Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Ukraine will be supplied with 19 air defense systems to protect critical infrastructure, Rutte said during a meeting with Zelensky

Zelenskyy said he had already spoken separately with Macron in Brussels and would meet with other leaders later. Politico also writes that the French president will not be at the joint leaders' meeting.

Edit: whoops that was a while back, still apropos.

Ireland sends Ukraine it's regards.

We had the largest budget surplus of any country in Europe in 2022, that has now ballooned to €25 B thanks to the apple windfall.

We do host one of Russia's largest nest of spies and espionage bases in Europe, so not sure our regards count for much.

Syrsky arrived to join the military in the Kursk direction

According to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the enemy's losses in the Kursk region amounted to over 38 thousand personnel and more than a thousand pieces of equipment.

Quite funny to think the Orcs might be supplying the electricity. Will they send a bill?

Is it just me, or does that last pic look like Kadyrov has a side gig?

Where is the commander?

Oh he's in what used to be Russia.

Transnistria has no heating and hot water supply due to the lack of Russian gas

Residents are urged to dress warmly, gather as families in one room, hang blankets on windows, and use electric heaters.

Schadenfreude. Not long ago they were cheering on everytime a part of Ukraine's energy infrastructure was destroyed.

Moscow the capital of the USSR, not the capital of Ruzzia, which by the law had no primacy in the USSR, and was just the city where the Politburo, the Supreme Soviet and the Central Committee and organs of the union state were located, all of which had representatives from the Republics. Ruzzia did not 'own' the nuclear arsenal by virtue of being the nation that hosted the government.

Well, that post is a new level of WTF for me. Is this some sort of nuke denial? Are you saying that because Nakasaki now looks like the picture you posted, the nightmares in the recent past never happened?

Have you ever tried to discuss this theory with someone in real life? Let us know if you do, should be good for a laugh.

If things were as you say, why would Ukraine give the nuclear weapons you imagine it controlled to Russia? Why not just dismantle them itself as the independent nuclear power you imagine it was? When South Africa abandoned its nuclear weapons program - the only country I can recall with nuclear weapons who have ever done so - it didn't give them to another state to potentially use against them.

The reason the weapons returned to Russia is because they were Russian weapons deployed in Ukrainian territory. Ukraine always was and remains a non-nuclear state and never controlled the nuclear weapons or had any authority over them. Ukraine never had nuclear weapons. Belarus never had nuclear weapons. Kazakhstan never had nuclear weapons. They had a foreign country (Russia) deploying nuclear weapons in their territory.

The treaties made sense in their own right. Russia has never wanted expansion of NATO (a hostile military alliance). Guaranteeing the security of Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan removed a reason for NATO expansion. And Russia is the only country that can legitimately guarantee the security of Ukraine. Of course, the US ripped up those treaties so here we are.

Wow do your read what you write?

So from your post, Ukraine gave back the nuclear weapons because they « never controlled the nuclear weapons or had any authority over them. ». So it is like Russia in Ukraine. They didn’t control part of Ukraine and had no authority on them and yet, they are there. Therefore, I am assuming you condemn Russia invasion.

But your best line is this one:

And Russia is the only country that can legitimately guarantee the security of Ukraine.

You cannot write this and believe it.

Who else can guarantee the security of Ukraine and is provably willing to fight to prevent a hostile third party controlling Ukraine? Russia is provably very serious about not allowing a hostile power (i.e. the US/NATO) control Ukraine. Because it is in their interests. Ukraine was in a solid security situation pre-2008. Then NATO announced Ukraine would become a member, and later overthrew the Ukrainian government and here we are.

Any or all of the NATO countries could go to war right now for Ukraine. NATO membership isn't a requirement. But they don't. They're willing to cause trouble in Ukraine, but they're not willing to fight for Ukraine. Because it is not in their interests.

Even the "friends of Ukraine" defend the efforts to bring Ukraine into NATO as being meaningless, and never truly meant to be taken seriously by Russia.

'Ruzzia is the only country that can guarantee the security of Ukraine'? Would this be the same way that the local mafioso would ''guarantee'' the security of businesses in their area? ''Nice store-terrible if anything was to happen to it. We can guarantee that nobody will burn down your shop or beat you up. The fee for protection is…..$$$$'' 

You're just repeating the previously debunked myth. Repetition doesn't give it any greater weight. Particularly when you betray the truth when saying "[Ukraine] could have taken over the weapons…".

Even if I accept that possibility (extremely dubious for a whole host of reasons), the only reason they would need to take over the weapons is because they didn't have the weapons. Which they didn't. Russia did.

"Russia has never wanted expansion of NATO (a hostile military alliance). Guaranteeing the security of Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan removed a reason for NATO expansion. And Russia is the only country that can legitimately guarantee the security of Ukraine. Of course, the US ripped up those treaties so here we are."

Wow, there it is.

Putin has made statements that Russia plays a central role in guaranteeing Ukraine's security. Against foreign threats of NATO/West (lol). As Russia invades Ukraine.

You are effectively quoting Putin. Your posts are arriving at his talking points. Putin killing the populace of Ukraine, stealing it's grain, stealing it's children is somehow validated according to you, and Putin's, shared warped views. Again, wow.