That's quite a spin. Let me spin it around - most of the world's population and countries did not oppose the resolution. Russia has very few friends left, and it's their fault.
Who remembers the German marder infantry fighting vehicles Zelenskyy begged the sholtz to sell to Ukraine,they just started to arrive in Greece, meanwhile the Greeks will send some Russian bmps to Ukraine....
Should have been sold to the Ukrainans on day one
Say's the guy who imagined a coup in China.
Run along there,
Your wasting your keystrokes try the conspiracy theories forum
Right, but their leaders still represent their nation's interests. Democratically elected or not.
So your point is null and void.
The leadership of China, represents the interests of the Chinese people on the global stage. Unless you're advocating that we start ignoring the views of nations that don't govern their countries to the west's liking? Which would mean nations like China etc, who's leaders represent some 1.4 billion people, should be disregarded and ignored because they don't use the correct political system?
If you're not backing that premise, then the votes of those 50 nations who did not back the resolution, are legitimate and should be respected. Which means, yes the majority of the world's population did not back the resolution.
Btw, I don't see you questioning the votes of anyone who backed the resolution? Are they all perfect shining examples of democracy now? Nations like Afghanistan, Brazil, Hungary, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, Qatar... etc etc. They get a free pass when it suits I guess?
So are you proposing that only nations that prescribe to a western style political system of governance should have a say in how our world is run? Because it sounds like that's what you're suggesting?
Personally I prefer Western style democracies, because damned near every basic human right there is came from them.
Nations like China should be frozen out and ignored, just because they don't govern their nation in manner to the west's pleasing? Or worse, sanctioned and turned into an isolated pariah state, if they have the audacity to see the world differently to the west?
No, China won't be "frozen out" for a couple of reasons. Basic economics being the main one. They trade with us we trade with them and everyone is happy out. The US and EU trade alone is worth one trillion dollars per year. Mother Russia, "soaring" as it is? around 60 billion. Compare and contrast.
More than a quarter of those 143 nations that backed that UN resolution, are some of the smallest nations on the planet - well under a million people. Some of them with populations of 10K... so if you want to talk about misleading views, we could start with how misleading that number of 143 is, and how it doesn't really paint the picture of widespread global consensus that you would like to imagine.
I would prefer a nation of 10,000 democratic free people with a free press with a say than a nation of 100 million without. And it's funny, one might think that of all this global consensus you speak of, that more than four(and real beauts they are) would actually come out in favour of Mother Russia. The ones who abstained are sitting squarely on the fence on the same Russia. They won't condemn, but they won't support either.
As for the "backlash" you're imagining, I'm seeing scant evidence for that in anything like real terms. Then again that's just a variation of the same old tune of "sanctions are hurting you more than they'e hurting us". The constant refrain of the Russian supporters. Yet talk of sanctions in the EU, US and elsewhere is minimal, save for when more ae added and putin has to run to new markets to try and get some support going.
The amount of time he has in an unknown right now.
But the amount of weaponry is most certainly finite and seems to be under massive pressure. Many independent assessments from bodies like the RUSI demonstrate he is down to between 20 and 30% of inventory across the board, and WAY less than that in tanks, IFVs, heavy artillery, transport aircraft and ground attack helicopters and jets.
His defensive systems, S-300 and the like, in the occupied territories are being picked off at far too high a rate to be sustainable.
And thats why you've seen the Russians lash out at civilian infrastructure using cheap and hastily purchased terror weapons this week. They have absolutely zero tactical value and will not stop the Ukrainian forces one bit.
Why would Russia blow up a vital infrastructure in an area that it now claims is part of Russia - martial law has been even imposed over Kherson now
European nations dance to the American's tune, if you don't know that then i can't help you understand.
I believe the term is 'forced relocation'.
I don't click on Twitter links thanks very much. If you get further information from a solid outlet let me know thanks.
Rubbish.
Even if America went cold and dark tomorrow, this is a War in Eastern Europe that threatens all of Europe and the European nations will carry on supporting, supplying and highlighting Ukraine, because they have no other choice.
Plenty of other proper news outlets reporting the same.
Have you got a reputable source for that?
Here's the Financial Times Ukrainian correspondent quoting the mayor of Kyiv:
and here's a picture he took himself of the aftermath:
No doubt he'll mention it in a piece for that paper later on. You can wait until then to confirm your disbelief.
Doesn't really look like the Putin administration has years left in it. The full-scale war might not last that long. Russia using Iranian drones to hit power plants is pretty desperate - they can't achieve anything on the battlefield, so they're reduced to terror bombings.
..no doubt someone will now arrive to say they've taken 1-2 villages in Kharkov and have advanced another two feet near Bakhmut, and how it's just a matter of time before hundreds of thousands of troops and tanks will arrive to the front.
WW2 called..
@Run Forest Run "Nations like China should be frozen out and ignored, just because they don't govern their nation in manner to the west's pleasing?"
Why should bullying millions of people be pleasing to the west? Why should Russia, treating their people like cattle and like children be pleasing to anyone? Why should Iran's treatment of their people be pleasing? Iran is a mad-cap country run by life-hating, freedom-hating old relics with barmy ideas about religion. Are you pleased with them?
Unfortunately this war will rumble on for years and disappear from the news cycle soon enough. The elephant in the room is what happens when the Republicans regain the house in a few weeks time.
I certainly hope you are correct but I am concerned that as the war drags on and on the resolve of some countries will weaken under pressure from their own people to help at home first .No doubt Russia has lost a lot of men but most likely they are spread out over a vast area and protests are no where near the level that might change something .
Looks more like a deportation going on in Kherson than an evacuation.
I am against nuclear weapons. However the fact is they exist, and I believe that if Ukraine had them, then this invasion would not have happened. Neighbours India and Pakistan both have them, and neither would dream of invading the other
Russia will collapse internally under the weight of sanctions and body bags
Think I am a little bit pessimistic for Ukraine today Putin seems to have a few countries willing to assist him and with his control over his own country he seems to have time and enough weapons to take out most of Ukrainian infrastructure even if his army only make small gains just can't see h im Being pushed out and accept he made a mistake .Hope I am wrong of course .
Any actual evidence of this from a proper news source?
Sky reporting that the Iranians have now agreed to supply surface to air missiles as well as drones to the Russians. With that and the American GOP news today, its going to get a lot tougher for Ukraine soon :(
But the Ukrainians would have to take the left bank of the Dnipro to block the canal. And that's not going to happen any time soon. It's only the right bank that's on the menu now.
Well a number of things could happen in theory, most of which I don't think anyone in their right mind would really want to test out.
They're all VVER power plants, which are a Soviet design of a fairly normal pressurised water plant, similar to those used in the US, France, etc. They're nothing particularly unusual, and are in pretty good condition, with modern control systems and so on, as Ukraine had done a lot of work on both modernising and keeping them up to code, working with companies like Westinghouse and Areva etc. There are similar plants used in Finland for example.
So, the comparisons with Chernobyl, which was a totally different type of reactor and a very flawed design, don't really add up.
However, there are still issues with pushing any nuclear power plant to extreme conditions and to and beyond their design limits. There won't be any kind of massive explosion, well at least that's very unlikely, and the cores and essential systems are inside the primary containment, which is a huge reenforced concrete and steel building, capable of withstanding a missile strike or an aircraft crash, but it doesn't mean that you can't have something go seriously wrong that's not been planned for. If you look at Fukushima for example, what happened there shouldn't have been possible.
Best case scenario is it just shuts down and goes into a safe state. Water moderated reactors simply shut down when they lose their coolant - you can have some issues with on-going residual heat and so on, but it's nothing at all like what can happen at a graphite moderated reactor like Chernobyl. The core literally went on fire, the carbon acting as a fuel, in the open air there!
Worst case scenarios are numerous, but fairly unlikely. Nothing's on the scale of Chernobyl though. The design of that plant is too complicated to go into here, but it's just a totally different scenario. Look up RMBK on wikipedia, and there's a fairly good description of what was wrong with it.
The biggest risk is probably someone dropping a missile on an unprotected structure that contains cold/cooling stored fuel rods, as that would potentially scatter stuff everywhere or if there's a significant fire in one of those - rising smoke particles etc.
I'd just add that there are a LOT of heavy industrial / heavy chemical plants around Ukraine which are also an enormous environmental threat and several of them have been bombed to bits. There's a huge local environmental impact of all of this, particularly where big infrastructure is hit - even just things like scattering asbestos all over the place from power plants, insulation of old buildings etc and that's before you even start getting into things like chemical plants, refineries etc etc.
To describe this as a mess is a gross understatement - it'll take decades to clean up.
they're fine while the Dems hold the WH, the President can serve up quite a bit of aid even without the support of Congress
We have that here in Ireland too a growing chorus of opinion that Ukrainians are a burden on us. I always counter with the scattered Irish who were welcomed in countries around the world when our government was using emigration as a safety valve.
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