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They would still be alive if the Russians had stayed out. Blue on Blue Russian casualties are sad for their families, but entirely the fault of Putin and his enablers.

Posting on two different threads only reinforces the idiocy of this statement. The EU was founded with, partly, the intent of removing the threat of another war between France and Germany, given that most European wars since the fall of the Roman Empire have involved those countries, or their precursors, but especially WW1 and WW2.

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, says that negotiations can start once Ukraine has surrendered and agreed to be "de-militarised".

War between France and Germany, yes, given that most European wars since the fall of the Roman Empire have involved those countries, or their precursors, but especially WW1 and WW2.

Try explaining this to your insurance company " It was like this, a bloody great Russian tank suddenly appeared......"

Of course, Russia doesn't use the Internet or international communications networks.

Alice ? Alice ? Who the fuck is Alice ?

Or "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" by R.E.M.

So, I again ask you, where do you draw the line ? Estonia ? Latvia ? Lithuania ? Poland ? Czechia ?

That is what the punctuation suggested. If NATO will not provide direct military intervention in support of an invasion of the Baltic states., surely it would be economically and humanitarily better to simply concede.

The same is probably true for the Russian general population.

So why not remove the possibility of a war and simply cede the 3 Baltic states to Russia now ?

Sanctions against Belarus is a good move.

https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/ukraine/2022/02/22/us-attack-helos-f-35s-and-infantry-heading-to-baltics-amid-ukraine-invasion/

Or Vlad dies and a more reasonable successor arrives on the international stage, one with less baggage hanging over from the Cold War.

The 82nd Airborne arrived last week to reinforce those already there. Also https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/ukraine/2022/02/22/us-attack-helos-f-35s-and-infantry-heading-to-baltics-amid-ukraine-invasion/ Obviously the bigger NATO members don't give a stuff about their smaller allies.

But it is the narrative he has sold his people. Remember, what we are dealing with is Russian Folk History, dating back to the summer of 1941, when many Ukrainians welcomed the Germans as liberators.

I wonder what underlying domestic problems Russia is undergoing have prompted this distraction.

Dresden

And where, therefore, would you draw the line ?

So instead we let him do whatever he wants ?

Putin is a mad bastard, but he isn't completely stupid. Ukraine is not in NATO, which he knows gives him an effective free hand militarily, and his intention is not to annexex the whole country, it is to re-impose the pro-Russian political regime that existed under Yanukovych.

There have been multiple wars and smaller military engagements involving nuclear armed states since 1945, and we are still in the situation that the only nuclear weapons ever used in anger are the first 2 created. The first country to use one would not only suffer the response from it's opposing side, but all other countries around the World would condemn it.

If Putin is made to believe it, that is all that matters.

You could give the average American 200 guesses to point out their state capital on a map.