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you know, I am a weak one, so I kind of like this video as one of the few, which are just not about someone dying. And thanks for the smile in the morning!
 
The first rule: Never believe anything the Russians say until it is disproved.
In light of this.:)

I don't know if the translator can reproduce the bureaucratic wording but let's try.

"........The Russian Embassy in Bucharest has published an admission on its social media page. In the text, they say thank you for the concerned lines inquiring about Putin's health, but the Russian president is well, asking his Romanian followers not to worry. Here is the full text in English:

"We are grateful to all those who have expressed their willingness to help Russia's President Vladimir Putin get well, including those who have donated their organs to the Russian president in case he needs them. We ask you not to worry about the President's health, because the rumours and speculations circulating in the Western press about the illness of the Russian President, which are unfortunately also being adopted by many in Romania, are as false as the reports of 'massacres' by Russians in Borodynka, Buca and other Ukrainian settlements. The embassy staff sincerely wishes all those who wrote to us in sympathy and concern."

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)


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Let's face it, indeed, many of us are concerned about the health of the Tsar. Don't let him get a little better.
 
Off, but.
Back to the 80's.
The useful idiots of Moscow and the KGB.

(Fun fact: a historian friend of mine told me that one of the topics that no one undertakes to research is the extent to which Russian intelligence was embedded in and controlled the "peace parties" of the Western world in the 1980s.
Too many young politicians of the time now sit fat and bald in parliaments across the EU and in national parliaments.

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Jeremy Corbyn

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Nuclear weapons are a profound danger to the existence of humanity.
At a time of heightened tensions and crisis it is more appropriate than ever to raise a voice for the global ban on all nuclear weapons.
The resources of the world need to be concentrated on the environmental dangers we face, the inequality between the richest and poorest, and the grotesque levels of poverty faced by so many in our unequal world.
To achieve that we need an active United Nations led peace process to end the ghastly war in Ukraine, as well as to bring about peace for Yemen, Syria, Libya, and every other country in the world in conflict at the present time.
I am sending my support and solidarity to everyone at today’s CND demonstration at Lakenheath, and thank them for being the voice of the global majority who want to see an end to nuclear weapons.


 
Unfortunately, it is quite typical that the "humanist and pacifist" left-wing intellectuals treat the peoples they consider "third world" in exactly the same way as the colonialists did. As children who need to be told how to live by the Great White Boss (i.e. an imperialist superpower). Provided, of course, that the imperialist superpower is not the United States. That blows, but a mass murdering Russian or Chinese regime is perfectly fine. The point is not to have liberal capitalism, even if it would give them a hundred times better standard of living...

 
The first rule: Never believe anything the Russians say until it is disproved.
In light of this.:)

I don't know if the translator can reproduce the bureaucratic wording but let's try.

"........The Russian Embassy in Bucharest has published an admission on its social media page. In the text, they say thank you for the concerned lines inquiring about Putin's health, but the Russian president is well, asking his Romanian followers not to worry. Here is the full text in English:

"We are grateful to all those who have expressed their willingness to help Russia's President Vladimir Putin get well, including those who have donated their organs to the Russian president in case he needs them. We ask you not to worry about the President's health, because the rumours and speculations circulating in the Western press about the illness of the Russian President, which are unfortunately also being adopted by many in Romania, are as false as the reports of 'massacres' by Russians in Borodynka, Buca and other Ukrainian settlements. The embassy staff sincerely wishes all those who wrote to us in sympathy and concern."

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)


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Let's face it, indeed, many of us are concerned about the health of the Tsar. Don't let him get a little better.
" . . . including those who have donated their organs to the Russian president in case he needs them."

Brain transplants are all the rage nowadays! ;)
 
I wonder if Zelesnky is now free to speak more rationally now the influential hardcore militants (Azov, etc) are captured and out of the picture.

He might be slowly guiding the populace into realizing peace probably requires acquiescing parts of the E, S, and Crimea. But it begs the question, how much is too much for the US, or too little for Putin.
As there are possibly still 1,000 fighters still in the steel plant your claim of captured and out of the way is off target.
 
Both sides rely on propaganda to galvanise support for their war effort. That won't be news to anybody.

When compared to Russia, however, Ukraine is almost a role model of liberty. Not only does Moscow enjoy an exceedingly greater degree of control over the media and has a proven record of extensive disinformation campaigns; moreover, the Ukrainian people's unfettered access to the internet creates a counter-public if need be, making it more difficult for pro-Ukrainian sources to spread downright lies.

So, yes, all news from this war needs to be looked at oas bjectively as possible. But putting Ukraine and Russia on a level with each other in terms of credibility strikes me as absurd. Regardless of how untrustworthy one thinks Ukrainian sources might be, treating them as just as untrustworthy (or worse) than Russian ones is make-believe spread either by experts who want to show off their "critical thinking" – or by pro-Russian trolls

Sorry, but that's just nonsense.

Any attempt to arm Ukraine in the manner it's being done now would've confirmed Putin's propaganda and would've most certainly made an invasion even more likely. They're now showing off confiscated Western weaponry to justify their war like: See, we told you the Ukrainians were in cahoots with NATO. Had NATO produced such images itself and lightened the regime's burden of proof, the outcome would've been the same.

I also don't think that Ukrainian arsenals of Western provenance would've discouraged Putin from going to war. Ukraine's military strength (or perceived lack thereof) factored little into the decision-making process of a government being fed the intel it wanted to hear.

This war was started by ideologues, not strategists.
Well said.
 
Half off

Typical Germanic sneaking around, because this is the reason why the promised German military development can go in the trash. Also.

And the Germans will continue to be the most loved people in Europe with their penny-pinching, which doesn't bother them, if there's one people who know they'll never be popular, it's the Germans. And the Russian. No wonder they are on good terms.
 
When the russian invasion started, the regular bots stated on the very first day that the Ukrainians opposed no resistance and laid down their weapons in front of russian columns.

Personally I do not believe that the level of armament prior would have changed anything. Russians and their admirers thought Ukrainians would welcome them. Apart from a few Azov nazi dudes that were blocking the way for reconcilation and re-russification as it should be. Just like @Kassner mentioned earlier about diplomatic efforts.

The error was as @bald head & beard noted is that it is a nation as a whole that wants to live with greater cultural and political distance from Russia.
 
When the russian invasion started, the regular bots stated on the very first day that the Ukrainians opposed no resistance and laid down their weapons in front of russian columns.

Personally I do not believe that the level of armament prior would have changed anything. Russians and their admirers thought Ukrainians would welcome them. Apart from a few Azov nazi dudes that were blocking the way for reconcilation and re-russification as it should be. Just like @Kassner mentioned earlier about diplomatic efforts.

The error was as @bald head & beard noted is that it is a nation as a whole that wants to live with greater cultural and political distance from Russia.

Anyone who knows the Ukrainians and works with them, not just sees them on TV, knows perfectly well that they don't want the Russians and will fight.

That the western intelligence services were reporting to the bosses what they wanted to hear just means it's time to drop napalm on Langley and Tsai.
They did just like the KGB.

S**t, in 1988 the CIA reported that the Soviet Union was doing well...
 
Now its clear......

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This is just a testing ground!!!
 
Its the Ukrainians as a whole that want to fight this out and that its not simply Azov that is holding out. If anything Azov became much larger in this war and is operating all accross the east.

Also, any concessions made will legitimize the genocide of the Ukrainians on the conceded territories and will legitimize future wars of conquest.

Right, but it’s not about what the Ukrainians want, it’s about what’s feasible. The longer this war drags on the more Ukraine will be dependent on the international community. As such, the international community will decide when this war ends.


I live in the US. Although the recent $40 billion assistance package easily passed through Congress, there was a very noticeable opposition/backlash to it; particularly from the Republican base.

Keep in mind, the Democrats are likely to be pounded in the mid-terms. This does not bid well for Biden’s current policy on Ukraine.

With his recent remarks, its obvious that Zelensky is realizing that this current level of international support cannot be sustained. And now he’s free to express it considering a size-able portion of Ukraine’s more on-the-ground militant factions have been eliminated. He understand the unlikelihood of peace being achieved via military means .
 
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Right, but it’s not about what the Ukrainians want, it’s about what’s feasible. The longer this war drags on the more Ukraine will be dependent on the international community. As such, the international community will decide when this war ends.


I live in the US. Although the recent $40 billion assistance package easily passed through Congress, there was a very noticeable opposition/backlash to it; particularly from the Republican base.

Keep in mind, the Democrats are likely to be pounded in the mid-terms. This does not bid well for Biden’s current policy on Ukraine.

With his recent remarks, its obvious that Zelensky is realizing that this current level of international support cannot be sustained. And now he’s free to express it considering a size-able portion of Ukraine’s more on-the-ground militant factions have been eliminated.
The West isnt going to fold on this. Its not really about Ukraine, its about lying, breaking the unwritten rule of no conflict in Europe, the deal was, we buy gas, you play nice.

Zelensky is , as he has in the past, offered the olive branch. its good form, and helps to keep the waverers on board.

Until Russia actually wants a peace deal, its meaningless.

As this would take Putin to die, we have to wait. Even if Ukr pushes Russian forces out, at least to the 2014 lines, this still isnt peace.

Said earlier, Putin cant win, but he also cant be seen to lose, so we have this paralysis, which is rare in military actions.
 
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