USSR invades Ukraine. (22 Viewers)
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Depends who the replacement is as well - things could be worse!
Flying Fokker
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Russia-Ukraine war: Putin tells Russia his war objectives are unchanged
Russia's leader holds his first major news conference since his full-scale invasion of Ukraine began.
www.bbc.co.uk
skybluetony176
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Visiting 2 countries that aren’t in the ICC to try and get them to fix the barrel price of crude oil is hardly evidence that they’re going to invest heavily in Russia. If anything it’s confirmation that Putin is desperate. You have to remember that as much as these 2 countries have a long standing relationship with Russia they have a much larger one with the west. The UAE and the US are strategic security partners in the Middle East and Gulf States, it even has a permanent military base in the UAE as part of that, it relies heavily on the US for security. Both countries also rely heavily on western armaments. I would be shocked if either would risk that to keep Putin in power. They will after all still have the option of doing trade with Russian whether Putin is there or not.
shmmeee
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Russia Has Lost Almost 90% of Its Prewar Army, U.S. Intelligence Says
The declassified estimate says 315,000 personnel have been killed or injured in Ukraine.
www.wsj.com
Was this his war objective?
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tisza
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Definitely wins the election and opposition severely handcuffed in terms of party financing, media coverage, key personnel in jail or left the country
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Still not convinced whoever follows him will be a liberal friend of the West, anyway!
Sick Boy
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There's zero chance of him not winning.
Sick Boy
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This - if anything they'll be even more hostile. Will keep saying it but I think we're at the start of the balance of global power slowly moving away from the west.
Grendel
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Why does no one understand Gorbachev is loathed on Russia and the flirtation with Western democracy proved a disaster and it’s population will move ever further away from this if challenged?
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Sick Boy
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You never know! There was a post on here a few weeks ago seriously claiming he could end up losing.
Sending 300,000 Russians and counting to an early grave for an ego trip sure sounds like paradise
They can't be any more hostile than Putin unless they want to be the person that destroys Russia.
Very different times though!
The only possible escalations from what Putin has done are to invade a NATO country and/or launch a nuke.
So they can be more hostile than Putin....but they'll destroy Russia in the process.
Grendel
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Why bother?
I'm not sure if you've misunderstood me. I'm not saying the successor is going to be any better than Putin.
300,000 dead is quite a big point actually. Maybe not to you.
Point missed as usual.
Like I said, very different times.
Grendel
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Is it a different culture? I have asked what you know about the Russian culture and stoicism - the reality is you know nothing but you carry on and let’s see what happens in the end shall we - perhaps you will repeat the amazing insight that Russia has become Chinas bitch - without realising the irony of such a statement.
I mean you said Kyiv would fall inside 3 days and that WW3 would start as soon as Ukraine received jets so really there's only one of us who knows nothing.
skybluetony176
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My history is a little hazy but wasn’t the point WW2 to remove uncle Adolf not uncle Joe?