Russia - threadbanned users in OP

So are you saying that Russians would not be getting fed propaganda about how evil Zelensky is, and how it would solve their problems if someone took him out?

I've only seen small snippets of Russian media coverage since this war broke out, but even I seen quite a nasty tone directed towards Zelensky. He's not their favourite guy right now...

That argument had a lot more merit at the beginning of all this.

My basic tenet remains uni-polar.

Air defense

Just to reiterate, as some new arrivals here seem to be going off piste

1. Russia invaded a sovereign nation, Ukraine.

2. Citizens of sovereign nation decided to fight back, with a greatly heightened moral, purpose and motivated by the fact that if they didn't, they would lose everything.

3. Sovereign nation asked for assistance from other nations, who in turn, began to assist. Why? Because Russia invaded a Sovereign Nation.

It basically boils down to that.

No amount of "Whataboutery" from any section of commentators ( from idealistic and naive student types to self-styled political activists.) changes that narrative.

Carry on.

Can you imagine the consequences if he was assinated tomorrow,

The Ukrainan army and people would fight to Moscow to get revenge along with half of Europe

If Putin uses tactical nukes (in Kerson or Donbas etc) he will by his own defination be nuking Russian territory! Mad..

More russian soldiers voting on occupied territory of Ukraine,we want to bring peace😂😂🤣🤣🤣

It’s probably a move just to spite the USA who though the course of history have treated Iran very badly.

In fairness, If I was taken from my wife and kids to be given two weeks training (likely including hellish painful hazing.) before being sent to be almost certainly slaughtered in Ukraine I'd probably want to be out of my senses too. These lads lives remaining can probably be counted in weeks or months at best.

I saw a video on Twitter of a captured Russian soldier, he said he had been given 2 weeks training and then told to drive a tank with half the electronics broken (apparently more than half the tanks didnt work at all according to the same soldier). 5 minutes later the tank in front of his hit a mine and blew up and then his tank was ambushed when they stopped, he was the only survivor...5 minutes!

Did I say anything about China and Russia's alliance being a strong one? Please point it out if you think I did.

It doesn't really matter what their motivations are or how strong their alliances are... like I've already said, many of them make uneasy bedfellows. But are aligning through necessity and circumstance.

The important part, is that they are beginning to create greater alliances. And the west are helping to expedite this process through their useless foreign policies.

"Do what we tell you to, or you're in the naughty corner" simply isn't going to work as an overarching plan going forward into the next generation. (and yes, I am oversimplifying that description for the sake of expedience here).

The Americans in particular, cannot handle the idea of anyone else being in charge. This unwillingness to share power equitably throughout the globle, will ultimately force nations to pick sides. I agree nations like India would prefer not to, but eventually they will have no choice. And they are leaning much more towards Eurasia rather than the west.

The Russian commanders are probably drunk as well. It would explain some of their battlefield decisions, and the way they were parking their tanks early on.