:up: It's just the old divide and conquer strategy. (As an aside, Putin's cyber-henchmen have employed similar methods on the information highways to ...
Let me play the threat-game for a moment ... That's Putin's logic applied if Ukraine was "enrolled" into Russia, and is equally applicable to Ukraine ...
Things have taken some U-turns. Unless Ukraine is assimilated by Russia, this might continue, it's the Ukrainians' choice to make. I'm guessing a neut...
For that matter, there has been past resentment/animosity between Poland and Ukraine, yet Poles have been quite helpful to Ukrainians in the present c...
It's not a hermetically sealed evaluation, you'll have to keep the rest in mind alongside. As an example, if Putin had gone towards real democracy, tr...
, returning to your comment and my followup, did you then confirm/deny any of this...? After all, context, perspective, all that, right? (like Sweden ...
, your comment has that faint whiff of nefarious conspiracy theory. Sure, it's not that difficult to find something that's consistent with the theory ...
It's not really the entirety of Russia, I'd say the autocratic Russian leadership. Of course some would blame the population at large for not ousting ...
By and large, they're docs that scroll by elsewhere (notifiers, friends, family, feeds, facebook, twitter, the evening news, etc), then I scan through...
Talks could start by Putin calling Zelenskyy, or Zelenskyy calling Putin. That'd be fantastic. :up: Meanwhile, Putin rolled out the submission-machine...
Frustration with Ukraine war spills out on Russian state TV (Oct 3, 2022) Critique of Putin, use of the word "war", and speaking of leaving Ukrainian ...
Well, no, lots have been posted already. But there are no neat solutions at the moment. :/ And so, comments keep going in circles. (Not that the world...
Sure hope it won't come to that. Kelsey Piper is pessimistic, in the long term anyway: How to stop rolling the dice on the destruction of human civili...
Russia's Ukraine Offensive 'Absolutely Senseless': Ex-Military Leader (Newsweek; Oct 9, 2022) I notice the implicit admission of Russian insurgency, a...
Would this be a good time for Moldova to "covertly" take bac...over Transnistria, with the help of unnamed external parties? :D Or perhaps bounce Russ...
, citing AI's Ukraine report here makes a comparison with their Russia-report pertinent (corroborated by HRW's report by the way). Joining the EU come...
Russian strikes on Zaporizhzhia kill at least 12, Ukrainian officials say (Oct 9, 2022) That kid there was/is scheduled to speak Russian only, by the ...
Arctic soldiers relocated to the Kherson farms: Russia’s Reindeer Brigade Is Fighting For Its Survival In Southern Ukraine (Forbes; Oct 7, 2022) (alte...
And, vice versa, if Russia was to take over Ukraine (the anti-NATO thing), then Russia equally becomes an issue for Moldova Poland Romania Hungary Slo...
If you're referring to the Scandinavian defence union, then not really. I was wondering, too. It took Putin's moves for Denmark, Norway, and Sweden to...
That'd be great. I doubt negotiations would be accompanied by a cease-fire, though. Doing so would give whatever parties room to replenish, settle, im...
Putin's moves already prove why Ukraine wanted to join NATO - limiting free Kremlin movement/action. EU relations/membership is another matter (though...
, so this move? As an aside, related to the so-called de-Nazification thing: Ukraine crisis: 'Thousands of Russians' fighting in east Reported Aug 28,...
Evidently, the Ukrainians aren't giving away self-governance and sovereignty, and have had some successes in repelling the invaders. Their choice, as ...
Why not just go ahead and do a side-by-side comparison of freedom? Media freedom in Russia (Wikipedia) Freedom of the press in Ukraine (Wikipedia) The...
Looked a bit odd to me; seems to check out though... • Newsweek (Sep 26, 2022): Mobilized Russians Asking How to 'Surrender' Through Hotline: Official...
(as mentioned earlier, I'm not playing the game of resetting the 300-something-pages thread back to square one, oddly forgetting comments, speeches, q...
Did converse, like here, here. :shrug: (doesn't mean just running with your story and call it a day, this ? dismissal ain't it, responding "unknown" i...
If only we could tell. :/ The Ukrainians want the invaders to quit the bombing killing ruinage and leave. They're apparently not just going to give up...
Huh? Support for Ukraine has been something, both "in spirit" / goodwill in general populations, and materially. Have you checked the reactions all ov...
RYBAR reports movement in this area: https://twitter.com/olliecarroll/status/1577274892751290368 Incidentally, google maps says "Light traffic in this...
Back in 2002, an Iraqi vice president suggested a duel between Bush and Hussein. :) ? NPR; CNN; BBC (Musk trolled Putin. :grin:) Getting Rid of Nukes:...
Reports like these have been coming up now and then since earlier in the year ... Nuclear Weapons Convoy Spotted in Russia (Ground News; Oct 4, 2022) ...
https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/status/1576893231278981121 World war 2 Hiroshima-Nagasaki 77 years ago? Bit of a reach. But some will lap it up. If...
Has been, is, costly for Putin's team. I guess when you're a defending freedomfighter, the cost is sort of secondary. Apparently there are skirmishes ...
As of typing, the net result summary (through hosts of hand-waving, propaganda, killing bombing ruinage, pseudo-legalities and shams, excuses, what-ha...
Well, now what? (I said in a mildly annoyed voice) • Norway oil safety regulator warns of threats from unidentified drones (Sep 26, 2022) • Norway rai...
Some threats, perceived or otherwise: NATO a threat to Russia put forth by Putin and compadres as major/existential Georgia, Ukraine, Finland, Sweden,...
It's not my reading. You're free to tell the world what exactly the "correct" reading forevermore is. I suppose you might include The Quran, The Book ...
Well, it's a characteristic of such texts that they often enough can be "read" as whatever is presently convenient or whatever. :shrug: Nothing new. G...
:up: Cool find By the way, going by ... Russian Society and Foreign Policy: Mass and Elite Orientations After Crimea (Mar 14, 2019) ... the general Ru...
Seems unlikely that something like this could take place in Putin's Russia: /uploads/files/tq/ew2vtymq87rp4rjy.jpg Washington DC, USA; Oct 21, 1967 Ge...
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