They didnt take away the collagen.
Statement or question……
2012?
The same guarantee that Moscow would offer civilians in Kiev
The SAS and Navy Seal agitators were destroyed in bahkmut by the wagners
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Is that your idea of a solution?
I stated above that a federal solution granting some autonomy to Russian majority areas as part of a greater Ukraine would be my preferred solution.
Ruari Ó Brádaigh had a similar take on how a united Ireland might look
Sure thats the basis of the minsk agreements. Ukraine wouldn’t implement it, america scuppered it and germany and Holland boasted that it was only a ruse to arm Ukraine in preparation for a military solution to prior conflict in those areas…a bloodbath basically
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I should have been a diplomat
Ok that’s silly.
Not to mention the inconsequential fact that the inconsequential few nazi members of parliament occupied zelensky’s offices and announced that they’d hang him from a lamp post if he tried …
Below is part of Putins address last Feb before he invaded.
I don’t think he had any real concerns for the people in Eastern Ukraine tbh.
In fact the last paragraph really imo confirms it was a land grab and the irony of his speech reaffirms so.
On one hand he feels those in Eastern Ukraine deserve to be a Separate Republic but denounces the Empires decision to let Nationalist set up their own republics……
Thoughts?
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“ Since time immemorial, the people living in the south-west of what has historically been Russian land have called themselves Russians and Orthodox Christians. This was the case before the 17th century, when a portion of this territory rejoined the Russian state, and after.
It seems to us that, generally speaking, we all know these facts, that this is common knowledge. Still, it is necessary to say at least a few words about the history of this issue in order to understand what is happening today, to explain the motives behind Russia’s actions and what we aim to achieve.
So, I will start with the fact that modern Ukraine was entirely created by Russia or, to be more precise, by Bolshevik, Communist Russia. This process started practically right after the 1917 revolution, and Lenin and his associates did it in a way that was extremely harsh on Russia – by separating, severing what is historically Russian land. Nobody asked the millions of people living there what they thought.
Then, both before and after the Great Patriotic War, Stalin incorporated in the USSR and transferred to Ukraine some lands that previously belonged to Poland, Romania and Hungary. In the process, he gave Poland part of what was traditionally German land as compensation, and in 1954, Khrushchev took Crimea away from Russia for some reason and also gave it to Ukraine. In effect, this is how the territory of modern Ukraine was formed.
But now I would like to focus attention on the initial period of the USSR’s formation. I believe this is extremely important for us. I will have to approach it from a distance, so to speak.
I will remind you that after the 1917 October Revolution and the subsequent Civil War, the Bolsheviks set about creating a new statehood. They had rather serious disagreements among themselves on this point. In 1922, Stalin occupied the positions of both the General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the People’s Commissar for Ethnic Affairs. He suggested building the country on the principles of autonomisation that is, giving the republics – the future administrative and territorial entities – broad powers upon joining a unified state.
Lenin criticised this plan and suggested making concessions to the nationalists, whom he called “independents” at that time. Lenin’s ideas of what amounted in essence to a confederative state arrangement and a slogan about the right of nations to self-determination, up to secession, were laid in the foundation of Soviet statehood. Initially they were confirmed in the Declaration on the Formation of the USSR in 1922, and later on, after Lenin’s death, were enshrined in the 1924 Soviet Constitution.
This immediately raises many questions. The first is really the main one: why was it necessary to appease the nationalists, to satisfy the ceaselessly growing nationalist ambitions on the outskirts of the former empire? What was the point of transferring to the newly, often arbitrarily formed administrative units – the union republics – vast territories that had nothing to do with them? Let me repeat that these territories were transferred along with the population of what was historically Russia. “
They wouldn’t be getting bombed, shot and raped by Russians, obviously.
So you think russian soldiers in donetsk are bombing civilians in donetsk? Have teen vogue a journalist on the front lines now?
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What region is Bakhmut in?
Anywhere there’s fighting the Russians are targeting civilian infrastructure and killing civilians, yes. They also appear to have been looking and raping wherever they go.
Well that goes for both sides, if you think Ukrainians haven’t been targeting civilians for the last decade then I’m just sad for you
I’m also sad for him.
Of course they have & it’s well documented.
Same as IRA targeted Brits knowing civilians were in firing line.
I was sad for him before it was fashionable to be sad for him