Russia & Ukraine

Discussion in 'Politics' started by UsualName, Jan 18, 2022.

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    #5201     May 22, 2022
  2. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    You may as well quote info wars, nobody takes him seriously, especially since his brother died. He is an attention whore who chooses the contrary side of everything.
     
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    #5202     May 22, 2022
  3. He dares to ask questions to which supporters of mainstream narrative often don’t have answers, just accusations. That is what’s wrong with today's western society, specifically US & Canada.
     
    #5203     May 22, 2022
  4. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    Any issue and takes the opposite side. It is his business model, same as infowars. He is too unimportant a figure to track, his brother used to bring him some attention but that is over now. Pick an issue, he will have taken an asshole's angle on it. Nobody respects him, just he has his late older brother's surname.

    Last thing I read of his he was saying it was a mistake to kill Qaddafi as he would have been interesting to study.

    His business for years was arguing against the theory of evolution as a reformed agnostic.
     
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    #5204     May 22, 2022
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  5. A new way of spinning Ukraine's relative success in resisting the Russians: It's not because they are trained and fight differently and more willingly, it's because they are like the Russians. One week everyone in Ukraine and especially the army led by Azov types are all Nazis. The next week "they are just like us."

    Okay fine, I guess. Whatever.


    Russia Official Has Rare Excuse for War Failure: Ukraine's Elite Military

    A Russian senator attempted to justify what he described as the Russian military's "difficulty" in Ukraine by saying that his country is fighting against one of the "strongest and best-trained armies."

    Frants Klintsevich, who made the remarks recently during an appearance on Russian state TV, said Ukraine has an elite military made up of "Russian soldiers and officers with exactly the same mentality as ours," according to a translation provided by a journalist with the BBC.



    https://www.newsweek.com/russia-official-has-rare-excuse-war-failure-ukraines-elite-military-1708630
     
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    #5205     May 22, 2022
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  6. Nobert

    Nobert



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    Russia destroying Ukraine's food grain supply and we are still allowing trucks into Russia with food and medicine. Hmnnnn.

     
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    #5206     May 22, 2022
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  7. If it would help to bring about a cease-fire, I would be willing to give New Jersey to the Russians.

    -posted anonymously.
     
    #5207     May 22, 2022
  8. Nobert

    Nobert

    I doubt that it would. The nation/leaders are paranoid.

    Their moto, even few hundred years ago was something like :
    ,,The best way to protect your borders is to expand''

    Some Novgorod viking mindset till this day.





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    #5208     May 22, 2022
  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Germany's ex-ambassador to Russia says Putin wants to trigger a global famine and refugee crisis
    https://www.businessinsider.com/germanys-ex-ambassador-russia-says-putin-wants-trigger-famine-2022-5
    • Russia invasion of Ukraine has made global food shortages even worse.
    • A former German ambassador to Russia said that's exactly what Putin wants, DW reported.
    • Rüdiger von Fritsch said Putin wants to cause a famine and refugee crisis to destabilize Europe.
    A former German ambassador for Russia said Russian President Vladimir Putin is deliberately trying to cause a famine and refugee crisis, DW reported.

    Rüdiger von Fritsch told a German outlet that Putin wants to cause a famine in the Middle East and Africa so it would cause refugees to migrate to Europe, which would destabilize the region.

    "Putin's calculation is that after grain supplies collapse, starving people from these regions will flee and try to come to Europe — like previously the millions of Syrians fleeing the horrors of war," he said.

    His comments come as food security experts warn that Russia's invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated a global food supply crisis. One expert testified at the UN Security Council that the world only has 10 weeks of wheat supplies left in storage.

    Ukraine is considered the world's "breadbasket". Combined, Russia and Ukraine export about a third of the world's wheat, with many regions significantly, depending on those exports.

    Von Fritsch said Putin is stopping grain exports out of Ukraine because it would then lead to this famine that would put pressure on European countries to reconsider sanctions against Russia.

    "He wants to destabilize Europe with new flows of refugees so that Western states give up their tough stance toward Russia," he said.

    US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has also previously accused Russia of using food as a weapon and said Russia was holding food "hostage" for millions across the globe.

    "The Russian government seems to think that using food as a weapon will help accomplish what its invasion has not - to break the spirit of the Ukrainian people," Blinken said.
     
    #5209     May 22, 2022
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  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Putin's mouthpieces pushing annexation of portions of Ukraine. They may want to consider that first Russia will need to militarily hold on to these areas. A prospect that gets more bleak by the day.

    Russian senator hints at possible annexation of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions
    https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/05/20/7347372/
     
    #5210     May 22, 2022