Now is the time to nuke them
Their economy is bouncing back. Putin has side stepped all the sanctions and for now has made a mockery of the west. Heās selling record oil to china, India and beyond - while the EU are now turning to another tyrant for gas.
Nowās the time to invest in Russia - the boom is on the way.
Itās bouncing back in the same way Alan Partridge was bouncing back.
Russia doesnāt need nukes. It has a huge arsenal of rockets that could wipe out any international city.
Very interesting to see China play peace maker with iran and Saudi, with Russiaā¦ And itās ever increasing influence in Africa. Meanwhile the west is crumbling
What do you think will happen ?
Ah yes, the Russian propaganda classic, we could win it if we were really trying
Like Kyiv?
Thatās more or less what they did when the bridge was bombed. Knock out Kievs power at will ā¦
Heās filling his pockets
Yes.
Youre a gas man Harold.
The fact remains that the US has always known that encouraging Ukraine to join NATO would lead to the dismemberment of Ukraineā¦ @Tim_Riggins can shite on about outdated views of the world all he wants but America has pushed for this war ā¦ In 2008 their ambassador to Russia, Burns,and now a big chief in the CIA , Warned them exactly what would happen , almost to a tee of what has happenedā¦ The US knew but still pushed and encouraged and interfered in politics in Ukraine.
ā Ukraine and Georgiaās NATO aspirations not only touch a raw nerve in Russia, they engender serious concerns about the consequences for stability in the region . Not only does Russia perceive encirclement, and efforts to undermine Russiaās influence in the region , but it also fears unpredictable and uncontrolled consequences which would seriously affect Russian security interests . Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war . In that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene ; a decision Russia does not want to have to faceā
Biden and Boris Johnson are no different to Bush and Blair before them. They promised Zelensky NATO backing and not to negotiate peace - how many Ukrainians have died and how many more? NATO is almost out of weapons, Ukraine has no more men to commitā¦ Itās on a knife edge and Putin will keep firing men at it and will outlast Ukraine. Unless the tanks and aircraft coming soon can make a difference, Ukraine will be coming to the negotiation table and fir a much less favourable deal than they had 6/7 months ago.
What American state will Zelensky settle in when he has to flee? Iām gonna say New Hampshire.
How many died due to Putin funding separatists factions in the Donbas region?
What about the innocent victims of Malaysian Airlines?
Is it credible to say Russia was ever under threat? No one was going to invade or strike Russia.
Putin is/was flexing his muscles to secure more wealth & land.
Are you Violet-Anne Wynne?
Putin is indeed guilty of funding separatists and stoking tensions and all the trouble that ensued in that regionā¦ But it ties into the above also, he was pushing back against what he saw as American/ NATO aggressionā¦
Iām just looking at this objectively here by the way. My point has always been that thereās two sides at it using Ukraine.
Russia had a chance to wipe out most of the Ukraine army in Donbas region in 2014 but signed the Minsk agreement that he thought protected ethnic Russians and staved off NATO and the rest. Merkel and co, who were instrumental in brokering the deal, have come out and said it was all a sham and they were only buying time to build a EU/US trained army in Ukraineā¦ The other head the ball sees all this as aggression and manoeuvres backā¦
The American congress in 2015 absolutely refuses to send money to Ukraine because of the far right nazi links to the puppet government installed post 2014ā¦ Amazingly, once Russia goes to war billions upon billions flows inā¦ Itās almost like they were goaded into it
You have to admire Harryās stance. Posing as wise while pretending to be ignorant. Must be tricky.
Really? Goaded?
Putin was full sure he would waltz into Ukraine & the European Union that were so dependent on his Energy sales would allow it.
He put boots on the ground in Ukraine from 2014 onwards, funded civil war.
Ukraine were proven correct in their fears.
Iād say heāll end up in Israel myself. Mind you, he wonāt be stuck for options.
The Minsk agreement was a UN ratified peace agreement that he fully signed up to and it was Ukraine and the west that broke it. Iām not excusing the invasion, just looking at the events up to it. The US repeatedly provoked Russia thatās fact.
Montana, where he will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, which she will cook for him.