Europe has little choice if it wants to get away from Russian gas quickly. Qatar, that bastion of human rights, also have a deal with Germany. What alternative would you suggest?
A Russian that actually sounds realistic and reasonable. He’ll probably be sent to Siberia after that interview.
Europe got played.
Is a weak and unstable Russia really in the worlds interests? The western coalition of the good has a blemished past and has shown itself to “liberate” many other countries with significant bloodshed. International checks and balances is no harm in my view
USA to supply Europe with LNG up until 2030. Biden say's he will cut off Nordstream 2 and now gets to supply a continent for the next 8 years.
How many Putin plants do we think are likely amongst that cohort?
I wouldn't consider hiring a Russian into my company.
The same video with English subtitles. An intriguing point about all this is that it means Putin launched a major European war and faces years / decades of sanctions merely to occupy the small and unimportant Donbass region. Even many Russians are surely going to balk at this when they realise the scale of the military fiasco that is now unfolding.
Strelkov wouldn't be happy unless the entire world was under Russian domination
I don't know if he does, I suspect not, or maybe not to the degree he spouts, but he knows enough of his subjects and support base do. Take the "gender freedoms" he mentions a lot. The majority of Russians independently polled believe homosexuality shouldn't be accepted by society, nearly half want it to be re-criminalised, a quarter want them isolated from society and 5% want them "removed". If that's not bad enough over half of Russian psychiatrists view homosexuality as a mental illness. And those attitudes have mostly hardened in putin's time(some hope remains in the young where attitudes have softened). In Ukraine similar attitudes were observed, but at much lower percentages and those percentages have shrunk even further in the last decade and LGBT people have far more protection in law.
Apparently there is a large exodus of young (and presumably well-qualified and educated) Russians to places they can get to, like Armenia, Turkey, parts of Central Asia. Certainly worthwhile making them an offer and effectively rescuing them.
If you're thinking about past Russian victories while listening to the 1812 you might want to reflect on how you appreciate music! Tchaikovsky is a fabulous composer with some wonderful music. It's really dumb tokenistic carry-on to claim to be showing solidarity with this tomfoolery.
I don't understand Russian but sighs are probably universal so I'm guessing he's not too happy? I'm getting a definite schadenfreude tingle, though the commander getting fragged will be hard to beat.
Good point you make there about number 7 and a good idea with limiting those visa's to Russians with advanced degrees.
Some of those points may be hard to get in practice but IMHO I like the list and agree with them all.
Kalingrad is the Russian enclave in Europe
In what way? Most have been implemented in some form and the restrictions/measures are only increasing.
Total nonsense. They could have substituted another piece for the 1812 overture for the Cardiff concert. They were heavily criticised by others in the music establishment.
I did give out about the apparently leftist arts administrators: that does not make me (shock!) right-wing. As for your references to pearl-clutching, don't be so childish for heaven's sake.
Imagine that: a concert changing its planned performances to remove the ones which celebrated Russian military victories whilst Russia was engaged in a land war in Europe. The absolute bare-faced cheek of them!
That concert was shortly after the war had started and some or all of the people involved wanted to make a statement in support of Ukraine and in opposition to Russia and that was how they decided to do it.
Your post somewhat reeks of the same right-wing over-simplification and pearl-clutching that Putin is engaging in by the way; congratulations for that.
A pretty impressive list but perhaps it should be implemented at the rate of one item every week or 10 days, so that the Russians see plainly what the price is going to be if they don't radically change direction. If you do them all at once then (a) they might feel so desperate that they do something dangerous, like using WMD and (b) they might take the attitude that we might as well be hong for a sheep as much as a lamb.
A steady and ever more painful tightening of the thumbscrew is what we need.
Delusional
Putin may have inadvertently done more for climate change than Greta Thunberg. The momentum across the EU and beyond to move away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy sources has never been so great. Putin, the man who saved EU from climate disaster!
That seems a great idea. Confront Russian citizens with images of the war and to hell with them if they dismiss it as propaganda or fake news. At least they can't claim after the war ends that weren't told what was going on.
There was an element of leftist cancel culture in some cases, for example the symphony concert in Cardiff. It shows you what sort of leftist idiots are prominent in Arts Administration. Did these clowns not realise that they would give Vlad an excuse to pillory the West and whinge about boycotts?
This weekend the Berlin Philharmonic will give a concert in aid of Ukraine at the official residence of the German President. The works will be by Russian, Ukrainian and Polish composers as will be the principal soloists. A much more mature attitude from a country which takes its musical culture seriously.
Incidentally the Berlin Phil is making the concert free to air on Sunday morning.
Possibly; but if the various maps are to be believed and Russia keep throwing men at it I would imagine days is a reasonable estimate.
I'm not even sure at this stage which ending for Mariupol would be "better" at this stage... Ukrainian forces slipping through Russian lines during the night and living to fight another day? Or are Russia going to effectively kidnap the population and force them into Russia in which case do you hope the Ukrainian forces stay to try and delay that from happening?
Somehow I suspect any Ukrainian forces captured are going to have a seriously bad time of things irrespective of whether they're Azov or not.
The problem with reading the Daily Fail online is that you can't then put it to its best use as arsewipe immediately after.
What Putin needs to realise is that most of us didn't give a shiite what went on in Russia until they started murdering innocent people in Ukraine a few weeks back. Crawl back under your rock you terrorist.
Comes across as Cyrilic.
I wonder does he actually believe the sh1te he spouts. The west bad for cancelling events while he obliterates a sovereign country causing the death both innocent people and his own soldiers.
Current ranking of book sales in the Russian officers PX:
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2) Smoke signals, and How to Make Them
3) Signal Fires - A Lost Art
4) Proper Care and Feeding of the Foot Messenger
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