Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I guess getting agreement between a large number of countries is the issue - if it was just one country imposing sanctions, it would be much easier to do.

It was a catastrophic mistake which has given Russia and China the ability to say "it is no different to what the west do". That is how it is connected. I am certainly no fan of Merkel, the best I could say about her would be that she is extremely naive.

Actually I would bet a fair few of the ones thinking he is speaking the truth would probably disagree and warn you about falling off the edge of the world. 🙄

You would wonder if the worst came to the worst and Russia launched a nuke would there be a situation where an ultimatum was given to the Russian people before a western response. Such as no further escalation if the Russian people overthrow the regime and prevent any further launches. Or would it just be bedlam and no time for any appeals to common good at that stage?

It's come to the stage the EU have to stop buying gas and oil from Russia. We're fueling this genocide.

Twitter move on Russian government accounts.

Ehh how do you appeal to them ?

I mean they have limited access to free information at this stage.

Anyone that dares speak out or even voice any concern, like that teacher, is fined, jailed or even worse.

This whole thing is beginning to look eerily like WW2 in some respects.

Granted the Russian military never got going unlike the Germans, but at this stage it looks like they are being led by a looper that looks disconnected from reality.

The people are either sheeple thinking they are on the cusp of the restoration of greatness or haven't a clue and don't care too much.

Some of these people would only cop on when they are living in a bombed out mess with no food, water and viewing occupiers with a gun to their heads.

Do not expect there to be a popular uprising where the people rise up en masse.

The last time that happened in Russia was in 1917 and the state was already on it's knees with a leader that hadn't a 100th of the control Putin has over the population.

The only hope this doesn't keep going is that a group within the top security services and/or military take decisive action and take Putin and his cronies out.

One thing Putin muist have considered is how loyal is the army?

Even in Germany when the top brass of the Wehrmacht really knew the gig was up in 1944 (or even well before) they failed to act in unison.

It was only a few that tried to take Hitler out, the rest just saw duty and dedication to the state as being the only things that mattered.

And these were often from Prussian aristocratic military families.

What are the officer class in the Russian Army like, are there free thinkers, are there ones who see Putin as a great leader to restore the glory of the Red Army or ones that see him and his cronies as the ones literally selling out the successor to the Red Army?

What units are based near Moscow?

Are they specialist units there to guard the Kremlin or is a rag tag normal soldiers ?

If this end comes it will come very fast.

There will be no trial, just a bullet to the back of the head.

There is no reason to think Putin is any way insane or mad.

Bad is not always mad.

I notice how you explicitly avoid every aspect of my post and then claim: "but it's probably fake". My post is not about that single incident; it is about the principles of the rules of war and how soldiers should conduct themselves.

How about you address even one of the questions I've posed or points I've made? Is it okay to execute unarmed and furthermore bound prisoners in your warped world view? You're fine with Ukrainian prisoners also being treated that way? Every prisoner should be summarily executed because it's a war-zone?

If you're wondering how Channel One are reporting Bucha - totally demented apparently. Their latest take is that the West planned the 'hoax' for weeks, with the aim of discrediting Russia.

If we ever pondered what the Third Reich would have looked like with television during the War, we're finding out now.

Russians kill indiscriminately, whether you're a soldier, an old woman, a mother, a girl - not to mention all the other barbaric stuff they are doing

Ukrainians soldiers kill some of those Russian soldiers

I'm struggling to see how the two are the same thing?