He is not mad [or at least not to any different extent recently]. He is simply showing his true colours closer to our doorstep, so we are taking notice.
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He is not mad [or at least not to any different extent recently]. He is simply showing his true colours closer to our doorstep, so we are taking notice.
FrenchDarrenBent
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The yellow ones are the real cowards. The probably agree but abstain to continue business as usual with Russia. Why not sanction them, maybe then we'll be getting somewhere
So... it's fair to say Putin is keeping everyday Russians
Depends how you view it. One analysis I read is that China's abstentions are as good as no votes in some regards. They're never going to flat out vote against Russia, but not directly throwing weight behind Russia is significant. It will be interesting to see if the Chinese offer of mediation is taken up too.
Efcjake
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They say Karma is a bitch @Kev The Rat, I hope when she catches up with you and Putin you both get what you deserve you heartless POS.
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Off topic, so I'll be quick (and I might have posted this before). There was an Eritriean student here at my University in the Physicians assistant program. Super charismatic and nice fellow. When he was in Eritrea, he was twice imprisoned for several months by the brutal dictator there. He fled the country and hopscotched through various countries trying to make-do, all the while worried about his family back home, some of which was in prison. He eventually made it to Colombia and what luck--he was kidnapped by FARC and taken into some jungle area and held for ransom. He got to know his captors and told them about his plight saying that he and they were fighting for the same thing--a better government for their home country, so out of sympathy they let him go and he walked back to a major city. He made his way to the USA where my partner ended up teaching him in a class. She gives out one of those surveys at the beginning of class asking students harmless questions like "favorite book?" "hobbies?" "favorite movie?" Quite understandably, his favorite movie was Shawshank Redemption.
[edit: Kev the Rat is an adolescent coward; victory to Ukraine!]
The binman chronicles
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Christ, what an incredible life! In an uplifting yet simultaneously awful way. So glad he got a happy ending.
Sometimes I wish my life was a bit more exciting, then you realise "no, I'm good. Boring is good".
So true.
If I click on that link will I find animals humping?
Death
I'll take down dat coal powered MG, I tel u Hwat
You know me too well fellow forsakee
I never said Putin couldn't rationalize it. Of course he can, it's about security, both territorial and economic.
The thing is, it's still a dangerous power grab, an invasion of a country that had not joined NATO.
Invading Georgia was a dangerous power grab, same with Crimea.
But I think he completely underestimated the task at hand in Ukraine.
I also think, besides the economic and territorial security reasons, Putin has drank his own nationalistic cool-aid. He cant shake the KGB background and is empire building.
I didn't know about Crimea's fresh water supply, that is interesting.
Still doesn't change my view that Putin is a dangerous megalomaniac.
I'm also not sure, given article 5, that NATO nations would ever have admitted Ukraine. The EU maybe, but not NATO.
Runub
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That website is not working for me….do you have the proper link?
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