They want to install a prime minister 'alongside' Zelensky. Obviously we know where that will lead.
Then put your money where your mouth is and get thee to Ukraine. I’m serious. What’s stopping you from getting a plane to Poland and crossing the border to join the Ukrainians? You absolute lunatic.
I say a lot will have combat and military training. Will be massive help to Ukraine.
I don't think they are dying to protect freedom ..i think they are dying to protect their children ..i don't think putin is going to come in and just hold ukraine ...he wants to commit genocide
The west is starting to realize through this war ...a lot of Russia's military budget got ahem pocketed by putin and his cronies.
Motivated by ideology? You have to be joking. The Chinese and the Russian leadership are motivated by power(and money). The dyed in the wool ideologues were sidetracked, bumped off, or sent to gulags long ago. It gets in the way of making bank and holding onto power. The Chinese went from a 'communist' state ruled by a powerful and corrupt leadership to a 'capitalist' state ruled by a powerful and corrupt leadership in a generation. Russia went from a communist state via a mafia asset grab to a capitalist state(for the chosen) in a similar time period.
And nations and armies are not one man, unless in momentary victory and propaganda posters. Never have been, certainly not after contact with the enemy and things go badly on the ground. Even when cult of personality types like Hitler ordered a scorched earth policy when the end was near his forces didn't go along with him. Neither did the Japanese when they surrendered.
Putin is in power, but needs close support all the way down to the tip of the spear. The ordinary men and women beyond the Kremlin walls don't really figure in this. Until they do. Every day he's held back, his country falls ever further down the greasy pole economically and militarily he's more in trouble and his close support knows this.
What will happen? Fúck knows, but we're already getting sniffs of it with Russia's 'demands'. And like haggling for a bargain you don't go for the first offer because both sides know it's not the last and certainly not the final. So I see more talks going on, some concessions that look meagre, but that's Russia blinking. They're not going to get the bargain they wanted, neither are the Ukrainians, but there will be a sale nonetheless. Putin can go back home saving some face, but he's then faced with rebuilding Russia in the eyes of the world. IMHO that won't, can't happen until he's gone, retired or in a pine box with goose steppers beside it.
Or someone could go nuts tomorrow and launch a nuclear attack, but I seriously doubt it. And if one did go bang, I seriously doubt it would escalate. Every man Jack knows that's human extinction.
Reinforcements arriving (estimates up to 20,000 foreign fighters joining)
They really do, sadly.
The answer is yes , loved ones would have to die. In Ukraine they are dying . Freedom is worth dying for , everytime, has the history of this country taught you nothing !
No i mean they have a habit of betraying every deal they make both of them. Oh yeah they both love the aul oppression.
Be interesting but I say be different ball game then Russia. But who knows I suppose.
Russia will stop 'in a moment' if Ukraine meets terms - Kremlin | Reuters
These conditions seem somewhat....doable? It would certainly halt the killing and murdering of innocent civilians throughout much of Ukraine if this was genuine.
Knowing Russia, these conditions are the start...then you sit down with them to iron out a few details and find out exactly where you are...
Well I can't imagine China would like a democratic Russia beside them.
Sorry, but it's setting a terrible precedent to say that a despot like Putin should be allowed take a piece of territory despite the protestations of that territory's inhabitants, lest it make all our lives a bit harder or risk Armageddon. Where would that end, exactly?
Are you prepared for your loved ones to die in a nuclear war, then? In your view, would the deaths of your loved ones in a nuclear war be worth it, if it meant we'd all stood up to a despot before we'd died? But who would be left to care, or know?
China has a trade surplus of over €500bn. Imagine what sanctions would do to a country of over 1 billion and to its notion of being a world power plus they'd have to fight the US and others. We've seen Russia perform here so the question would be are China actually any good?
True but that time they were both on a collision course for war. China and Russia aren't at this moment of time. Nazi Germany and soviet Union were.
I would look at what putin does not what he says ....remember when he said his nukes were put at high alert ..they weren't ..it was all lies ...he bluffing
i don't see either of them being good for one another or loyal friends
I think it would only be if they thought Russia was in danger of being overrun/destroyed. I mean, that's what nukes are for. To stop you being destroyed. The threat of nuclear over a no-fly zone being imposed is a bluff. However, if a no-fly zone is imposed and Russians jets are shot down, they will obviously retaliate which would illicit more retaliation and eventually you end up in all out war which then has the nuke potential.
The housing crisis is a separate issue.
Also we are taking 100k ..that is 2% of our population ..not to be sneezed at ..but well ...lets face it ...this is not the issue with our housing situation our corrupt politicians are. And it could be easily solved by them and they don't want it solved and that is the truth.
Our housing issue is OUR OWN complacency and lax attitude on holding politicians to account.
can you imagine what is waiting for them IN Russia? If they use the corridor putins suggests?
I can see Russia and China getting pushed more together. One day it will be China's turn to invade Taiwan and that will probably happen in the next few years. Darker days on the horizon. Probably a good thing even tho I didn't like it at the time but Nato not in Afghanistan, I could of seen Russia supply major supplies to the taliban to attack Nato soldiers seeing they would say same happening to them in Ukraine.
literally no one is friendly toward russian except belarus north korea and china
And yes the west should be fighting too its our security too.
Sorry, but it's setting a terrible precedent to say that a despot like Putin should be allowed take a piece of territory despite the protestations of that territory's inhabitants, lest it make all our lives a bit harder or risk Armageddon. Where would that end, exactly? If we think someone is crazy enough to press the nuke button, then we should let them take over the world if they want and rule us all in perpetuity, doing as they please.
It is the right of the people of Ukraine to defend their land if they so choose. The people of Ukraine obviously do not Russian soldiers there, so the Russian soldiers should leave. If they won't, here we have our impasse.
There is something cowardly about a putin supporter who will not admit he is a putin supporter. What the heck is a western supremacist? WHAT IS THAT? Some russian bot concept that putin thinks westerners have?
The above is what putin has for ukrainians ....its not looking pretty.
Russia is buckling ...
The MOST dangerous thing for anyone in ukraine is to let putin think he controls things. The best thing is to give him a bloody nose.
Did he not get the memo that those countries are already not dealing with Russia
Wibbs, I am envious of your optimism, truly. I am not worried that Russia will go for a NATO country. I am worried that in his frustration, Putin will make wilder and wilder threats until eventually, a miscalculation of gargantuan proportions gets made, by either side. Pandora's Box has been opened.
China and Russia are not natural allies, but they are being pushed together. The Chinese leadership are motivated more by ideology than money, just like Putin. At this point, western noises are firmly ideological, too. And a man as learned as yourself presumably knows where that leads.
Ukraine has retaken Mykolaiv Airport back from the russians.
https://theprint.in/world/ukrainian-forces-have-retaken-control-of-mykolaiv-airport-says-regional-governor/862897/
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