops on their own border, but if your neighbour had a gun pointed across the wall into your kitchen window you wouldn't celebrate their right to do it unless you were a complete idiot
Putin has been very smart up to this point, however his relatively easy successes in Syria and Crimea has made him over confident . However invading Ukraine would be a catastrohpic mistake. If he switches off the gas,well he can only do that once, after that Europe would buy no more gas from him again. Yes he can use the threat of shutting off the gas but he can't really actually do it without damaging Russia almost as much
This thread is painful to read...
Anyway, Interesting article here on the current situation:
Fairly large Chinese population in Siberia oddly enough,
People are not realizing that all of the Chinese millitary power is a phone call away for Putin if Russia comes under any threat whatsoever.
Launching nukes is suicide, mutually assured destruction. Nobody is going to do it because their own country will be destroyed too.
Its a deterrent at this stage, nothing more.
Totally agree ....
Maybe the removal of putin should be considered a necessary action to guarantee peace
He still did a 4 hour press conference
That’s neither here nor there. The LAST thing we need is anyone launching Nukes.
He's not the only one with nukes
Highly staged as he does every year
He did a 4 hour press conference a few weeks ago.
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