Yeah, but also true that state of war will dictate what happens. What @RedDevilQuebecois said basically. Maybe Ukraine takes those areas back? Impossible to call as long as the war still goes on.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Not sure if the right thread for it but looks like Turkey will be a thorn in Swedish and Finnish membership of NATO.
They will sign parallel treaties with UK+US which would be enough.
Russia will start begging for a ceasefire before Crimea is at risk and their western agents will push to see it happen. If/when Ukraine gets to that point though, it will be because the Russian military has pretty much collapsed, at which time I doubt Ukraine will stop short of reclaiming all its territory. Blow the bridge and move up some Neptun's...
That's one scenario at least.
That's one scenario at least.
Pretty clear IMO. I just had a look at this guy’s Twitter feed:
He’s very transparent. Shares the statement from UK gov. and on purpose fails to finish the sentence, which goes as follows:
He’s pushing Russian agenda full stop if you read his Twitter.
I share the same question of this Reddit comment. Over and over and over again we see isolated small groups of Russian units just getting picked off. It is hard to fathom how incompetent it all looks.
The leading theory is that they don't have enough infantry. Their units are too heavy on tanks and IFVs relative to infantry, so their combined arms efforts are not combined.
38 min podcast that includes a discussion on the matter, I think towards the tail-end: https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/ukraines-military-advantage-and-russias-stark-choices/
Most of the conspiracy theorist, or fringe groups, you'd classify under that rubric (as useful idiots) don't make it their business to trawl through war footage to verify war crimes committed against Ukrainians by Russians. Seems to be held in relatively high regard.
Sure, if we could. The value of having the likes lf Usyk and Kalush Orchesta being bodies at home is nothing compared to the their value raising awareness abroad and morale boosting. One thing the Ukrainian government has done well on is providing a sunny horizon to the future of the country. Eurovision has been a massive boost to many Ukrainians, as they took pride in winning a contest, whilst also recognising that their win was in large part an outpouring of support from European people.
What could Kalush Orchestra possibly do as regular citizens in Ukraine right now to beat that? It will be the same with the Ukrainian national team in the World Cup qualifiers shortly.
I dont know. If we were at war with another county that had invaded and taken over Birmingham and Bristol, the last thing we would be doing is taking part in a song contest. At least that's how I feel.
The world didn’t stop during WWII in the UK, in fact it largely carried on.
We weren't invaded in World War 2 though, were we. We were invading.
The rest of NATO should take Gulen back and help him attempt an actual coup, instead of the trumped up one Erdogan claims Gulen tried in 2016. Getting rid of Erdogan is preferable to getting rid of Turkey. Similar principle applies to Orban and Hungary.
You’re very naive if you think Russian money do not penetrate individuals in research or human right organizations of all sorts, to be effective in what they do they have to target those with a dash of credibility about them. Just read what this tool says and it should be enough for you to see him through.
Ukraine was invaded in 2014 and has been occupied ever since. Russia currently holds only a small part of Ukraine more than it has since then. What are you expecting? Ukrainians to cry and feel sorry for themselves forever? Sorry, they aren’t been the right sort of victims for you. They are capable of both being at war, whilst also allowing some of their citizens to represent their country abroad for good reason.
That wouldn't surprise me, but his output has been pretty anti-Russian since the war began. He's an academic who deals with war crimes and genocide within Ukraine/Russia in particular, I don't think he's a Russian spy. The people he amplifies on his page, for example, are often cited here as good sources on the state of the war. Koffman and others.
Now you're just changing the subject.
That's already "old" news, and it's just a negotiating tactic. There's not a single chance Turkey vetoes either Finland or Sweden. They've already clarified and moderated the message.
Looks like Lviv just got hit by the biggest missile attack of the war so far. Some reporting at least eight explosions.
Anti-Russian??? Read his twitter since the war began, as one-sided as you can get he even calls Ukraine under Zelensky an authoritarian state, while no comments on Putin.
I though you were better than this.From what I've read he's basically condemned the war as Putin's fault, but there you go, two different interpretations. On the Ukrainian thing, that was after the banning of opposition parties. I read that. I know he's Ukrainian and has been writing on the topic for years, and his academic affiliations are rather good. Anyway, won't derail. His point about the Azov surrender was legitimate, either way.Anti-Russian??? Read his twitter since the war began, as one-sided as you can get he even calls Ukraine under Zelensky an authoritarian state, while no comments on Putin.
Sign of improvement if both sides can negotiate that? Maybe not?
Hope your relatives are safe and sound there.
Lviv under heavy attack.
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The cracks are opening ever wider.
He even admitted that virtually the whole world is now against Russia, and that this is a position of isolation that Russia needs to get out of, which of course raises the question - how do they escape from this isolation?
With that question now admitted, the only possible answers (as yet unvoiced by Russian commentators) hove into view: get rid of Putin, end the war, withdraw the troops.
Wow that's the first time I'm seeing a somewhat sane person on that show.
I was a bit surprised that the others didn't shut him down.
That female host is still unbearable though.
Is this show popular in Russia? I've seen many clips like this shared on social media since the war started but I have no idea how many Russian people regularly watch this show.
Literally the post above yours 
You have to give credit to the guy if the stuff published by him on the 3rd of Feb has not been edited since, it’s an incredibly accurate assessment.
Ukraine update: Someone managed to cross the Siverskyi Donets River, but it's not Russia:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...he-Siverskyi-Donets-River-but-it-s-not-Russia
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...he-Siverskyi-Donets-River-but-it-s-not-Russia
What’d the tweet say?
See above. Dunno why that one messed up
Here’s a translation of the article:
https://nvo-ng-ru.translate.goog/re...bass.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
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A real shame as I'm sure people were still hoping that Ukraine would mount some kind of rescue counterattack to punch a hole through Russian lines towards Mariupol. It could have ended in either a success like Bastogne or a failure like Alesia (Gauls vs. Caesar), but it would have been worth a try, especially as Russians are retreating about everywhere else.