Looks like it might well be happening any day now. Talk of an invasion on two sides from Russia and Russian forces in Belarus. How will this play out for the rest of Europe? Are other countries scared to stand up to Putin for fear of their gas being turned off? Is it best for the west to just stay out of this and allow it to happen and move away from a potential WW3 situation?
It’s not too late to move to Oz to escape the forthcoming nuclear fallout. Just make sure you’re fully vaccinated and don’t lie on your declaration form 👍
Russia set to invade Ukraine?
posted on 19/1/22
Oh, regarding Belarus, this is utter bullshhiit. Belarus is ruled by a vicious dictator who has clearly stolen the last election and has been brutally clamping down on prolonged popular protests. The population speak a mixture of Belarusian and Russian and generally feel culturally close to Russia but they know very well that the Russian state is propping up the hated dictatorship. There is a very strong sense of nationhood, epitomised by the use of the alternative national flag by protestors.
posted on 19/1/22
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 11 minutes ago
Oh, regarding Belarus, this is utter bullshhiit. Belarus is ruled by a vicious dictator who has clearly stolen the last election and has been brutally clamping down on prolonged popular protests. The population speak a mixture of Belarusian and Russian and generally feel culturally close to Russia but they know very well that the Russian state is propping up the hated dictatorship. There is a very strong sense of nationhood, epitomised by the use of the alternative national flag by protestors.
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Not what i was told by people when i spent time in Belarus. Russia still helps Belarus immensely and many felt they were better off beforehand.
posted on 19/1/22
comment by There'sOnlyOneRed's (U1721)
posted 8 hours, 5 minutes ago
They're doing what they've always done only in the last couple of decades they've been smarter. Not declaring war, denying all knowledge but very slowly moving inland closer and closer into other countries before eventually taking that territory as their own.
In recent decades they've already taken parts of Georgia, incidentally the beautiful areas where their high ranking officials now have their holiday homes. Having already taken Sochi, where incidentally they held the winter Olympics, they slowly took more of the Abkhazia region. The have also entered and taken control of parts of South Ossetia.
Obviously they're now controlling Crimea in Ukraine and parts of Donetsk.
They know what they're doing, by advancing extremely slowly and taking small parts at a time it doesn't seem so extreme to the outside world.
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You do realise that gerorgia invaded south ossetia
posted on 19/1/22
comment by Cinciwolf--Whiney and easily offended! (U11551)
posted 5 hours, 12 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 11 minutes ago
Oh, regarding Belarus, this is utter bullshhiit. Belarus is ruled by a vicious dictator who has clearly stolen the last election and has been brutally clamping down on prolonged popular protests. The population speak a mixture of Belarusian and Russian and generally feel culturally close to Russia but they know very well that the Russian state is propping up the hated dictatorship. There is a very strong sense of nationhood, epitomised by the use of the alternative national flag by protestors.
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Not what i was told by people when i spent time in Belarus. Russia still helps Belarus immensely and many felt they were better off beforehand.
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Many people in the former USSR are nostalgic for the USSR - there's an element of the older generations thinking everything used to be better (like boomers here going on about how great the 70s were). Very few are specifically pining for centralised rule by Moscow.
And attitudes have changed sharply since the brutal crackdown and Putin's solid support for the butcher Lukashenko.
posted on 19/1/22
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by Cinciwolf--Whiney and easily offended! (U11551)
posted 5 hours, 12 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 11 minutes ago
Oh, regarding Belarus, this is utter bullshhiit. Belarus is ruled by a vicious dictator who has clearly stolen the last election and has been brutally clamping down on prolonged popular protests. The population speak a mixture of Belarusian and Russian and generally feel culturally close to Russia but they know very well that the Russian state is propping up the hated dictatorship. There is a very strong sense of nationhood, epitomised by the use of the alternative national flag by protestors.
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Not what i was told by people when i spent time in Belarus. Russia still helps Belarus immensely and many felt they were better off beforehand.
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Many people in the former USSR are nostalgic for the USSR - there's an element of the older generations thinking everything used to be better (like boomers here going on about how great the 70s were). Very few are specifically pining for centralised rule by Moscow.
And attitudes have changed sharply since the brutal crackdown and Putin's solid support for the butcher Lukashenko.
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Yeah I do agree its a generational thing to a point. Problem is Russia still has its finger in all its ex states pies, or a good amount of them. I have been to 10 former soviet republics since the break up and of course Russia itself and Ukraine and Belarus were by far the ones still struggling to break the shackles.
posted on 25/1/22
I see Russia is planning to flex his military muscles with a large scale air and sea military exercise 150 miles off the south of Ireland
posted on 25/1/22
it's ^
posted on 25/1/22
comment by Roy's Keane (U11635)
posted 36 minutes ago
I see Russia is planning to flex his military muscles with a large scale air and sea military exercise 150 miles off the south of Ireland
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I wonder what Russia's apologists who see the actions in Ukraine as legitimate concerns about NATO encroachment into their historic sphere of influence make of that.
posted on 25/1/22
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by Roy's Keane (U11635)
posted 36 minutes ago
I see Russia is planning to flex his military muscles with a large scale air and sea military exercise 150 miles off the south of Ireland
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I wonder what Russia's apologists who see the actions in Ukraine as legitimate concerns about NATO encroachment into their historic sphere of influence make of that.
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Looks like they are ramping up the threat of military action
https://news.sky.com/story/ireland-fires-broadside-at-russia-over-naval-drills-plan-off-coast-but-lacks-military-muscle-to-do-much-else-12524294
posted on 25/1/22
It’ll be interesting to read the comment sections of various media outlets over the next few weeks to see the Russian bots at work trying to divide and conquer the hearts and minds of the undecided.