Not because Putin started a stupid and unnecessary war? And Russian people sit back and let him??
All the blame - all of it - for every death falls on RuZZia. Don't blame the West, or Ukraine; neither started this war. It was Putin and RuZZia.
Another angle on the bus in St. Petersburg
Suicide bombing in St. Petersburg, A Ukrainian suicide bomber from the Vinnitza region hijacked a bus and led it off a bridge over the Moika. location: Bolshaya Morskaya, St. Petersburg source: Iacoboni/fontanka.eu
The two things aren't mutually exclusive.
Of course Russia is to blame for starting the war.
But every delay in sending weapons leads to more deaths.
Suicide bomber sounds extremely implausible, though the Russians might like that explanation.
More likely a medical emergency involving a driver.
Absolutely. It's been a stain on the west our pathetic reaction to this cruel invasion
Not just for starting it. For continuing to prosecute the war despite enormous losses. Not just starting - spending days/nights/weekends, billions in assets and hundreds of thousands of lives on pursuing the war. RuZZia could've stopped this war long ago. Absolutely no reason they couldn't, just desire to keep prosecuting it.
that’s like blaming the firefighters for being slow while the arsonist is grinning and pouring more oil in fire
Worse than that imho as it plays directly into Russian propaganda aims of trying to paint a picture that Ukraine can’t repel the invaders even with help
It took the whole of 2 minutes of one of them to then pile in and start exploiting your post
Kharkiv is a distraction?
https://kyivindependent.com/spokesperson-russias-activity-in-kharkiv-oblast-part-of-psychological-operation-to-divert-ukraines-forces/
if you write a rap song or do some graffiti in protest you end up beaten/molested and thrown in prison for a decade.
That’s starting to look like a better proposition than ending up decomposing in a ditch somewhere all so a stupid old man gets to cosplay war fantasies
That's not a great analogy. In such a case, the actions of the arsonist are out of the hands of the firefighters who are there doing their best with one hose. That is the baseline. In the meantime, the neighbors are holding a second hose they happen to have and are arguing whether or not to give it to the firefighters. The amount which burns down before it's all over is directly related to the actions of the neighbors as those actions are the only cause of the difference in the two outcomes.
The delay in Western support and the prevarication from the likes of Germany is pathetic and they absolutely deserve blame. Them shrugging their shoulders and saying "well we didn't start it, it's Russia's fault and nothing to do with us" is part of the problem!
That Kharkiv front has only two roads that the russians can use and the Ukrainians have been preparing for months. It will be a bloodbath for them but it's only to try pull the Ukrainians away from the south anyway. There was just 30k russians stations there not 50k according to where I was reading and obviously a good portion of them would be used for support behind the lines.
That’s a good point and European countries deserve to be criticised for dragging their feet and I myself only on the previous page pointed out how Van Der Lein is dragging her feet on handing over seized Russian assets to Ukraine
And the Americans need to be applauded for their support in the run up and the critical months at start
However there is an attempt to paint western allies of Ukraine as completely incompetent and incapable of helping which is not true and plays directly into Russian propaganda aims and divide and conquer tactics
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/
Instead of uniting and focusing on how to defeat Russia the infighting and petty disagreements give Russians a crack to drive wedges into.
Putin spent twenty five years turning Russians into docile frogs who got slow boiled with the same tactics of breeding scepticism, apathy and exploiting all sorts of issues to increase his power. We shouldn’t fall for the same imho
It’s interesting that of all the countries in the EU Germany receives the most criticism re: material support to Ukraine. Whilst some of that criticism is warranted I feel it really aptly applies to the western parts of the bloc as a whole. It seems as much about inept communication, internal infighting, & a lack of PR nous within the German government as about substantive questions about commitments. There’s also been dithering in Brussels, Paris, & elsewhere. France has been regarded as the foremost military power in the EU but has been more reticent than Germany. Even when including what they send through the EU mechanism they’ve sent half of what Germany have provided. Somehow the French gov’t has evaded that level of scrutiny. But it seems in the cauldron of geopolitics bold rhetoric & lofty policy visions counterbalance such shortcomings.
I wonder if we all build effigies of Putin riding a rainbow coloured unicorn and post it online. Could we get Putin to declare war on Ireland?
It may spread out his forces a bit and allow the Ukrainians to take the Z Russians from the rear.
Daly and Wallace. Slightly off topic.
I just pray the attack on Kharkiv and maybe Sumy accelerates Russia's race to the bottom. Might be a nice boost to the daily destroyed tanks and other armour. It won't be an easy breakthrough for Russia.
Kind of sad it took this long for Ukraine to be able to target major Russia logistic hubs properly in their own country like Luhansk.
more funding for ukraine
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/us-announces-400-million-military-171534652.html
So this is the second Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) from Biden, separate to the €60 billion deal which will take longer to arrive.
The package includes weapons Ukraine has been asking for, including Patriot missile system munitions, High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMAR) systems and ammunition, Stinger anti-air missiles, 155mm artillery rounds, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, and Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPs), among other equipment.
Here is the voting record of these representatives for the constituency of Moscow Central
Grannies 4 Equality has done a great summary of their votes
Resolution on the sustainable reconstruction & integration of Ukraine into the Euro-Atlantic communityJun 15 2023 · RC-B9-0270/2023
84% vote in favourDaly & Wallace Abstain
2 Resolution on the preparation of the EU-Ukraine Summit
Feb 2, 2023 · RC-B9-0092/202385% in favourDaly & Wallace vote against
Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and GeorgiaJun 23, 2022 · RC-B9-0331/2022
90% in favourDaly & Wallace abstain
3 Resolution on the establishment of a tribunal on the crime of aggression against UkraineJan 19, 2023 · RC-B9-0063/2023
90% in favourDaly & Wallace vote against
4 Resolution on one year of Russia’s invasion and war of aggression against UkraineFeb 16, 2023 · RC-B9-0126/2023
88% in favourDaly & Wallace vote against
5 Resolution on Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression against UkraineOct 6, 2022 · RC-B9-0430/2022/REV
89% in favourDaly & Wallace againstThere are many more similar votes by Wallace & Daly that align with Russian interests on Ukrainecheck here
6And what about Iran, that brutal genocidal regime?
Resolution on the latest attacks against women and women’s rights defenders in Iran, and Iran’s arbitrary detention of EU nationalsNov 23, 2023 · RC-B9-0478/202394% in favoutDaly & Wallace abstained
7Resolution on Iran, in particular the poisoning of hundreds of schoolgirls
Mar 16, 2023 · RC-B9-0170/202396% in favourDaly & Wallace abstained
8The death penalty in IranFeb 17, 2022 · RC-B9-0105/2022
90% in favourDaly and Wallace against the resolution
(Resolution was against the Death Penalty in Iran)
9 Resolution on the case of Ahmadreza Djalali in IranJul 8, 2021 · RC-B9-0382/202197% in favourDaly & Wallace voted against
10Resolution on Iran, in particular the case of 2012 Sakharov Prize Laureate Nasrin SotoudehDec 17, 2020 · RC-B9-0440/202089% in favourDaly & Wallace voted against
11Resolution on Iran, notably the situation of women’s rights defenders and imprisoned EU dual national
Sep 19, 2019 · RC-B9-0089/201992% voted in favourDaly & Wallace voted against
12Wallace & Daly use their MEP status to support Bashar al-Assad, butcher of Syria, taking speaking time again & again to deny his warcrimes & to attack the OPCW which found him responsible for chemical weapons attacks. They brazenly wear his flag on their faces in EuropeanParl
13And their voting record on Syria aligns with the interests of Assad, Putin & IranRecommendation to the Council, the Commission and the EEAS on the situation in SyriaFeb 28, 2024 · A9-0041/202485% in favourWallace and Daly against
14Resolution on the Syrian conflict – 10 years after the uprising
Mar 11, 2021 · RC-B9-0177/202183% in favourWallace & Daly voted against
(An excellent resolution, after 10 yrs of brutal genocidal repression, ignored by Daly & Wallace on their trips to Assad controlled Syria)
15 New allegations of Russian interference in the European Parliament, in the upcoming EU elections and the impact on the Union
85% in favour
Daly and Wallace voted against 16
Resolution on repression in Russia, in particular the cases of Vladimir Kara-Murza and Aleksei Navalny
Apr 20, 2023 · RC-B9-0225/2023 ·
92% in favour
Daly and Wallace abstained
17 Resolution on repression in Russia, in particular the cases of Vladimir Kara-Murza and Aleksei NavalnyApr 20, 2023 · RC-B9-0225/2023 ·
Daly & Wallace abstain
Vladimir Kara-Murza - Wikipedia
18 Resolution on the torture and criminal prosecution of Ukrainian minors Tihran Ohannisian and Mykyta Khanhanov by the Russian FederationJun 15, 2023 · RC-B9-0268/2023 ·
Daly abstainedWallace did not vote
The two boys were murdered 10 days later
https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/
It's not separate to the 60bil, the 60bil is the total funding. Presidential drawdown comes from current US stocks, so those line items can be delivered right away.
If, in the case of say Patriot missiles, that the US stocks run low or Ukraine has a sufficient stock of them, contracts (from the same 60bil budget) can go out to Raytheon etc… for X number of missiles delivered over X number of months/years to Ukraine. It's allotted from the 60bil budget so even after the 60bil is depleted they will still be delivered.
It's how Ukraine was still receiving some AA missiles well after the funding ran out, as they were already paid for. Same for the GLSDB's.
Horrible communist pricks.
Well one incentive Putin has to keep it going is personal…historically, Russian leaders and Dictators in general, who have lost the war, meet an untimely, and sometimes brutal end. He's trying to avoid that fate.
Communist? Whatever about Daly, Wallace is as spite-driven as Trump. Zero principles involved at all.
The television stations in Crimea were hacked. Instead it showed the inside of a Russian torture chamber or filtration camp.
At 1000 kills a day they will all be ‘elsewhere’ in a month.!!!!!!
Bakhmut and Avdiivka are very small compared to Kharkiv. If you include the suburbs of Kharkiv, it's about 90 times the area.
If the Russians are serious about taking the city, they either fancy they've something up their sleeve or else they are just willing to expend literal rivers of blood in order to grant Putin the most pyrrhic of victories.
It starting to look like all the probing attacks were repelled and most of the damage is from artillery as city so close border.
The actual attack was concentrated in cyberspace to whip up the useful idiots, and that it did.
BBC article on it
Todays detailed ISW report should be interesting
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