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I think you’ve said it all there….about the kind of person you are.I trust you one day get to feel the pain & grief & despair that Navalny’s mother will be feeling now.
This is interesting from the New York Times.https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/26/nrdz-f26.htmlIn brief, there's a summary of NYT quotes there, and some giving of context. The NYT is talking about the CIA bases in Ukraine, since pre 2014, and the implication there is their involvement with the Ukraine "revolution" etc etc. Same old US regime changing.
He did have support, a significant part of that purely as opposition to the ruling elite, some of it for his very nasty policies - no one here has touched on that, possibly through ignorance, possibly because they approve.Also it's worth cutting through the beeb propaganda here and checking out what his popularity ratings were.
Quote from: Bristol Red Rover on March 01, 2024, 12:33:55 pmHe did have support, a significant part of that purely as opposition to the ruling elite, some of it for his very nasty policies - no one here has touched on that, possibly through ignorance, possibly because they approve.Also it's worth cutting through the beeb propaganda here and checking out what his popularity ratings were.If you were British PM would you throw your political enemies in jail and poison them?It doesn’t matter what his policies were or how unpopular he was.So Putin is perfect and he has no strong opposition because of that?
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Putin-imposed head of occupied Zaphphorizha crowing about the fact they have deported Ukrainian families. A war crime.https://twitter.com/den_kazansky/status/1762398536874741872It's frankly horrifying to think what will have been going on in the occupied territories over the past two years, outside the field of view of the outside world.Still waiting for your solution to the war BST… patiently!
Another Russian ship destroyed by the Uke/UK sea drones. I can't understand how the Russians allow this. Surely it's easy as to defend against it?
''Total bilateral aid commitments to Ukraine as a percentage of 2021 donor country gross domestic product (GDP) between January 24, 2022 and January 15, 2024, by country''https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303450/bilateral-aid-to-ukraine-in-a-percent-of-donor-gdp/
I've said for years that it was weird to look back to the Thirties and realise that people were saying we should cosy up to Hitler and not stop him expanding the Third Reich. I always assumed we'd learned from that. But there are people in here who would have us make exactly the same mistake today. Either they really don't get history, or they get aroused by fascism.
A Russian missile landed within 100 metres of President Zelenskyy & visiting Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis & his diplomats today in the port of Odessa, five people (non of them Greek) were killed.What would NATO’s response have been if a Prime Minister of one of its ‘most important’ nation states had been killed?Putin will one day blow his own head off playing ‘Russian Roulette’.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on March 06, 2024, 10:55:49 pmI've said for years that it was weird to look back to the Thirties and realise that people were saying we should cosy up to Hitler and not stop him expanding the Third Reich. I always assumed we'd learned from that. But there are people in here who would have us make exactly the same mistake today. Either they really don't get history, or they get aroused by fascism.Billy, who are “the people in here” that you are talking about.
Quote from: SydneyRover on March 06, 2024, 09:50:57 pm''Total bilateral aid commitments to Ukraine as a percentage of 2021 donor country gross domestic product (GDP) between January 24, 2022 and January 15, 2024, by country''https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303450/bilateral-aid-to-ukraine-in-a-percent-of-donor-gdp/That’s quite a chunk off NHS Funding amongst other things!
Quote from: Colin C No.3 on March 06, 2024, 11:32:36 pmA Russian missile landed within 100 metres of President Zelenskyy & visiting Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis & his diplomats today in the port of Odessa, five people (non of them Greek) were killed.What would NATO’s response have been if a Prime Minister of one of its ‘most important’ nation states had been killed?Putin will one day blow his own head off playing ‘Russian Roulette’.NATO leaders have to go to Ukraine to keep up the pretence that everything is going well. It isn't. They know it. They will stop the visits. This was possibly the watershed.
A Russian missile landed within 100 metres of President Zelenskyy & visiting Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis & his diplomats today in the port of Odessa, five people (non of them Greek) were killed.What would NATO’s response have been if a Prime Minister of one of its ‘most important’ nation states had been killed?Putin will one day blow his own head off playing ‘Russian Roulette’.
The missile being spoke of was aimed at, and hit, a factory/storage unit for the sea drones. As they are UK coordinated, likely there would be some UK casualties there too.If you walk across a busy road with a blindfold, you are asking for trouble. No nukes coming from that story.The other side of the story is Russia being able to take out Zelensky but choosing not to. Why might that be?
sprot:The Ukrainian army having lost the Avidiivka pocket are now going to ‘Dig In’ and hold the Russians off! The Russians will consolidate their Positons and that will be the end, The Ukraine does not have the Military capacity or manpower to punch through Russias lines.Sleepy Joe needs to wake up and tell Zehlinsky to make peace.Quote from: Sprotyrover on March 06, 2024, 10:40:42 pmQuote from: SydneyRover on March 06, 2024, 09:50:57 pm''Total bilateral aid commitments to Ukraine as a percentage of 2021 donor country gross domestic product (GDP) between January 24, 2022 and January 15, 2024, by country''https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303450/bilateral-aid-to-ukraine-in-a-percent-of-donor-gdp/That’s quite a chunk off NHS Funding amongst other things!Sounds like you're getting ready to give it up sprot