Russia - threadbanned users in OP

United Nations General Assembly vote on Russia’s illegal annexation. The 5 who sided with Russia were the obvious ones. But I found it hard to find a list of the 35 countries who abstained.

The 35 who abstained were as follows-

• Algeria
• Armenia
• Bolivia
• Burundi
• Central African Republic
• China
• Congo
• Cuba
• Eritrea
• Eswatini
• Ethiopia
• Guinea
• Honduras
• India
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Lesotho
• Mali
• Mongolia
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Pakistan
• South Africa
• South Sudan
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Tajikistan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Togo
• Uganda
• Uzbekistan
• Vietnam
• Zimbabwe

There is another list of counties with ‘no vote recorded’

• Azerbaijan
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Djibouti
• El Salvador
• Equatorial Guinea
• Iran
• Sao Tome-Principe
• Turkmenistan
• Venezuela

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India explained their abstention as follows -

‘New Delhi's decision is "consistent" with its "well thought out national position" and the country stands ready to support all efforts aimed at de-escalation while underlining the importance of peaceful solution through dialogue and diplomacy.’

Maybe he's looking at his future map where Russia taken a good 70% of Europe to bring it down to Indian's size?

You do write quite a lot (even more than me?) and can put sentences together but it is (mostly) nonsense, which is a pity.

As I said, your arguments about how these countries are important, are free to ignore what the West is doing here, will have their own priorities, don't wish to try and isolate Russia etc. + should not be criticised for this always cut both ways. If Western countries want to unwind their relations with Russia post Feb, "sanction" it as much as they can and also want to support Ukraine, why is this any business of the countries that refuse to condemn Russia or wish to keep some relations with it still? Why should Western countries sit back, do a three wise monkies and carry on normal relations with Russia as if nothing has changed at all in the relationship? Reality here is, Russia has opened hostilities with the "West" since Feb., things are very bad now, and Putin's issued alot of serious threats. These threats began even before the stronger sanctions and supply of much larger amounts of weapons to Ukraine kicked in.

As you know, several of those states that voted no or abstained are not democracies, some like N. Korea, and Iran to a lesser extent, are prison states that people flee from when they can (ironically to the nasty arrogant "West", as was pointed out to you!). The foreign policy of such countries is even more a decision made in isolation by a few leaders than it is here or in other democracies. It certainly isn't what you try and paint it as, some expression of the will of angry masses in developing world to make a point against the arrogant West + in favour of Putin & his great crusade remaking the world order. Also Russia's (or China's or whoever elses') vast land area + resources has no relevance to this argument. Russia's land does not vote, or it is not supposed to.

Talking floridly about this "global community" that should replace the (useless or unrepresentative) UN as you do while also saying Western countries are in some way wrong to try and isolate Russia/Putin for what has happened is a sad joke. There is currently little enough of a "global community" and it is obvious if Putin actually achieved his aims + most of the world stayed out of it and didn't say boo (which you believe is the correct policy), there will be even less of such a community in future. Large invasions & genocides in neighbouring sovereign states would be right "back on the menu boys" once you're big and ugly enough to pull it off. Every man (country/power bloc) for himself + a struggle to the death of all against all. Some community.

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A russian soldier from Buryati has installed in his flat a CCTV cam he robbed from a house in Liman, UA but did not cop on to change settings. Camera is streaming live video now from his flat for previous owner to watch it online.

There's no point in debating with those crackpots. Their only interest is in muddying the waters with streams of disingenuous nonsense, completely in bad faith.

I had to laugh at the sheer audacity of the above - some of the poorest, most corrupt, and human right violating states in the world are the only ones smart enough to see the truth about this conflict.

Just ignore them. Don't respond, don't engage, don't even bother reading their posts. They are absolutely not interested in logic, reality or reason, their only interest, again, is in continuously trying to muddy perfectly clear waters with utter crap wrapped up to sound pseudo intelligent.

Oryx is well respected and (as far as I can tell) independent. Everyone seems to defer to him. If he's counting it then that's good enough for me.

This is going to be a long war. I strongly believe that Ukraine will win it. However that doesn't mean that every piece of news is going to be good news for them. There are going to be lost troops, lost equipment and maybe even lost battles. Although I would rather that they do not occur I, for one, would like to be informed of when they happen. Unless they're an obvious troll, I don't see the benefit of hounding anybody who dares to post any bad news for Ukraine.

The link has an initial publish date of March, it has been updated continuously since then.

If you had checked any of the sources used by oryx there you would see they date from as recently as a few days ago

I questioned one poster,on one claim who then Linked oryx post Last March to back up a claim from something that supposedly happened yesterday,and it's not the first time either.

Nobody is saying they haven't lost or aren't losing men and equipment.

But when the claim comes from an account previously pointed out as a Kremlin bot account that's linked to previously and denied it was a Russian bot account in the first place..

People were demanding no Twitter or telegram be posted because of fake news but yet it something is honestly questioned it's a problem

42 months have passed since this chip was made. Going by the above, if Russian production is 3 missiles a month, they would have 126 kh-101 missiles left.

I doubt the Russians have been sitting on their hands since the war started, but even if they doubled or tripled production going into the war, you're maybe looking at another 18-36 extra missiles on top of the 126.

There are also stocks of Kalibr and Iskander and many other older types of missile that don't feature into this calculation. But it does seem reasonable to think that the scale of missile attacks we saw earlier in the week aren't sustainable.

2 Ukrainian planes crashed in Poltava region

Yeah I know the ones ,it's a multi rotar,they use similar ones in agriculture they can carry over 250kg of munitions

FOREIGN AID BY COUNTRY 2022

In 2021, the United States budgeted $38 billion for foreign aid spending. As of this reporting, it has disbursed over $32 billion. Almost 25% of that budget has gone to just ten countries:

1. Ethiopia ($1.13 billion) abstained
2. Jordan ($1.03 billion) in favour
3. Afghanistan ($860 million) in favour
4. South Sudan ($821 million) abstained
5. Congo ($814 million) abstained
6. Yemen ($814 million) in favour
7. Nigeria ($803 million) in favour
8. Syria ($774 million) against
9. Sudan ($488 million) abstained
10. Somalia ($475 million) in favour

US should cut off the five countries that went against or abstained in this vote. Send the difference to Ukraine in the form of lend lease. These s*hithole countries should be left to rot.