Russia - threadbanned users in OP

It's a likely extermination of the 2 million people who comprise Ukrains civil society. This is Stalin / Pol Pot levels of horror about to unfold. I saw something a couple days ago that they are already going door to door looking for people in the areas they control, so the pogrom may well be already underway.

This was explained by Anastasiya Shapochkina on France24. Shes a Ukrainian academic working in Paris and an expert on Russian politics.

If Ukraine and Taiwan aren't worth saving, at which point do we get to one who is worth it? This sickening attitude of my corner of turf if ok so fcuk everyone else is what has led us down this path. Expansionism is something countries like Russia and China will pursue as long as they're let. Chinese soft expansionism has large swathes of Africa and Asia already under its thumb. Its only a matter of time before the soft version turns hard. Putin will go as long as he's let.

I agree on the sanctions. Anthing the hurts the little man will only turn public opinion against the west and motivate Russia's military. There was 20yrs spent on unjustified wars in the middle east where their presence only solidified the feeling of animosity. The one justifiable military action, in Ukraine, the west is turning its back on for fear of reprisals that will come eventually in any case if they are to come at all. Except we'll have lost multiple allies before it done.

The Estonian cargo ship Helt was Sunk outside the port of Odessa ,

How is targeting of civilian vessels not an act of war by Russia also a war crime ?

Putin may win his "peace keeping" "de-nazification" mission but he's not going to win all the other economic/financial/technological/propoganda/etc. wars that are going on ..

During the last 20 odd years Putin has been in power the Ruble has gone from 29 to 108 against the dollar and its only going to get far worse....

stories today of russian banks now charging an additional 30% commission for russians to convert their rubles ...

the russian people and economy will be destroyed by putins actions and ultimately enough will be enough....

I see Sergei Lavrov has said this morning that Russia will carry on the war with Ukraine until "the end", but the question is what does Russia consider the end?

Another interesting accusation he made:-

"Offering no evidence, Lavrov said Russia had information that the United States was worried about the prospect of losing control over what he described as chemical and biological laboratories in Ukraine and accused Britain of building military bases there"

Not on the home front. More and more Russians are being exposed to the 'actual' news and things could start to bubble. Hence the talk of possible martial law. An 'attack' on Russia would give Putin support to go 'get em'.

How do you get in contact with Russian people the way putinbots can infiltrate us.

I would find that hard to fathom, too. He is already in enough trouble as it is, but... it has precedent and we know a similar event with ketchup rather than real blood was planned to kickstart the invasion but foiled by the Americans and UK who outed this and their puppet state plans. The videos of captured Russian rocket launchers (some of them claim they have thermobaric weapons but they probably do not) could form part of this, plus fake news that Ukraine were going on the offensive, i.e. into Russian Federation territory proper.

Also worrying is that intelligence confirms Sino-Russian pre-agreement on the invasion timeline, and from that it seem China abstained only because of the threat of sanctions. The West has chosen bravely to take up hardship for a good cause, but we are otherwise regarded by Russia and China as the decadent US and a hodgepodge of divisable West Eurasian states only useful because of our money and willingness to educate their children in our elite schools.

Russia just murdered an OSCE observer:

"Maryna Fenina, who worked for the OSCE mission monitoring the situation in Ukraine, died when she provided supplies for her family in a city that had become a war zone."

https://polishnews.co.uk/ukraine-russias-attack-osce-mission-member-killed-in-russian-attack/

First of all, get to grips with this; make sure you learn the Russian one.

One unexpected benefit is that you will finally realise what the CCCP was when the Soviet Union was competing in the Olympics.

Then spend at least 2 years learning the vocabulary and grammar (cases can be tough).

You'll then need to polish things off with a bit of localisation; think the 'proper English' school in Slumdog Millionaire.

And even then, you're still at risk of alienating your 'audience' with an innocuous mistake like 'Gaelic'.

If Canada wished to become communist then that would be there business. Invading Ukraine, attempting to bomb it flat and ethnically cleansing its population cannot be described as "delicate"

Attempting to explain away the invasion as some type of peace keeping mission is straight from Putins own notebook and frankly is complete bollocs.

The only reason any country close to Russia has joined NATO is to prevent exactly what has happening in Ukraine now.

No issue with your posts at all, but you seemed to be conflicted for narratives over Putin.

Putin is watching the same news channels the rest of Russia is watching. Seems he has no clue either of the reality ,