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Russia invading Ukraine (NEWS/UPDATES)

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Former corrupt Ukrainian president and Putin puppet Yanukovych is apparently in Minsk. The theory is that he would be reinstalled as president once Zelenskyy is murdered. He was ousted during the revolution in 2014, which Putin claimed nullified the Budapest Memorandum (where Ukraine gave up their nukes with guarantees of protection from invasion by Russia) as “the government that signed the agreement is no longer in power”. He wouldn’t last 5 minutes back in Ukraine, the people despise him.
 
Traumtor said:
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Former corrupt Ukrainian president and Putin puppet Yanukovych is apparently in Minsk. The theory is that he would be reinstalled as president once Zelenskyy is murdered. He was ousted during the revolution in 2014, which Putin claimed nullified the Budapest Memorandum (where Ukraine gave up their nukes with guarantees of protection from invasion by Russia) as “the government that signed the agreement is no longer in power”. He wouldn’t last 5 minutes back in Ukraine, the people despise him.
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I thought I saw somewhere that he'd signed up with the Ukrainian militia or am I thinking of someone else (definitely not thinking of Klitschko)
 
Hull_Mackem said:
Surely no ordinary citizen wants to be ruled over by a crazy dictator who steals all of the nation's wealth?
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Loads of people want security and identity, a sense of belonging and protection. They want their own status preserved. If that means autocratic government then thats OK by them

We have people like that in the UK - you an show them that the Brexit vote was rigged, that Russia influenced it illegally, that the Government handed over billions to their mates during Covid, and the Ministers took shit loads of cash from Russian oligarchs

They don't care. What they want is identity and security. They will turn a blind eye to the rest
 
errant said:
i suspect the schools and upbringing align with the normal tory candidate. how they can square that with accepting all this Russian finance is a bit strange though.
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Elitism, some are more equal than others.
 
Bulwell said:
Well Russia will more than likely "win the war" but as we've seen in Iraq and Afghanistan that's the easy part, it can be done in a week or so. Keeping a population subjugated is doomed to failure, for Russia it's like needing a piss, you can resist and keep crossing your legs but sooner or later it's coming out one way or another.
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He's trying to built his empiric equivalent of the neverland ranch, ignoring the fact he's trying to do it with a bunch of YTS lads with the Collins DIY bible and even if he did get it erected he won't be left with the coin to keep the leccy on in a one bed flat.
 
Az* said:
Why is this knob head on Sky banging on about Russia being invaded by Germany in 41? They invaded the other half of Poland, which the Russians had invaded in 39, first. Hardly any of ww2 was actually fought on their soil ffs. Belarus/Ukraine took the brunt of it. German forces never made it further than the line Leningrad-Moscow-Stalingrad.

This shit needs correcting, instead our press go along with it. Wankers.
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You do know that Leningrad and Stalingrad are in modern day Russia?

And they saw some of the worst fighting? Leningrad suffered more casualties than the US and UK added together?
 
Lankester Merrin said:
Loads of people want security and identity, a sense of belonging and protection. They want their own status preserved. If that means autocratic government then thats OK by them

We have people like that in the UK - you an show them that the Brexit vote was rigged, that Russia influenced it illegally, that the Government handed over billions to their mates during Covid, and the Ministers took shit loads of cash from Russian oligarchs

They don't care. What they want is identity and security. They will turn a blind eye to the rest
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The vote wasn't rigged.
 
Erm just seen owld Joe there full of beans saying "go get him"........you don't think he's planning on going in there gung ho do you, saying stuff like "he doesn't know what's coming" is fighting talk if ever I heard it :eek:
 
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mickb2112 said:
Didn`t ISIS go in BECAUSE we were trying to destabilise Assad. We were "assisting" "the rebels" to bring about regime change but as usual it ends in utter catastrophe. Just like we did in Libya and Iraq?????
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ISIS emerged from the rebel forces. But we never had troops on the ground. Had we gone in we could have taken down Assad and then squashed ISIS.
 
mickb2112 said:
The Molotov Ribbentrop non-aggression pact empowered Germany to invade France and the Low Countries and threated Great Britain. Without that in place Hitler could not risk a war on two fronts. He had to take out the West and then turn his attention to Russia. Part of this pact was to divide Poland so when Germany invaded in 1939, Russia came in and attacked Poland from the other side. Stalin was just as brutal as the Nazis - see the Katyn Forest massacre.
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I’m aware of it. Annoys me when it’s brushed out, especially when it’s the press in the uk. I’ve just finished reading about the deportation of the Chechen people after during/after ww2. As you say, brutal.
 
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