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

[raymondo]

Landsbergis understands Russia, and says it how it is:
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It is not for Nato, the EU or anyone else to decide Ukraine’s strategy to defeat Russia, Gabrielius Landsbergis, Lithuania’s foreign minister, said on his way into the Nato meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels.
“We have to assist their strategy. Our strategy has to be Russia losing; for the last time losing in this neighbourhood,” he said, adding that Ukraine had shown how successful it was at “pushing back the Russians”.
Landsbergis said failure to supply Ukraine with enough ammunition was not an option as the consequences would be more wars in Europe.
“If Ukraine is forced to stop for one or the other reason, because it’s not … getting enough weapons, ammunition, technological breakthrough, then it’s our choice. This is our choice … And then we will just have to just start the clock for the next conflict,” he told reporters.

 

[Sirnormangall]

That's ok then - I'm sure we can all trust Russia:
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• Moscow does not have plans to expand its territory any farther in Europe, the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, insisted in response to remarks by the US defence secretary last week that Putin would not stop at Ukraine if he was victorious.

…and yet Russians yearn for the return of the Soviet Union. The west needs to stand firm and not believe a single word spoken by anyone in that regime.

 

[Eric the meek]

What have we here? Is Putin anticipating ethnic and religious unrest and getting the blame in early before they have happened?

'Mr Putin also vowed to block "any outside interference, provocations with the aim of causing interethnic or interreligious conflicts as aggressive actions against our country".

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-latest-putin-live-updates-blog-12541713 18:00 28/11/2023

 

[raymondo]

What have we here? Is Putin anticipating ethnic and religious unrest and getting the blame in early before they have happened?

'Mr Putin also vowed to block "any outside interference, provocations with the aim of causing interethnic or interreligious conflicts as aggressive actions against our country".

https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-latest-putin-live-updates-blog-12541713 18:00 28/11/2023

Sounds very possible - everything will be blamed on the west.

 

[brighton_dave]

A russia mine blows up a Russian general. Some nice positive news to end the day..

Top Russian general blown to bits after he 'steps on landmine' in Ukraine | World | News | Express.co.uk

Russia has lost dozens of top officers in Ukraine as Kyiv strikes far behind enemy lines, targeting commanders. The latest to be eliminated was Major General Vladimir Zavadsky.

www.google.com

 

[raymondo]

A russia mine blows up a Russian general. Some nice positive news to end the day..

Top Russian general blown to bits after he 'steps on landmine' in Ukraine | World | News | Express.co.uk

Russia has lost dozens of top officers in Ukraine as Kyiv strikes far behind enemy lines, targeting commanders. The latest to be eliminated was Major General Vladimir Zavadsky.

www.google.com

I'll sleep better now...hoping it was a Russian mine

 

[Eric the meek]

A russia mine blows up a Russian general. Some nice positive news to end the day..

Top Russian general blown to bits after he 'steps on landmine' in Ukraine | World | News | Express.co.uk

Russia has lost dozens of top officers in Ukraine as Kyiv strikes far behind enemy lines, targeting commanders. The latest to be eliminated was Major General Vladimir Zavadsky.

www.google.com

Poetic, natural justice. He shouldn't have been in Ukraine in the first place. You reap what you sow.

 

[A1X]

If you needed to go for a wee, would you take your pint with you, or would you leave it in Lavrov's safe keeping?

“Sergei…why is my pint glowing?”

 

[Eric the meek]

'Putin urges Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children amid soaring deaths in his Ukraine war'

Putin asks Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children amid deaths in his war

Russian president says women having large families is ‘our goal for the coming decades’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[essbee1]

'Putin urges Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children amid soaring deaths in his Ukraine war'

Putin asks Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children amid deaths in his war

Russian president says women having large families is ‘our goal for the coming decades’

www.independent.co.uk

I predict only one future for Russia - and it ain't great.

 

[Mellotron]

'Putin urges Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children amid soaring deaths in his Ukraine war'

That's definitely something you say when your three-day military operation is going as planned.

 

[A1X]

'Putin urges Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children amid soaring deaths in his Ukraine war'

Putin asks Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children amid deaths in his war

Russian president says women having large families is ‘our goal for the coming decades’

www.independent.co.uk

"We'll birth our way out of a hole" is the classic trope of any dictator who is running out of road fast, and knows it. Lebensborn, indeed.

 

[raymondo]

'Putin urges Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children amid soaring deaths in his Ukraine war'

Putin asks Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children amid deaths in his war

Russian president says women having large families is ‘our goal for the coming decades’

www.independent.co.uk

The Russian guys that are not dead or on the front line, are going to be busy

 

[driddles]

'Putin urges Russian women to have ‘eight or more’ children amid soaring deaths in his Ukraine war'

With apologies... but I can't resist

 

[raymondo]

With apologies... but I can't resist

It's been a while since I've seen that

 

[Eric the meek]

With apologies... but I can't resist

I think you are misinterpreting Putin's intentions.

His '8 or more' children has nothing to do with the sanctity of human life. Quite the opposite in fact.
It is all about animal husbandry; a breeding programme to provide sufficient cannon fodder for future wars.

 

[Sirnormangall]

Not sure I’d want to raise one child, let alone 8 or more, in that country.

 

[Eric the meek]

'Ukraine says it hit railway near Russia's border with China' - BBC, a few minutes ago.

Ukraine says it blew up railway in eastern Russia

Explosions are said to have hit trains on the Baikal Amur mainline 500km from the Chinese border.

www.bbc.co.uk

Wow.

 

[raymondo]

'Ukraine says it hit railway near Russia's border with China' - BBC, a few minutes ago.

Ukraine says it blew up railway in eastern Russia

Explosions are said to have hit trains on the Baikal Amur mainline 500km from the Chinese border.

www.bbc.co.uk

Wow.

I wasn't expecting that - amazing.

 

[Eric the meek]

I wasn't expecting that - amazing.

Neither were the Russians evidently. What an extraordinary statement of intent this is.

For context, the distance from Chelyabinsk to Severomuysk is 4000 km. Chelyabinsk (where the tank engine factory was blown up a few days ago) is itself 1800 km east of Moscow. How on earth did Ukraine manage it? What route did they take? Through Russia? Or some other route? Did they have help?

I read somewhere a few weeks ago that Ukraine, being in what is for them, an existential war, are aiming high and seeking regime change in Moscow. One of their objectives is to foment unrest in Russia, to show Russians that Putin cannot protect them. Could it be that Ukraine has help from friendly partisans in Russia's ethnic regions?