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I know they have their own, but it's rather hard to have them accidentally land in the UK. No trucks driving across the channel, you know.
I always say this, but sadly their coverage in other places of the world is better. They do it because it hurts US sphere of influence, of course, but for example, Latam's RT coverage in the past few years was one of the few ways to know what Añez was doing in Bolivia against their own people. They also provided good coverage of the human rights crisis in Chile and Colombia. Few international outlets do extensive and in detail coverage in places like these, reasons pretty well known (Chileans are a bit more "privileged" in that sense, we did get a bit more than the others).
I'm not pleased to say that throwing them out of the entire world, which is something that will probably end up happening, wouldn't be good.
Give it 10 to 15 years for enough of the boomers to die off and we'll be back
The fact that the eu are welcoming ukraine obviously runs counter to the lies that putin is telling his people. Do they think the eu are also nazis or that they would welcome nazis? If its possible to get that message to russian civ they may start to realise theyve been played.
So is Russia. Boris needs to fucking up his corrupt ass game and do more.
Yeah tbh I was thinking more it's their best chance to push for full de-nuclearization in general. Ofc I doubt it would happen anyway, wishful thinking and all that, but I do think it's the strongest position they'll have to barter for that in a while though when the financial sting really starts to hit.
Ha, I think so too. If this had happened before Brexit the obvious importance of unity might have swung the vote the the other way. Anyway, this is too ot
Already bored to tears of their empty "Hey we might WAR you" talk in response to absolutely everything.
Geopolitically of course. Getting out of the Russian Sphere and entering West. Geographically of course they are in Europe.
More like they are inexperienced soldiers on a mission they don't believe in.
I think they aren't in the mood to die for their mother to receive a check of 100 Euro.
I guess. I think western Russians would identify as European though.
I agree in principle. But there is, if you're talking about the modality — SSBNs vs. ICBMs (vs. bombers). New START already limits the US and RUS to 700 deployed warheads. I am very curious if they're sticking to this as a transparent non-escalatory measure. It's something that STRATCOM is monitoring for sure.
I'm literally convinced the kremlin are a banana republic run by senile old dudes that should be retired at a nice beach resort and not running a country. Like it would explain the weird fucking demands with us to take its nukes, despite the fact that other European countries have nukes? Trying to say Ukraine has nukes. Like this some real I don't know what year it is shit.
To be fair it took far less than 6 days to achieve this. The moment the first army unit or bomb crossed their border was the beginning of the end.
At what point does the narrative shift and the Russia bots/simps and the conspiracy whackos say that Russia being this inept was actually some 12D master chess move? It's obvious that wasn't the case, but it seems like the best way for the alternate facts people to justify this failure.
Yup. Its obviously super biased and often focuses on news that makes the US look bad…but its often news that should actually make the US look bad, lol. And like you mentioned their international news outside of this neo cold war sphere is pretty good.
You can still watch/read an RT article even if you gotta filter through the biases, and learn something even if its 'oh someone in the kremlin is in their feelings about this thus the slant of this article'. Its still takes its news much more serious than Fox, which is actually terrifying when you think about it.
Or don't even know why they are there from what I have been reading.
Jesus. I seem someone listening in on Russian radio comms earlier and though it had to be fake. Just using off the shelve stuff is crazy.
Yeah, Russia is a European country that spread eastward over time. 70% of the Russian population is in Europe, with the Ural Mountains being the traditional Asia-Europe border.
Turkey is sort of the opposite situation since it's an Asian country that spread west through Anatolia until it ended up with a sliver of Europe near Istanbul/Constantinople.
Too bad this probably can't operate alone, without a crew that knows what they are doing :(.
This shit in combination that they just have these things driving around on their own with no backup or protection is baffling.
damn starting to believe he is truly suffering of corticosteroids side effects.
Yes. The idea that the EU was run by some kind of secret Fourth Reich, and Angela Merkel the second coming of Hitler, did the rounds back during the Brexit days. To paraphrase a relative:
"They took over Europe without ever firing a shot!"
How will being prosecuted for war crimes even damage Russia at this point? Like what else can he be punished for that won't be through heavy sanctions.
Russia is a direct participant in this war. The UK isn't.
I hate Boris, but right now the UK and EU are, on balance, doing much more than a lot of people expected.
A lot of Russians have family in Ukraine. The cultural and historical ties are very close. These young Russian soldiers are being ordered to kill their neighbors for nothing. It shouldn't be surprising that a lot of them are saying "fuck this"
The Russian angle is that the US is behind it all and that the Europeans are their puppets. That's how they frame basically every conflict. I said it before, but Putin has barely mentioned any EU nation, even though their actions have been much more devastating for Russia than what the US did. They want that division.
how do these things just sit around in a field abandoned?
do the soldiers just go like "well uh, let's just leave on foot!"?
He won't ever be prosecuted. The military brass in general? I'd love to see it, since it might energize IHL enforcement beyond Spain indicting people via universal jurisdiction and nothing coming of it.
This is how I would mostly achieve that:
Be friendly and work with your neighbour.
Fin.
I really don't get it. Does Putin seriously think conquering Ukraine is worth tossing away everything he's gained? What calculus exists that makes occupying Ukraine an overall positive end result? And instead of cutting his losses he's pushing even harder?
This really is all just his ego now, isn't it?
What if we don't call it an an economic war? It's a "special economic operation"!
This is a measure leading to the eventual expropriation of those investments by the Russian state.
And that town didn't even get armed. What are they gonna do when every window and alley might have an AK and a molotov waiting in them? They can't occupy every street of the city with armor and aircraft support.