Current Affairs Ukraine

[ste d' indica]

Yeah, I see that as a further sign of their desperation. It was purely a fluff move by Russia to back up their 2018 Fluff Putin press conference where he claimed to outline Russias new superweapons, which may or may not(more likely may not) actually be real and work. They probably have very few of those actually functional due to oligarch siphoning of funds and lying about "yeah it totally works sir Putin" to avoid getting in trouble.

The video Russia sent out allegedly showing them use the hypersonic on the west of Ukraine actually just shows them blowing up an empty farm building in the east, and the US also said they were able to track the missile. Russia is a disaster right now in every facet.

Not an expert at all, but I did read an article about hypersonics a while back, and the message I got, at least from US/NATO POV, was that there'd been a conclusion that it was a lot of extra spend for very little gain.
Could've all been tradecraft obviously.

 

[Tramps_mate]

hmmm defending a man who carried out a genocide and a man who's regime carried out multiple terror attacks in the west, including one in scotland.

That's what you were told...

 

[devogue]

That's what you were told...

weirdo

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Biden really stepping up to the mark …not. Have we ever seen such a lightweight President of the USA. I know that most on here are Democrat voters but ffs this guy is a pure waste of space……

Biden has got this right in general
The moment he commits troops or aircraft to this it’s going to get very heavy indeed, not just for Ukraine

 

[peteblue]

From experience, I’ve got a lot of respect for the likes of the 2e REP and 1er RHP. People who criticise the French army usually don’t have a clue.

It’ll be for other reasons.

The French military are fine, it’s their leaders that are crap….

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

Biden has got this right in general
The moment he commits troops or aircraft to this it’s going to get very heavy indeed, not just for Ukraine

As most of the World watches in horror. Tough to stomach for anyone to standby.

 

[peteblue]

The west, USA, U.K., EU, etc have allowed this to go on for too long. I find it hard to believe that the UN has decided sod all and that we haven’t told Putin to bring it to an end or we will. He is like this bogeyman with nuclear weapons and he is the only one to threaten to use them. The West is too weak, not militarily because we could wipe the floor with Russia, but because they think Putin is willing to destroy Russia, and that’s what it would mean. Putin is one man, there are many who would neither follow his button pressing and would put a bullet through his head if only the West said enough is enough……

 

[Davideeyore]

Mariupol.
Those that don't give up will face 'military tribunals'. This sounds very dark. While the Russians are letting people 'escape' to Russia. This is Nazi Germany is it not? Or like Bosnia. This indescriminet "cleansing" of Ukraine.

 

[Charro]

That's what you were told...

Because it’s true.

Hussein committed horrendous atrocities on his own people. Are you going to try and tell us that isn’t true and just “propaganda”?

 

[bluebud]

Slava Ukraine ??

 

[Davideeyore]

doesnt sound good

I really hope Ukraine has something in their armoury to fend off this genocide in Mariupol.

It's time NATO and everyone else realised that the red line that has been passed cannot go on any further.

 

[Goat]

I really hope Ukraine has something in their armoury to fend off this genocide in Mariupol.

It's time NATO and everyone else realised that the red line that has been passed cannot go on any further.

What would you like NATO to do?

 

[verreauxi]

 

[Goat]

In todays "Putin is defo not Hitler".

 

[tsubaki]

Saddam Hussein was a ruthless tyrant who murdered 250,000 of his own people. It's staggering to even try and make a comparison between the invasion of Ukraine and that of Iraq. Lest we forget, Hussein was convicted of crimes against humanity.

We didn’t depose Saddam for that, for using chemical weapons, for starting two wars, or even for invading an ally.

We deposed him because the two big Western leaders of the day thought they could get away with it, and in doing so conducted the worst foreign policy disaster of the post-war period. Hundreds of thousands paid with their lives for it too. It haunts us still.