Russia - threadbanned users in OP

So basically the Russians are realising they can’t win with the tactics they were employing up to now and they’ve decided to go down the route of Chechnya and start bombing the place indiscriminately.

Even if putin gets Ukraine to surrender what has he achieved?

Ukraine will never surrender and it’s population will remain opposed to him.

It’s nuts on his behalf.

Putin just wants a puppet government like he has in Belarus, so he has a buffer of compliance between him and Europe/NATO

I don't think it does "bite you in the arse" actually. Definitely was not as easy to get whatever distorted rubbish the communist bloc were pumping out as propaganda in the Cold War deep into your noodle. You probably had to go to some kooky shop shop and purchase a weirdo pamphlet/newspaper. Now our societies are completely wide open to the poision of Russia and lots of others who wish us ill.

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It's also bleakly funny seeing the populist right in Europe trying to backpeddle and distance themselves from their macho man Putin and Russia now as well. I hope the stink clings and they end up in the dustbin of history, embarrassments with zero political support or influence similar to likes of Oswald Mosley in UK or German American Bund in the US, or indeed Communist parties and their groupies/fellow travellers in Europe after USSR sent in the tanks.

This is pretty big, international shipping is vital for any economy

The mask is continually slipping.

Huge.

I'm baffled as to why you've fallen for this nonsense.

They cut off the pipeline only after Russia's aggressive moves in Ukraine, recognising the regions he deliberately destabilised in Ukraine with 'little green men', part of his gambit to detstabilise Ukraine and keep it out of EU\NATO orbit and as a puppet of Russia like Belarus. This has been coming since the Maidan Revolution.

As for why don't the US don't intervene with boots on the ground, why do you think, because your non madman Putin is acting like a madman threatening nuclear retaliation against such moves. Europe wouldn't just be in ashes then, the world would be.

Even within your post you're all over the shop.

I suppose some people think cheap gas is more iimportant than Ukraine's freedom. Germany thought like that too until they came to their sense and saw the threat Russia represented to European peace. And yes, Ukraine is in Europe.

They won't do that .

Google is and has been for years attempting to stop ISIS from using its services to recruit. That isn't just a ban it is out and out hunting any work around that group uses from getting its propaganda out. That is as much censorship as blocking RT.

I agree with both decisions by google but acknowledge they are not quite the same as each other but they are similar styles. However as someone says the problem with censorship is that eventually they censor something you agree with. It all comes down to how you define extremism.

The Albanians didn't hold back at the UN

It's a spectacular own goal. He was also counting on the EU being feckless. That looked to be the case in the first 24hrs, but he's done something that no amount of endless meetings has ever done - unite the EU. This lot usually take 20 years to agree a trade deal. In a few days they've acted in almost unison and inflicted harsh sanctions. Credit to the UK who seemed to kick it all off.

He thought he could send limited troops, seize kyiv with minimal resistance, install a puppet government and due to this being so lightening quick and bloodless, Europe and the world would just denounce without much action. He misjudged Ukraine, he misjudged the EU and above all, he misjudged Zelenskyy who he thought was a joke figure that would hightail it out of Ukraine as soon as the Russian trucks rolled in.

Where is Putin's out?, it seems rather than backing off he is doubling down. Reports of soldiers going door to door in captured cities with lists of names and addresses - to dissapear people presumably as previously discussed here being the gameplan.

He isnt backing off at all, if anything he is giving the world the two fingers, the longer this goes on the more cornered the rat becomes. I've read that former KGB officers reported him as having a lack of comprehension of danger which helped him take risks others wouldnt have, scary thought in the current situation.