Well he’s been right about everything so far.
Whatever your opinion of the war and I am sure the amount of people that support Russia is tiny, it is truly sinister to see people arguing that there is nothing wrong with Facebook allowing people to incite violence against Russians because they are Russians.
What's next,calls for internment. Russian people are not the Russian government. I hope that Facebook story is not true as it is fairly sinister. Rwanda was the radio. People are already smashing windows of Russian shops and restaurants.
We really don't change do we.
Thanks
The reason is that it appears to be a Vladolf Putler regime mouthpiece.
I honestly hope so .
But I don't see the redine ,but they have installed patriot batteries in Rzezow airport yesterday which might suggest they think Russia might venture outside of Ukrainan airspace
There's no suggestion that they are allowing calls for violence against ordinary Russian people. I would have thought that was clear from the article?
I think that's more giving the Russians the hint that should they choose to fly over, they are gonna get got.
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Just if you want to have a look over at the other side of what may be happening in Ukraine
It's kind of like saying, "Just if you want to have a look at the other side of what happened to Aisling Murphy."
No. Just no. We can hear the other side of things when Putin's up at the Hague, but in that event, I don't think he'll be able to advance a hugely convincing case for what he's directed his soldiers to do, here.
how can you not love this guy
Should we be allowed say that the war should be taken to Russia?
That's what happened in World War II. The war was taken to Nazi Germany.
And we know what that entailed. But it helped to win to win the war.
Ukraine and its allies did not start this war, remember.
Russia did, for no reason.
Look at me sweating on my credibility. Troll on.
Aren't you the guy who's always full of shít and has no idea what they're talking about? Often found in its habitat of conspiracy theory forums, shíting on about Satan and all sorts of other weird nonsense?
I think there is an all too clear red line - the border of NATO -
That said, any and all military hardware and material should flow into Ukraine, I was annoyed by the fighter jet fiasco. Russian threats of 'We will consider you sending X to Ukraine, an act of .. whatever' - should be ignored, The precedents are there. Russia arms proxies and allies. SO does the west. They wont like the west doing it, of course. And that is unfortunate.. for them. I would take such 'condemnations and bloviation' as evidence that such support is hindering to Russia's position. Not nearly as having your territory invaded Ivan... c'est la vie. Put condemnations in a letter and send it to THEWESTCARES@G.RU
The Biden administration was spot on correct in predicting this invasion 2 weeks before it happened, (how many other administrations got these things badly wrong?) consequently preparing and persuading the West for the massive sanctions to be imposed almost immediately. Thus putting massive pressure on Russia before they got a few miles across the Ukraine border.
History will judge that response deservedly well.
I read an article earlier from Rueters which did not specify just soldiers.
March 10 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (FB.O) will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy
Food, fertilizer and raw minerals.
I'm up for banning them but people have to accept the war economy that results.
We can hear the other side of things when Putin's up at the Hague
Is it not very unlikely he will end up in the Hague?
Is Putin specifically ordering the shelling of the planned corridors out of Mariupol or was it already the mindset of the Russian army general staff anyway?
He would be well able to order it but it would fit in to Russian military school of thought
Brilliant synopsis from her. She nails it.
Did you read it. Death to Russian invaders.
At this point we don't even know if Vladimir Putin still exists. The original Star Wars trilogy was remastered with better CGI work than the production of his supposed tea party with the ladies the other day. The Soviets had a habit of airbrushing individuals out of photographs when they went out of favor, Putin may have received the same treatment, 21st century style.
Russians are providing corridors towards Russia only. Ukrainian civilians want to escape in the opposite direction.
I'm aware of the hotline that the US and Russian militaries have in order to avoid misunderstandings on the border between NATO and Russia. Why don't US generals use that to convince Russian generals to guarantee corridors out of Mariupol? Such a conservation would be from one general to another - the best alternate-history example I can think of would be, let's say, Rommel talking to Eisenhower and Montgomery if the Stauffenberg plot had been successful.
Biden blames a 40 year inflation hike on Putin....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
A lot of people have talked about the relatively poor performance of the Russian army. From my understanding up to about 15 years ago the make up of the Russian army was rather different than what we are used to here in the West.
The use of poorly trained conscripts has been well documented (as is currently seen). However what was less well known was that until recently the vast majority of NCOs (vital enlisted personnel - junior leaders essentially) were simply conscripts themselves.
The notion of a professional cadre of full time NCOs (which has generally existed as the backbone of any army - ESPECIALLY in those that utilise conscription) was non existent. In essence the quality of their enlisted personnel (the foundation of any army) was built on quicksand. Low quality or lowly motivated conscripts served as privates, they were lead by Corporals drawn from the same conscript pool (but who were slightly more promising than those they were leading), who in turn were lead by Sergeants who were only conscripts themselves but willing to serve for an extra 18 months. Essentially you had a massive cohort in your army of unmotivated people only passing time until they were released from their obligations. All coherency and a massive amount of institutional memory was lost every time these NCOs left.
I believe some attempt has been made to regularise the situation and to maintain a more professional army, however it would appear that delays (caused by corruption, lack of funds etc.) have put paid to that. Of course into that mix you will also have an ever declining number of your full time veterans of the many many border clashes since the fall of the USSR. But soldiering is a young mans game.
So if it looks like it's a sh*t show where they don't know what their at (and it certainly looks like it is) well maybe theres a good reason for that: they don't.
If Mariupol civilians had been allowed to go west, the Russians would then still be able to launch a new offensive to take the city anyway. So what's the point in not letting the civilians go west?
You don't sound 'grisly'. You sound like a deranged conspiraloon...
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