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Ah right, good explanation, thanks.
Good news for the Russians. I thought we’re meant to be making things worse for them?
Russian Inflation Spikes to 20-Year Record [17.8% in April] on War and Sanctions:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...spikes-to-20-year-record-on-war-and-sanctions
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...spikes-to-20-year-record-on-war-and-sanctions
I'm sure they will recieve best possible care.
Not sure how these are good news, they will most likely go from one hell hole to another, and if they survive, be made PoWs.
Yeah he posts on the caf
Ukraines song was absolute dogshit. Great for them to win it on a pity vote because they got blown up by Russia. It’s basically a Make-A-Wish victory. Your song’s shit but we feel sorry for you.Actually feel bad for the UK for actually having the best song for once and it comes in a year when a little country got invaded by Russia.
Ha, I'm amazed that post is still live
More good news in the Kharkiv region if they’ve already crossed the river. Russia was moving forces north from Izium to consolidate a defensive front supposedly which could have been problematic. It’s shown in the upper-right here.
so am I, I thought it was a wind up post at first.Ha, I'm amazed that post is still live
Seems a bit weird to me. If France had attacked us and taken over Manchester and Birmingham, would we be sending someone to Eurovision?
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Swiftly qualified tweet
What's the qualification? I posted that one earlier before the other one.
From bbc
The Kurdish groups.
Just had a look at Katchanovski’s publications and I would be very interested to see the money trail. He has a seemingly very strong interest in challenging the prevailing narrative about Ukraine going back to Maidan in 2014. All from the other side of the Atlantic in Ottawa.
Can’t we just throw out Turkey and let in Sweden and Finland then? Seems like a good trade, and if I remember correctly NATO does have humans rights and democracy requirements, which Turkey could be violating.
He's fairly anti-War and anti-Putin. Also verified war crimes in Bucha, and other places, as part of his most recent research. He's not a Kremlin stooge.
Ok, I‘ll take your word for it.
Can I ask an open question given you are a prodigious poster on this topic - what do you see as a viable solution?
I cannot stand the guy, says some very strange things and if its not intentional, he is at the least very susceptible to Russian propaganda.
Gave one in the other thread, I have no idea. Beyond reparations, neutrality, security agreements, and the usual stuff, which is already being discussed and suggested, there's nothing I can add. Russia will have to withdraw back to its initial position and Ukraine will likely have to acknowledge the independence of, or loss of, Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk. Not the entirety of the last two, but those parts which were under control before the war.
Luhansk and Donetsk are more likely to be crushed by the Ukrainian army on the attack than stay as they were just before the war. Crimea is a more complicated case, but it's too early to call anything there as well.
The BBC reports:
"Russia's President Putin and his military chief, General Valery Gerasimov, are believed to be directly intervening in Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine and taking decisions normally made by more junior officers - according to a Western military source.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the source said: “We think Putin and Gerasimov are involved in tactical decision-making at a level we would normally expect to be taken by a colonel or brigadier.”
The military source said the two were the ones making decisions about troop movements in the Donbas – the area of eastern Ukraine which is now the focus of Russia’s military offensive.
There have already been suggestions that President Putin has become more involved in the day-to-day running of the military campaign, ever since Russia suffered setbacks in the north of the country and around the capital Kyiv.
There’s also been recent speculation that Russia’s military chief, General Gerasimov, may have been sidelined – along with unsubstantiated rumours that he was injured while visiting the Donbas a few weeks ago.
But the Western military official made clear that Russia’s chief of the general staff was still giving orders. “Gerasimov is up and running,” he said."
"Russia's President Putin and his military chief, General Valery Gerasimov, are believed to be directly intervening in Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine and taking decisions normally made by more junior officers - according to a Western military source.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the source said: “We think Putin and Gerasimov are involved in tactical decision-making at a level we would normally expect to be taken by a colonel or brigadier.”
The military source said the two were the ones making decisions about troop movements in the Donbas – the area of eastern Ukraine which is now the focus of Russia’s military offensive.
There have already been suggestions that President Putin has become more involved in the day-to-day running of the military campaign, ever since Russia suffered setbacks in the north of the country and around the capital Kyiv.
There’s also been recent speculation that Russia’s military chief, General Gerasimov, may have been sidelined – along with unsubstantiated rumours that he was injured while visiting the Donbas a few weeks ago.
But the Western military official made clear that Russia’s chief of the general staff was still giving orders. “Gerasimov is up and running,” he said."
Not an unreasonable answer. Given the current momentum, I‘d see a return to 2014 borders, except for Crimea.