I would have classed Oliver Stone as quite anti-Western and into that cliched world view, so pretty unsurprising to see he is an admirer of Putin (of course, "adjusting" his position now)
In a Telegram group chat organised in answer to Ukraine’s government call for hackers to protect the country’s infrastructure from cyberattacks and to conduct its own cyber missions, a hacking team called the Belarusian Cyber Partisans said they planned to target the Belarusian railway networks.
The “IT army” group chat also discussed targeting Russian telecom companies as well as GLONASS – Russia’s satellite-based navigation system and alternative to GPS.
They should apply in secret, Nato does the paperwork nice and quietly and then spring it on old Pootz in press conference.
"Surprise c*ckface, we're NATO members as of 9am this morning. Come at us bro!"
Yeah this is what they did to the Dead Russians during the continuation war.
The enemy does not go unpunished.
Allied artillerymen inflict heavy fire damage, destroying columns and clusters of Russian occupation forces 🔥
Ukrainian artillery works as always clearly, accurately and as efficiently as possible.
Meanwhile as Russia becomes battle hardened in preparation for WW3 and its next victim the west struggles to update their pronouns on social media
Like Ukraine neither Finland Nor Sweden are in NATO.
I think the ideal scenario for them is that Putin is forced to pull his army out as a result of sanctions or from pressure from within Russia. I don't know how likely or unlikely that outcome is, but I believe as long as it remains a possibility then I don't see there being any direct intervention. I would hope there is a threshold for direct intervention long before Ukraine is flattened. Putin may be ordering his army to be more aggressive and ruthless in their tactics with the hope of demoralising the Ukrainian leadership and people so that they become more desparate. He will then be in a greater position of getting more concessions out of any possible ceasefire talks. I think that is his only win outcome.
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Whatever is going on in those talks I’ve no doubt the Ukrainians are at least looking for a safe passage corridor for innocent civilians.
How can Russia not even concede that, that’s surely just something any decent person (in all walks of life) would grant. That said, I’m not familiar with the conduct of war, is it normal for armies to allow civilians out during combat? In counter to that sentence , if it’s a “war of peace” like Putin says then how can this be even something that needs to be negotiated?
Just on the whole EU membership thing, between Moldova and Ukraine, I would be more in support of EU members troops going to Ukraine than I would Ukraine hastily joining the EU. Im sorry but it would be so short sighted, the EU isnt some symbolic gesture and its not a military alliance either. These countries want to be part of the West, and lets be honest, its for good reason, but joining the EU is not the same thing as being part of the West.
The only input the Chain of Command in the US get is whether or not it is a legal order. That is it. Had Bush decided "**** it" and ordered a nuclear strike of Iraq during the invasion it would have required an illegal break in the chain of command to stop it.
And that's probably what would have happened, as it would have contravened numerous conducts and conventions of war and been deemed illegal almost immediately. If Bush, indeed, had ordered a nuclear strike, it wouldn't have got beyond his authorisation and would have drowned in the debate that followed.
The legal requirements of a first strike option I would say are quite varied and encompassing and are so designed to avoid an unnecessary situation from arising. However, they aren't so restrictive that they hobble the option for a retaliatory strike should that particular need arise. Because in that case, whether it was legal or not probably wouldn't matter.
Interesting piece on the BBC about amateur Ukrainian reservists digging in around the forests of Kyiv
"The scene is somehow reminiscent of World War Two. There's no heavy machinery, just a shovel in every hand. It's a rush job to block the path of Russian forces. We cannot identify the location. One man wields a chain saw, doing battle with a stubborn pine tree.
Mykhaylo blends in with the forest. The 25-year-old computer programmer stands proud, in full camouflage gear. He joined a territorial defence unit earlier this year and got just a few days of training, but he insists he's combat ready.
"I am not afraid," he said firmly. "We are prepared, and we have a lot of powerful guys there. There is a big possibility that the Russians won't even come here. I am very confident in our armed forces. If the Russians make it this far, we will push them out".
I thought it was clear I was pointing out the hypocrisy of the Americans, I should have made it clearer for some apologies
Ha. Finns are great. I lost a semi-serious drunken arm wrestling match to a Finnish lady in a crowded bar one time. Me shoulder was sore for a month. Twas the start of something quite lovely. Anyway, based on the women alone, the Russians would indeed be mad to invade.
Indiscriminate bombing of Ukrainian cities will kill tens of thousands of Ukrainians in the coming weeks - Putin laughing at the West and their sanctions!
More talks.
F-16 on CAP over Romania..
They literally are.
Putin already said 8 years ago he will never allow foreign troops to be deployed on Ukrainian soil,
The only peace keepers will the Russians carrying out Genocide
They seem to fare much better as POWs!
Flight Radar.
F16 and a tanker flying orbits, lets hope he has company, but with their transponders turned off.
I will that's for sure. The boss doesn't know it yet, but if he has a problem with it I'm out the gap. Not dropping 100quid for fuel each week for any job.
Every TD should be hounded out of it until they reduce the excise. It doesn't bother them with all their expenses and high salaries. The tax they are bringing in on this is outrageous.
There's no guarantee a potential war with NATO would be a conventional one.
I watched some of that a few weeks ago. Stone seemed positively giddy in his presence.
For a man who was so deeply affected by Vietnam, you'd think he'd recognise a master of war when he sees one.
There are some who are so desperate for an alternative to the way our society is structured (and there is a lot we need to change tbf), that they become utterly and helplessly credulous when a non-western snake oil merchant offers up something else - even if it lacks any coherency and only really serves the despot's power lust. Putin has been playing Pied Piper to these people for a long time.
Thanks, yes I visited his Twitter status too looking for whether he noticed anything different. The pieces he links are largely ones that cohere with the average Putin admirer of two weeks ago. More interesting was that on the website of the soft piece he links to first is a further seperate contribution from Patrick Cockburn (prepublished in Counterpunch on the 28th Feb). Like the late Robert Fisk, Cockburn's columns are famously non-mainstream and can be non-antagonistic to, say, the Russian defence of the Assad regime, and yet he concludes too that Putin has made a disastrous mistake.
Look at it from the Russian perspective. He has broken the established compact that he keeps Russia strong and safe, protects vetted interests, and builds the economy. He has ruined it all based on hubris is what Cockburn concludes.
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How can he row back and save his legacy? Obviously to me that means declare his victory early and come to a deal with the Ukraine government, and resign from his post once he has secured his safety..... Lavrov or Mevdevev can rule in the interim.
It’s seems quite simple the world has changed even Russia has but putin is 60 years behind
With this precedent, that you can do what you want and we wont engage militarily if you dont mess with a NATO country is dangerous. Whats to stop him from sailing a few destoyers and troop carriers into say Cork and Galway. 50K Russian troops and he'd take the country at least in name in less than a week. Doesnt need any tanks, some APCs and troop carriers. Its an unnarmed ppoulation who wont fight much, a weak undermanned military. So long as he doesnt go North over the border NATO wont intervene. Think the UK would come to our aid? Maybe, maybe not.
Everyone will say thats mad, but is it. He doesn't care if he loses 50K troops
Parliament debate, referendum?, threat of Russian attack, NATO process. Russian attack? 3 -12 months?
Putin won’t take on a NATO army because he knows, even through his hubris, that in a conventional war his army would be flattened.
Despite some people on here hyping up the capabilities of their “A-Team”…
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