It’s almost like these organisations are addicted to making themselves look terrible before they yield to the inevitable massive onslaught of circumstances with which they cannot contend.
But they fancy doing more business with the despots in future so they probably want to look as good as they can in front of the despots, and that’s all they’re concerned with. “We tried, Vlad, we tried”.
I agree completely. My thoughts are has covid had an impact on putin. Russias approach and handling to covid was a disaster, they were struck badly based on reports and might be worse for all we know. If putin is a complete geomorphobe and worried about covid you believe he would have been more zero covid but it was quite the opposite. Maybe he knew they wouldn’t be able to implement such policies, but correct me if I’m wrong they were more let it rip, certainly less restrictive as we and the majority of western countries. It seems bizarre. Add on top of this Russia had an absolute cod of a vaccine in sputnik. It was stone wall useless compared to Pfizer, j&j, AZ, and moderna (we won’t go into the effectiveness of these) but the western vaccines did have a positive effect.
Since their approach was a disaster and with time it would be more clear weakening his position internally. How has this effect his mindset of it did.
I would like to take the opportunity to condemn Russia’s invasion in Ukraine. It was an unnecessary escalation of growing tension that will cost thousands of lives and should be condemned unilaterally.
What I do find disgusting is the double talk of those who rightly condemn the invasion but who are happy to turn a blind eye to Western backed genocide in places like Yemen and Palestine which has been going on for years now and cost countless thousands more lives than will happen in Ukraine.
Supporting war like a football team regardless of the rights and wrongs is quite simply cynical, opportunistic and vile.
I stand with the people of Ukraine, Yemen, Palestine and I stand against the war mongers in Russia, the US and UK.
The situation is complex and the role of NATO over the past 20 years should also be highly condemned. The highly respected Noam Chomsky has been highlight the prospect of NATO and Western aggression of this happening for years.