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[Politics] Russia invades Ukraine (24/02/2022)







Nobby

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Sep 29, 2007
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Has anyone seen reference to this 'China UN vote' on mainstream news yet? So far I've only seen it on two Ukrainian news feeds, and a quick trawl through the UN website has proved inconclusive for me.
saw this, this morning - but now can't find it - maybe it is only on the Ukranian news sites
 


Eric the meek

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Aug 24, 2020
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Has anyone seen reference to this 'China UN vote' on mainstream news yet? So far I've only seen it on two Ukrainian news feeds, and a quick trawl through the UN website has proved inconclusive for me.
I've only found it a couple of non-Ukrainian sites:

It's on Yahoo, but the article is just a clone of the Ukraine article.

However, this Indian site is noteworthy:

'Despite being highlighted on Twitter by Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the UN, Sergiy Kyslytsya, this notable development has gone largely unnoticed.'
 








Nobby Cybergoat

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Oh dear. Maybe when the planes start falling out the sky the Russian people will wake up

Unlikely they will wake up. The brainwashed will swallow any amount of blame deflection

Also part of the problem, is that they've used skilled and qualified people as cannon fodder.
 








Eric the meek

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Oh dear. Maybe when the planes start falling out the sky the Russian people will wake up

This was discussed three months ago:


Today, after a year of sanctions, let nobody tell you that those sanctions are not working. Russian aviation is in a death spiral. You can only bastardise old donor planes and clean old filters with brake fluid for so long. I recall an article by Kamil Galeev in June/July last year, predicting that this would herald the very disintegration of the Russian Federation. How can Moscow wield its power in the far-flung regions if nobody can get there?

Meanwhile, China continues to watch closely from the sidelines.
 


sparkie

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Jul 17, 2003
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This was discussed three months ago:


Today, after a year of sanctions, let nobody tell you that those sanctions are not working. Russian aviation is in a death spiral. You can only bastardise old donor planes and clean old filters with brake fluid for so long. I recall an article by Kamil Galeev in June/July last year, predicting that this would herald the very disintegration of the Russian Federation. How can Moscow wield its power in the far-flung regions if nobody can get there?

Meanwhile, China continues to watch closely from the sidelines.
And of course the replacement bearings needed to keep the trains running in Russia are also sanctioned.
 


Icy Gull

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Jul 5, 2003
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Oh dear. Maybe when the planes start falling out the sky the Russian people will wake up

No doubt they will claim they were taken down by Western made Urkranian missiles
 






A1X

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Unlikely they will wake up. The brainwashed will swallow any amount of blame deflection
This was why there was a huge effort in post-war (or at least post-liberation) Germany by the Allies to show the German people what had been happening. It’s impossible to claim the Holocaust wasn’t going on when you’re stood in a death camp surrounded by thousands of corpses.
 








A1X

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