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Giving Russia's historical treatment of small states, that does not bode well for the "small States" or even some bigger ones. In fact, any state that Russia can defeat mili.arily or infiltrate its government is fair game for them.
Most of those Russians who surrender think that its either NATO or Ukrainian Nazi's they are fighting. or else they haven't a clue why they are there…they are told that they are going to a support battalion, not the front lines.
That’s great
Trumpie will have to pay to liberate those minerals from areas of Donbas that the Russian Nazis have occupied
Welcome back btw, looking forward to status updates from TASS
That would seem to me like probably something that Ukraine would welcome given it shows that Trump is not ruling out ongoing support in a very public manner.
According to his answer last night to reporters questions it looks like Trump is after securing his countries loans with Ukraine's rare earth materials and other resources or assets.
Also calling for more money from the Europeans to be given.
If you're hitting the point that you're arguing that propaganda about mythical fighter pilots, Russians scrapping washing machines for chips or "grandads shooting down jets" is on the same level as propaganda that Ukraine was committing genocide in the Donbass, the overthrow of Yanokhovch was a NATO-backed plot, the Ukrainian Government is led by Nazis and Russia is fighting all of NATO……you're not scraping the barrel, you're broken through and are scratching in the dirt underneath the barrel.
Lavrov writes about the possibility of a multi polar world where small states have a say.
The principle of states’ sovereign equality laid the foundation for the Yalta-Potsdam system: none may claim dominance, as all are formally equal regardless of territory, population, military capabilities, or other metrics.
Ukraine gets one mention where it is lumped in with Libya etc and the current state of Ukraine blamed on the US. Interesting nonetheless to be speaking in such terms, perhaps there's a reason. ..
all fake Kremlin propaganda
Ah jebus
A friend of Russia who wants to tell us all about free and fair media
The cutting of US funding to foreign programs has had the interesting effect of highlighting how heavily infiltrated and compromised Ukraine's institutions are by the US. The sudden loss of funding has caused panic in the Ukrainian "warrior elite" class of NGOs, activists and media who are utterly dependent on US money. Oksana Romaniuk, director of Ukraine's Institute of Mass Information has said publicly that 80% or more of Ukrainian media was/is dependent on US funding, in some cases it was 100% of their income, in others 40-60%. Romaniuk has said that she is hoping the EU steps in to pick up the bill. Various activists and NGOs that manufacture narratives are also badly exposed as US dependent. The US pays the piper, the US calls the tunes.
Ironically, it seems the supposedly independent Ukrainian media served as an intermediary to whitewash US propaganda about ghosts, shovels, washing machines, mobile crematoria and grand dads shooting down jets with rifles for US/EU citizens to consume. US and other western media would then quote back the Ukrainian media to NATO audiences with no independent investigation. So US taxpayers paid for their own disinformation.
It does highlight why the US and EU are (were?) so incredibly hostile to any sovereign country introducing any regulations about foreign funding of NGOs and media.
I agree if Ukraine have to withdraw they don't leave it to the last minute. Happened at Avdiivka units were left and had to run through the Russian gauntlet and lost a lot of people that way.
Pokrovsk has been under threat for more than a year. If it falls - or rather when Ukraine decides there's not enough of a city left to defend and strategically withdraws - it'll have about as much significance as the fall of Bahkmut or Avdiivka. Both are still areas where the Russians have a better-than-average chance of gifting a free Lada or bag of potatoes to their wife, thanks to Ukrainian drone activity.
"He gave his life to defend Russia",
against who, nato? All those nato boys swarming around Luhansk I suppose.
Well, they tried to take precautions. But their mobiks, and indeed their superiors, are often so stupid and careless, have such loose lips on social media and are so incognizant of things like drones that their security is as leaky as a sieve, as is evidenced by the recent UN report on the murder of 79 Ukrainian POWs. Not to mention that their media figures seem to be in two minds about whether they should be keeping these things a secret or boasting about them.
I am “conflicted”
Its a quite common attitude in Russia.. you can frequently see various groups of people gathered, begging Putin to save them from various calamities happening to them, not only without blaming him for being the cause of these selfsame calamities, but praising him.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1674051593283551232
Its looking like A key supply and logistics hub is under threat of being lost in Ukraine
If they lose Povorsk, things look bleak
In Boucha,it was a deliberate tactic… they wanted to sow terror in the minds of Ukrainians, not just in Boucha, but else where as well. At that stage they were confident of victory. In later stages, they took all precautions to hide the evidence of their war crimes.
I am always reminded of the quotation by the Marquis de Custine, prompted by his visit to the empire in 1839: "in this country, an avowed tyranny would be a mark of progress". And little has changed since his day.
Wow, if that's real then it's extremely naive of her.
Hasn't occurred to her yet that the Russian state don't give a sh!te about her, her husband or their kids.
Meanwhile, a wife with her husband missing…
https://x.com/i/status/1886753910787805451
He didn't mention which term.
I thought Trump was going to solve this within 24 hours of taking office 😂
……and now for something completely different…….when the war is over…..
» "I am conflicted about this particular war, as I support neither political side"
It's an invasion, and it isn't about political sides.
This isn't some squabble between two nations or some spat, this is one country attempting to conquer and absorb another sovereign country which is fighting for it's very survival.
Putin is forcing it's children to speak Russian, he's stealing their grain, he's erasing their culture - so it has nothing to do with security concerns.
If Ukraine had joined NATO none of this would be happening. This is why countries join NATO (of their own free will) - for precisely the reason we see unfolding in front of us.
I appreciate the sincerity of your post, but the views on display are not rational.
If Putin invaded Ireland would you be tripping over yourself to shift blame onto ourselves? That "both sides" were at fault? That you were conflicted about the political side in Ireland? That we were somehow to blame because we were thinking of joining NATO? That we were too aligned with Europe?
No. Because that would be perverse.
Russia is a country that voluntarily excised its own intellectual classes. You can clearly see the results today. They never had an Enlightenment the same way that Europe did. Even in the nineteenth century, 200 years after Britain started the Industrial Revolution, it was mostly illiterate peasants who still believed in magic.
Oh dear. 😂 Keep avoiding news on the topic, it's clearly served you well with such hard hitting insights.
I know it's hard to support a country defending itself from an aggressor that wants to eradicate its past, current and future cultural and historical existence. Hard to empathise with that. Or NATO which still somehow has not lost a single soldier in the invasion. That "fact" defies logic and can only be put down to fake news. They must have lost thousands but the MSM are towing the line in that regard.
It's also quite difficult to support an imperialist mafia state that invades its smaller neighbour citing dozens of false reasons which have been picked apart one at at time. Then proceed to indiscriminately bomb civilian targets, operate filtration camps, while showing complete disregard for its own citizens also who are packed up into meat waves to never be heard of again. While closer to home incarcerating/conscripting any naysayers. The first mobilised were from the occupied territories making it an added bonus to be occupied. Furthermore they don't need to be counted as Russian military personnel losses.
Best not to take a stance.
There's another whammy there too. In that russian children are indoctrinated from birth to die for their fatherland. It means the Kremlin can take advantage of the lemmings jumping off a cliff and no hostility towards the person asking them to jump off the cliff.
There was a german soldier in a bunker in Normandy on D Day in his memoirs wrote that he abhorred the Nazi regime but he still felt he had to work and obey orders of those in power of his country that was instilled in him since childhood. Lemming.
Since the Tsar down they've been taught to be stupid. Had a brief mind f***withory in the Russian revolution.
Why are you conflicted? The Russians openly state their aims are extermination and are carrying out genocide in Ukraine with Putin wanted for war crimes and industrial scale kidnapping of kids (aka genocide)
You have no issues going on about genocide in Palestine yet in this war the Russians have started you are “conflicted”
Seems to be a common trait in the far left, proving the horseshoe theory of politics that once go out far enough on left endup on far right squaring the swastikas
Aside; is the “conflicted” the new “concerned”?
You're welcome to support any side you wish or none, though personally I think the opinion that Russia and Ukraine are somehow equitable in this war is nigh-on impossible to take seriously as a sincerely held opinion.
I would put it up there with Nazi Germany and Poland holding equal blame for 1939, or Nazi Germany and the USSR sharing equity in Operation Barbarossa, which would require massive downplay of the aggressors contributory factors, while simultaneously maximising, embellishing and inevitably inventing the victims contributory factors……in other words not remotely plausible for the vast majority of people.
More generally, I would say people have more respect for your opinions or standings when you are more upfront than trying to "both sides" it and paint yourself as being from a point of almost neutrality despite a completely transparent heavy leaning in one direction.
Describing Ukraine as "Zelensky and his NATO backers"; anecdotes of a Ukrainian woman hating Zelensky but merely "confused" by Putin's vicious, murderous invasion of her country; it's all a great tragedy, there are no good sides; no way to know what's true so all news is equally unreliable - all very familiar talking points from a select few.
I personally think your opinions are formed more from anti-Nato, anti-US and potentially broader anti-west sentiments than anything else. You're entitled to them all the same but I don't see too many people agreeing with them or the logic in their reasoning.
