Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Mudcat]

I would like to think that's true for a cascade of reasons.

Wishful thinking aside, there is solid sense to it. I find it believable.

 

[roguejuror]

Putin lol

 

[Boner_18]

Old people, even heads of state, have no place in Vlad's World.

 

[Matty]

Women, especially old women that are heads of state, have no place in Vlad's World.

FYP

 

[Matty]

Outstanding photo BTW. Who are the two guys behind Obama, to Merkel's right?

I guess the younger guy is just a bodyguard.

 

[roguejuror]

King Harald of Norway

 

[reno cool]

I like that picture a lot. When was it taken?

Is the queen considered the head of state? Whatever. Putin doesn't have to pretend he needs to kiss some queens ass. Thats a job for the other empty figureheads :

 

[roguejuror]

Today

 

[roguejuror]

Head of State of Canada and all Commonwealth countries

 

[Mudcat]

Canadian head of state? A few Canadian grannies give a shit about her I guess.

 

[reno cool]

I assume this is the Queen of England. I guess she's only marginally more a figurehead than Obama and the rest of the shmos.


So it appears that the only real revolutionaries are the separatists. Being shunned by both sides.

 

[Mudcat]

It's hard to recognize Putin without his nipples exposed.

 

[reno cool]

http://www.thenation.com/article/180942/new-cold-war-and-necessity-patriotic-heresy



good article



"But in a fateful crisis such as the one now confronting us, moderation for its own sake is no virtue. It becomes conformism, and conformism becomes complicity."

good quote

 

[roguejuror]

The Winter is coming.

Russia and the European Union are locked into an intimate economic relationship by the web of gas pipelines depicted in this map by Samuel Bailey. On the one hand, without the gas that flows through these pipelines, many European countries including Germany and Italy would be bereft of energy resources. And yet as critical as Russian fuel imports are to Europe's energy mix, those very same exports are in a way even more critical to the Russian economy, as they offer a huge share of the country's foreign currency earnings. As events in Ukraine and elsewhere drive tensions between Moscow and Brussels, both sides remain locked into this energy trade by the basic geographical reality that gas can only flow where the pipelines go.

Putin and Poroshenko with the President of Belarus center in Minsk today.

 

[reno cool]

RJ do you think this thing is staged by US ultimately to fuck Europe? What the US sees as its rival in the long run.
Are the European "allies" just being duped? War in Europe historically good for US interests.

 

[FairWarning]

Lol

 

[reno cool]

interesting. Having Ukrainian army prisoners showed the consequences of the bombings and questioned by the townspeople. I like this tactic. Everybody who wars should be shown the consequences of their actions, maybe that will eventually lead to peace

 

[roguejuror]

Reno why are you so pro Russia in this conflict? If there are powerful interest in the Kiev side, there is 10x more perverse manipulation in the Moscow side. The propaganda out of Russia is beyond comical how apparent it is. There is no need to support one side to denounce the other.