Why. The Ukranians are losing their lives keeping back the bear. They need to know that there is a future for them if they can get through this. Else they might as well give up now
That has to be a skit. Unless Alexander Boris de Pfeffel has millions stashed in Russian banks.
Now that would be quite the development.
There is no way any of this ends well for putin....
Any kind of peace talks where Russia doesnt get large tracts of Ukrainian land will be deemed an unacceptable humilating defeat in his eyes.....
Ukraine cannot be seen to be giving an inch of land to this kind of imperial agression....
Putin has dug his own grave here....which makes him more dangerous....very worrying times....
Putin is clearly not responding to threats which he deems as idle....so have to respond with whatever actions they can and they are imo
😂 I hope they weren’t cyanide.
I hope you're referring to the iodine tablets 😬
**** that.
What message does that send?
NATO and the EU should have went hard once he crossed into Ukraine.
Now he knows he calls the shots and can get away threatening the world with nukes.
Weak leadership.
billyhead got those ones from his missus for Christmas
I hope it is people telling porkies to get out of there quicker, but there are a lot of people making the same claims. Everyone deserves to be treated fairly and properly. And they are right, in general, Africans get pushed to the back of every list.
Anyway, another item to add the post-conflict list, I suppose. Doesn't change the over-arching rights/wrongs of the situation. My main hope is of a coup or similar within Russia, taking Putin out and deescalating the situation for all of us.
Who's going to lead this coup?
Typically a military coup results in even more hawkish people taking the reigns of power.
Putin is playing chicken with the rest of the world, and the fact is that Russia can and would win any nuclear exchange. I think the notions that previous projections of how a nuclear exchange would work between Russia and the west can be thrown out the window. It is conceivable that any direct military interference from the west could lead to multiple ICBM's being launched to destroy NATO in one swift motion.
The slowing down of the invasion to a pessimistic eye could well be a ruse, make the world believe you're weak before unleashing the true power of the Russian military. We've already seen atrocities in Ukraine, I don't believe Putin gives a damn how his troops abuse the Ukrainians because ultimately I think he sees himself as being on a path that does not lead back to the previously existing world order.
Putin is a mad man but sadly I don't for a second believe there's a lot of rational people in Russia that would take over and calm this situation if he were removed from power. Old scores from the cold War are looking likely to be settled and the potential for Billions of deaths is more real than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Hard to believe this is something that is even conceivable but here we are.
Why doesn't one of Putin's daughters get on tv and say 'Hey da your dragging our name through the mud. You need to cool off with this crap.'
Port city of Berdiansk northeast of Crimea has fallen to the Russians apparently. The army in the East of the country could soon be dealing with an attack from both the front and rear.
He doesn't care I am afraid he is an absolute psychopath, he seems happy to sacrifice his own citizens as well (lots of young soldiers with little training...some who clearly don't want to fight and some who thought they were on a training exercise seemingly...).
It is all absolutely heartbreaking, there are no winners.
Putin
"It is a fact that over the past 30 years we have been patiently trying to come to an agreement with the leading NATO countries regarding the principles of equal and indivisible security in Europe. In response to our proposals, we invariably faced either cynical deception and lies or attempts at pressure and blackmail, while the North Atlantic alliance continued to expand despite our protests and concerns"
We cannot stay idle and passively observe these developments. This would be an absolutely irresponsible thing to do for us.
For our country, it is a matter of life and death, a matter of our historical future as a nation. … It is not only a very real threat to our interests but to the very existence of our state and to its sovereignty. It is the red line which we have spoken about on numerous occasions. They have crossed it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/world/europe/putin-ukraine-speech.html
Why is he lying about exactly? Is this all not true?
Why would he even listen to her? I'm sure she's no Ivanka.
So it's not as if he wants to ride his daughter. You know, like any other normal president would.
Russia can and would win any nuclear exchange.
Nobody 'wins' a full-scale nuclear exchange between the superpowers. I suppose the few thousand who make it down into the bunkers can call it a score draw...
I think you mean toilet paper. Hopefully it's got a picture of Mad Vlad on it.
Now wouldn't that be appropriate?
There are some posters on this thread now accusing the EU of exacerbating the entire situation by putting their support behind Ukraine. A few weeks ago, there were posters berating NATO and the US for causing this situation. Open your eyes people. The real culprit here is Putin and his cronies. He is trying to take the West hostage.
I think you might need to read the label on that bottle. AFAIK they should be iodine tablets. But sure maybe take just one and see how that goes.
Words matter. At the moment it seems the Russian population is not up for this war. It would take very very little for that to completely switch and the population to back Putin to the last. The west should at least try to prevent that happening by not shooting their mouths off.
The USAF Global Hawks have not been flying all day. I wonder have they been withdrawn in order to tone things down a bit..
Svoboda has only 1 representative in the Ukrainian parliament and hasn't had anyone close to a government position since 2014. Why are you posting this nonsense?
So you think Putin is correct to think NATOs long term goal is to invade Russia 😂
All countries and FA's should abstain from playing in Qatar. Simple as that.
Still, it would be another voice against him. And some Russians might listen.
I think that analogy is "fuel on the fire". You can't throw flames anywhere
I sincerely hope that you are wrong! Let us hope that common sense and humanity will prevail.
Mister Putin said, "We will bury you"
I don't subscribe to this point of view
It'd be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russians love their children too.
Something tells me your presence on this forum will cease long before that happens. Just a hunch.
I’m actually very impressed and dare I say proud of the west’s response to this crisis, honestly feared Ukraine would be left to fend for itself for fear of “angering” Putin.
With that said, is the enormity of the sanctions and material support starting to push us into a situation where we are effectively fighting a proxy war with Russia? The EU directly using EU funds to support a non EU country and now talking of directly supplying fighters (arguably the most vital and difficult to secure weapon in a modern war) really means we are shy only actual soldiers on the ground. While I do completely support these actions I am starting to struggle to see how this doesn’t continue to escalate towards Putin carrying out his threats regarding nukes.
Bar him being taken out from within, how the hell else does this end? He’s never going to back down and how long before he sees nukes as his only remaining escalation against what he sees as provocative escalations from the West?
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