Why is it utterly regressive?
You don't mind meeting the man who rapes and murders your daughter on the streets of your hometown?
I would say if they keep taking losses, Putin will go apeshit and threaten "harsh" action against those aiding the Ukrainians.
Seems this stuff is 'within the rules'. Apparently only direct intervention by NATO military personnel counts as 'interference'.
How long did it take them? And would they have done so if there wasn’t international pressure…..the German government have been dragging their heels hoping it is over before they were forced to make a decision
Or Russia will just get a whole load of free weapons. The Ukranian army soon will not have the capacity to manage arms depots.
There's little he can do as one toe over the border of any NATO country and they'll be on him. His plan did not account for outside interference and in his head it should be over and he has no forces where weapons would come in.
Maybe, but it worked for the Afghans.
Well, if there arms dumps are in neighbouring countries, nothing the Russians can do about it.
The US has plenty of regressive policies including the death penalty. The big difference here is a nation actively making a point of bringing back regressive policies because the globe is calling them out on an invasion. Also given that Putin has already killed political opponents, nothing to say he won't use Trumped up charges to get opponents executed.
But let's be honest, they've been abusing human rights for a long time under Putin. The ousting was pretty late in the day.
Just because the internet is shouting about it does not make it a foregone conclusion nor a quick one. They have a unique insight on war and very good reasons to have a block on weapons going to conflict areas.
Czechs were the arms factory of the Soviet Union so I'd say $8millions worth of gear would be a decent haul, although probably not as high tech.
Not sure what you're basing this on. They are only under attack in some very specific locations.
Asked about allegations of executions of Homesexsual men in Chechnya
"Chechnya has denied the reports, with its interior minister calling the allegations an "April Fools' joke". Kadyrov's spokesman Alvi Karimov rejected the allegations and described the report in the Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, as "absolute lies and disinformation", basing his denial on the claim that "you cannot detain and persecute people who simply do not exist in the republic. If there were such people in Chechnya, the law-enforcement organs wouldn't need to have anything to do with them because their relatives would send them somewhere from which there is no returning."[151] Vladimir Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also said that there had been no evidence found to support the allegations, adding that he had no reason to doubt Kadyrov's claims that no one under his rule has been persecuted for their sexual orientation.
In an interview with HBO's Real Sports aired on 18 July, Kadyrov said, "We don't have those kind of people here. We don't have any gays. If there are any take them to Canada. Praise be to God. Take them far from us so we don't have them at home. To purify our blood, if there are any here, take them."[152]
Asked about the accusations of systematic torture, Kadyrov said, "They made it up. They are devils. They are for sale. They are subhuman. God damn them for slandering us."
Interesting allies that Vladimir has. Obviously sent in to find the "Gay, Jewish, Nazis"
probably sick of Lukaku's shocking form
Brilliant news
YouTube has suspended multiple Russian channels' ability to generate money, including RT.
World war 3 , no of course I don't - neither does anyone else , including Putin ... Yes it'd be eacalating things significantly - enforce a no fly zone over Ukraine - and be clear only Ukraine -
Kremlin website down. Again.
Good.
A prominent Ukrainian in Germany said that Berlin is sending prayers and good wishes to the Ukraine but money and influence to Russia.
Cutting.
As much as I despise Olaf Scholz's foot dragging over this, it is kinda hard to change 70 years of political precedent overnight.
Post-War Germany has always made sure to have an open line to Moscow ever since back in the 1950s, when Konrad Adenauer arranged for the release of the last 10000 German prisoners of war still being held captive in the USSR. Things kicked up a notch when Willy Brandt was elected in the mid 1960s and started his "Ostpolitik", a rapprochement with the USSR and Eastern European countries that saw amongst other things the acceptance of the Oder-Neisse line as the eastern border of Germany and Brandt famously kneeling at the memorial to the victims of the Warsaw ghetto. The back channels created during this time have served Germany well since and played a key part in a smooth reunification of Germany. It has been consistent federal policy ever since Brandt to engage with the USSR and later Russia politically and economically in order to keep that country involved in a post-war political system and thus prevent another major war on European soil.
When Putin originally came to power in the early 2000s, the belief in Berlin was that he would be just like Yeltsin, Gorbachev, Andropov and Brezhnev before him: Occasionally difficult to deal with, but essentially a rational and logical politician that could be reasoned with. By the time it finally dawned on Berlin that Putin may be a bit more than they could handle, it was too late. In a way, this war is actually good for Germany in my eyes, as it will force the decoupling of Berlin and Moscow, at least until Putin is gone and more rational leaders take over.
A growing list
FFS when the local winos are getting involved in the defence of motherland you know the invaders are in trouble.
You will be surprised how much damage an old ak47 could do even if its old
In a war its not how high tech you are,but how much firepower and will to fight you have
It’s funny cause surely some of the allies are engaging in the sly cyber attack stuff on Russia like they’ve been doing globally for years.
I always forget that allies are more then capable of getting down and dirty with Putin, just they don’t feel the need to ride a horse bareback to project an image of looking like a moron strong leader.
They should Bug the fcukin thing with a constant steam
of gay porn or something!
A bit of washing there by Abramovich. Presumably he retains ownership of the club, and ultimately control.
Any delegation of this control to others, is just that: delegation at his gift, and one which can be taken back at any time.
The club should be seized. And the PL as a whole needs to take a long hard look at itself when it comes to funding tbh.
That's not any country hitting those sites, that's the Anonymous hacker collective. They've been at it for three days!
Newcastle and city would be looking on very nervously if that happened. Sports whitewashing is all the same whether it’s Russian or Middle East money
Anonymous have been busy.
Making themselves useful attacking anything that the scum can use for their reign of terror.
More stingers please
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