No evidence there is widespread support and enthusiasm for the war. A Russian dissident was interviewed on Sky News yesterday and said that whilst the invasion of Crimea in 2014 was genuinely popular, the invasion of Ukraine has led to a much more muted reaction and could not be describe as being 'popular' in any way.
The Russians will encircle Kyiv and are close to it now. Bugger all supplies are going to get in. Food medicine, bullets. Or civilians out, which is the worst of it. When they think it's 'softened up' they'll send in the troops. Followed by the tanks and other armoured vehicles that are now rested and supplied with fuel from their logistics that have caught up in the lull to the rear.
If this is accurate an even more terrifying fate could be in store for the people of Kiev
Whatever about NATO, the EU should state that any chemical weapon use in Europe is a red line seeming though the Russians like to talk about red lines.
The Syrians will go the same way as the Chechens and airborne troops , burnings carcasses in steel coffins ,
Remember they won't have the Iranians or Russians to fight for them
I wonder is this linked to the potential meeting between Z and Putin...
It's stuff like this and the turning against putin by his surviving generals that could cause a halt in his plans, or put a large spanner in their works. Here's hoping.
That or they are moving troops from harms way (chemical weapons attacks)
Gonna give an ultimatum to him, surrender or suffer chemical attacks
or worse...
If dissent was widespread and was in the majority, we'd have seen more protests than we saw and would see more elites breaking ranks with Putin. I realise there's jail to contend with for many of these people, but if you're suggesting more than half the population is anti-war and against what Putin is doing, that's a lot of people to jail and the regime wouldn't be able to cope.
Indeed, the longer the conflict goes on, the nastier it can get. Ukrainians appear to be showing extraordinary restraint so far, but down the line we may sadly see some atrocities coming out committed by them.
Of course if/when that does occur the Kremlin propaganda machine will take full advantage, likewise all their masked supporters and anti-Western fundamentalists will also exploit it in online
But what does a red line mean to the EU?
All that's really left to the EUs disposal is immediately ending oil/gas imports at this stage.
Even after that truly incredible defence by Finns with balls bigger than planets, Finland still came to the negotiating table and gave up more of her territory than the initial Soviet demands. Though they kept their country which is what really mattered. I could see this going the Finnish route. The Ukrainians screw the Russians up so badly that the Russians will come to the table and cry stop, but keep Crimea and the Donbas.
And I'd say your mum was also scared by Bandera's Ukrainians the most because they were utter nazi scumbags, just as steeped in that twisted faith as the SS.
Military intervention. There must be at least a threat of a red line. European nations can’t watch chemical warfare in the European continent on their TVs and sit back because of Russian threats. At the very least it might deter the Russians.
Sign that a bigger bomb is to be used on Kyiv and he needs to save his army?
100% Russia will be trying to capture Ukrainian soldiers to force them to "admit" on Russian TV that they are Nazis and had a secret plan to attack LDNR
Oh very much so, but that's what it looks like they're aiming to do. Level the city, cut it off from any help or supply, send in the infantry first street by street, followed by tanks(tanks on their own are far too vulneable). They did it in Berlin and it worked. They tried it in Grozny in the first Czechen war and it didn't. When they came back for round two they learned from their mistakes and destroyed the city and her defendants in the very definition of a war crime. In Georgia they tried similar and it worked, though that conflict was on a much smaller scale so how useful it is as a guide is debatable.
ruble is worthless
"Yes, I worked at the Biological weapons lab where we were planning an attack on Russia"
Then Jack Posobiec posts it on Twitter.
Well according to that article, there is one plus out of this.
The dogs are going to be well fed on the corpses of the Russians so that if the time comes they in turn will provide good eating.
I'd say they are somewhere between the two. On paper, they 'support' the invasion of Ukraine but without any great enthusiasm (apart from among hardcore Putin fans). Note the lack of any outward demonstrations of support for the war in Russia, which you would expect to see if the war was hugely popular and going down a storm. The gymnast guy with a Z on his shirt was an isolated incident.
"Ukrainian border guards say that Russian fighter jets took off from Dubrovytsa Belarus, and launched missiles from airspace of Ukraine over Horodychi and Tumeni villages towards village of Kopani in Belarus " https://liveuamap.com/en/2022/11-march-ukrainian-border-guards-say-that-russian-fighter
False flag pretext for...?
Blinken would make for an excellent president in shoring up America's place in the world. Serious, tough, good intellect and well respected even by adversary states. Knows the strengths and limits of America's power.
Cons: Very much a creature of the foreign policy establishment, very Ivy League, and how he would handle the nuts and bolts of domestic issues is an unknown and an entirely different side of the equation.
He might just max-out as an ever-present and evergreen foreign policy Svengali like Kissinger.
This is my thinking , anything else is a total loss for putin , thousands of men , vehicles, aircraft for what , Zelenskyy is still president of Ukraine and no puppet government ,and the ukraines could well take back the separatists areas or reduce the size of the areas ,the Ukrainians backs are up now and more confident than ever
You may be right on that point, but unfortunately as this goes on I think we will start to see anti-western protests in Russia. The anger over sanctions will be towards the west, not Putin.
Probably trying to shore up support for Luka to invade Ukraine.
The belarussians must know its bullshit.
Sky news report: https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-russia-news-putin-nuclear-live-updates-kyiv-12541713?postid=3519549#liveblog-body
Russian president Vladimir Putin and Belarussian president Alexander Lukashenko appeared to shrug off the economic sanctions placed on them by Western nations earlier, as they began their meeting in Moscow.
Mr Lukashenko, who is one of Mr Putin's few remaining allies, said "people will have forgotten this has happened" in a few months, and that there is an "opportunity" to build something "better than the Soviet Union".
Meanwhile, Mr Putin claimed that in the past sanctions had only made Russia stronger.
But perhaps most notably, the Russian leader added that there had been "certain positive shifts" in the talks with Ukraine, and that those negotiations were continuing on a daily basis.
His remarks come despite nothing coming of yesterday's meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers.
But combined with statements earlier on a possible meeting between the Russian president and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy (see 11.12 post), there may be tentative hopes among some that this represents a change of tone from Mr Putin."
Any other sources confirming there may be a meeting between Putin and Zelensky?
Sanctions have to be directed at Russia's economy.
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