Hopefully this is giving Xi some second thoughts about his own ambitions. WW3 may be a lot shorter than predicted.
Nobody has the intention to invade Ukraine
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Turns out being a nuclear superpower doesn't count for squat when you're stuck relying on conventional weapons.
Personally I'd be on board with keeping the sanctions against Russia indefinitely even if they surrender, just on principle. You don't get to do something like this without long-term consequences.
Personally I'd be on board with keeping the sanctions against Russia indefinitely even if they surrender, just on principle. You don't get to do something like this without long-term consequences.
Biden says he wont sent military in to extract American civilians because that would be the start of a world war. But like... maybe I'm just kinda being dumb here but if you got a 'legitimate' foreign power invading an area and shooting civilians of your country... seems like that should be the start of war too.
Also supposedly a poll says that 62% of americans think that this war never would have happened under Trump which is just.. what?
Also supposedly a poll says that 62% of americans think that this war never would have happened under Trump which is just.. what?
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it was a poll that has a history of conservative/rightoid bias, so it's bunk.
Remember that part of Trump's first impeachment was over witholding military aid from Ukraine in the first place. If anything, the war happened BECAUSE of Trump. Because he's Putin's puppet.
Oh wow. Allegedly, Russia is deploying mobile crematoriums to conceal the fate of their own downed soldiers. And since Russia is heavily censoring information regarding the war, Ukraine has launched a hotline for Russians seeking information on the fate of their relatives who are fighting for the Russian side in Ukraine.
And a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin was suddenly accompanied by a surprise guest: Gitanas Nausėda, current president of NATO member Lithuania. He argued that if Kyiv were to fall today, Putin would be on Lithuania's doorstep tomorrow.
IF there's an actual intent to negotiate (cause, yeah, putin was stalling (funny story, I could not stop writing "stalin".) in the last round): he's probably going to make absurd demands leaving zelensky looking like he wants to continue fighting. Putin is probably going to walk away with the eastern provinces regardless.
It ain't a world war until Germany gets involved against Russia.
Zelenskiy backing hits 90% among Ukrainians in poll since invasion – as it happened
Vladimir Putin said move came after aggressive statements by Nato countries; Ukrainian president says meeting comes with no preconditions
www.theguardian.com
and here you thought COVID would be the death of us.
Last time I had this sort of dread was during the Nato intervention in Serbia back in 1999, when Yeltsin was ranting similar threats.
So, what are the chances this is the quagmire that ends putin?
If you actually want the enemy's natural resources, nuclear weapons are actually counterproductive.
Waving nukes around is like that Aladdin meme with the swords. "You idiots, we ALL have nukes!"
And of course the usual idiots are coming out of the woodwork on FB claiming that this is all a big hoax and that the US has biolabs in Ukraine.
www.politifact.com
Hoaxes about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
As news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine spread across the world, misinformation quickly followed. Social media feeds are
www.politifact.com
Another big shift from Germany. They've resisted several successive American administrations demanding they meet the 2% threshold of GDP towards defense, but Russia changed that.