Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I watched that live and just thought .. “ what a colossally useless….”

does his standing and that of the US …internationally or domestically no use at all…I’d say Bush, Clinton and Obama would be seeing that and head in hands… they must watch most of his addresses, head in hands or behind the couch..

Tango with Putin there on storyville on bbc4 was an excellent watch imo

World bank halting all projects in Belarus and Russia.

Have you ever read about the downfall of Ceaușescu in Romania? One demonstration where he was heckled. One day the military were shooting protestors on his behalf and then four or five days later hauled him into a filthy back room for a makeshift trial. A few minutes later he was shot by firing squad.

The military believed he had murdered the minister for defence, though he may have actually committed suicide.

Just one unforeseen event can turn things dramatically in a totally unexpected direction. Dictators have swung in public squares so often it’s almost as though it’s part of the way they work.

At approximately 09:30 on the morning of 22 December Vasile Milea, Ceaușescu's minister of defence, died under suspicious circumstances. A communiqué by Ceaușescu stated that Milea had been sacked for treason, and that he had committed suicide after his treason was revealed.[34] The most widespread opinion at the time was that Milea hesitated to follow Ceaușescu's orders to fire on the demonstrators, even though tanks had been dispatched to downtown Bucharest that morning. Milea was already in severe disfavour with Ceaușescu for initially sending soldiers to Timișoara without live ammunition. Rank-and-file soldiers believed that Milea had actually been murdered and went over virtually en masse to the revolution. Senior commanders wrote off Ceaușescu as a lost cause and made no effort to keep their men loyal to the regime. This effectively ended any chance of Ceaușescu staying in power.[26]

Realism.

How many civilian and children deaths will be too much to stop us all thinking Ukraine can stop Russia?

Are Russian civilians thick and believe state media or would most have access to VPN?

By those stats the number dieing was going down every year. Going from 486 in 2017 to 74 in 2020.

In the last 5 days there has been twice the number of civilians killed than in the last 5 years of the conflict in Donbass and Luhansk. Then you factor in the soldiers who are killed in the last few days and this war is far from over.

And by Russia invading all of the Ukraine and putting in a puppet government will have far more civilians killed in the years to come from surgency.

There is no jusdication for this invasion if the mission was to save civilian life...Now you will deflect that fact by talking about some other invasion rather than the one we are dealing with now and it's jusdication.

If a country invaded russia in the morning would you not give an opinion whether it is justified or not untill it becomes clear as to why they were doing it even tho thousand were initially getting killed?