Russia - threadbanned users in OP

your ‘contributions’ to the thread remind me of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly for some reason.

There's that 'everyone' again. So you've no examples of me attacking?

Military exercises to demonstrate capability and deter military adventurism by its neighbours? Russia carried out the Tsentr 2019 exercises which by all accounts involved 128,000 troops, 600 aircraft and 15 naval vessels. Kavkaz 2020 was a military exercise involving 80,000 troops. So 100,000 troops isn't unusual for a Russian military exercise. Either way, their presence has already made Ukraine think again before launching an offensive against the Russian separatists in the east of the country.

If you want to know what an invasion force looks like, Gulf War 1 - the invasion of Iraqi occupied Kuwait - involved close to a million troops, including 700,000 US troops. 100,000 is nowhere near enough to take Ukraine (roughly 35 times larges than Kuwait, 10 times the population) , let alone hold it.

And perhaps the redeployment of troops is simply a decision by Russia that it needs to treat its Ukrainian border more seriously than it has in the past and increased troops guarding the Russian border is the new normal.

You're very quick to throw out insults at other posters, but maybe you should spend the time thinking more. None of the above requires any special knowledge. Just common sense.

Yes that's one interpretation that I would regard as most realistic, that Russia is putting all those troops on the border as a warning to Ukraine over their strengthening ties with the USA, this does not mean an invasion is imminent, the situation would have to escalate severely for that to happen. The same thing would and has happened if Russia was getting too close to one of America's neighbors, America would feel threatened and would also react in the same way.

I along with the Ukrainian president don't believe the American narrative that the troops are there for an "imminent invasion" and that Russia is "currently planning a false flag attack against their own people as a pretext for the invasion".

Try and put yourself in Russias shoes for just a moment, If America was building increasingly close ties with Mexico, ties which would very much strengthen the Russian position if a future world conflict broke out, then the United States would rightfully so want this to stop for their own security. They would not let Russia strengthen it's security at the cost of their own.

I patiently wait now to be labelled a conspiracy theorist who has fell victim to Russia propaganda. I am simply taking a realistic non Hollywood look at the situation.

No one has disputed your right to reply as you wish. It's your inconsistent chastising I'm taking issue bug you've just acknowledged that's what you're doing so it's all good.

BoJo in Kiev today, doing a Biden running from his problems back home and hoping for a bit of strongman positive publicity.

There is something really nauseating about these guys riding to defend a nation and talk about humanitarian disasters when it suits their interests. Imagine this guy jetting into Palestine to stand againt Israeili mass slaughter or him refusing to sell munitions and weaponry to the Saudi war machine, or flying to Santiago to support the Chilean gov against US interference? No, I can't imagine it either!!

I have to say this is an absolutely beautiful, well written analysis on the situation, far removed the Hollywood Western propaganda narrative on the situation. This post should be pinned onto the OP.

Yes I know I wrote it.

@MFPM BoJo in Kiev today, doing a Biden running from his problems back home and hoping for a bit of strongman positive publicity.

What are you actually on about ...

We're you in the same squadron as the other one

What am I on about? Do you follow politics at all?

Or discussion and debate clearly.

Indeed, don't worry though Yurt, most people here understand why the seminal geopolitical event of the 21st century and the undermining and weakening of US imperialism as a consequence is a factor in the current approach of the US to Nato expansion and thus a certain backdrop to events in Ukraine.

Oh and of course the small matter that the US are prepared to flatten any country or people who stand in the way of their interests...irrespective of human rights, democracy etc..

The fact that you're confused and bemused says more about you than the people raising Iraq..