Russia - threadbanned users in OP

You are probably right.

I'm finding it difficult to articulate how dismayed, enraged, scared ... <insert any and all strong emotion here> this thing is making me feel. On the one hand I'd want to see the killing stop ASAP (on both sides!), but on the other, believing that if Ukraine and yes, by proxy, most of the rest of the world, capitulates or surrenders or makes concessions, we doom ourselves. Maybe not immediately and maybe not in an apocalyptically sudden 'End Of The World' style, but death by a thousand cuts - despots threatening other countries about who and how they make alliances, backing up their threats by effectively saying "it would be a shame if we had do what Russia did to Ukraine, wouldn't it?".

I have no grand plan to solve this war. I believe that what Putin has done is illegal and I don't believe that he should profit by it in any way. Easy for me to say, sitting here in comfort and ease in Ireland. And that's also something that's causing me strong emotions, shame being one. Shame that I'm allowing people in Ukraine to fight and die for me and I feel like there's f*ck all I'm doing for them.

So I apologise for lashing out at you.

I don't disagree but are Ireland not one of the most food secure countries in the world?

He also quoted in his feed an article from the FT, Turkey blocking passage to Russian Navy?

Another Putin Apologist? OK.

I presume your thinking is that Putin had no other option other than to invade Ukraine, bomb the **** out of it and undertake the ethnic cleansing of the Ukranian people even though its not part of any "defensive military alliance"

So you're asking me - why would countries like Ukraine (who's just been invaded by Russia), Sweden and Finland (who've just be threatened by Russia) seek to be part of a defensive network, which appears to be the only thing holding Putins land grabbing megalomaniac ambitions at bay? No sorry absolutely stumped on that one. >insert irony emoji<.

Edit. Thanks @Dohnjoe you bet me to it!

I agree.

Twitter famously booted the President of America off its Social media platform for inciting violence and other things.

Today twitter is hosting Putins official account. The same guy who just invaded a sovereign country and who is now undertaking a mass programe of ethnic cleansing there.

I reckon twitter desperately needs to get its **** together.

We are,6th biggest beef exporter etc etc but our grain isn't really good enough for bread compared to others.

Yeah - Lavrov's diatribe was pretty thick with irony - pretty much everything he accused the west of could be applied ten-fold to Russia. Bizzare logic.

Yeah this is something I cannot grasp. Does Russia seriously believe that other countries shouldn't be able to improve their defensive capabilities in case it erodes Russia's offensive abilities.

Yet it seems Russia has no problem in continuing to develop offensive capabilities to erode other countries defensive one.

They really are in their own little world.

Interesting point.

It should be noted that twitter waited until trump was no longer president before deleting him which is BS. Like if you're going to do it, means more to do it while still president.

If Putin got outed next week twitter would ban his account only then. Twitter must lick their finger and check the direction of wind each day haha.