Russia invades Ukraine again?

[aufbahrung]

bah, you know Crumpet he's into his gotterdammerung thing
Even if put in is utterly mad, he doesn't want to rule a radioactive waste.

'The Russian people? they were not strong enough.' he'll say on the day after.

[Tero]

Think he'll go full on war with NATO at some point. Full berserker mode. No holds barred. Blitzkrieg with nukes.

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/th ... -of-russia

If, as some sources suggest, he has a terminal illness, he may well think like that. But the generals know that they and their families will die in the inevitable return fire, so Putin may have an accident the moment he orders such a strike...

Putin is likely to avoid tall buildings from now on. So he does not fall out of windows.

[Tero]

US/NATO proxy war with Russia not turning into "dialogue."

"We have been open, frank and sincere in wanting an open dialogue with the West and we have said many times that the world needs indivisible security and we invited all countries of the world to talk about that," Putin said in his annual address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow.

"But as a response, all we got was a hypocritical, incomprehensible reply, as well as quite substantive, concrete actions -- the expansion of NATO -- the so-called umbrella of defense of our country and Central Asia."

"They are not going to stop. The threat continues every day," Putin said. "And they're preparing for bloodshed in the Donbas."

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ru ... c996c6ed1e

[Svartalf]

You can't have dialogue with somebody whose only desire is to spout propaganda and dismiss both truth and other people's point of view

[Tero]

Putin only needs to hold out 2 more years:

The most important audience for DeSantis’s remarks is not in the Republican primary, but in Moscow. Vladimir Putin has built his strategy on the assumption that he can keep throwing conscripts into the trenches of eastern Ukraine longer than the United States is willing to keep sending money and arms to Kyiv. Putin’s main hope has rested on Donald Trump returning to office in 2025. Now he has a second option should Trump falter in the primary. The odds that Putin will end the war just got longer.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02 ... raine.html

[Tero]

Some problems with China peace offer. Such as giving Ukraine to Russia.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/ ... f9d795a211

[Tero]

G20 countries don't seem to care about Ukraine and act on selfish goals

G20 fails to reach consensus on Russia-Ukraine war -sources
https://www.reuters.com/world/g20-fails ... 023-02-25/

[aufbahrung]

[Tero]

Himars unloaded in Latvia. Seems to fill the plane by width.

[JimC]

Sort of a giving birth look...

[Tero]

It's OK to target hospitals inside Ukraine. They are only giving birth to nazis there.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/01/europe/r ... index.html
And besides, Ukraine is not a country. Drone strikes inside mother Russia bad.

[aufbahrung]

https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2023/03/int ... -exercise/

Just practicing - for something soon (maybe)

[Tero]

How far is this Wagner thing going to go? Putin finished by dinner time, 9 hours from now?

[aufbahrung]

New boss, same as the old boss...

[L'Emmerdeur]

Seems unlikely to me that Putin will be deposed. Certainly Prigozhin would not be a step in the right direction. Wagner Group leaving Ukraine appears to be good news for Ukraine though.