Current Affairs Ukraine

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tsubaki said:
Loads of Western politicians do, it’s a consequence of having a political class where they only “learn” politics (and that badly).

I mean someone who knew anything about Russia would know where Rostov is; a person who knew a lot about it (and recent history) would have been able to turn the tables on Lavrov and say no, they are Russian but if you want to discuss that sort of thing then we’d welcome a talk about Kaliningrad.
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Good answer.

I (as an American) would have come back this way: "If we amassed a large number of troops in Alaska with transports and warships off the coast, surely you would come to us with concerns? Would you accept my response that Alaska is sovereign territory of the United States, and that we can do as we like in our sovereign territory?

No. You would request clarification and the removal of the troops. You would argue that doing so would defuse tensions and avoid the risk of an incident that might result in events spinning out of our control.

Surely you can see that we are responding to a similar concern on the behalf of one of our friends. In particular, our friends are concerned about your decision to position a substantial proportion of your land forces in Belarusian territory."

When in doubt, take advantage of the segues the opponent inadvertently provides.
 
They're key areas on the west of Russia. Rostov is fairly well known to anyone with even a tenuous grasp of Russian knowledge that you'd assume a foreign minister coming to Russia in a diplomatic crisis should know.

It's indicative of the low calibre of our government and how easily they can be made mugs of. The UK is becoming the Everton of nations.
 
Yarrgh said:
They're key areas on the west of Russia. Rostov is fairly well known to anyone with even a tenuous grasp of Russian knowledge that you'd assume a foreign minister coming to Russia in a diplomatic crisis should know.

It's indicative of the low calibre of our government and how easily they can be made mugs of. The UK is becoming the Everton of nations.
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More like Blackburn under Venkys, in terms of present management. Get some competent people back in office, and you'll be fine.
 
It's just internet chatter but seen a few different russian opinions that think that nothing is actually going to happen here. That it's all for show and no fear of war.

Ukraine thoughts however are extremely worried about the situation, pretty much the exact opposite of the average russian opinion.
 
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