"without the stigma of her father’s criminal past."
Tells you everything, doesn't it.
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"without the stigma of her father’s criminal past."
Tells you everything, doesn't it.
Did the CCP think they would not be found out?
Now that it is in the open, I say it's time for the US to arm China's democratic neighbors (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) with top quality hardware, especially with more Tomahawk missiles and even F-35s.
The West is not one political body. You are simplifying the many events and the context which led to all this. In each situation there is tug of interests. The Brits and the French wanted to intervene in Syria, but then Obama pulled out. At other stages it was the Americans taking a harder line while the French wanting to pursue more diplomacy. Italy didn't want to do anything, and Poland wants to premeditatively nuke Moscow. There were many points leading to the invasion where we could have done differently to change Putins calculation, but putting it down to 'our leaders are cowards' is not very precise at all.
A group of liberal democracies working together is never going to be streamlined and efficient. The few times we actually manage to act quickly, you can get outcomes ranging from Yugoslavia to Libya, and Iraq. No politician in a liberal democracy today has a mandate to rush into a dangerous conflict which isn't a direct threat to its existence without exhausting all, and I mean all, other options. And that's a good thing.
Another educational video posted by Mark Felton today. Scavenging spare parts from museums is done everywhere.
One year ago one of the biggest crimes in this war happened. I can't imagine how many war crimes russia managed to cover up in Mariupol alone. The world must never forget this.
They already have, Japan and South Korea (and Singapore) purchased the F-35.
I’m sure the American’s and everyone else expected the Chinese to back the Russians in some regard. The fact it’s still so clandestine and shit is a massive victory for the West.
Really hope we will finally see Ukraine get fighter jets after a year of rumours.
Every action against the west is now a heroic act over there. Stalin would be proud.
Just a big North Korea.
I want this too, but I’m genuinely unsure how much effect they will have. Ukraine has nothing approaching air superiority, so they won’t be sitting there destroying Russian armour with gay abandon.
So do I.
The only real advantage of the Mig 29 is that Ukrainian pilots would already know how to fly the jet, assuming the weapons systems are the same. They are mainly air to air aircraft with not that much air to ground capability.
But as I expected, the initial no by the US is in the process of changing.
Air superiority is not likely to ever be on the cards, but the air force still appears to be fairly active and used from a stand-off role, along with taking down missiles/drones. They've been able to employ these JDAM guided bombs, which need to be dropped from high altitude within around 70km.
I hope you’re right.
A short summary 
This is big. A clear sign to the world and russian elites of what awaits them in the end of their imperialism.
So, Erdogan will ratify Finland into NATO, Hungary say they will ratify also.
For some reason i trust Orban even less than Erdogan, hope he doesn't find a last-minute excuse to delay.
For some reason i trust Orban even less than Erdogan, hope he doesn't find a last-minute excuse to delay.
Nothing will happen
Really? Serbia had to sell Milosevic and a bunch of war criminals out in order to regain some form of diplomatic and economic normality after the Kosovo War. If Russia wants normality back and purge Putinism at some point, a number of people will be sold in exchange of a return to full normality.
Russia wants to be a superpower again, they want be an empire again, can't have normality when thats not even what Russia wants.
Just because no one will arrest Putin doesn't mean nothing will happen. On the contrary, it's a big problem for Russia.
First of all, it's a big symbolic step to isolate Russia even further from the free and democratic world. If some people still had illusions the west will tire of this war at some point (and Russia's only hope is betting on exactly this) and relations will get slowly better again like after 2014 because we need their cheap energy, this arrest warrant says otherwise. You can't have good relations with a wanted war criminal, no matter how much time passes. That further isolation will also tank their economy even harder.
Secondly, from now on he needs an assurance of immunity every time he wants to travel abroad. For somebody who thinks he's a tsar, this is a humiliation to ask and confirm every country he plans to visit to give him immunity.
His humiliation is also a humiliation of the russian narrative of the mighty russian empire that the west fear. Putin's arrest warrant showed them, that we see him just as a common criminal and won't forgive any of his war crimes in the past, present or future. Their propagandists will ridicule it of course, but in reality they should be fuming that their leader is on the same level now as bin Laden or Milosevic for example.
And last but not least, his elite and propagandists understand now that even if Putin himself get's an arrest warrant, none of them is save from international justice and they don't have Putins protection and immunity.
And there are probably even way more consequences.
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I pretty much quoted the same thing awhile ago from some news when arguing that the UKR armed forces were far from being decently trained (compared to some of the modern forces) at that moment. We had a few people here saying how they were much further ahead of the likes of RA forces in terms of training and weapons, both of which were not exactly true for most of the war. Some people had far too high expectations of them due to their success in last year's fall counterattacks, where the massive incompetence of the RA forces contributed more than anything else.
There is a silver lining, though, because at least we know the URK forces will have a lot more room to improve in the near future. Imagine if they were decently trained and equipped, yet ended in the current situation for the last few months. It would look far more gloomy for UA.
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What Morty says is true. If there's one thing we know about Putin it's that he's calculating. He is very well aware that the die is cast, and that there can be no normality. He is gambling everything on Russias pivot to the east being successful.
Ok let's watch this space. Nothing will happen.
I'm sure it will be near the top of the list, which will include among many other things, the kidnapping of thousands of Ukrainian kids for placement into "Summer Camps" in Russia. All of this will ultimately be used in a solid genocide case against Putin and his goons.
Greatly underappreciated in my opinion. After Ukraine the most logical aggression would be towards Moldova, because Putin can apply the same logic there to "protect" their people in Transnistria. The whole west needs to understand that we're not only helping Ukraine by sending weapons and money, but also protect all of eastern europe from further russian aggression.
The west must increase its support.
The west must increase its support.
Also to Moldova, to stabilize it. And that is happening as well, for example some months ago Germany delivered some swiss-made Piranha APC to Moldova because it wasn’t possible to get an export permit to send them to Ukraine.
Pretty sure bet that had Putin managed to take all of southern Ukraine, he would've moonwalked right into Moldova, which would've been made even easier by his existing goons in Transnistria.
I wonder if they’ve gone into fertilizer manufacturing in Ukraine yet.
Not with the ongoing conflict with Ukraine; they’re shitting the bed massively there, no chance they would be remotely capable to handle advancements into Moldova and Ukraine all the while holding southern Ukraine.
I’m fully on board with the Moldova was next theory, but that was part of the initial Ukraine will be a cake walk plan. Ukraine holding out, and the prolonged support has scuppered Moldova for now at least thankfully.
That’s what I was referring to. Had he initially taken the south, he would’ve walked into Moldova.
Definitely. All he'd need to do in that scenario would be changing a few thousand soldiers into protestors, unite them with the armed soviet fans in transnistria and the Moldovan government would be easily overthrown.
By the way "Putin" today in Sevastopol. The mask probably itched in the end
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I've been looking at some stuff at the anniversary and the one thing that stuck with me was a Khersonian woman offering sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers. "Put some in your pockets, you're gonna help us grow a sunflower field".