Russia & Ukraine

Discussion in 'Politics' started by UsualName, Jan 18, 2022.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #2271     Mar 15, 2022
  2. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Remember Hungary in 1956?
    Remember Czechoslovakia in 1968?

    Now we have Ukraine in 2022.

    Ukraine Isn't the First Time - Russian Regime Change Hungary 1956
     
    #2272     Mar 15, 2022
  3. Wrong, this was soviet regime change in Hungary.Russia is not Soviet Union

    Russia is fighting a just cause, denazification of Ukraine plus clown Zelinsky wanted to acquire nuclear weapons,he said that himself in speech given at Munich Conference

    btw i took this photo a few years back on Buda side i think on a day of anniversary of Hungarian Uprising.Every year i know about this day,because students dress similar to 1950s and give away leaflets at intersections and on tram line 4 city runs old trains.

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    #2273     Mar 15, 2022
  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Putin's Russia is the new Soviet Union -- at least that is what he aims to achieve.

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    #2274     Mar 15, 2022
  5. This is sort of a weird one. The Russian pigs fined this journalist less than three hundred bucks for a major embarassment to the state that would normally get you a decade or more in the slammer, or end out in your being disappeared. - maybe that is coming.

    On one hand, they need to crack down on the growing number of protesters and defiants actions. On the other hand, they have to carefully avoid creating martyrs. Let's just agree that probably others will be helping to pay her fine.

    The Ruskies normally do not process something like this with this kind of speed. Languishing in prison for years awaiting trial is usually part of the routine. Ovbiously they want it done, done and not to become martyr material.

    MORE TO COME.

    Russian state TV employee fined for live anti-war protest
    A Russian state television employee who interrupted a live news program by protesting the war with Ukraine has been ordered to pay a fine by a Russian court

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/russian-state-tv-employee-fined-live-anti-war-83461450
     
    #2275     Mar 15, 2022
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    #2276     Mar 15, 2022
  7. terr

    terr

    That's just the first step. They still intend to indict her criminally.
     
    #2277     Mar 15, 2022
  8. Mercor

    Mercor

    That was the promise , elect Biden and Trump goes away....but viewers also went away

    Thank left media for this
    CNN website shows more pictures of Trump then Biden.
    Gots to get those clicks
     
    #2278     Mar 15, 2022
  9. piezoe

    piezoe

    The most likely path to the end of this War is becoming more clear to me now. So long as China remains neutral, the Russian intelligentsia, the military and the people of Russia will end this war, and rather quickly. Who knows what excuses will be offered. Credit will rightfully belong to the people of Ukraine. This war cannot last much longer despite predictions of it dragging on for years or months. This, finally, is the end of the road for Putin.

    Were there no internet and 24-7 live coverage, Kyiv becoming another Allepo or Grozny would be far more probable. Of course there was no internet in '56 and '68! I was in Vienna in '57, and I remember both those uprisings well. In the mid 1990's, while in Prague, I intended to place a pebble on Jan Palach's grave but stupidly got lost in the massive Jewish sector as the gates were closing. Though the '56 and '68 uprisings were attempts to get out from under the Russian Thumb, superficially similar to 2014 in Ukraine, the results were far different. Although there may be a few similarities between now and the '56 and '68 uprisings, the present War is fundamentally very different.
     
    #2279     Mar 15, 2022
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  10. terr

    terr

    Russia loses 400-700 KIA per day for its 200,000 troops in Ukraine.

    Let's compare that to Soviet losses per 200,000 troops during World War II:

    Operation Barbarossa: 235 KIA/day

    Winter War vs. Finland: 425 KIA/day

    Battle of Stalingrad: 514 KIA/day
     
    #2280     Mar 15, 2022