Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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This kind of stuff should be in the history books* not unfolding before us in the news... good god the human race is stupid.


* Not that it should be in the history books either but we can't undo the past.
 
Russians still support the invasion of Ukraine in overwhelming numbers.

On the ground: Russian shoppers can no longer buy many Western products or use certain payment methods, and many goods they can buy are now more expensive thanks to the sanctions. But they don't blame Putin, says Yana, a journalist in Moscow who asked that we not use her last name.

"Oh, what is this West doing to us?'" she recalls a cashier saying when she visited a town outside the city. "The sanctions just reassured people that the West is evil."

The sanctions have only amplified the sentiment among most Russians that western aggression caused this conflict in the first place, says Denis Volkov, director of the Levada Center, Russia’s top independent pollster.

"For the majority, it's not about Ukraine. It's about Russia and the West fighting inside Ukraine," Volkov says. In focus groups, Russians will complain that their lives are getting harder, while at the same time praising Putin for standing up to the U.S., he says.

By the numbers: 81% of Russians approved of the invasion as of March 30, and Vladimir Putin's approval rating has climbed to 83%, according to Levada’s polling — though the fact that opposition to the war has been criminalized makes those numbers harder to interpret.
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The Russians are still stuck in a Cold War mentality. Everything bad is the West's fault; Russia is never to blame.
 
Minusorange said:
They're giving the "Butcher" control of everything in Ukraine, doesn't bode well for the Ukrainians given his history of literally destroying everything he wants captured
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They still seem to be stuck in the same mentality of intimidation to break will - which might work when the other side has limited ability to kick back - but in this case is likely going to make Ukraine even more determined possibly to the extent it will start spilling into Russia more frequently. Maybe something the Russian's are aware of, even hoping for, maybe not.

A few more atrocities and I think, despite their current stance, we will see Ukraine making attempts to touch Russian towns and cities with long range munitions to bring the war home to Russians.
 
Only a matter of time before the west has to take serious action (military) against Russian troops in Ukraine. I can see it happening.
 
*Russian Ministry Of Defense: Russian Aviation Destroyed 42 Ukrainian Military Installations On The 11th
*Russian Oil Exports Rebounded, But It Was Difficult To Find Buyers Outside Asia

*Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister: 4354 People Were Evacuated From Cities Through Humanitarian Corridors On Monday
 
'Former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev said that Vladislav Surkov, Putin's ex-adviser, had been arrested in Russia. He says Surkov is on trial in the same case as Sergey Beseda, the head of the FSB Service who was placed under house arrest for poor intelligence about Ukraine'
via - https://twitter.com/Hromadske/status/1513578482147770370

'Russia is targeting wheat stocks in Ukraine, worsening global food crisis, EU says'
via - https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/...-ukraine-worsening-global-food-crisis-eu-says

*White House: Blinken, Austin To Discuss Compliance With Russia Sanctions With Indian Colleagues ~this might be news from earlier
 
Anyone saying they're the same should reconfigure their outlook on life, however it would be real cool if parts of the left/right who seem to perpetually hate the West would stop playing the useful fool for our enemies.
 
Harlequin said:
Am i right in that certain posters are trying to say that BLM and Putins Nazi`s are the same?? REALLY??
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Obviously not, since you're indulging in wildly hyperbolic exaggeration from a couple of posts by one person and you clearly either didn't read those posts or didn't understand them or are lying about them for political reasons because they didn't say what you're claiming they said (and I've no idea how you interpreted one poster as multiple posters).
 
Angilion said:
Obviously not, since you're indulging in wildly hyperbolic exaggeration from a couple of posts by one person and you clearly either didn't read those posts or didn't understand them or are lying about them for political reasons because they didn't say what you're claiming they said (and I've no idea how you interpreted one poster as multiple posters).
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Did you fail to notice the entire sentence was framed as a QUESTION. The ?? should have given that away. Instead you got on your soap box and decided to wander off in a totally other direction. Calm down son.
 
Chris Wilson said:
You do realize the late Max Mosley was president of the FIA for 16 years, and what his past and family history entailed? <LOL>
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The FIA wouldn't go near someone like him today. He got involved in racing in the 60s and with Eccleston rose to power in F1 in the 80s. The world was very different then. Sponsors money rules now and no corporation wants to be associated with fascists, well some Russian companies do but they are done for the foreseeable future.
 
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