All things Russian are toxic now and will be for the foreseeable future.
So not surprising in the least these gigs are been cancelled left right and centre.
Scared of a situation that escalate into an all-out nuclear war isn't an unreasonable thing to be scared of. It's not really one of those situations that has a lot of margin for error.
I'd like to be a fly on the wall of the Pentagon right now, as I'd have to think there are some very interesting conversations happening inside. Is there that one crusty general who looks like the actor Rip Torn going, 'blow those damn ruskies to hell!', I wonder?
There's every argument to say that a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO forces would not escalate to a nuclear war, but the possibility still exists, and, once again, there can be no margin for error where the potential end of civilisation is concerned. Not something you can chance the arm on.
Who knows honestly.
If I had to guess (likely badly) Russia eventually head back home..due to economics/public opinion/Putin overthrown...along with keeping Crimea...as well as Donetsk and Luhansk.
It'll be biological next for the clean sweep.
Ironically enough much of the Woke cancel culture bs of the last 5 years was sponsored by Russia.
Still makes this wrong.
Almost all wars are resolved politically.
This has gone a bit too far lads
Their GDP is less than $1.5 Trillion/year
By contrast: the GDP of the EU is $17T/yr and the US is shy of $21T/yr (China is close to $15T/yr)
Rich in culture, but no hope of winning a conflict by conventional means against NATO.
Putin doesn't seem to have much of an issue having people poisoned with nerve agent. Unfortunately nothing is off the table with that regime.
The basic gist of it is he's asking the strong military powers of the west for help to stop the violence against his people and they are replying :
"We would help, but we're too scared"
Who would be most likely do you think?
Poland?
We don't need a pro-western government at this stage, just a non-mental one.
Russia is an astonishingly rich country, as you allude to, in terms of culture. Great interest and knowledge amongst ordinary people regarding the arts. Here at home most people barely read or know anything about classical music or theatre anymore. We are philistines.
From the guardian:
"Russian’s delegation at peace talks with Ukraine “will not concede a single negotiating point,” reported a RIA news agency today.
From Reuters:
Russia’s delegation at peace talks with Ukraine “will not concede a single negotiating point,” RIA news agency cited negotiator Leonid Slutsky as telling a television station on Wednesday.
The two sides have carried out three rounds of talks since the start of the Russian invasion. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is scheduled to have talks in Turkey on Thursday with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba
So how does this end?
Is there any possible compromise that would suit both parties?
If Putin and his government were somehow removed, it's very unlikely that they would be replaced by a pro western government anyway, and then it's back to the days of the cold war all over again?
Russia’s delegation at peace talks with Ukraine “will not concede a single negotiating point,”
Reiterating the same point, so what exactly is the point of the peace talks? Russia continues to bomb innocents
You just wonder like -what this achieves? Aside from a notable few - is anyone taking notice of this? Is this *******T changing minds? Are companies going to see that and say
'Well that changes things' - and go back to business??
They are young conscripts who phoned their girlfriends from land lines in Ukraine. They lack discipline because they are not real soldiers.
I had assumed, and I could be way wrong on this, that A5 of the NATO charter is more about defence than attack. Like, is there an argument not to invoke that article if a member state attacks first, or is the being attacked thing absolute?
As it is, with the supplying of weapons and how that could be interpreted as provocation, we may end up seeing a debate about just that.
I don't know. I'd kind of miss the ballet, the music, Stravinsky, Tschaichovsy, the writings of Nabakov. I hope you don't want to burn their works to ashes just because they are Russian.
Are we expecting chemical now?
How's the war going Burger Face ? The same war you asserted to me in an abusive fashion, would absolutely not happen.
Do you have anything to offer to this discussion or do you just argue, abuse and troll ?
I doubt. Netherlands would betray.
Funny thing is that's probably an ideal scenario for NATO (well the bigger nations anyway)
Would actually make an interesting situation, if there was a retaliation in such a scenario would all of NATO act in accordance with it's rules and defend that nation, or, would it try and distance itself from the break away nation?
NATO not being able to act is probably the only factor that Putin anticipated correctly pre invasion.
I think they are holding out for a country to break ranks with nato and come to help ukraine
One of the few interviews I have seen him do in English:-
"If you are united against the Nazis and this terror, you have to close. Don't wait for me ask you several times, a million times. Close the sky"
It's interesting that people are focussing on KIA as casualties, if that figure is up to 9000 then the amount wounded has to be way in excess of that, somewhere around 10-20 times more, unless the Russian suck at keeping their wounded alive, which is possible. That's a lot of men to lose.
Both Russia and Ukraine will need to rotate their combat troops soon, or they'll wear out, maybe the Russians are hoping that the Ukranians can't and that will degrade their ability to fight
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