Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Of course, but the main theme of my response there was that we shouldn’t be looking at the death of a million Russians as something to cheer about. I for example want Ukraine to succeed in their defence and for them to defeat the Russian Federation in this war, but that doesn’t mean that I want to dance on the mass graves of the Russian soldiers.

Violence may be nessisary to defend our freedoms from those who want to take them away, but that doesn’t mean that it has to cost us our humanity. Nor should it shouldn’t cost them 1 million dead (and the Ukrainians), when it’s the fate of only one man which might solve a lot of their problems…and ours.

A lot seem to be older middle-aged who signed up for the vodka.

Unusual to see Putin under a fair bit of pressure. Europe and Ukraine issued him with an ultimatum yesterday and he then had to issue a live statement to the media in the middle of the night Moscow time. That doesn't sound like someone who is controlling the narrative or who 'holds all the cards'.

He'll be back to Nazi's in Ukraine, NATO advancing and protection of Russian speakers rhetoric again, just to stall and delay any unconditional ceasefire.

Ukraine and it's European allies will see through it, but I fear Trump may fall for that spiel.

RuZZia always enters talks and even agrees to treaties. So what?

From watching the news and reading about it for the last 20 years.

Russians, public officials, leadership have often made comments about connecting Kaliningrad to Russia. When Lithuania stopped transit in 2022 they said such a move "untied their hands" to address it by any means - aka force

Russian state TV has mentioned it multiple times. It's not uncommon for them to reference invading or nuking European countries (including Ireland)

"Warmongers"

Democratic Ukraine was not a threat to nuclear-armed Russia - he's not stealing their grain or forcing their kids to learn Russian for security reasons. It's conquest. Which Putin can end it at any time of his choosing.

It's a war of choice for him.

Price have gone up, instability has gone up, inflation rocketed up - literally no one wants this. Now we all have to spend billions on defence.

You're trying to spin that as we "want war" because we are spending money to defend ourselves. Does Finland want to invade Russia? No. Does Lithuania want to invade nuclear-armed Russia? Of course not. It's spending money on defences to avoid and deter Putin.

Putin is engaged in hybrid warfare with the whole of Europe. He's already invading one European country.

Here's a picture from Russia's Channel One when they were discussing wiping out the UK and Ireland with nukes

Literally the exact same thing happened with Hitler. Countries around him desparately started to spend more on defense, why? Because he had plans to invade them. Countries around him joined defensive alliances, why? Because he had plans to invade them.

He spun them as war-mongers who were "surrounding" Germany, just as Putin is doing now. Imagine supporting that narrative in 2025.

It's unlikely he will black and white Hitler style invade the Baltics tomorrow - that's not considered imminent.

The Baltics are preparing for a time if/when NATO is fragmented, when the international order may have changed, when far right parties are in power, etc.

I remember people breathlessly claiming he would never invade a European country, that NATO would never be under threat, that Trump would never get into power, that the world order would never change - etc, etc, etc.

I can't account for cluelessness on anyone's behalf.

It was no secret Putin wanted to invade Ukraine - but he wasn't making official statements on it, on the contrary Moscow was denying it was going to invade right up until days before the actual invasion.

Likewise with absorbing Belarus or moving forces into Lithuania, the Kremlin isn't making official statements. They don't have to, for example, in 2022 Russia registered a bill with the Duma to repeal recognising Lithuania's independence, Russia TV has repeatedly shown war-games in which Russian forces overrun Baltics including Lithuania, the head of SVR said the Baltics would be the first to go down in any conflict with NATO. Russia has repeatedly and long expressed a desire for a land-bridge to Kaliningrad.

So, where's your official source that @odyssey06 asked you for. As was pointed out, Boris Johnson didn't say what your RuZZian sources says he did.

So, come across. Where's your source?

Putin is invading Ukraine to conquer it, to subjugate it. There's no threat from Ukraine, there's no valid reason, there's no "Russian side to the story". It's a Hitler style invasion, he wants the land, he wants to absorb the country into Russia - and he's using bombs and missiles to achieve that.

It's completely illegal and there's no validation for it whatsoever.

He can't directly admit this so he has conjured up warped history, mental gymnastics and crude propaganda.

His apologists parrot this stuff. Most of them are individuals who will support any leadership for being opposed the US/West including dictators who would not otherwise follow their beliefs.

It's an inconsistent and hypocritical stance.

Perhaps you are from Russia and are a direct Putin supporter I don't know.

However if you are Irish, then you only need to ask yourself the question if Putin were doing the same to us, would you be making any of these comments? The answer is no.

Would you be claiming that European nations coming to our aid are warmongers? No.

Would you be attempting shift blame away from Putin to absolve him of responsibility? No.