But does that apply to an EU / non-EU border?
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More takes about sovereignty:
It is a gray area. Technically Member states can do as they please with their borders (national security..), they can temporarily close internal borders in exceptional circumstances. But they are supposed to manage the external borders in compliance with the common rules. For example, since US citizens are entitled to visa-free entry to the EU, all countries should welcome them. Spain can't unilaterally ban visitors from the US or require a visa.
The EU agreements with non-EU states (including the EU-Russia Kaliningrad partnership) are binding for all countries, and they are supposed to facilitate them, not counteract them. Unless the sanctions, in this case, are suspending that agreement entirely, then Lithuania would be right...
Well, according to Josep Borrell, the EU high rep for foreign affairs, Lithuania is simply applying the EU sanctions to their border with Russia.
My personal response to that two-faced degenerate and living shame to her uniform:More takes about sovereignty:
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It’s not specific interpretation, it’s current version of sanctions and this decision was made in consultation with European Commission. What Germany now pushes is the change to the current legal wording of these sanctions. Either way the optics are very bad for the EU if they decide to go back on this and will only embolden Putin to make threats in the future. Also, there’s going to be no blockade of any kind as Russia can ship/fly in the goods it would be more expensive sure, but that’s the whole point to make the war very expensive for Russia?
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Lysychansk unfortunately looks a lost cause now, as well.
The above update was an hour and a half ago. In the last 20 mins pro-Russian twitter accounts are reporting a full encirclement of the city with some videos of troops entering parts of the city from the west side.
Why the soviet flag?
Great Patriotic War fighting against fascism, the golden age of Soviet (aka Russian) power, undoing the fall of the USSR leading to the existence of an independent Ukraine, etc.
Things could be heating up in the north west, Belarus has something like 5 or 6 BTGs on the Ukrainian border right now.
Ukraine confirms Russia captured eastern city Lysychansk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62030051
Anyone know of the strategic implications?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62030051
Anyone know of the strategic implications?
This guy's Youtube channel is probably the most reliable commentary I've found on this war. He's so much more balanced than you get elsewhere (including this thread), and he doesn't seem to fall into usual the traps of sensationalism or propaganda. I think he specialism is actually military procurement/finances rather than actual combat. But he still knows his onions.
His video on Germany's military their involvement and what they can realistically do to help Ukraine. I'd recommend it if you have some free time (although it's probably best to watch it on 2x speed).
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Cheers!
Also looks like Russia have successfully hacked the British Army''s YouTube and Twitter pages:
Also looks like Russia have successfully hacked the British Army''s YouTube and Twitter pages:
I mean, we've been hearing the 'limits' of Russian military power for a long time now. They'd be running out of missiles, manpower, you name it. How is that reflected on the battlefield?
From what I know, a continual drawing down of reserves, and moving lost materiel from other combat units. The guy I quoted is Defence Correspondent for the Kyiv Independent and therefore his views should be treated with caution.
I follow Michael Kofman who is good on a strategic picture: https://twitter.com/KofmanMichael
He has a recent podcast here talking about the current war of attrition and how it may play out: https://warontherocks.com/2022/06/ukraine-and-russia-grapple-with-relentless-battle-and-attrition/
We've also been hearing the Russian version and it is much further away from the truth. It is highly unlikely that Russia can sustain the ongoing war of attrition.
What's the indication that this has anything to do with Russia? Seems like they would do a bit more than advertise their NFTs.
Sorry that was meant as partly tongue in cheek. An investigation has started but if it isn't Russian state agents or sympathetic hackers, it is slightly concerning that anything related to the Army is that vulnerable.
Those feckers are leaving no stone unturned when it comes to mandatory military service in the context of this war. Among ice hockey fans, this news came up yesterday.
Reports: Flyers prospect Fedotov detained in Russia for allegedly evading military duties
Ivan Fedotov is a star goalie who just won the Gagarin Cup for CSKA Moscow. And now his lawyer can't even find his whereabouts according to Newsweek. That is really just sick; it would be as if the US government forced Wilt Chamberlain to serve in the army with the possibility of him going to the Vietnam War.
Reports: Flyers prospect Fedotov detained in Russia for allegedly evading military duties
Ivan Fedotov is a star goalie who just won the Gagarin Cup for CSKA Moscow. And now his lawyer can't even find his whereabouts according to Newsweek. That is really just sick; it would be as if the US government forced Wilt Chamberlain to serve in the army with the possibility of him going to the Vietnam War.
I mean.. the US government did try to jail Muhammad Ali for it.. or they might have jailed him.. so the US isn't that different here tbh
Gotcha! It's definitely concerning. And weird. I'm not sure you can really hack Twitter in that sense. Almost all of the time, when someone has their Twitter account "hacked", it just means they didn't have two-factor authentication on and misplaced their password somehow.
I found kofman moving the goalpost as anyody else. Though he had slways been cautious and have a serious analysis, in march was saying that the war wpuld unsuatainable for russia in 3-4 weeks. And here we are. Russia munching territory slowly but surely
There hasn’t been a US draft in nearly 50 years.
I prefer the academic analysis. Nothing wrong with someone making an incorrect prediction and then admitting as such. I am very interested in and on the lookout for analyses which explain how and why Putin is funding the war in materiel and men and money, so if anyone knows of any please do let me know.
I think the 'slow munching' of territory in a battle which has lasted over two months should not be diminished, but nor should it be overstated:
I appear to have become Glaston, the spammer of threads.
Someone had to take over after his timely demise, and at least the spam is of better quality.
Fewer Eurovision contenders in his videos, though.
I was going through the comments on of the Sky news video on Youtube about Russians taking control of Lysychans'k and almost all the comments there were pro Russian making fun of western propaganda and saying things like Azov killed more civilians than Russia etc. Are these comments all Russian bots? I'm starting to worry that people are so distrustful of the western media and governments that they are actively supporting anyone who is going up against them even if they are 100x worse.
This was the only outcome possible, it baffled me back in march so many were buying the western media line of Russia not being able to do much.
Most wars take many years, and when Russia has such an overwhelming advantage in terms of guns, planes, artillery and man power, there's only one outcome.
Zelensky can be brave and hold out for another two years if he wants, but this is not Churchill with a strong British army and an ocean separating him from the Germans, there will only be one outcome for Ukraine.
The sad thing is it's in the interest of pretty much everyone but the Ukrainians and the Russians for the war to be long, drawn-out and bloody, which just means a lot of suffering for the Ukrainians to come. Putin won't care, we've seen many times in the past that he'll allow great suffering on his own people to come out victorious.
Thanks, I just started watching and it seems like good content so far. Some of the tweets are just hysterical.
EDIT: Watched almost all of it. Very good video. Sort of why I never bother with twitter coverage of events.
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A bunch of them are Russian bots, but a number of them also come from genuinely ungrateful twats always having some kind of agenda against the West. To a number of them, Putin is some kind of god of toxic masculinity, which should no longer exist in 2022. You can easily read the same crap with the same undertones among Trump supporters.
He served many years in jail.
Not really a point as it wouldn’t happen today, unless it was a genuine world war or massive conflict within their own boarders.
I was one of the ones that believed the media. I really thought that it would be a walk for ukranians even with a chance to dispute crimea
Sadly it seems they can't win this. The only one that seems that can is russia. But probably not even them in the long run
Only because of the power of the US military, but let's keep this on topic
There was 0% chance Ukraine could take back Crimea. Anybody who thought / believed / read that didn't have a clue tbh. This is still much better than anybody could have hoped. Doomsday scenarios in the past have been Russian tanks in France in 1 week if they ever attacked Europe.
The comparision he made was Wilt.. who was around then but anyway no need to derail this thread