What are you talking about? You jump from one country to another.
Yes, because of nazi which were invited by Nuland.
OK, so what?
Even nazis thought it sounded bad - refused to sign it.
No, it started earlier, 800 years earlier
Do they really need to blow up the convoy or inhibit the road and crossings? Funny how the anti-tank weapons were what Trump help up providing the Ukrainians... I mean us providing Ukraine the money to buy them.
Certainly are, and unfortunately, that'll mean nothing in a siege or full on assault. The initial steps taken globally have put wind in Ukrainian sails, but those winds will die off quickly. Ukraine needs strategic and field assistance very shortly.
Sadly, I don't think that's possible. The US political landscape is a microcosm of the geopolitical one.
That's what I was wondering. From the pictures I've seen, that convoy looks like the stupidest thing ever. Is it not vulnerable to gridlock? Seems like a few well placed kabooms could wipe the whole pageant off the stage.
Well, if it were up to me, if I were the local Ukranian constable, I'd politely inspect every vehicle in the convoy. Then I'd allow any vehicles carrying Russian goods to be sold at the market, or vehicles with musicians, athletes, or scientists making the trek to Kyiv to sell their goods and spread joy to the city! Maybe extract a tiny tax from them. But then the rest, I'd do a favor to the world and blow the fuck up.
The key words in your post are "well placed". This is real life, not a video game. Trying to shell a 1-D line is easy. Trying to hit it, much harder. As I noted earlier, I imagine that the Russians have secured crossings for the convoy and Ukrainian access to it are extremely limited. They don't have our military. They don't have the surveillance Russia has, which will allow them to track attempts at the convoy. And their air force lacks the stealth and power to pulverize it. So the bridges, if any, are the key. Ukraine likely can't destroy the convoy, so they need to engineer methods to slow it down.
Back in the real world, where the constable is shot and killed...
Dr. Zoidberg thinks we should just Great War this and let the Earth burn. This is the problem with peace, the sociopaths try to take what they want, when they want. The question is, how hard are you willing to push to stop them. The US could have laid waste to Russia's gas and oil lines. Russia could have responded by hacking our energy grid, the misery of millions becomes the misery of billions.
In normal parlance, when you march your army to another country and occupy it, it's not "before war", but simply "war". In case of countries that agreed to Stalin's terms, a very short one. In case of Finland that didn't, a longer one.
So I should give Stalin credit for mercifully for not annexing the whole eastern Europe to Soviet Union, and merely turning it into satellite states with puppet governments? Please. But then again, that's what you expect the rest of the world to do about Putin's current war. Look away and be happy that he's only annexing parts of Ukraine (for now) and accept a puppet regime loyal to him in whatever parts he deems too difficult to directly absorb, for now.
original claim was that Stalin grabbed territories AFTER the war.
Yes, I think you should give him some credit for that. And a lot of credit for not going further.
I challenge that definition. "Tactical" makes it sound as if it's not really that big of a deal. But in reality it would be a huge upset to use a weapon that has been used only twice before, almost 80 years ago. A nuke is a nuke, and once one side uses it, no matter how small the yield or "tactical" the delivery, it sets a precedent and soon everyone is lobbing nukes at each other.
Unfortunately, that's the reality in the world when the Russians are in charge. This is why we need to stop imperialism and allow the locals to govern themselves.
Of course. You should be on your knees, thanking God that Pootey has not yet annexed the entirety of North America to save it from those Canadian fascists!
Let's recap. You said Ukraine can go to EU, as long as it doesn't play the same game as Belarus with taxes (by which I assume custom fees). I pointed out that it doesn't apply, because Belarus is in a customs union with Russia while Ukraine is not. I'm not sure exactly what kind of trade deals Ukraine had with Russia at the time, but I doubt they would have allowed same kind of circumvention of Russian import bans that Belarus is doing.
Conspiracy theories. You have absolutely no proof of that, except that Nuland visited Ukraine around the same time.
That the demands of the protestors were legitimate. If you get elected promising to do X, and then you do the opposite of X, your voters are likely to be pissed. Or in Ukraine's case, the oligarchs who financed your campaign.
Nazis! Nazis everywhere!
It still did apply, as far as I know. And that is not what I said.
Actually she did not make a secret out of it (meeting with nazis). And protests were winding down before she came there.
mmm, no. Presidents break promises all the time. And protesters can protests regardless. Zelensky promised to stop war in Eastern Ukraine - broke it.
Yes, that's what happened. Ironic, is not it?
Putin wasn't fine with it. That's why he pressured Yanukovich to kill the deal, and crack down on the protests.
Not according to for example this news story:
How was Zelensky supposed to stop the war? It was Putin's decision to support the rebels and nothing Zelensky could have done to change that.
Putin playing the nazi card, and you parroting it uncritically, is ironic, but not for the reasons you think.
