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Russia will never hand back the annexed territories. This mobilisation is clear he doesn't want to. The question is how much will ukraine take back by force.

The timing of the Kharkiv offensive was so important because without it Russia would have held a kharkiv referendum also. I'm not sure how far Ukraine can go but take Kherson city seems very doable along with the remainder of kharkiv, the north of Luhansk and the northern pocket of Donetsk oblast. It might not take long before they've liberated parts of these annexed territories.

You are the one purporting them as evidence not I. You don't even read them, you simple google a headline and post. You display no depth of knowledge in your points and have been shown to repeat long debunked arguments. This speaks to your credibility and you are pushing flawed opinion based on nothing in the hope that you are not challenged.

Tough luck I am not going to allow propaganda to go unchallenged.

As for NAZI propaganda, that's is a laughable assertion from someone incapable of debate and has nothing else to offer. If you wish to know my political persuasion it is as about dead center as it gets, I do however despise fools who fall for either the hard right or hard left.

You can sense the enthusiasm....

When you can't sell your most critical asset you can't really afford the upkeep then to keep your own infrastructure working, but it doesn't matter because when the economy tanks none of your people will have any money to buy and use that energy security waiting in abundance.

They don't regret giving the drones

So a documentary made by a French women is now considered Russian propaganda, Putin really is the bond villain /s

In reality it's an objective documentary with a honest narrative that you don't agree with

Please post proof of the above.

BTW Johnson isn't on the continet.

Jaap de hoop scheffer.

Nato’s promise to one day admit Ukraine into the fold was an “ugly compromise”, but was not to blame for the threat of conflict with Russia, the military’s alliance’s former secretary-general has said. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who as head of Nato declared in 2008 that Ukraine “will become a member”, told the Financial Times that Vladimir Putin’s demands for the alliance to abandon that pledge was a false pretext for the Russian president’s “revanchist crusade”.

"Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who as head of Nato declared in 2008 that Ukraine “will become a member”

This too at the NATO summit in 2008

NATO announced its support for the territorial integrity, independence and sovereignty of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova

Yes, a Frenchwoman can produce Russian propaganda. Just as an Irishman Lord Haw Haw produced NAZI propaganda, just as you (Irish?) regurgitate and spew Russian propaganda.

Where did I say Russia had the right to invade Ukraine?

Where does "right" come into it though?

We know that powerful nations like to exert their influence/dominance over other (usually weaker) nations.

That's the reality of the world we are living in. And Russia are not in some exclusive club in this regard either. They're just the latest one to start flexing their muscles. And of course, the west knew that Russia might very well take this action. It's not like it came as a complete surprise, as they have been warning people about it for almost 3 decades now.

Many experts warned that this situation was brewing for quite a long time actually. Historians and analysts will probably debate if more could have been done to prevent it, for many years to come.

In the scenario I was referring to, Russia would have tried to exert its influence/dominence and failed, so what Russia would and wouldn't be prepared to accept wouldn't amount to a fart in a high wind.

I have my own insights having lived in Czech republic for several years, There were many Ukrainian immigrants there and as with your experience very open about talking about their issues. Northern Ireland on steroids is apt but I always got the feeling that it was due to malevolent external Russian interference.

Most Ukrainians (perhaps all) I met could also speak Russian, there as no (major) religious divide and intermarriage was commonplace (in fact there is a greater religous divide in Western Ukraine between Rutheran and Ortodox). Notwithstanding the fact that Northern Ireland does not have the language divide, the two communities in the North did not intermarry to the same extent, and culturally (mainly sport) the divide was greater. The singular difference appears to me is that the British government do not seek to divide in order to plunder the assets through associated criminal enterprise, and arm the loyalist community to that end nor have they sought to extend the conflict or interfere in Irish democratic process. So yes it was Northern Ireland on steriods but due more to the intentions of the Moscow government then local intentions.

In addition I have a cousin married to a Belarussian man and living here. He is from a collective farm family, one of those families who were legally enslaved by the Belarussian state under the law reintroducing the system of Serfdom. He has been saving for several years in order to bribe the collective farm manager to legally release his younger brother from the Serfdom.