There are a lot of comments so I'm sure my insight below has been discussed already, but if Mexico was buddying-up with Russia and there was talk of Mexico joining Russia's military pact, which possibly means Russian soldiers on the US border, the US would not allow this.
Russia is a **** but the double standards are annoying.
Oh Jesus, what have I just read, I’m not even going to argue with people like this.
So the referendum was all false, all the polls that get taken around Crimea by different sources over the past number of years are all made up Russian propaganda?
I would usually blame western media for having people so brainwashed but I don’t think western media even tries to deny Crimea wants to be part of Russia.
No I live in reality. You however are designed to distort reality. But sure look easily spotted 'wha'.
Are you serious? This is fact.
Are you actually that delusional with this anti Russian anti Putin stance that you cannot accept simple facts?
No your wrong....
False. Polls were widely falsified. Tatars were deported. Anyone with hostile anti russian opinion were prosecuted. Thousands left the peninsula after fist sighting of green men.
This particular nugget has gone over and over and clearly a pill that various Russian propaganda peddlers still believe/push
Doubt it. They have Crimea and will be keeping it. Now both Ukraine and Georgia will probably never be accepted into NATO as doing so is to invite direct confrontation with Russia. It's not a bad result for running some military exercises on their RUS/UKR border.
I think you're right on the miscalculation front. Political malcontents from left and the right, for their own reasons, love to buy into the Putin mystique - arch strategist former spook who's playing 4D chess with Washington and their supine NATO running dogs in Brussels who aren't half the intellect of Vlad the wise. It's an odd phenomenon.
Closer to the truth is his hubris on Ukraine may well be his undoing. He's been serving up sh*te economically to the Russian public for decades, has relied on political suppression, mouthpiece media and a grotty security state to keep the lid on mismanagement.
The options on Ukraine are almost binary now:
*The reward in a best-case military scenario being the occupation of large swathe of an uncooperative Ukraine and international paraiah status even deeper than 2014
Crimea never had a choice? This is a common misconception among a lot of people, the vast majority of people in Crimea something like over 90 percent of the people there want to be part of Russia.
The US/NATO setting themselves up directly on your border is bound to make them jumpy, its also a huge snub.
I don't think they've any choice but to play the game the way the US has delt the cards.
Surely this is a serious miscalculation by Putin. His actions are now finally galvanising NATO into action and they are reinforcing Eastern Europe the one thing Putin was trying to avoid.
It also gives NATO the opportunity to flex its muscle it the one arena Europe that the organisation was set up for against its traditional enemy Russia, not the quagmire of the ME. Putin has given NATO purpose again and is probably doing more than Trump to get Europe to get it's act together and spend serious money on defence.
Threat of sanctions while you most powerful Allie is saying well no we won't really get involved here, putin is threatening our gas supplies which we pay him billions for .
Germany needs to be standing up and saying back off we can support ukraine or anyone else with or without your contract for gas
I see nothing wrong with Germany’s approach, it’s literally the same as ours.
Threats of sanctions or shipping weapons across hasn’t done much to change Putins mind so far. He wants a deal (one that suits him ofc) and Germany are at least willing to listen.
Those remarks from the Naval Commander are frankly embarrassing for Germany, but again, to imply they’re guilty of encouraging or starting a war are ridiculous. They’re doing the exact opposite, trying to keep him happy!
Well that certainly applies to recent history re Iraq and Libya. None the less, if the Moscow money supply to Chechnya ever stops, the separatists are still there. Having said that, with the same money, Grozny has been transformed from a bombed out ruin of a city into a brand new city, barely recognizable from the old one. And as for Libya, I remember a Libyan lady telling me that now that Ghaddafi ( who she, like a lot of Libyans was no fan of ) gone, he had been replaced with multiple Ghaddafi's.
They have helped the situation , they literally signed to be be Putins no1 supporter because of their business deals , Germany should have been Strong but no they literally invited putin into the house and handed over the keys for a gas deal ...
Look at this week a pro Putin naval commander and blocking weapons to Ukraine ,
That’s why I said it’s a stretch and not total rubbish, like blaming Germany for it.
Putin has publicly stated he wants the borders with Europe redrawn and wants the eastern Europe states back in Russia ,
The only way that will happen is through military means ,bar Crimea which never had a choice , no countries any where have shown anything to suggest they want to be reoccupatied with Russians,
Yes it a stretch but not beyond the realm of possibility if putin isn't stopped now ,he won stop at ukraine
Huge stretch to talk about potential WWIII.
absolute rubbish to blame it on Germany.
So are we saying that the German's are once again playing a major part in potentially starting WW3 ? The irony of it all.
If they do invade Ukraine, he should be asked to leave.
Is it coincidence that we suffered a massive hack of the hse by russian hackers aka Russian intelligence and now live fire naval exercises off our coast several months later .
At the same time the Russian embassy is looking to expand its operations here in Dublin
Sounds a bit like Iraq pre-2003. Sometimes stability is better than "freedom". Nobody particularly wins from opening up a can of Chechen worms.
It was Merkel's decision in 2011 to decomission Germany's nuclear reactors that has now put them at the mercy of Putin.
I thought Merkel was gone?
No matter what the US may claim, there's not enough LNG in the world to make up for the shortfall of Russian gas to Europe. As long as that remains the case, Germany will resist or try to limit sanctions against Putin which will embolden him. According to the British, 3% of British gas needs come from Russia, whereas 36% of German Energy needs are met by Russian gas. There's a bit of apples and oranges in there, but how much of that 36% is for electricity generation which could be replaced by other sources? If Germany won't turn back on their reactors, can France make up for any of the shortfall? That uncharacteristic knee-jerk decision by Merkel in 2011 is going to define Europe realpolitik for the next decade. I also wonder how much Olympic Man is benefiting via back channels from Nordstream.
Yesterday Canada started removing embassy staff and advising citizens to leave Ukraine. New Zealand who have no embassy there are now advising it's citizens to leave.
That makes all members of the five eyes intelligence group are now in the process of leaving. Could well end with another Afghanistan evacuating loads of staff in the middle of a war zone if it does kick off.
They replelled them plenty of times as they tried over the last 7 years to expand the two separatists areas ,and at a time when the Ukrainian armed forces were in disarray , poorly trained and equipped and with pro Russian commanders ,but they held there own at the time ,and inflicted loses on the Russians ,they could get over run fairy quickly in some areas but will be able to hold others,this is why Russia has massively increased the forces surrounding them , along with moving forces into Belarus to possibly open another area of conflict to draw Ukrainian forces away from the east
Say if Russia does launch a full scale invasion, how will it go? Would the Russians win easily or can the Ukrainians, who will be very well armed, have some success in repelling them?
Most of the planet would be an economic wasteland from communism without the U.S..
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