India will be happy with a weakened russia for cheap oil and gas. China are waiting for military and putins downfall before annexing Siberia themselves. The strength of the US and weakness of Russia whole has probably moved China away from Taiwan and towards Eastern Russia
If you were his speech writer, what would you have said?
Good article here on Ukraine's abundance of natural gas and rare earth minerals. It ranks fourth globally in terms of total assessed value of natural resources and Putin wants all of it.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/natural-resources-ukraine-war-1.6467039
They hate the West and very much have protected rights afforded to them by us .
Sergiy Kyslytsya Ukrainian ambassador to the UN warn us about trosian horses only the other day,
The Eu needs to go through a full derussafication ,no students ,no retiree's,no vacations ,no employment, no rights afforded.
I give you...
That lad's perplexed when not out and out lying. Maybe he'll ask his Ukrainian lady friends to explain it to him. If they exist.
What is it with these Facebook Putinbots.
Every one of their pages I visit they have anti EU and anti government pictures and slogans, yet are all still living in Ireland.
Like if you really hate the west so much just go and live in Russia????
Lol, if history teaches us anything... They won't.
China , India , Brazil and Gabon refused to condemn the annexation at the UN . maybe it's time to end student visas from china, Brazil and India to here and the EU
Putin is showing no signs of backing down unfortunately. No reverse gear 😥
But yet he still has the ability to kill civilians unopposed in Ukraine,
He can keep this up for years
And his army isn't up to it because his country is corrupt from top to bottom just like him. He set the standard for everyone else to follow. As ye sow, so shall ye reap, etc...
Descendants in whatever becomes of Russia will look back at this photo and wonder "How the fcuk did they ever allow this plastic faced dwarf become dictator of Russia?"
Tens of trillions of dollars of natural resources in the land he has stolen. Is army isn’t up to it so he has to threaten nukes to hold it.
Very astute analysis. It wasn't quite as insane and desperate as Goebbels "total war" speech, but not that far off it. The words of a man truly unhinged...
They aren't just fighting over a piece of land.
Russia are slaughtering civilians, trying to overturn the international order and revert to the rule of might is right, with a playbook copied from the Nazis in Sudetenland.
Your posts are nothing more than morally and intellectually bankrupt exercises in weasel words, in a blatant attempt to draw some sort of 'both sides' moral equivalence between Ukraine and Russia.
A few nice scones might cheer everyone up.
I've just read that the fatalities from the civilian convoy that was HIT BY MISSILES have increased.
Your harmless musings are pathetic.
It’s all totally nuts.
I think one key thing about his speech today is that Putin hardly mentioned Ukraine at all, but kept talking about the US and the West. His framing is that Russia may be fighting in “the area previously known as Ukraine”, but they are not fighting Ukraine itself - they’re fighting the US, NATO, the EU, the West. This reduces the embarrassment of losing “Russian land” to their relatively tiny neighbour that isn’t even supposed to exist. I don’t think this is him setting the stage for an excusable defeat by a formidable foe, but it is allowing him to justify any action domestically as his supporters will recognise that how ever might they think Russia is, the enemy NATO is not to be underestimated.
He’s framing the war not as the land-grab it really is, but as an ideological last stand against what he actually started to describe in the speech as Satanism. By unspoken contrast, that puts him on the literal side of God. In Christian belief, God ultimately can’t lose, but any and every sacrifice is required to be on the side of victory. He’s softening Russia up more and more sacrifices.
It’s noteworthy that the tone of the speech and document signing ceremony was not one of victory and hope, which one would usually expect from a country fulfilling what it sees as its destiny in regaining its territorial integrity. Rather it was an exceptionally defensive, somber, paranoid affair, concentrating entirely on the danger of powerful enemies. Truly unprecedented and unbelievable stuff.
Heavy breathing.
Shocking...
But according to the Russians it happens on their territory and the attack was carried out by Ukraine
The death toll after the Russian strike on a convoy in Zaporizhia has risen to 30, and the victims are 88, — National Police
Among the dead are two children: an 11-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy. A three-year-old girl was also injured.
....just a bit of land, no other issues of any importance.
"I agree to fúck off out of Ukraine and never come back. And by the way, those areas are Ukrainian - I was only messing.
Lots of love,
Vladdykins"
Russia at the UN just blamed the massacre on their territory in Zaporizhzhia on the Ukrainans
A piece of land!!!!! Really is that all the sovereignty of an independent country is to you
@bad2thebone
For Christ sake we don't need an all out war between east and west over a piece of land.
Tell that to Putin. He's the one introducing the idea of deploying nuclear weapons to defend lands that Russia unilaterally recognises as its own territory. If Putin finds that the nuclear threat works, then there's nothing to stop him using it again and again. It's not like fear of nuclear armageddon goes up and down with the stock market - it'll be pretty consistent and so could be relied upon as a future bargaining chip.
There's a rational argument to say that no piece of land is worth the kind of hell that could be unleashed if Russia and NATO had an all out confrontation, but this argument infers that Putin could demand to become world king tomorrow and the world would have to allow it or else become an irradiated wasteland where anyone left alive will surely envy the dead.
It's just the same love of military parades that was the hallmark of the Soviet Union.
Did you read a translation of his speech, it was packed with the same bolloxology that you would hear in a Marxist student Union.
It is not about a piece of land. If the west backs down tyrants everywhere will be emboldened. Democracy will be shattered and we will have surrendered to the bully out of cowardice. No surrender.
Odd would make easy target practice. I thought bombers delivering Nukes was obsolete due to current missile tech. Brits retired theirs in favour of cruise was it not. I know the USA still have them but thats legacy I think and more lightly to be used for carpet bombing or MOAB ? If I think outside the box maybe they could fill them with dirty bombs for when there shot down ?
Russia are hemorrhaging troops. About 2 or 3 thousand a week and their economy can't stand up much longer. The west should increase support and at least hold the lines. Russia will collapse.
I'll get there ;)
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