I think that means the war chest he built up to weather out the sanctions storm cannot be spent?
Thermobaric?
Not a bad poster though
There's a road back for Russia of course, but not with Putin and his enablers at the helm. Japan and Germany are thoroughly rehabilitated countries.
Most Russians don't want anything to do with this war that a narrow circle of Russian elites wanted, that will become clearer and clearer the longer it goes on when the costs become obvious to the Russian people.
Russian security forces rioting like that is historically very rare.
CNN reporting a big explosion in Kyiv and seemingly a fire, perhaps at an airport.
All the American polls clearly indicate they don't want to get more heavily involved
History is repeating itself.
A free people is being claimed by a larger power in the name of its own apparent "destiny".
May Ukraine defend herself against this mindless aggression.
May Russia rot.
Could be a sign of things to come though, fingers crossed.
Hope to God it's true, could lead to a real regime change in Russia.
need to be careful with this too, and this general attitude, Russia (outside of Putin) cannot be punished long term, look what happened in Germany after WW1.
May god help the men, woman and children of Kyiv tonight - Russia should NEVER be forgiven for this massacre.
Is it? That’s only one group of fighters.
Tbf, everyone said it was going to happen last week. I agree with your sentiment tho, world war 3 quite simply is a possibility anybody who denies it are simply in denial. Still think it's a very small chance but the situation is obviously escalating.
I agree. Only the most drastic and war-crime-worthy escalation could change the win/loss permutations for him now - and that means a loss on the home front. The Russian public are not bloodthirsty maniacs and they are not stupid - an attempt to raze Kyiv with firebombing for instance would see him strung up on the streets of Moscow like Ceausescu.
The man's grip on Russia is coming to an end. The tragedy is that he is taking too many lives in the process.
Thank you did you ask the american people too and Ukraine?
is there any global emergency that elon musk doesn't insert himself into?
Heavy shelling Kharkov, also more explosions sounding now for Kyiv
In addition to all the previous replies:
The US is and always has been very self-centric. They take care of themselves. They create policy and agree decisions in their own interests.
They are also not part of Europe so they are not obliged to step in until NATO countries are involved. That's when the NATO partnership kicks in.
There is the tag of "The Leader of the Free World", but Americans see the "Free World" as the USA.
I see the EU as the leader of the free world.
Why?
Because it consists of 27 democracies. It's the largest conglomeration of nations on the planet working togther rather than against each other. And these countries (including Ireland) provide peacekeeping and other forces globally.
Then using that money to rebuild Ukraine after.
This is a brilliant article from 3 weeks ago which pretty much gives the reason why this build up of troops and invasion happened. Putins main man in Ukraine, Viktor Medvedchuk was chairman of the biggest opposition (pro russian) party in Ukraine. He was put under house arrest. The next morning Putin put 3k troops on the Ukrainian border. Article is interesting because it seems some of the moves Zevelny took by removing Medvedchuks TV channels etc mightn't have been the most clever thing to do. And Putin obviously sees him and his government as Nazi's, silencing pro Russian voices.
Below are a couple interesting paragraphs:
Last February, days after the Inauguration of President Joe Biden, America’s allies in Kyiv decided to get tough on Medvedchuk. The Ukrainian government started by taking his TV channels off the air, depriving Russia of its propaganda outlets in the country. The U.S. embassy in Kyiv applauded the move. About two weeks later, on Feb. 19, 2021, Ukraine announced that it had seized the assets of Medvedchuk’s family. Among the most important, it said, was a pipeline that brings Russian oil to Europe, enriching Medvedchuk and his family—including Putin’s goddaughter, Daria—and helping to bankroll Medvedchuk’s political party.
The first inkling of Putin’s response came less than two days later, at 7 a.m. on Feb. 21. In a little-noticed statement, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the deployment of 3,000 paratroopers to the border with Ukraine for “large-scale exercises,” training them to “seize enemy structures and hold them until the arrival of the main force.”
When Medvedchuk was placed under house arrest, the Russian leader called the attack on his proxies “an absolutely obvious purge of the political field,” one that threatened to turn Ukraine “into Russia’s antithesis, a kind of anti-Russia.”
The regime collapsed the following day (2014). Its leaders fled across the border to Russia, and as their political party fell apart, so did the machinery of Russian influence over its neighbor. “There is no legitimate authority in Ukraine now,” Putin fumed in a speech at the Kremlin that spring. “No one to talk to.” The revolution, he claimed, was nothing more than a U.S.-backed coup, and he responded by ordering his troops to invade. After swiftly taking over Crimea, Russian forces moved into the coal-mining heartland of eastern Ukraine, installing separatist puppet regimes in two of its biggest cities.
Something has just struck me about the news reporting from Kiev tonight and the contrast with the invasions of Iraq. Bagdad had television cameras and reporters from every news network on the planet broadcasting live nonstop.
Tonight you have a few reporters and cameramen (probably local). Self preservation seems to be the order of the day. In Bagdad the newscrews were aware they were relatively safe because the attacks were going to be precise. There is no such confidence that the Russians will not level Kiev.
Looks like it's being considered. 640.000.000.000 $ of Russian reserves
It's just you.
Game changer if so
Thats not what I said. Read it again and get back to me.
They should turn around and head to Moscow for a showdown with their real oppressor.
Maybe or its just Putin showing the world his hardware
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