Your can have Nationalism that's not imperialistic in nature (Facist Spain) and Imperialism that's not Nationalistic in nature (British Empire, Soviet Union)
Quite the fleet of confiscated super yachts building up. How about strapping a few explosives on them and drone pilot them into the Russian warships.
Up to 20,000 civilians feared dead in Ukrainian city Mariupol, says official....Petro Andryushchenko said the situation in the Ukrainian city was “catastrophic” and warned the death toll would approach 350,000 if residents did not leave in time.
https://www.independent.ie/news/up-to-20000-civilians-feared-dead-in-ukrainian-city-mariupol-says-official-41447614.html
Five young captured conscripts describing the shambolic nature of the Russian invasion. Even if we take into account they are being used for propaganda purposes, their accounts tally with everything we have heard about the disastrous problems on the Russian side ; equipment frequently breaking down, food shortages, heavy losses.
I answered already 3 times.
THEY've claimed they represent EU
Just seen this anounced live on sky news:
Potentially very significant breaking news coming from the UN, where Russia has reportedly called for a UN Security Council vote on what it describes as a "humanitarian" resolution to the war in Ukraine.
Edit: they have just added the following, so nothing new really...
Answering a reporter's question, Moscow's ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, also said Russia would stop its invasion when the goals of what he described as its "special military operation" were achieved in Ukraine, including demilitarisation.
Yes, to THEIR (PiS) survival, but not all Poles and democratic world survival.
They already made a mess trying to force US to give us F-35 for an exchange of MIG-29. They are endangering the world peace. They are idiots and know nothing about diplomacy. I am really afraid of their actions.
So they want the Ukrainian military disbanded and disarmed ..
Idiots
Don't you think Ukrainians fight so strongly just because of Zelenski? Because he gives a hope for freedom?
It is about freedom and democracy, not a party....
But 'they' are the ones invading and oppressing Ukraine and killing people. What on earth are they talking about seeking a UN intervention or a "humanitarian" end to the war? They started the war and are continuing to prosecute it.
It's also about there country
They didn't force the US to do anything of the sort.
I know you Don't like PIS.
But at least get the facts regarding the jets correct
And Ukraine outside NATO (as a demilitarised country cannot be a NATO member) and the EU.....which leaves us back to square one
They wouldn't fight for his opponent in the last election mainly because the latter one would surrender Ukraine to Russia....
They tried to force them through public opinion.
Such things should be dealt with an utmost secrecy... But idiots are idiots. Especially ones trying to stay relevant...
Yes the usual Russian deflection of trying to paint themselves as the peacemakers, thinking about trying to end the humanitarian situation (which of course they are totally responsible for)
For a moment I thought maybe a slight change in tact that they are looking for a way out, but the same usual demands of the Ukraine surrender remain.
UK government said to be looking into the possibility of using seized Russian Millionaires mansions to house Ukrainian refugees. The architects of the Russian revolution in 1917 would be proud ...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/russian-oligarchs-homes-ukraine-refugees-b2035316.html%3famp
Personally I don't see it happening
With the support of PO and even the EU a one point.
Your just cherry picking at this point.
Americans on the verge of selling out Ukraine for Iran deal
So give me one example, when one country ambushed another country with a such proposal.
And this today trip is another ambush. This time they ambushed EU...
They only rule by faits accomplice, therefore I am really scared what next they will invent....
Not quite square one....this is coming from the Russians, so they must be starting to hurt really bad to even make the suggestion. All lies of course, but even so it marks a change, to even discuss the issue.
To be fair, I wouldn't be taking Kay Burley's guff as reflective of the UK in general. She certainly wouldn't be the most ethical broadcaster around. I've heard that around 90,000 British households have thus far signed up to be hosts for refugees. If an accurate figure, it shows there is a gulf in attitude between the British public and its establishment, the latter of whom do seem to be dragging their feet on the matter.
Was the EU consulted about this. If true it makes a nonsense of the sanctions strategy. The sanctions ARE CRITICAL in the proxy war. They have the same affect as javelins , etc but in a different way - the tourist route to achieve the same objective and nobody gets killed ( no boots on the ground) the best mixture is the supply of javelins ,etc, along with effective 100% sanctions
They were never getting F35s for mig29s, American bought 30 of them from Moldova for next to nothing in the 90's,they want more F16s though which is similar in capabilities to the mig
Two excellent posts illustrating how ingrained and institutionalised compliance with the state is with a huge proportion of Russians. I have limited parallel experience of it from a visit to post Ceaceascu Romania in 1995, where old habits and paranoia were still evident. Similar to what I posted myself a few days back, I fear unfortunately it will take a whole lot more than isolated courage and actions of individuals to overthrow centuries of ingrained suspicion and spoon feeding of propaganda by the state apparatus against external forces.
Unfortuately also, some of the percieved threat is justified by historic experience. The memory of major threats from Scandanavia and The Baltics and Napoleon's invasion, as well as the great patriotic war and the 20+ million dead in that alone is still deeply embedded in the national psyche and Putin has done a huge amount in the last 22 years to erase the significant part that internal persecution such as the 30's purges and the Gulags and the sheer indifference of Stalin and the military elite to sacrificing millions of lives in pursuit of a goal, played in cowering the average Russian.
I don't have the answer to how you change the mindset of 100+ million people with a narrative embedded through generations of indoctrination, especially in a country practically devoid of a free press and subject to the most draconian of censorship. Perhaps something could be started through Belarussia which could somehow spread by osmosis. Perhaps the 100's (if not 1000's) of Russian POW's might be turned and used to advantage (Give them all mobile phones and start texting their family and friends back home?) . Perhaps it lies in the world using the Russian arts and channelling Tchaikovsky and Chekov and Tolstoi and Eisenstein to illustrate to the average Russian that the world percieves them as more than despots and oppression and oligarchs.
Either way I despair of an early overthrow of Putin in a populist revolution. The least we can hope for at this stage is that some other ambitious and disgruntled minion can convince a few more that their collective fortunes are better served with his enforced absence!
Hard to say what exactly happened , what was the motivation. Maybe she was brainwashed from a young age, was part of family ie Putin, tradition, etc and therefor had no choice other than to behave as a ‘good girl’. But one day the penny dropped because she came to her senses - having thought out what was actually happening and thought that it was too serious to continue ignoring it and something needed to be done. ALSO maybe two of her family came back in body bags havin been told lies about THE SPECIAL MISSION .
Ukraine is basically a country of free former Soviet citizens who are demonstrating that they are willing to sacrifice everything to avoid going back to the paranoid lifestyle that they grew up in. Same goes for the Baltic states. This war is nothing to do with NATO expansion or Spurious Russian security concerns, Ukraine have no interest in conquering Russian territory. it’s a war of one way of life v another.
As I mentioned earlier, and I still can't quite get to grips as to why...but Biden admin like Obama admin, has laser like obsession with the Iran deal. Obama believed that Iran was a force for good in the region. He was known to be terrible at foreign policy. With Biden, he's even worse. The EU aren't a party to this, but the UK and Germany are. If they sign off on this, then the 'sanctions' on Russia would be superficial.
Who knows. Maybe the west...i.e USA think overly sanctioning Russia makes Russia more dangerous and throws them into China's arms. It also pulls the US into a new cold war. So by doing this, the USA keep the façade of sanctions for public consumption (as there has been a strong push by the public to implement tough sanctions on Russia), but the public won't be privy to, or understand Iran being given 'sanction free' status for Russia to trade with. Meaning if Russia wanted certain plane parts that are sanctioned, Iran would buy them and forward them on - all legally.
Biden is so focussed on Iran deal, that the Iranian attack in Erbil was just smoothed over like it never happened.
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