Given the singlemindedness of the Russian narrative about how they're protecting the "autonomous regions" from "genocide", I suspect that this is just for show, and a way to say "see, we tried, and those stinking Ukrainians won't see our very reasonable point".
Do you have links or further info on this? In a bizarre turn of events I have an interest in thisThank you, Poland.
Yeah. A non-humiliating way for Putin to back down is probably the best hope now but it's hard to see where that lies or who could provide it to him.
That just isn't the case. People really do know the history.
Come on, they are fucking trash.
I think at this stage they'd also be keen for some meaningful assurance that Putin isn't going to come back for another bite of the cherry this time next year.
Yeah, I think that's quite likely - I've seen some stuff already that suggests they are moving heavier artillery systems (MLRS) in greater numbers and closer into the main cities, and there's been some use of it - but I wouldn't be surprised if this is the start of the transition from an attempt at lighter/limited lightning war to a realisation that only a much heavier, much more within Russian doctrine, kitchen-sink war will secure the objectives (or, indeed, the revised objectives).
I think Putin is so far into auto-humiliation that it'd be bloody difficult to find a route whereby he COULD back off and save face.
Or Zelensky wants to give Putin a video of him playing the Russian national anthem on the piano.
I do wonder whether that just creates another boundary for conflict at the edges of those places where they border onto Ukraine. And the almost-inevitable likelihood that, as with Belarus, Russia would simply use them to be able to amass offensive capability right on those borders.
Does that mean massive bombing of cities is what you think most likely to happen next?
Yeah. How do you "contain" a military the size of Russia's without actually flattening them to the point that the only card left in Putin's hand is the nuclear one?
apart from how cunty about weight and ableist this is, it also shows you know fuck all about dance or dancers. some of the biggest people i know are graceful and nimble on their feet.
Not bombs perhaps, but missiles, rockets...those scary hyperbaric weapons, definitely. Putin might settle for just completely flattening Kyiv, and killing everyone in it, and he could probably do that without resorting to nuclear weapons
Perhaps he'd start with doing that to a smaller city first of all, pour encourager les autres.
problems. it gives them problems.
Graun is a bit late with that news. I went there this morning so you don't have to to look for Tory roubles and found other things inc this, which is what it says on the tin, complete with ranting vid: Why do we need the world, if Russia won't be in it?' Putin's 'propagandist-in-chief' threatens the West with nuclear destruction as he boasts Moscow's subs 'can shoot more than 500 warheads'
yeh but then that resolves the border dispute and ukraine >>> nato
