Russia - threadbanned users in OP

You don't think an interview with Condoleezza Rice where the subject of discussion was the Russian invasion belongs in a thread about the Russian invasion? Does what I said make you uncomfortable?

Absolutely, but to mitigate that, we could bomb the Russians back to Crimea and let him keep a couple of the eastern districts he already holds. That would be his 'off-ramp' to say he achieved his aims of securing the ethnic Russian people of those areas. Still, not worth the risk. However if Ukraine starts to become something akin to genocide....we might be forced into it. Not sure Europe can sit back and watch a million+ die for example.

We don't have the facilities for thousands or tens of thousands of refugees ,we can accommodate a few hundred at most ,and this has Always been the situation when it comes to refugees coming here ,

We don't have the capacity for anything but token gestures ,it's sad but unfortunately this is where we are at

We need to not forget these people. Their words should be played on a loop coming up to elections.

The motivations behind political stances by elected politicians should always be held to scrutiny, so that we can understand why they have reached their conclusions

He raised the prospect of the end of Ukranian statehood in his remarks...

 “The current leadership needs to understand that if they continue doing what they are doing (resisting the invasion), they risk the future of Ukrainian statehood,” he said at a meeting in Moscow on Saturday, in his first extended remarks since the start of the war. “If that happens, they will have to be blamed for that.”

I see the charity begins at home comments surfacing here already…

I think you will be surprised at how many homes have a room they could spare and will offer them. The scenes at Berlin train station with hundred of people holding up cards with drawn stick figures showing they could take a woman and several kids was heart warming and inspirational.

Even more remarkable was a Belgian couple, who drove two cars to the Polish border packed both cars full of refugees and drove them back to Belgium.

A big difference between economic migrants refugees and those from the war in Ukraine.

I was talking to a colleague who hails from a geopolitical conflict zone. His brother, aged in his late 20s, an economist, was shot dead. He said that to us, these death tolls are meaningless. But to him, one of them was his brother. He remembers the absolute horror and fear of the bombs detonating and the walls shaking. He did not know if they would live or die. His friend’s young son, even after they emigrated, wouldn’t sleep at night, because he was afraid. He would only sleep during the day, when his family was around to protect him.

My heart bleeds for the ordinary person out there.

On the contrary, I have no issue with a link to Condaleeza Rice discussing Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The bit I have a problem with is the constant, and therefore frankly boring, attempts to use that kind of thing to divert the thread into a discussion about the hypocrisy of the U.S.A. or the BBC or whoever else you feel like is not one hundred percent consistent, like that's the thing we should really be angry about right now, at this moment in time and in this crisis. What you said doesn't make me particularly uncomfortable, it just makes me shake my head a bit. There are constantly people coming along posting versions of what you're saying like it's some sort of original thought. It's not. It's just contrarian crankery at this point. As I have previously suggested, why don't you or the others who post the exact same kind of thing start a thread on the hypocrisy bit and stop trying to derail this one?

4) Ukraine isn't really a democratic country, it was overthrown by right wing Nazis who were carrying out genocide of ethnic Russians with the help of the CIA.

With all due respect, STFU.

we simply have to step up there will be a huge economic cost coming down the line due to this war and it will affect a lot of people .There is an awful lot of wishful thinking about change in Russia which will happen but at best it would be someone just a bit better than Putin and there will not be a complete change of systems in Russia .I wonder how many people in powerful postions either in the army or buiness in RUSSIA who might effect a change but it looks a fair bit away at the moment .We have to hope by putting sanctions in place we bring everything to its knees but that will take time not before huge damage and loss of life .