If you like, you can read about why the EU sanctioned Russia Today/RT (since you are moaning about it for so many posts now) from the horse's mouth on https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/03/02/eu-imposes-sanctions-on-state-owned-outlets-rt-russia-today-and-sputnik-s-broadcasting-in-the-eu/.
Sputnik and Russia Today are under the permanent direct or indirect control of the authorities of the Russian Federation and are essential and instrumental in bringing forward and supporting the military aggression against Ukraine, and for the destabilisation of its neighbouring countries.
Those "neighbouring countries" would be us really [as EU members]. It happened after Russia invaded Ukraine. It was a bit of an "oh **** is it really 1938/39 again?" moment for the EU even if you missed it. RT was spreading Russian govt. propaganda before that of course, but it was not sanctioned.
If Coke and McDonalds tell them they're not bringing the Russians then they won't be bringing the Russians. Everyone else is just noise.
Famous for the war fighters garment of choice the "Balaclava"
Aye. I've had variable success in getting the webpage up. It works on my phone handily enough and most of the time, on my laptop it's touch and go and can be very slow to load, often kicking up a timeout page. But it is available and RT is live on Rumble IIRC? As I noted earlier it has dropped all previous pretense of being "independent/different viewpoint" now and has gone full on Russian State TV spin/propaganda hitting all the buzz points and revving up the viewing populace. More like Russian language TV, if not moreso actually for its English speaking fans and not just in the anglophone world. It's also much more aimed at places like Africa, ME, Asia. War footing I suppose.
Didnt the Brits and French capture it in 1856? Bet you hadnt thought of that one :)
Not pretty harsh in comparison to general Communist societies like the Soviet Union under Lenin to Khrushchev, Mao's China, Red Cambodia etc etc, but pretty f ing bad to most of us.
Kaliningrad is historically part of Germany too and Karelia part of Finland
Whats your point..
Ooo, yes. While we’re at let’s give Karelia back to Finland. Historically Finnish and all that.
Next poster, keep it going :P
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Can we give the Danes a claim too , being the Vikings settled there too .
I like I this game
Ooo, ooo!
If we’re gonna play that game;
Most of Russia is historically part of the Mongol Horde. So, it should just be given to Mongolia. It’s only fair.
And...?
Why does their historical annexation of Crimea from the Ottoman Empire outweigh their historical voluntary ceeding of the territory to Ukraine in the 50s? Because historically it has also been part of Ukraine, and that history is more recent and more compelling!
Crimea - Wikipedia
Has Mick Wallace a vineyard in Crimea?🤣
Really...
Ireland was historically part of the Uk, quite recently
Yes they will, no matter how long it takes, Its literally a life or death struggle for Ukrainians. Russia's 10 years in Afghanistan was complete hell for them, Ukraine will be 100 times worse. I know several Russians who served in Afghanistan, and even several years afterwards, they shudder at the thoughts of it, and that was not to mention the financial cost, which drove Russia to the brink of economic meltdown.
So you're finally coming around to recognising the truth - that both the Donbas and Crimea are Ukrainian territory. Slow learner but progress is good.
I’m most definitely in Ireland with no VPN. Maybe it’s blocked in Russia for you. It’s just more bs poor me distraction from your support of child rapists.
Here’s another screenshot in case you are missing it.
Historically part of Ukraine just six years ago (and still today.)
Soon , maybe not today, maybe tomorrow but definitely soon
The argument might be that Russia has a claim on Crimea because of the number of ethnic Russians living there. For the sake of argument, if we take the claim that this is a majority of people, it would open up Russia to the troublesome question of independence for a number of its own republics, given that Russia is a large patchwork of conquered minorities, at least some of whom have had their own independence struggles in the past. You won't hear much from how Russia suppressed the Chechens from the usual suspects, even as they list Ukrainian suppression of ethnic Russians as a reason for Russia's military incursion on Ukraine.
"is historically" is quite the oxymoron
Crimea (is historically) part of Russia = Crimea (WAS) part of Russia
It's almost as if you were trying to avoid the past tense so used the "historic present" tense instead
Explosions seen and heard close to an airport used by Russian in Melitopol and to think some people don't think the Ukrainans are going to go on counter offensive anytime
Actually that's not nonsense. He was indeed kept apart from the main population in a building reserved for high profile prisoners the nazis might have a later use for. Collaboration, political leverage, even ransom. Same when he was in gaol in Krakow. This was common enough in nazi Germany and occupied states. Even Bergen-Belsen had different sections for different "kinds" of prisoners: A Jewish exchange section for high profile Jews who could be swapped for Germans in other territories of for cold hard cash, another section for prisoners from neutral nations. These two sections were treated better and kept more healthy than the main population, at least at first before they started to jam in more and more prisoners.
@macraignil
Putin has made it clear he has no intention of volunteering to give up the territory that he has sent russian troops to steal from Ukraine, killing thousands of people in the process. While I am against war, I can't see there being any positive outcome to rewarding putin for killing thousands of innocent people and making millions of people homeless. It seems to me that both sides of the conflict are so far apart in what they consider a reasonable outcome that negotiations at this stage would be very unlikely to reach an agreement.
That is pretty much the nature of war and the old statement that war is politics by other means. You get two sides who have widely differing aims over a particular issue and they cannot come to a diplomatic settlement. Sooner or later a shoving match will occur such that one side eventually realises that they haven't the resources to pursue their objectives in such a way and become more amenable to some kind of negotiated settlement (which may be very long or very short, depending on how the shoving goes).
Russia and Ukraine are very far apart on what they appear to consider an acceptable outcome and both continue to (at least publicly) believe that physical force will be successful in achieving their stated objectives. Hence, the war continues.
Some fringe political figures continue to argue that by supplying military aid to Ukraine, the war is being artificially prolonged. This continues to ignore, however, the humanitarian situation that would develop were Russia allowed to simply overrun the country, being that the attitude from the Kremlin appears to be that Ukraine and Ukrainians can only be allowed to exist if they remain in vassalage to Russia. Attempts to challenge this, will be met with military intervention by Russia, as we have seen.
Russia will continue to exist without Ukraine under its umbrella. Ukraine will not continue to exist without Russia as a friend (in the scenario where 'nature takes its course' as promoted by Wallace and Daly). Not hard to see who has more at stake.
Ive been to Sachsenhausen. It was a concentration/death camp. They had a special area for routine executions, and it is where the inital experiments on using poison gas for mass execution took place (using vans).
It was also used by the soviets after the war as a brutal penal servitude prison.
Im amazed that you would try to downplay the significance of same.
So Russia will be driven out of all of Ukraine. Is that your prediction? And do you have a timeframe for this?
I don't know what country you are in but in Ireland or the Netherlands rt.com is not accessible unless you use vpns/spoofing. I just tried. So whatever little trick you used isn't fooling anyone.
RT, Sputnik Content Officially Banned Across European Union - Bloomberg
Crimea, the impregnable beach resort and retirement village.
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