Utter, utter, drivel, mate. There was a zero possibility of a no fly zone on minute one, and there is still zero possibility. Not remotely influenced by the Putin childish foot stamping about 'you berra not do anything, or else!'. Next he'll be threatening to squeam and squeam until he's thick.
From within, presuming the conditions for revolution and / or a coup are met.
you're right, I just noticed a lot less rhetoric from the west on the matter this week.
No I mean politically, how do they evolve from a pariah state given all the above issues
Launch the nukes, kill everyone else?
They can start with a leadership change and hand Vlad over to The Hague to answer for his crimes.
So you class this as the west backing down?
maybe, a tiny bit. even if its only words.
They don't, at least in the short run, short of the improbable emergence of a revolutionary leader.
Same way as both Germany and Japan moved from pariah states to powerhouse economic nations presumably.
@Kev The Rat laughing at a piece quoting a guy from the US Treasury…………..
…………. but he’s had “another call” from a friend and we’re all supposed to take it as the gospel according to the man himself! You couldn’t make it up ???!
So this catastrophic invasion was planned, Kev? Putin wanted to make Russian forces look weak and ineffectual?
