Russia - threadbanned users in OP

What exactly does your version of right look like?

This report that was on BBC last night is probably the saddest thing I've ever seen :(

The poor woman is just all alone now with her house half destroyed. Horrible.

If there was nato involvement in Ukraine at any stage launching an attack from the west on undefended Ireland would make perfect sense from a Russian point of view.

Yeah this whole war just makes me feel humanity is the worst thing that ever happened, the depths of depravity are beyond belief and none of the perpetrators will be held accountable, the West's rhetoric is utterly empty

The EU is currently looking to move away from Russian gas and oil so it will happen by year end anyway. The latest images out of Ukraine may spur them to do so faster than that but it's still not going to be a quick decision.

The tens of thousands of younger Russians who left the country must be in a state of shock seeing how reality doesn't match Russian propaganda. The Russians have a policy of inventing whatever alternate reality they like. I think it was Lenin who said if you tell a lie often enough it becomes a truth. Just wait for Lavrov talking shortly at the U.N.

I am a Pole, so I can tell you that polish government is all talks nothing more. They can't even stop convoys of trucks crossing Poland towards Belarus.

This exactly. Looking at these atrocities would make you despair. As a parent myself I find it heartbreaking to look at footage like that, poor woman utterly broken and all those children raped and murdered. What makes these soldiers turn into savages? I know we have seen wars throughout history but how can these things be happening in 2022. Its so awful for us to watch and they are living it.

An aside, I met a 'friend' over the weekend and Ukraine came up. He started complaining about the government bringing in all the refugees when we have so many homeless. I found myself getting upset, said have you seen the recent news coming out of all the atrocities? Ah well, he says, we can't take on another country's worries. Like wtf, no empathy at all. I had to walk away.

It's going to take years to fully reverse it but that's what happens when a hostile State becomes the leading energy provider.

A hostile State that after invading Crimea and Donbass was granted Nordstream 2 by Babushka Merkel and to further earn her crust she started gutting the German energy sector.

Angela should be sent to Bucha to see the reality her fat pockets are built on. I doubt it would unsettle her one bit.

Angela should be sent to Bucha to see the reality her fat pockets are built on. I doubt it would unsettle her one bit.

As someone who is not a fan of Angela Merkel I think you are dead wrong here. Her stupidest mistakes all seemed to be made out of an excess of compassion and I think she would be more upset than most if not all world leaders seeing what is on the ground in Bucha.

She did get the whole energy security thing badly wrong for Germany by doing the "safe and caring" things i.e. what all of us have been told is the "right" thing to do by the green politicians. Not everything politicians do is down to malice or supporting some nefarious agenda much as we would like to imagine. I don't think that consideration of Ukraine or Crimea came into the German energy calculations since 2014.