Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Pretty disgusting rewarding a genocidal country like that. I'd be curious what's actually in the agreement that Ukraine have signaled they are happy to work with. There's probably wording that Trump will contradict by recognizing occupied Ukrainian territory. Not like Trump has read the agreement anyways.

One fascist administration supporting another.

What else should we expect. Europe must oppose this with every means at its disposal, including economic.

Some things have too high a price.

"The US is reportedly ready to recognize Russia’s control over Crimea & occupied Ukrainian regions."

Does this include the parts russia STILL has not taken and that Ukraine are still occupying?

The writing was on the wall when the US started voting with Venezuela and North Korea at the UN. It still amazes me how little kick back internally has happened. I can understand the America First attitude but literally switching sides would be a head spinner for me as if I was an American citizen.

I dont think this WHs priority is ending the fighting. Its getting back into Putins good books so they can make lucrative fossil fuels and other deals.

Another image of this.

In Kuzbass an ambulance carrying a patient was stuck in a snowdrift all night. Authorities refused to clear the road to access the ambulance as the Kremlin labelled the woman patient a foreign agent. The woman fell into a coma overnight in the ambulance. The kremlin were disappointed the woman was still alive in the morning.

Russia must have video of trump sleeping with a minor such is the level of fanning over them by trump.

Ukrainian woman in mid 20s describes life in a Kherson village under Russian occupation (11 minutes in).

North Korean arms shipments to Russia have resumed.

Fresh satellite imagery from Planet Labs, published by NK Pro, shows Russian container vessels Lady R and Angara returning to DPRK ports — a route previously used to move thousands of containers of ammunition into Russia, as Militarnyi reports.

Both ships made 3 visits in November and 2 in October to Rason, the DPRK port near the Russian border that has quietly become a weapons logistics hub.

Analysis by Militarnyi reveals the scale of a single shuttle run:

Angara: 632 containers per voyage (payload up to 7,331 tons)
Lady R: 783 containers per voyage (payload up to 7,630 tons)
Total capacity over five recent voyages is calculated at 7,075 containers

The danger is that Putin will just bank what he is offered and keep pushing, like Hitler did.

There are implications for Europe as a while if Russia is allowed to redraw borders by force. It sets a precedent.

I think we need to teach the young of what happened when people like Neville Chamberlain took the easy way out at Munich. He thought it would bring peace.

Also controlling Ukraine would give Russia domination over minerals and rare earths and the international grain market. They would use that to destabilise the west further.

Do we want a precedent where independent countries are forced back into the empires they escaped from? What would that mean for Ireland if an imperialist rightwing government came to power in the UK?

mighg be time to recognise Russia's claims to Alaska in return.

The Ukrainian goal isn't to win outright on the battlefield, it's to make the war as costly and unsustainable for Russia as possible via effective military defense.

My problem with these sorts of posts is that they seem to hinge on some bizarre fantasy that Russia is some global superpower with unlimited resources and a bullet-proof economy.

It has none of those things.

The military reality is that Russia is fighting almost 4 years and when you exclude the land it already held pre 2022 has taken very little of Ukraine, with gains dwindling constantly to WW1 type advances at WW1 levels of casualties.

Two further things wrong with your post.

Firstly, saying there's zero percent chance Russia will withdraw goes back to your above assertion, that Russia has an infinite capacity to fight and suffer, when it does not, not to mention, Putin could die next week, could be deposed, anything could happen independent of economic and military factors.

Secondly, "a negotiated end of the killing" is not what Putin is looking for. He wants terms as if Ukraine has been decisively militarily defeated, including limits on UKR military and them handing over territory they already hold, have successfully defended, and Russia isn't within an asses roar of conquering anytime soon.

Why would Ukraine agree to such terms when nothing like that has happened? Why would you dress up such demands as "negotiated end to the killing"?

That's not negotiation. That's Putin wanting to be seen to have decisively won his disasterous war with Versaille Treaty Lite so he doesn't end up like Mussolini.

Lastly, the big bad stick of Russia must be allowed to win or else we'll all face nuclear annihilation…..is pretty desperate.

Curious as well that certain posters always put the onus on Ukraine to "stop the killing"….when they're defending their own country against a bigger neighbour who's made it quite clear it wanted to erase their national identity and autonomy completely, up to genocide.

So Mr Putin, just to confirm, you want to keep what you’ve stolen, steal a lot more while you’re at it, resume business with the West, cancel all the war crimes malarkey and ensure you can steal the rest of country down the road. Where do we sign?

What yokes were Dim and Wit on when they come up with this guff?

• If Ukraine invades Russia, it will lose the guarantee;
• If Russia invades Ukraine, in addition to a decisive coordinated military response, all global sanctions will be reinstated, recognition of the new territory and all other benefits of this deal will be revoked;
• If Ukraine launches a missile at Moscow or Saint Petersburg without cause, the security guarantee will be deemed invalid.

Is there any chance of the Ukraine we are familiar with in this solar system launching an unprovoked invasion of Russia? Of course, there’s every chance of Russia alleging that a future Ukraine has launched a missile on a Russian city by organizing such an explosion itself, as the people of Chechnya know all too well.