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Would that be the much anticipated "Russian Davos", featuring such economic lumunaries as...the Taliban (I'm not even joking)
The man is clearly kept upright by whatever steroid treatment he's on, he looks like sh*t so I can't for the life of me try to figure out why you'd try to puff up his appearance.
An interspecies polyamorous relationship.
Goatf*cking is about Kadyrov's level.
Not sure where you see power in that. I see a crazed lunatic who has stolen from his people. An insecure tyrant driven by jealousy, who uses that to fuel his hatred of the west. The west is affluent and prosperous, the possibility of which he has stolen from his people. And his ranting had only ramped up since he went on this crusade, since he see's that once again his all powerful 'military' is nothing but a puffed up recreation of himself, sad and pathetic.
Putin is not power. Putin is everything he himself despises. Weak, jealous and full of ego.
They are being ethnically cleansed. They don’t need some promise in the future for motivation.
That could well be the case. But in any event, the West and NATO have always been working off the assumption that Putin will still be President in, say, two years' time. Nobody has factored in that he will be leaving any time soon.
I think it’s very useful and relevant. It would boost the population to know that they are fighting a war to be part of a democratic world away from Russia and a chance of a better life for their kids. It gives them a goal to strive to. It is a moral booster.
Ukraine being closer to the EU in ten years time is mostly dependent on the EU sending mountains of weapons to Ukraine urgently. Candidate status is not useful or relevant at the moment.
powerful speech by Putin in Petersburg. little sign of the decline so many posters here have identified.
Except it is support for Ukraine and there is no reason to think that Ukraine will not be closer to the EU in ten years time.
The candidate status is just a PR exercise by European leaders that are seen as being soft on Russia. There is no intention of letting Ukraine join. Now maybe decades into the future Ukraine and the EU could be very different and that may change but nobody should buy the line that this is some sort of support for Ukraine.
It will be at least a decade before Ukraine is ready to become a full member, I don’t see Turkey becoming one in my lifetime tbh.
Uhh... yathink that'd be a problem for him?
POTUS doesn't have the last word in the US even after giving the command afaik. This came up during the #2xIMPOTUS's tenure, people were nervous with such a wing-nut at the helm with the football within reach.
Turkey are a sort of weird 'frenemy' of the West. Allies on some topics, but opponents on others. What I think also plays a part would be that Turkey is more socially-conservative than Western Europe and probably wouldn't accept many directives in this realm. Basically, it would be like Hungary, but much larger. I don't think the EU wants to take that on right now, and probably not ever.
If Ukraine can fulfil the membership criteria, then I see no problem with them joining the EU, but it shouldn't be a rushed process. Lots of help can (and should) be given to Ukraine in light of their current problems, but it needn't extend to hasty EU membership.
I read that the US can launch nuclear weapons at the sole behest of the President whereas it takes the agreement of several people in Russia. Putin cannot unilaterally authorise a launch.
The bravery of these guys is just astounding. As you can hear by the accents, these are volunteer units who joined the UA to help defend the country.
I'm in awe of them.
Until country is ready to join, and the current members agree to it (unanimously).
It is not a seniority thing. Do you think Turkey is ready to join?
IMO it is getting further and further away from ever joining the EU every single day. Even if it met all criteria and hadn't started a slide to being a dictatorship, + regularly making military threats to 2 of the members and now of course blocking another 2 of them from joining NATO out of spite, it would have been quite a tricky one!
It's very muslim and very poor + has a bad and violent history with several members who would be suspicious of it. Some of them could have vetoed it joining, no matter what the govt. there did.
how long does candidate status last? Turkey has been a candidate for a generation now
Directly maybe not, but any pretence around supplying weapons to Ukraine would be gone, the West would flood the place with all they had. The Ukrainians have put up extremely strong resistance with the relatively small numbers of modern western weapons that have gone in, if that number went up to that degree Russia would be screwed and they well know it.
Im still not sure about this...
I get what your saying, but I think if Russia did start using nukes in Ukraine then the west would be even more wary of getting involved.
Once Putin and Russia show their hand in that way then the west knows that Putin and Russia are willing to go nuclear when things dont go their way. Would western nations then risk a full on nuclear war that could end civilization?
It would probably be the end for Russia as it would lose them just about any allies it has left like China, but I still dont think the west would directly engage Russia over it.
Putin has more to gain from having nukes than he has from using them, and he knows it. Right now, the threat of the use of nuclear weapons is keeping NATO and the other western Allies from taking direct action in the war. If Russia were to start launching nukes, even just “small” tactical nuclear weapons for use on the battlefield, it would void that deterrence value that nuclear weapons have for the Kremlin at the moment. It would, instead, likely galvanise the west into taking direct actions both on the battlefield in Ukraine and by direct air assaults on Russia to attempt to eliminate the leadership, possibly even a land offensive, which is exactly what Putin does not want to happen.
Crucially, and arguably more importantly, such a move would seriously rattle China, possibly enough to make them side with Ukraine and the West in this fight. Whilst the Chinese leadership has been content with straddling the fence and playing both sides of the conflict thus far, the prospect of a neighbouring country that is so completely out of control that it is lobbing nukes around presents a threat to national security that Beijing will not be able to ignore.
Putin and his cronies may be psychotic, but they are not suicidal.
That's fair low, the boys taking inspiration from Maverick 😅 "Stay on target!"
Good to see Ukraine pilots are still flying
Very interesting... That's well inside Russia, any further details?
Edit - Google translate...
A Su-25 aircraft crashed in the Belgorod region today during a planned training flight, the press service of the Western Military District reports. The pilot ejected and was evacuated to the base airfield. There is no threat to the health of the pilot. The plane crashed in a deserted place, there is no destruction on the ground. According to preliminary information, a technical malfunction could become the cause of the incident. A commission of the Russian Aerospace Forces is working on site.
Russian Su-25 crashed in Belgorod region, pilot ejected and safe - Russian Western Military District
Footage of the Spasatel Vasily Bekh being sunk
A boat transporting weapons to snake island was destroyed.Snake island has been heavily fortified over the last few weeks though.
The Ammunition stockpile in Luhansk that was hit yesterday was a major supply to the Severodonetsk area and may slow down operations for the russians.There was a similar hit in the Kherson area a few days ago.Russia have a lot of ammunition but these hits will weaken russian power and will probably become more common as Ukraine weapon ranges get longer and more accurate.
I would put it this way. Don't confuse a personality disorder with not have full cognitive ability. And don't think that having full cognitive ability makes you smart.
He obviously has a personality disorder. Sociopath maybe...paranoia definitely.
He isn't mad. But he is not emotionally healthy either.
No.
Dont confuse incompetence with insanity.
Love you confident response but this guy is unpredictable and totally blinded to reality……if you can believe the ****-talk that went on before and in the early days of this ‘special military operation’, he expected a 2/3 day cave in / welcome even from the newly ‘liberated’ Ukrainians….shots of vodka etc even being dished out to his ‘orcs’ from the general public…..remember the 40 mile convoy of Russian tanks etc that were lined up on the way to Kiev/Kyiv in the early days…was this not the dumbest military manoeuvre ever……?total sitting ducks for the Ukrainians to bomb/obliterate lines up with putins deluded mind……now we have the USA/Biden declaring on nearly a daily basis all the sophisticated weapons that is being delivered to take out naval vessels etc….. poking this ‘bear/abomination of a human’ too much is there not a serious risk that a version of the ‘red’ button could used….?
That means Russia most have had some severe losses in their advances in Donbas as well lately
Ukrainian officials stated that Russian forces have already committed about 330,000 servicemen to their invasion of Ukraine without conducting partial or full-scale mobilization in Russia. Ukrainian General Staff Main Operations Deputy Chief Oleksiy Gromov stated that Russian forces grouped 150,000 servicemen into battalion tactical groups (BTGs) and other formations and involved additional 70,000 troops from air and sea elements, with the remaining personnel staffing non-combat support units.Gromov noted that Russian forces committed more than 80,000 servicemen of the mobilized reserve, up to 7,000 reservists of the Russian Combat Army Reserve (BARS-2021), up to 18,000 members of the Russian National Guard (Rosguardia), and up to 8,000 troops from private military companies. Gromov did not specify if Ukrainian officials included information about forcibly mobilized servicemen in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (DNR and LNR) in these numbers. Gromov noted that the Kremlin may still increase the number of Russian military personnel in Ukraine by executing covert or full mobilization. Gromov noted that while it is unknown if the Kremlin will declare mobilization, Russian forces will still need time to execute the deployment and training of the new personnel whether or not the Kremlin announces full mobilization.
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