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Russia invading Ukraine (NEWS/UPDATES)

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I wonder why he's picking out the UK. It may be because we simply don't matter as much as France, Germany and the US. In which case there is a positive way to look at this: he wants to call out the West, but doesn't want to pick on one of the big boys.
 
MonkeyLove said:
Said from the start this would be the case. The more the sanctions bite the more Putin will move his red line towards them and threaten the West.

Remains to be seen if the West will be steadfast.

These are doing hundreds of times more damage to him then shooting down the odd plane over Ukraine would so it’s inevitable he will start upping the ante demanding they are removed

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He's threatening to respond to "the West".

He must be desperate or demented if he's threatening to attack every country in the Western world, almost every one of which is involved in the sanctions.
 
Pantomime Mackem said:
I wonder why he's picking out the UK. It may be because we simply don't matter as much as France, Germany and the US. In which case there is a positive way to look at this: he wants to call out the West, but doesn't want to pick on one of the big boys.
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Feck me, sanctions are like an act of war, so invading a country isn’t.

Beggars belief the absolute delusion putin and his ilk are exhibiting (ilk has been used a few times and I forgot how much I like this word so I’m using it as well)

I think he’s rattled mind. The whole everything is going well line is being rolled out a lot recently.
 
I spoke to my Russian friend for the first time since the invasion started. Very much a mixed bag of thoughts from him. On the one hand he thinks the war is stupid and a massive failure of diplomacy and he feels sorry for the Ukrainians, however he does believe that Biden and the US have pushed Putin into a corner and are behind closed doors very pleased that there is a war so they can be more aggressive in their foreign policy towards Russia. He doesn't think Putin was asking for much before the war (i.e. Ukrainian neutrality) but that Biden and the US don't care and just want to get to Putin anyway they can. His end comment was the only winner in this war is China.

Seems to me that the Anti-US sentiment is just ingrained in a fair % of Russians. Hopefully more and more can be talked into realising its not about the US, its about how much of a massive dickbag Putin is. More rational leadership has its benefits, not the least not invading neighbouring countries on perceived slights, egotistical geopolitical posturing and historical bollocks. All this shit resulting in the death and suffering of innocent people!
 
tiptoad said:
He's threatening to respond to "the West".

He must be desperate or demented if he's threatening to attack every country in the Western world, almost every one of which is involved in the sanctions.
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He's just doubling down to his base...nothing more.
Even Putin wouldn't have envisaged the Wests response from an economic perspective.
 
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