A no-fly zone is direct engagement because unless it is policed it is pointless.
No. It's built into the rules specifically to stop exactly that. You attack someone and they attack you back you are on your own.
You're not going to bait me
They could do something short of direct engagement... declare a no fly zone for humanitarian corridors in western Ukraine, safe haven cities, something like that.
Still very risky...
It's about time ,it's but 24/7 propaganda and rightfully should be Blocked from Europe ,all of their European offices should be closed
Agree entirely. I think it's completely natural. I mean Yemen is just appalling. As it stands, it's a worse humanitarian situation than Ukraine - but in all honesty, I'm not as emotionally invested as I am with a war in Europe. It's also as I mentioned earlier partly because we're used to that part of the world being in conflict. We see ourselves in Europe as being past that sort of thing, but the Russians have just reminded us that we're just as fallible.
The Gestapo have arrived
If only there was some kind of pattern that could be discerned...
On a side note, as I am sure many are aware, if this drags on, threads like this will fill up with anti-Western critics, cranks, Putin apologists, etc. They are keeping relatively "quiet" for now or masking it, but all the bile will come out.
The International Skating Union (ISU) have suspended Russian and Belarusian skaters from participating in all international ice skating competitions, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Reading some sites here is the air field been used, could be given diplomatic privilege and be considered Ukrainian tertiary.
I've no idea how that would be possible or even true.
Fúck them.
The rate their journalists are resigning they won't have staff to run RT.
Will just be a loop of Vlad topless on a horse for a finish.
Excellent video alright.
War these days is only ever about money. Usually oil/gas money or access to it. Never about ideology. I imagine there are many many people in senior Russian strategic circles that would endorse Putin's decision wholeheartedly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF4GE
It's mad that people like you read a comment like that and think I am gleeful of a nazi regime.
I could say Ireland are going to be hammered by New Zealand in the rugby world cup...would that mean I'm gleeful at the prospect of it happening?
Read my comments, you're a disgrace with your slander.
Aren't they a Nato Country? If they enter and Russia attacks in retaliation. Then Nato will be obliged to defend Poland. An attack on one is an attack on all. They won't take that chance for Ukraine.
Being effectively kicked off YouTube is not censorship, it's a decision by a private entity on who gets to choose who can and can't use their platform.
This is the kind of post thats causes a reaction ,
Everyone is entitled to an opinion we might not like what others have to say or how they say it ,but they still have a say
There's a lot of talk about racism, and some of it seems to be e.g. "...we've never seen this before in a civilised country" 🙄, But things hit closer to home the closer they are to home and the more one has in common with those it's happening to. Yemen is over 6,000 km from Dublin, Israel 4000 km, Ukraine just over 2000 km. Throw in the cultural (and, yes, racial) similarities and the fact that this war has the potential to take us all out with it, and you've got a conflict that's going to shock more and attract more interest.
It works in the same way that a death in your family hits closer than a death in your street, which in turn hits closer than a death in your town, etc. This is why, for example, Irish media report fatal traffic accidents in Ireland, but not those in other countries.
I suspect this its what's driving a lot of the comments about that have been criticised, but definitely not all of them. Some people are just choosing their words very badly.
I don't remember anyone discussing Vietnam. But no matter.
The point made is you may consider Putin crushing Ukraine as being "inevitable". But allowing Putin do to Ukraine what Hitler did to Poland and consider where does that stop? Who's next "to be "crushed" as you euphemistically put it.
Very weird... I wonder if what he was very clumsily trying to get at with the racial stereotypes was maybe an expectation (of "non Europeans" - don't know man's background, judging by appearance!? [edit ironically]) that Western Europe (where the "white people" are from) is supposedly stable, secure, wealthy and unlike other parts of the world is unlikely to have wars break out + associated death & destruction + floods of refugees. Ukraine is on the border of the EU after all.
W. Europe is one place the poor & those made refugees look to go to + is expected to take on a burden of sheltering them, wherever else in the world there is war going on. Suppose it's still that, as I sit in peace at home but looking somewhat more precarious, likely to become more so if Putin succeeds with what he is trying to do here.
Google to block RT and Sputnik news from YouTube in Europe.
Not sure how I feel about this one. Censorship like this always seems to have a habit of coming back to bite you in the arse.
They got demonetised at first, which I agreed with as they're state owned - but banned completely for European viewers? hmmm
Search on twitter.. there is text there you can copy and paste. Do your due diligence. I left a fair few myself. Of course I had to weight up the ethics of leaving a five star review on what might in reality be a very poor eaterie, but in the circumstances felt it was worth it ;) :)
Taiwan will join moves to block some Russian banks from the SWIFT international payments system “in lockstep” with Western countries, Premier Su Tseng-chang told reporters on Tuesday.
If Poland entered the war it wouldn't drag NATO into it.
Thanks for civilized replies. I guess the table thumping posters that can only hold one idea in their head at a time and want to police the discussion as though this boards thread was the frontline rather than a talking shop haven't woken up yet. :)
Like others, am going to disengage from thread for a bit. Every bit of righteous energy expended here is --let's be honest-- righteous energy that could have been expended elsewhere with more real world effect.
Good idea about the Google Reviews (if it's not blocked in Russia) but maybe people should be using Google translate to put them into Russian before posting? Not sure how the review algorithm works but assume it displays reviews in Russian to people in Russia first (like here the english ones are displayed first vs. other languages)?
Worrying to see/hear about this convoy. Agree with the consensus that Putin has gone too far now to back out. Really horrific, heart goes out to all the brave Ukrainians and their families.
Fair play to you. I'm not tech savvy so what do I have to do?
It's up to Putin to challenge it as such, which he really won't but it will feed his paranoia even more.
It could even be all the missing supplies and fuel. 🙂
There's a level of heightened anxiety and panic in chaos of trying to get out of Ukraine. Women and children first is the de facto policy in such a sea of people and even at that there can be delays of up to 30 hours getting across. That kind of scenario must be unbelievably stressful and it is perfectly natural to think that other people are being favoured regardless of what tribe you are in.
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