Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Comparing Putin and Hitler seems apt alright

Dear God! It's as if one is talking to a wall. I posted on this a week ago, but talking to a Putain apologist -or sorry, one of the , eh '''concerned''-is engaging in a dialogue of the deaf. Let me repeat "Millions of the population are far away from their electoral areas, refugees in the west of the country. Millions are refugees abroad. A fifth of the country is occupied. Hundreds of thousands are in the armed forces.The administration and manpower required to overcome those chaotic conditions would challenge the capabilities of a much larger and wealthier state even in peacetime. Chaos and disruption and the destruction of hundreds of public buildings has made the tranquility required for the voting and subsequent vote counting next to impossible, not to imagine that it would require the diversions of many thousands of personnel from essential tasks: firefighting, the armed forces, medical facilities, rescue operations. And you expect that the remaining population would be content to queue up all day in voting centres waiting for a Ruzzian missile to fall on their heads…something the Ruzzian vermin would be happy to take advantage of, to kill more Ukrainians. ….How about an election in Libya or, say, Sudan?'' And that's in addition to the obstacle to holding elections pointed out by Podge_irl.

Time to put this ''Why won't Zelenski hold an election…it's not fair''boo hoo'' bullsh1t to bed-permanently.

Yes, I knew something like that was also the case, but as I wasn't fully versed in that Ukranian law, I didn't mention it, unlike some of the comrades here that claim that Zelensky is an illegitimate president!! Despite their boss being on the throne for a quarter of a century…

It'll be bot/troll/concernik 3.476 this week while the others take a break (or post on German/Spanish/French Boards)…

I'm a person here. I understand the Russians have security concerns. I'm pretty sure the Russians are not going to leave.

I want to go to the moon but just because I want it doesn't mean it will happen. One might also say it is as simple as for Ukraine to offer a complete and unconditional surrender to Russia. I do not see how such statements are in any way connected to reality

In an ideal scenario, the Russians would leave and surrender Crimea too and everyone would live happily ever after.

As it stands, there are two countries, both deemed very corrupt by transparency international, fighting. I would like to see lasting security agreements in place that would lessen the risk of nuclear war and end the killing.

@engineerws Going back to your earlier claim;

Zelrnskys term of office has ended but he will not hold an election

Can you now agree/acknowledge that an election cannot currently be held in Ukraine, as per Ukranian law

Would you mind just acknowledging this fact please?

....but as long as orcs are getting killed in large numbers, that's OK isn't it?

wasn’t 1 of the main objectives in the first days of the war to decapitate the government. But they couldn’t get to Kyiv.

Heres a question:

Do you think Russia is justified with its initial & ongoing invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine?

A simple yes or no will suffice.

2 ridiculous claims in 1 day. First that Ukraine could hold elections and second that Russia could level Kyiv like Gaza or more relevant I'd say like Vovchansk or Toretsk.

If Russian fighter jets tired lobbing conventional bombs onto Kyiv like the Israelis do in Gaza they'd have no air force left. It's not on the zero line and it's protected by patriot's and other top class systems.

I think its fairly well established that Zelensky is not a target for the Russians. He is a poor leader who is more concerned with media events than military realities. It wouldn't make sense to remove him in case his replacement was competent and capable.

The former israeli PM, Naftali Bennett, confirmed as much in an interview back in Feb 2023. Back in early March 2022, he tried to contact both Zelensky and Putin to try mediate an end to the fighting. He found Zelensky was hiding in a bunker, convinced Putin was out to kill him. He then went to speak to Putin:

“I knew Zelensky was under threat, in a bunker… I said to [Putin], ‘Do you intend to kill Zelensky?’ He said, ‘I won’t kill Zelensky,’” Bennett recalled in the interview, which was published on his own YouTube channel.

“I need to understand. Are you giving me your word that you won’t kill Zelensky?” Bennett said he asked Putin.

Bennett said the Russian president repeated: “I won’t kill Zelensky.”

Bennett said he called the Ukrainian president immediately after the three-hour encounter with Putin, and told him, “I’ve just come out of a meeting — [Putin] is not going to kill you.

“[Zelensky] asked me, ‘Are you sure?’ I said 100 percent. [Putin’s] not going to kill you.”

Bennett recalled: “Two hours later, Zelensky went to his office, and did a selfie in the office, [in which the Ukrainian president said,] ‘I’m not afraid.’”

And there was that incident when the Russians took out a facility in Odessa which contained the teams directing the naval drones in the Black Sea. Zelensky and some EU official visited the facility to hand out medals (possibly how the Russians confirmed the target), all the while being observed by Russian drones. They waited until he and the EU officials had handed out the medals, got back in the vehicles and left before they hit the facility/team with missile strikes.

Will the West at any point give Ukraine the ability to stop Russia dropping massive glide bombs on the frontline? We're approaching year 3 here, getting a bit tiresome at this stage.