Nobody has the intention to invade Ukraine
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That's fine, go ahead and bring in more men you can't feed, arm, armor or move.
I'll be honest here. Much like with the lunatics in my own country, at this point I'm so run down and dead to it all I just want to get this shindig started so it can be over with already.
Too many people...
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Russian anti-draft protesters being ordered to enlist, rights group says
Some Russians detained while protesting against President Vladimir Putin's partial mobilisation have been handed draft papers while in custody, the OVD-Info rights group said on Thursday.
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Making too many problems...
Russian Foreign Minister Storms Out of U.N. Security Council Debate on Ukraine
At the United Nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stormed out of a U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday, after accusing the U.S. and its NATO allies of becoming direct parties to the conflict in Ukraine. Sergey Lavrov: “We have no confidence in the work of this body. For the past...
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Russia is all flavours of stupid right now, but they aren't THAT stupid. They'll give up their security council seat and permanent veto power when the dead walk the earth.
They shouldn't have it in the first place. It was never actually voted on, they just claim to be the USSR's "main" successor state by virtue of...being the largest and having the nukes, I guess.
Which is really weird given that, even if it was only for a few days, Russia and a USSR that no longer included it existed at the same time.
Which is really weird given that, even if it was only for a few days, Russia and a USSR that no longer included it existed at the same time.
It's the UN; NO ONE SHOULD HAVE PERMANENT ANYTHING. Giving a select set of nations MORE power over all the other member nations literally defies the point of the ******* UN.
No, the Security Council is meant to be the enforcers of the UN in so far as they are the most powerful nations on the planet. Their resolutions stick because they're the ones lifting the lion's share of the load.
But as Ukraine has demonstrated, Russia possesses neither the means nor the motivations to enforce UN policy. If for no other reason, they should be removed from the Security Council and replaced with a nation which has a military capable of sustaining itself and supporting UN actions.
But as Ukraine has demonstrated, Russia possesses neither the means nor the motivations to enforce UN policy. If for no other reason, they should be removed from the Security Council and replaced with a nation which has a military capable of sustaining itself and supporting UN actions.
Russia's military is so broken it can't even stop itself.
The point was to give these powers a stake in the UN and a guarantee that it couldn't be used against them while their future participation gave the UN legitimacy. France with the vestiges of their Empire and a desire to be the third pole in the Cold War and the USSR with their influence in the Middle East/Africa/Asia could done their own thing and formed their own intergovernmental organization, which would have damaged the credibility of the UN as a global forum and made it a club dominated by America, its European allies and the various countries that they had influence over.
And there's not much love to go around...
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Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin admits founding Wagner mercenary group
Russian businessman confirms deployment to countries in Latin America and Africa in first public confirmation of link
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Can't you see this is the land of confusion?
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Moscow's proxies in occupied Ukraine regions report big votes to join Russia
Russian-installed officials in occupied regions of Ukraine reported huge majorities on Tuesday in favour of becoming part of Russia after five days of voting in so-called referendums that Kyiv and the West denounced as a sham.
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Oh gee, the referendum at gunpoint favours the side with the gun. Shocking.
How many of the dissenters are about to have unfortunate window-related accidents?
Most of the dissenters probably have already fled or are buried in a mass grave somewhere.