Absolutely. With any luck Putin walks past an open window soon and someone with a few more brain cells pushes him out of it. It is the only exit strategy for Russia.
But people are to blame for their leadership. If they didn’t agree with Putin, there would be mass protests regardless of the costs. Dictators can only get away with it until the population say they have had enough.
I'd still say give any Russian doubters a week ( or two, for serial doubters) of NATO /US "conventional" weapons, and all doubts would be removed. And as an added bonus, Nato / US could claim the moral high ground for not going nuclear.
Well considering Russia effectively stole their western airliners it wouldn't shock me. Now they would argue that the West stole their overseas assets too and that's fine. However if they had a quarter of the brains to many of their people and bots think they could have played clever. They could have not touched the air fleet and continued on with leasing agreements and worked the angle of "look whatever you think of us, we don't and won't welsh on deals". That would have left the corporate west far more open to them and the corporate west losing money would have been far more open to pressurising their own governments. They could have also pulled the angle of international air safety which like medicines wouldn't have been hit by sanctions, or certainly would have looked bad on on the part of their enemies if they had tried.
But no, instead by that action alone - and IMHO one of the stupidest of this whole conflict - they cut themselves off from international insurance, leasing, air travel, spares, for the foreseeable future.
Putin gone is not an exit strategy for anyone. He is actually a moderate compared to some of the utter loons surrounding him. Everyone wants to see him gone and yeah that's great but there is an awful lot more people needed to fall out a window at the same time or else removing him could increase the danger for Ukraine and indeed all of Europe.
No, they were questioning what good is a musician or hairdresser (parikmaher) to the army, and why govermnet isnt drafting security guards. According to Simonyan, they have about 5 mil security guards in Russia.
Yes pretty much exactly the same was said back when the war started and air space was being shut: get out while you can
"We're all told to suffer consequences and freeze due to someone annexing a rogue state. Yet during the former wars during the 90's and 00's everything ran smoothly"
@bad2thebone yet you made this statement two pages ago. Ukraine a rogue state indeed... you're full of it.
The situation in Lyman continues to deteriorate for the Russians. Apparently Ukraine are making attempts to prepare forces to cut the final road out of it.
Yes, and easy to make and service....I've seen copies of AK-47's being made in small back yard sheds in Pakistan, so you can be sure that other Countrys can make them too, and with rudimentary tools and equipment. And they work very well, ( Russians are not impressed with them though... according to them, Genuine Russian made AK-47 can fire minimum 250'000 rounds, while the copies only 5'000 rounds before the barrels get warped. Can still kill you though.
Seems to be a big push to take back as much land as possible before the weather worsens. God speed to them 🤞
Poland and other countries did the same too
It's not that simple a recipe. It works in some countries, not in others. Look what happened in Syria or Iran: protestors shot, locked up, tortured, dictators stay in power.
For us in democracies it's so easy to pontificate and tell people living under dictatorships what they should do. None of us know how we would react in the same situation.
Yes yes putinbots etc... etc....
Are you surprised
Exactly. A lot of it will be keyboard warrior stuff from John J Rambo wannabes who've probably never left mammies box room.
Talk is cheap.
You seem to have not read my post.
I stated a lot of those in and around Putin are hawks a lot lot worse than the botox dwarf himself but you seem to think that makes me a putinbot. Where did i say Russians are thick or backward?
If you can come up with any actual evidence i support Putin post it, otherwise run along.
Surprise surprise !! I mean someone on his own show calling him out for what he is,,,,,,,and the she-witch who is concerned about the recruiting campaign upsetting people, and disturbing them, while at the same time sending thousands of her countrymen to their death's without a care in the world. But there is an element of desperation creeping into the conversation now...the future not looking so rosy now is it?. Quite the opposite, in fact. Great to see it.
It would be ok if you wanted to sit on your hands if it happened here in Ireland, there are enough people that would rise up though.
It's fake propaganda.
People thought the blockage of Germany in WW1 was useless as the war would be over by Christmas. Sanctions should continue and wither Russia to the bone.
But when will they say they had enough?
The last thing someone wants is to be dragged away, interrogated and possibly go missing. It should be all or nothing.
Fake subtitles unfortunately, as much as I wanted them to be real!
A lot of places are run by rogue's. Ok I understand you're going to support the latest thing. But there's always two sides to a story.
Fake or real, its sending out a msg on the airwaves and internet....
They obviously support Putin and haven’t had enough yet. Most seem to accept being sent to fight in a war without training. If they didn’t then there would be no new cannon fodder heading to Ukraine.
Would you describe Russia as a rogue state at all?
My rough back-of-a-beer-mat calculation says that gives the barrel a lifespan of about 3 months (depending in the intensity of combat).
It does sounds like the order has come directly down from Putin.
Poe's Law is very much in effect when it comes to that crew.
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