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Russia And Ukraine Rapid Escalating Crisis
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I must admit I am quite shocked by the sudden escalation in the Ukraine Russian crisis tonight. What are the ABs thoughts on this ?
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I wonder how much longer this EarthCam of Kieve will remain on-line: https:/
Despite attempting to kill citizens in Salisbury
The assassination of Litvinenko and the dissident in Berlin the West will stand idly by and do nothing bar pontificate
Just as it did when he invaded Crimea
No western leader has the cojones to take him to task
Mad Vlad does not do diplomacy
He does as he pleases
The idea that ‘the West is united’ against him is farcical and he knows it
Russian troops will be in Kiev by Saturday
It is laughable that they are being sent as ‘peacekeepers’
The UN Security Council is meeting at 2 am UK time
The most hapless and hopeless organisation to supposedly counteract aggression and keep peace will as usual be about as effective as a cat flap on a submarine
I remember Gulf War Mk 1 when they said that sanctions were the way forward in the months prior and look how that turned out ?
May as well leave him to it unless someone is prepared to meet him with the same style of ‘diplomacy’ head on ?
The assassination of Litvinenko and the dissident in Berlin the West will stand idly by and do nothing bar pontificate
Just as it did when he invaded Crimea
No western leader has the cojones to take him to task
Mad Vlad does not do diplomacy
He does as he pleases
The idea that ‘the West is united’ against him is farcical and he knows it
Russian troops will be in Kiev by Saturday
It is laughable that they are being sent as ‘peacekeepers’
The UN Security Council is meeting at 2 am UK time
The most hapless and hopeless organisation to supposedly counteract aggression and keep peace will as usual be about as effective as a cat flap on a submarine
I remember Gulf War Mk 1 when they said that sanctions were the way forward in the months prior and look how that turned out ?
May as well leave him to it unless someone is prepared to meet him with the same style of ‘diplomacy’ head on ?
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They will be in Kiev this time next week claiming the Ukrainian government has gone rogue and the west will do nothing
They will be in Kiev this time next week claiming the Ukrainian government has gone rogue and the west will do nothing
The conflict cannot be resolved, because, essentially, it is not really a conflict. It is one nation, possibly even just one man's, crusade against another country. The only thing that can stop the apparent momentum to an all-out war is a judgment by that person that he risks too much by carrying on. All the stuff about NATO is merely a smokescreen, although it is a fact that these territorial issues created and aggravated by Russia would, under current NATO rules, disbar Ukraine from joining anyway.
What happened yesterday has been building since last Friday when the so-called breakaway republics issued statements (recorded two days previously) calling on its citizens to evacuate. Since then there's been an almost farcical inevitability about the train of events.
I'm pretty sure that in his hysterical monologue Putin talked about redrawing the boundaries of those republics: currently they only include the actual cities and some surrounding areas, not the whole oblasts. So presumably the next move would be to annexe Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in their entirety. Possibly to this end, Russia declared a no-fly zone over the Sea of Azov, which is the inlet of the Black Sea in the far SE of Ukraine. They have cruise missile launchers stationed there and amphibious landers.
Tony's link about press gangs is interesting and hardly surprising.
In fact for years, anyone under the age of 30 has largely been prevented from leaving these enclaves. No one sane would wish to stay there if they had a chance to leave.
What happened yesterday has been building since last Friday when the so-called breakaway republics issued statements (recorded two days previously) calling on its citizens to evacuate. Since then there's been an almost farcical inevitability about the train of events.
I'm pretty sure that in his hysterical monologue Putin talked about redrawing the boundaries of those republics: currently they only include the actual cities and some surrounding areas, not the whole oblasts. So presumably the next move would be to annexe Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in their entirety. Possibly to this end, Russia declared a no-fly zone over the Sea of Azov, which is the inlet of the Black Sea in the far SE of Ukraine. They have cruise missile launchers stationed there and amphibious landers.
Tony's link about press gangs is interesting and hardly surprising.
In fact for years, anyone under the age of 30 has largely been prevented from leaving these enclaves. No one sane would wish to stay there if they had a chance to leave.
"UEFA should move the European Champions League final from St. Petersburg, Russia. Due to take place in May, a new venue should be found. "
Yes these are the sorts of "sanctions" which we should be doing.
The US banning trade with what Donetsk and Luhansk have now been reduced to is almost laughable.
Yes these are the sorts of "sanctions" which we should be doing.
The US banning trade with what Donetsk and Luhansk have now been reduced to is almost laughable.
emmie
no answer SB, so i assume that you don't have a clue how this conflict could be resolved.
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I generally find it best not to text as I drive to work
If NATO and the west had anything about them they should have been far more proactive about sanctions after all the instances I listed earlier not waiting until Putin was on a border before bumbling about blindly
Backslapping each other for their diplomacy which has proved fruitless
What is your solution emmie ?
no answer SB, so i assume that you don't have a clue how this conflict could be resolved.
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I generally find it best not to text as I drive to work
If NATO and the west had anything about them they should have been far more proactive about sanctions after all the instances I listed earlier not waiting until Putin was on a border before bumbling about blindly
Backslapping each other for their diplomacy which has proved fruitless
What is your solution emmie ?
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