NATO or UN do not care about number of deaths.
NATO or UN will not step in because if NATO intervene they run the risk of an unprecedented war between nuclear powers, which everybody loses.
And UN cannot intervene because Russia have a veto at the UNSC.
So? Ukraine will say that about any action not taken by the outside world in support of their fight.
Geopolitics is in play all over the world, Russia knows this and it helps them immensely. Hearing of the Belgians and Italians trying to carve out exemptions for things like their diamond markets is awful.
From the Guardian:
India is exploring ways to set up a rupee payment mechanism for trade with Russia to soften the blow on New Delhi of Western sanctions imposed on Russia.
Reuters reports that government and banking sources said Indian officials aere concerned that vital supplies of fertilizer from Russia could be disrupted as sanctions intensify, threatening India’s vast farm sector.
India has called for an end to violence in Ukraine but refrained from outright condemnation of Russia, with which it has long-standing political and security ties.
Yep that's pretty much it, there is nothing to stop Russia.
Soviet military doctrine employed the use of small yield tactical battlefield nukes as a matter of course in any conflict with NATO, long before the west would be at the point of using tactical or strategic nuclear weapons. Their view was that they are just another tool in the box.
Hopefully this view has changed....
Osce meeting earlier,the gaul of them to turn up and discuss the genocide been carried out by ukraine
Even taking NATO out of it, Poland is fully part of the Western world whereas Ukraine is/was on the edge of it. An attack on Poland would attract a huge amount of weaponry and volunteers to defend it, many multiples more than what's been sent to Ukraine. I just don't see Poland being left on its own, like Ukraine. An invasion of Poland would be the end of Putin's experiment in regime change.
Let's not exaggerate ,those countries could not beat Russia, it would require the combined forces of France, the UK ,Germany Along with the former Eastern Bloc to comprehensively defeat Russia in an all out conflict
Good that they left 👍
No I think its more that there wont be an airstrike there for fear of releasing radioactive materials
We'll see what happens over next while timmy depite usual messages of demoralisation.
I'm still hoping they (EU countries holding back on more complete cut off of Russia) realise that eventually, the longer this goes on, there's just no way forward without accepting economic pain. It's a very bitter pill after Covid, and an economic shock/recession/depression could be politicially destablilising also, but am sure that is part of why Putin is going for it now, at this time.
China/CCP is de-masking too and showing what it really thinks of us here in Europe during this as well. People who hate us deeply really and wish for and work towards our ruin while they take our money and buy our business/economic elites.
Hopefully when they do a bit more of that (backing a crazy dictator engaged in a war of aggression on the borders of the EU) it will hasten the process of disconnecting from them too but their tentacles are hooked in alot deeper than Russia's.
Serious question. Is there anything an ordinary European citizen can do to hit Russia? Is there anything that can be boycotted or if it comes to it , burned down?
Absolute nonsense.
I don't think it has changed.
Meanwhile...
In the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review, the Trump Administration announced its intention to expand the US nuclear arsenal under the doctrine of so-called “flexible deterrence,” including a tactical nuclear weapons upgrade. The administration claimed that even if these nuclear weapons were detonated on the high seas or in airbursts, they would still be in compliance with the principles of the law of armed conflict—as long as they were deployed against military objectives.
Weapons have been handed out to the Ukrainian parliament. Zelenskiy is on the move and in hiding (foreign dignitaries having issues trying to communicate with him). Unbelievably surreal scenario.
What kind of numbers do you think?
I am picturing Ursula VDL with a totaliser and a red marker....
Stop purchasing Vodka? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dublin embassy and Russians who work there. Throw manure.
Incredible 😔. Hopefully Zelenskiy isn't caught, that would demoralise the whole of Ukraine.
While it would be great to see countries stand on principle, the reality is that doesnt happen anymore. At least not here in the west - money and economic realities come first. Germany will be happy to let Ukraine fall if it means their energy supply is safe.
Russians will turn this into a man hunt for the photo ops. Find zelensky
Russia denies plans it's going to occupy Ukraine, in the same way it denied plans it was going to invade Ukraine.
Half joking, but anyone with a sky sports subscription for watching English football, which is FULL of oligarch money, should consider, as a matter of good taste, canceling that subscription and boycotting the premiership until it is cleansed of dirty money.
Putin is not a war monger by choice you say, as his 4th war is under way, one of the biggest in decades. You Putin bots are funny, brazenly so.
He doesn't want covert power, he wants the Ukraine to be a province not a State he controls.
Wall Street Joe is doing well, no doubt on this but
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2022/02/23/pentagon-studying-fallback-supply-lines-to-ukraine-in-case-of-expanded-russian-invasion/
Ukrainian ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova and Maj. Gen. Borys Kremenetskyi, the country’s defense attaché, toured Dover Air Force Base in Delaware as workers loaded pallets of Javelin missiles onto at least one Ukraine-bound commercial plane. A similar shipment was packed onto another commercial aircraft at Travis Air Force Base, California, on Jan. 22.
“We’re examining how support can be provided in a post-invasion scenario, and no final decisions about the mechanisms have been made yet,” the official added
Meanwhile the conflict is taking away from climate change which is the real tragedy apparently:
Those Jewish Nazis etc etc
Actually they could quite easily. It is not 1975, those countries have combined, larger, fully professional and fully NATO equipped armies than Russia. The real issue is everyone knows Russian military docterine, as soon as their army is beaten they will lob in a couple of nuclear warhaeds over the heads of the Polish/Czechs/Slovaks.
A nuclear warhead is a battlefield weapon in the Russian army in addition to their Strategic Nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile Eir and Siro (ESB/Vodafone) are heaping in the Huawei gear to supply essential infrastructure in the form of broadband access networks that none of us can avoid using, and they seem to see no risk whatsoever on so doing.
China - a great bunch of lads!
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