Germany having no energy resources will have to trade with rouge nations, since that is where the energy is. You might also regard the US's ally in the middle east, Saudi Arabia, a rouge state? Why would they be an ally exactly? It would be better if we could completely cut off these countries, but at the moment it is not possible.
Another poster absolutely fixated on the past and how much you seem to hate the Germans. This is about Putin and it's always been about Putin. As I said before how the Germans came to be bad guys in this is beyond baffling. You seem to be picking up any information that suits your own particular invective towards them. How many missiles they may have managed to deliver could well be down to logistics. I doubt you care why anyway as it fits your own neat narrative. This war has a momentum of its own that will not be influenced by a lot more outside, bar sanctions.
Half of this looks like conspiracy theories and that's fine for what it is but where are you going with this stuff? Germany is not responsible for Putin going into Ukraine. If you really want to point fingers and you clearly do, you might want to include most of the rest of the world including China. He has been facilitated for decades.
That is what is happening in Poland now. Out judiciary system is on its last legs. The only hope, it won't be damaged entirely before next election.
I hope UE won't soften their stance towards these damaging changes because of Ukraine. I hope they will see now the real threat.
A stopped clock and all that, not that he cared all that much for European security as an isolationist, but he was correct.
Reagan delivered much the same warning to Germany in the 80s.
What would you have them doing so? As mentioned already part of their forte is realpolitik as is the case with most larger powers, including the likes of France and the UK. The world does not split into neat good guy, bad guy Hollywood scripts. For peace you need to talk to your putative enemies, rather than your backslapping mates.
The "reform through trade" axiom is now a tarnished policy in Germany, and even the most die-hard Ostpolitikers in Germany are having their long night of the soul.
Just as countries like Australia have a "China problem", Germany is coming to reckon with the fact that it has long had an unacknowledged "Russia problem".
It's not a coincidence that in setting it's stall out as the main bastion country of convergence theory and trade (and that theory has been well tested now), Germany has become overexposed to malign international actors, in its financial system and most worryingly it's politics.
What would I have them do? EU partners knock them over the head and get them to get on board with a united front on trade, political and human rights issues with China and Russia for a start. Germany has been an outlier and a laggard with this for a long time, and have been largely self serving.
Will Putin's off ramp from this conflct be direct negotiations with Nato on the future make up of Ukraine's security?
The EU may not be as self-serving but many of its members are, especially on that trade angle and of course on arms. There's no scope within the EU to do as you suggest and agreements have to include all members' consent. The likes of human rights are a global problem, not just the responsibility of one single country. If bad actors choose to ignore such demands there's not much anyone can do especially as the world's policeman and its allies haven't exactly covered themselves in glory.
US to send Ukraine an emergency supply donation of Wheat totalling 400,000 metric tonnes.
It's funny I was going to post that about a stopped clock and all that. Then changed my mind atlm 😅
Why Russia Can't Survive Tech Sanctions
A very good vid going through a lot of the sanctions and their impacts on the various parts of the Russian economy.
Why doesn't Ukraine "lease" bomber drones from the US or the EU?
Drone as a service model. Can be launched from Poland or elsewhere. Take out the convoy and other choice targets.
Any aircraft coming in from outside Ukraine would be viewed as an attack by NATO and who knows what he'd do.
Like coal to Newcastle (back in the day loike)... Putin has created a strange world.
I hope they're using unleaded! 😁
That's true, but I thought I read somewhere that they agreed an overly. I've seen a KC-135 transit there recently.
Anyway, something else of interest. The EP-3 orion had now been replaced by a rare bird indeed, an Italian Air Force AEW Gulfstream. Odessa, the Black Sea and Moldova regions are being monitored at the moment.
"...just be ruins"
I think this might be the aim. Make it unliveable.
It's easier to manage their route between Russia and Crimea if there are no Ukranian towns getting in the way.
This is the reality of what's happening. Millions of lives ruined. Childhoods stolen. Memories stolen.
Murderous scum.
First I've of it on here
Looking like the Ukrainians are starting to push back and counter the Russians
Journalist on rte radio 1..John sweeny who is in kiev .has Said that Russian advancement on the city are going backwards..that is from 5 different sources
Transnistria is the other side of Moldova, along the Ukrainian border, and the Russian peacekeeping forces there is barely a token presence, less than 2,000 troops and no heavy weapons as far as I know. They have only a single base called Cobasna. The local Transnistrian defence forces would be more of a threat.
Most likely they are patrolling EU airspace only
Could be the most dangerous moment of the entire escapade. Who knows how the wounded bear will lash out?
Great if Belarus stay the fudge out. I've seen reports of a few Russian positions to the North and the East of Kiev at risk of encirclement or at least having their supply routes severed. Fingers crossed.
Elsewhere Kherson doesn't look to have been given up on either. That website @correct horse battery staple has linked to a couple of times is very informative.
The Russians aren't falling back quietly shelling as much as possible as they go.
So Kadyrov’s TicTok battalion which is believed to have lost hundreds of soldiers, have returned to Grozny, Chechnia on March 13 via Belarus.
In an attempted landing op on February 26, 450+ of Kadyrov’s fighters attempted to set their boots on land outside the Hostomel airport This didn't go to well. Some did manage to disembark and immediately got under fire and were eliminated. An interlocutor in the SBU counterintelligence confirmed as of February 28th amounted to hundreds,".
On March 4, a detachment of about 1,200 ethnic Chechen national guardsmen arrived from Belarus via the Chornobyl exclusion zone. These included Battalion North (commander Magomed Tushayev, later killed in action), South (Hussein Mezhidov), and Akhmat-Grozny riot police unit (Anzor Bisayev). Kadyrov’s units set up their camp in the woods outside the settlement of Borodianka near Kyiv. According to the SBU, one night the ammunition stock got blown up in the camp, killing a number of fighters on the spot.
After this fright, they didn't take part in battles or seen very firefights, only harassing locals in the area of Borodianka, Babyntsi, Katiuzhanka, and Liutizh, and of course, finding time to shoot videos. In a statement made by Kyiv Governor Kuleba, the TicTok's captured a psychiatric hospital in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, taking hostage 670 patients including children and people with special needs. They went on to fortify the hospital by laying mines around the hospital, attacking any Ukrainians that came near. Hiding behind the infirm.
Kadyrov’s arrogantly offered a $500,000 bounty “for the head of each of the officers” of the Azov battalion. He got nothing. Instead, he was sent a live stream of his men being buried in a pigs pen. Kadyrov’s: "If Putin closes his eyes we will finish in 2 days"...he doesn't half love himself
Stratotankers. Are they mainly for refuelling or would they carry out other duties?
As long as Russia is able to trade with China and India the sanctions won’t bite for at least another 6 months. They are still getting money from Europe on top of this and the rubel hasn’t totally collapsed yet
So, even by the bestial standards of the Russian army, they're a pack of c*nts. Inept c*nts at that.
Interesting analysis
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