The way to negate future conflict of Russia on the world is the ww2 aftermath on Germany as a future aggressor.
Split Russia into multiple countries.
All Russian people in neighbouring countries to be sent back to Russia as is atm. It wouldn't have to be called for, only Russia pulled the German line of invading countries to defend it's people. When Germany did that. When the war ended, direct German or a few generations ex pat were sent back to Germany. Germany never had that excuse again to invade neighbouring countries and ww3 wasn't started by Germany. Russia uses people with russian passports as a weapon of war. They sent a million people reportedly to Crimea. Same, people were sent to Moldova (Transnistria).
Russia doesn't do PC. But the world just hopes by sheer chance they will some day.
It's surly clear at this stage that Russia can't win this war, even Putler most know this now.
Question is how do we stop it, Putler is funked in all scenarios
I would wait until the Ukr have exhausted. All the weapons it has received before making such comments
Russia losing is inevitable now. It’s all down to how far the west will let Ukraine go now before they call halt. I suspect if the Russian military is looking like getting fully routed the west will arrange a ceasefire and end of war negotiations. As Macron said, they don’t want to humiliate the Russians.
The inclusion of Croatia in that list is Bizare in the extreme. Croatia is an EU and NATO member and unlike Hungary is a fully enthusiastic member of both. Might I suggest that you are confusing Croatia with Serbia?
Pretty much never going to happen. Any breakup of the Russian empire will come from within, it won't be forced from without. Germany in the aftermath of WW2 was flattened, their military utterly defeated, with four occupying forces that had divided the country up under their control. Plus the Germans had given up overnight.
Belarus sabre rattling, are they about to attack?
Depends entirely on what he sees as a "win". If it's to take and keep the "independent states" in the Donbass and take and keep a land corridor to Crimea, well he's already done much of the taking part of that equation. If he had any sense, a big if, he'd stop advancing towards Odessa, consolidate the gains they've made and after a few months call for negotiations.
For those of you who may be confused why Macron is so against Ukraine joining the EU, here's a map of the EEC prior to 1992. Which country was at the centre then?
Fast forwarding to the current day, which country is at the centre now?
It's the same reason he doesn't want North Macedonia to join, every new country shifts the balance of power eastwards.
My mistake . Tks for correction. It is the country that the German PM is ‘anxious’ that it joins the EU/NATO and is said to be actively pushing its case
Quite a few people noticed that Putin seemed very subdued on Monday and his speech was lowkey. That's definitely a guy who knows the war is going badly or is lost.
Could be a few of these
And after Germany was defeated, what did the Allies do over the next decade?
I feel like I am leading the witness here....
OK, if you can't see that impoverishing and isolating Russia is a long-term terrible strategic idea, then I guess I will leave you to your absolutism. No point continuing with this one.
Chinese state media managed to witness one of the best Russian turret throws in the war thus far
It also appears that this detonation took place inside Russian controlled territory.
They occupied Germany, stationing huge numbers of troops and were able to determine Germany's future. Do you see a scenario under which NATO occupies Russia?
Possible display of future entry into new games to be considered for the next Olympics .
The turret toss.
They will press the button on a nuke as a Hail Mary move.
Yes, I suppose it can always get worse (somehow).
Was holding out the hope the "special operation" to conquer Ukraine and apply terror/brutality to force the population back towards Russia is very much a pipe dream cooked up by Putin and a small circle. So if he did die suddenly, someone more pragmatic might call time on it.
Anyway while he might not be in best of health and is clearly aging/declining, (as others posted) I feel he could be with us quite a while yet as am sure he has wonderful care and armies of doctors looking after him.
If they do it will be last thing they do and Lukashenko will be gone
If such an event ended in a draw, would there have to be a toss-off?
(I'll get my coat...)
We could be back to the days of various half-dead Soviet leaders (Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko) being wheeled out for the big parades and being mysteriously absent otherwise. Maybe we already are!
I'm no medic but Vladolf certainly doesn't look right at all.
One thing I haven't seen a lot about is any campaign to educate Russians.
During past US elections and the Brexit campaign and the invasion of Crimea, Russian bots were everywhere. Many were crude but many are very advanced. In the US there was a BLM and all lives matter group that were both Russian in origin. Russia had fantastic capabilities when it came to spreading disinformation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_and_Black_Lives_Matter
I'm wondering if western forces have the same capability within Russia. With Instagram, Facebook and twitter banned there, most Russians are using VK and Telegram. Is there an active effort to educate your average Russian through these platforms? I've seen groups organised through Ukrainian and other western citizens that do this but I don't know about state level activities.
I'm sure Belarus's security services are working at maximum capacity right now.
Looks like Sweden (and possibly Finland) are going for a Belt and Braces approach signing up to a UK defence pact whilst waiting to join NATO
Interestingly Sweden seems not to have a whole lot of trust in the EU Mutual Defence clause. Maybe because it's becoming increasingly evident that countries such as Germany, France and Austria are more interested in buying cheap gas from Russia than the potential risks to their EU neighbours. Maybe that's something Ireland should have a serious think about.
"In theory, the European Union has a mutual defence clause (Article 42.7 of the Lisbon Treaty) – so if Sweden was attacked, the rest of the EU would come to its aid. But this does not seem to assure the Swedes any more than it assures the Poles or the Baltics. Sweden has sought, and will tomorrow be offered, a place under Britain’s nuclear umbrella – with the UK offering interim protection that has (so far) been denied to Sweden by the US."
In the meantime, it's all steam ahead apparently for the two new NATO candidates, despite dire threats from he who must be obeyed or else
@Raoul Duke III - I'm no medic but Vladolf certainly doesn't look right at all.
He never look right even as a baby.
Great news for Poland and Bulgaria!
Just one question: what is their plan to replace these Russian gas supplies before next winter?
I believe Bulgaria has a pipeline through Greece.
Edit: It's called the IGB pipeline
OK, but I'd like to know the specifics of:
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