Current Affairs Ukraine

[Martin Alvito]

The same process of logic, however, also raises the uncomfortable question of what is ACTUALLY stopping Putin attacking a NATO country?

The expectation that the United States will honor its Article 5 commitment.

It's a little different when you make a promise and a whole lot of other deals have been made with honoring that one in mind.

 

[JammyP]

Not necessarily in actually dragging NATO forces into the equation.

But maybe going in harder against Ukraine than they might.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Credit card. Kev's sorting it out as we speak / already sorted it / it was never a problem / army, what army?

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[Kev The Rat]

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Fine, Medvedev’s comment is meaningless then

 

[LinekersLegs]

Google translation
I call on all Russian diplomats to resign in protest.

Dear Russian diplomats, you are professionals and not cheap propagandists. When I worked at the Foreign Ministry, I was proud of my colleagues. Now it is simply impossible to support the bloody fratricidal war in Ukraine.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

What I was thinking all along - the Kremlin could at some point consider the sanctions an act of war, if they haven’t already.

The Russian's would get their arses handed to them on a platter.

 

[devogue]

On what we have seen so far in this war, a Russia vs NATO war would end in a resounding win for NATO. That is of course if it was a conventional war without nukes. A real Russia vs NATO war would end with us all turned to ashes.

 

[Yarrgh]

Has the west stopped importing oil and gas from Russia yet?

 

[Kev The Rat]

On what we have seen so far in this war, a Russia vs NATO war would end in a resounding win for NATO. That is of course if it was a conventional war without nukes. A real Russia vs NATO war would end with us all turned to ashes.

Exactly

In reality the notion of a conventional war between NATO and Russia doesn’t exist.

It goes MAD almost immediately after the first shots are fired.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Russian conscripts coerced into fighting in Ukraine

The NGO Solders’ Mothers of St. Petersburg has reported a sharp increase in complaints from conscripts and their families who say that the young men are being forced to sign contracts purportedly in order to be sent ’for exercises’ to the Rostov oblast on the border with Donbas. Reports of such...

khpg.org

 

[devogue]

as much as I support Ukraine in this conflict, I'd be very interested to see their casualty figures.

 

[Mrk]

as much as I support Ukraine in this conflict, I'd be very interested to see their casualty figures.

Indiscriminately bombing a city knowing it will cost the lives of innocent women and children. Heartbreaking.

 

[devogue]

Reminds me of the Beirut Explosion, which is still the most insane video Ive seen.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Pretty hard to see how businesses that aren’t solely reliant on Russian domestically produced goods are going to operate in near term.

Eventually will presumably find alternate supplies and delivery mechanisms (by rail from East?) but both air and sea transportation seems significantly hit.

 

[Ruairi77]