Three points on this.
1) Only Crimea is part of Russia as of right now.
2) The Kremlin has passed laws that allows Russia to defend Russian people which includes people who speak Russian.
3) Russian law isn't worth the paper it's written on. If there is an issue, it will be changed quickly.
I read this small book on American power after the Iraq war where the guy (Kaplan I think) was poking fun at the criticism of “strong” countries approach to war. The criticism was summed up in the line “when you have a hammer, all you see is nails”. Kaplan pointed out that for weak countries the opposite is true : when you don’t have a hammer you never see any nails. This was probably the case for Chamberlain. To add to Thomil’s point I think the fact that Churchill had been warning for the prior decade for Britain to arm herself against the threat of Germany has more to do why they felt they had to get rid of Chamberlain (who couldn’t see the nails as they were sprouting up in Germany).
From even a perfunctory read of the international press its becoming increasingly obvious that negotiations to end this conflict will soon be a matter of urgent debate. Many people were aghast at Sabina Higgins's calls for negotiations but imo her opinion will become increasingly acceptable. Russian control over the future of the nuclear plant is of enormous importance. Any damage to the nuclear station could have enormous repercussions for all of Europe. They can blame any explosions that occur there on Ukrainian shelling real or imagined. Also, the energy situation is becoming progressively worse. Now Norway is threatening to reduce the supply of electricity to its neighbours, while climatic conditions affect the production of nuclear energy in France and the transit of coal on the Rhine. Turkey is the first country to identify the changing circumstances.
The sauna wasn’t on in my gym today. How much more of this do we have to put up with until Zelensky sees sense and comes to the negotiation (surrender) table.
Put down the phone and pick up a gun Toby.
... you know thats an old tweet?
"5 months ago" is the screen name! Very misleading.
Chamberlain did not know what them German Nazis where like, we all have benefit of hindsight now
we however now know what the Russian nazis are like, concentration camps for Ukrainians, repression of Russians, rape, looting, starvation of worlds poorest, daily nuclear threats, mafia like blackmail of Europe, castration and behadings in 6 months
anyways an article to read for all the Russia appeasers, long history of bending over backwards for Russia which they shat upon
I mean, the NYT would have advocated for complete Ukrainian surrender on Feb 25th. I can't say I've noticed a particular shift anywhere, and there is no indication that there is a shift in attitude among the population of the EU yet.
Increased energy prices this winter are basically already baked in. The idea that we will go back to normal relations with Russia are just silly, no matter what happens in Ukraine.
The account "5 months ago" retweets stuff from.. you guessed it, 5 months ago.
The spectator tweet claiming Ukraine killed that general was from March 8th of this year - 5 months ago. It is an old tweet. Everything they RT is.
US media (not fox news) are becoming increasingly more critical of the situation in Ukraine, and its the US who are basically bankrolling Ukraines economy at the minute. Today they greenlit another package of $4.5 billion - not war materials, just money for keeping the lights on and the country funded for the next while.
If public opinion starts to shift in the US, then there is a big risk that they may stop funding Ukraine and the country defaults.
I don't get why people become so irate with the regular "Any chance of some peace there Vlad?" comments. Wanting to see a peaceful end to this does not make one pro-Russian, even if they jump on every single one of them for their own propaganda. Remember John Hume spent 30 years asking people to stop.
I don't think the US media have changed their tone though. They have been like this since the start of the conflict. So far at least, there remains quite strong bipartisan political support for Ukraine and the US is not going to face similar energy problems as Europe.
If public and political opinion shifts then sure, it could be a problem, but there is little enough indication that it has or is going to do so in the immediate future.
I don't get irate by it (bar when it undermines government positions...) but its all a bit pointless. Putin isn't about to up sticks and piss off back to Russia no matter how many times he is asked politely.
There are differing camps on those calling for peace though, and one camp which deserves scorn is the one that suggests restricting or reducing military support for Ukraine so as to focus on peace calls. That is pro-Russian.
A proposal for squeezing Russia even more on key materials.
Better double your dose.
Agree with that. Plus you can bet the powerful lobbyists for the US military industrial complex are hard at work pushing the government to continue to increase spending because of the 'economic benefits' to the country.
Kuleba kicks back against fake news Ukraine Demands Investigation into Disinformation in CBS Film | European Pravda (eurointegration.com.ua)
It's not just a question for the U.S.. Deutsche Welle have a leading article on Germans getting tired of Ukrainian refugees, The Telegraph one one on the imminent arrival of a 'radioactive wind'over Europe while some of the British tabloids concentrate on Roger Water's attack on President Biden, calling him a war criminal for the military support that he has given Ukraine. Part of a discernible pattern as the reality of a prolonged conflict emerges.
In US at moment everyone spoke to is supportive, and many are well pissed off at Putin’s carry on especially the recent holding athlete ransom for terrorists
Military fella talked to saying “finally Europe realised what we been doing for them”
Putin is using criminal thug tactics that might work on Russian sheeple but all it causes here in west is revulsion (except few useful idiots)
Absolutely.
The options will be:
Yes (insert name of oblast) - is a part of Russia
No (insert name of oblast) - is not a part of Ukraine
Popular support for joining Russia is predicted to be around 100%, whether a referendum is actually held or not. Who says democracy doesn't work in Russia?
I'd say there's a lot of American military people pacing the floor from watching this and not being able to act and do what they were trained for.
So you think that an invading army can just role in bomb and terrorise part of another sovereign country then declare a referendum under gunpoint to the population. And you think this is ok because the population get to vote on it?
Well there is a name I would like to call people who hold such opinions, but then I'll hold off because im sure their will be calls to have me threadbanned over it.
Quote from today's news bulletins.
Allowing Russia to "bully" Ukraine without being opposed would mean it would be "open season" around the world, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.
There is clearly no let-up in support for the Ukraine from the US. Plenty of other news reports stateside about more military support being arranged for the Ukraine to counter the Russian invasion.
They really do Seem to come in like swarms. Very starnge....
Astonishing this hasn't got dealt with by the Mods.
I have seen users being banned for less recently.
Typical Russian bully
My post is completely neutral. It just explains how the process works.
Ah will ya …
the whole “west invaded Middle East for oil” nonsense is just that
if Americans were desperate for oil they could easily seize just the oil producing areas of Syria or Iraq or Saudi which also happen to be sparsely populated
it takes a special kind to defend Putin’s criminal regime
*sniff sniff*
Can you smell it? What is it?
It might be re-reg ... it's definitely BS
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