The obvious true deterrent to any future Russian threat of escalation, retaliation or repeat invasion attempt, is that of destruction from within.
The above counters the eagerness of Russia to continue long range shelling even after being pushed out.
The tide seems to be turning against Putin (cracks beginning to appear regarding support for his war) and he is now hyper susceptible to acts of sabotage on Russian soil.
Unrelated to the above, now is the time to court the "air sniffing carrion feeders" like the Belarus and Hungarian governments.
In the medium term, we may be approaching a situation where Ukraine is simply not allowed to lose, and rightly so.
During his speech, he is to emphasize that in Europe the "brown plague" is reviving and there are attempts to "rewrite history".
Is he referring to the morning after a feed of bad pints?
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"You don't have the Russian flag yet? You can buy it in Berlin," writes ARD journalist Ina Ruck on Twitter, showing the seller's offer on the street of the German capital.
I thought "Z" symbol was forbidden in Germany?
They really live in parallel reality...
He is using is as a distraction to be sure but he also has a long-held desire to be seen as "Churchillian", so its win-win from his point of view - he distracts (he hopes) from his lawbreaking and gets to do a bit of Winston cosplay as a bonus. Of course the Ukrainians must be very happy with his help, and so they should be, but this shouldn't detract from Johnson's status as possibly the worst PM in British history; an incompetent negotiator and serial liar on a personal, professional and national level. It's also worth remembering that all he's had to do here is agree to provide the stuff to Ukraine. Any British PM could have done that,
That speech could only be made more ludicrous if at the end he turned his back to the crowd and mooned them.
"Tthe possible text of Putin's speech for May 9 has leaked," Leonid Nezhlin, who was against the current Russian president, announced on Sunday morning on Twitter. The Russian businessman added to the entry a photo of two pages of the document, the content of which, in his opinion, will be read by Putin on Red Square in several hours.
During his speech, he is to emphasize that in Europe the "brown plague" is reviving and there are attempts to "rewrite history". "The West not only ignores the revival of the Nazis, which once led to the bloodiest war in history, but also supports it. Now they focused on Russophobia and neo-Nazis in the fight against us," the alleged speech reads.
Later in his speech in Moscow's Red Square, the Russian president is also to strike Ukraine directly. "The Kiev regime has been forced to create nuclear weapons, a network of biological laboratories has been created and modern weapons have been delivered," Putin said, thus duplicating Russian propaganda.
"Our people have already pronounced the historic verdict on Nazism once and we must do it again, using the strength of our weapons on the battlefield and the strength of moral righteousness. Crush the evil spirits of Nazism in the bud, defeat not only puppets but also their rulers. (...) heirs of a victorious people, and victory is in our genes. The battle for Russia continues! Our enemy will be defeated! Glory to the victorious people! " - the president of Russia is to end his speech.
Maybe the worker's party tendency is still alive in RTE.
Mother Russia still holds a special play in the heart of Socialists
If this conflict happened at the same time Nato forces were in Afghanistan I wonder would Russia of supplied the taliban with tons of guns and ammunition etc. I know the USA were in wind down mode with pulling out of Afghanistan but I'm just curious would military planners in the USA of said to Biden there is a good possibility in the near future that Russia may invade Ukraine and it would probably be a good thing if we do not have any of our forces in Afghanistan if you were planning on leaving them there longer even if reduced forces were there, when that happens as we will end up helping Ukraine with war materials and real time data to help them and we don't want any of our forces in Afghanistan then if this does happen that Russia can through a 3rd party attack them there? Just more wondering i presume military planners would look into future conflicts and this might of been 1 they kinda might of seen happen at some point.
A brigade is usually 3-5k troops. It would seem unlikely that practically all have been killed, but then again Russia may have been exaggerating their numbers by calling them a brigade. Even if the perpetrators are dead, it does not take away the fact that Putin is a war criminal due to their actions.
Hungary doesn't want to veto, they just want a 5 year delay. That position is a complete non-runner but talks still ongoing anyway.
If the energy funds is just about covering the war, then how are they financing the rest if the country? It must be biting.
Russia-Ukraine war: dozens feared dead after bombing of Luhansk school; Kyiv claims sinking of second Russian ship – live (msn.com)
Jesus but the Russian nutters are going further down the road of Hell every day. Killing kids because they're losing ships, that's just.......
We need the Kerry Fishermens Assoc to go out and torpedo them!
I do have to ask why do you think your wife might be roaming around upstairs in my house 🤔😁
I remember there being some speculation that Russia couldn't finance the war after a few weeks, but it didn't make sense at the time.
Isnt it fascinating though in an almost morbid way, how in almost real time this war is reported.
Yeah, I know it was a general comment, just surprised that anyone would adopt such a terribly daft position.
I wasn't cutting at people on this thread. It was in the general media that they would run out of money!
Don't think this has been mentioned, but Russian ships allowed to fish off Scotland thanks to licences granted by the Faroe Islands.
its relatively quiet on the eastern front this morning apart from the below, what are the chances of a ceasefire for victory day tomorrow?
That's sounds like a complete exaggeration and a fairly nonsensical thing to say. We did, however, have many who observed that if they didn't achieve the objectives in those 2 weeks it would be a long war.
I doubt detaining a relatively unknown youtuber will influence Russian PR and how they're viewed somehow.
There is a degree of concern about morality and some concerns about external impacts.
The ramifications of rampant inflation and grain shortages across the world should Russia take control of Ukraine could cause an even larger migration crisis in the short term.
Anyone remember at the start the "experts" were saying that Russia would run out of money if they didn't win within the first two weeks or something? What happened to that?
Interesting survey on how the war started https://twitter.com/heimbergecon/status/1523173814313848836?s=20&t=371VQTrqXoJhBGEGHo6Kyg
I think this is a result of forest fires. #Krasnoyarsk - Twitter Search / Twitter
Russian convoy open fire on civilians car as they try to rescue their dogs.
He lost his father in the attack,, and two of three dogs killed.
The coverage of the 2014 conflict covered the Azov Battalion as Nazis. It also covered them as a semi autonomous Battalion. Plenty of coverage of them doing pretty brutal stuff including crucifixion and burning Russian soldiers alive. They weren't the good guys. That was before we (the West) really picked a side and were just reporting the situation.
Isn't it accepted that there are some pro Nazi groups in Ukraine as a remnant of the resistance against the Soviet Union? Like, the Russians didn't entirely invent the Nazi angle, they just grossly exaggerated it and used it as the reason to invade.
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