Water Melon
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Well done Germany. Well bloody done. Am sure the cnut is feeling the heat. Hope he never makes it out of his bunker and lets the world live in peace.
if he wants to accelerate his economy crashing and then flatlining for much longer than after the fall of the sovjet Union, he canI get that war is expensive, but can’t Putin just seize whatever he wants (food, oil, war supply etc) from his home based companies and claim it’s for the greater good?
Sanctions are a non lethal way of waging war.What if the 3 years old with cancer is Russian? Her meds are sanctioned so she can't get it?
Oh, it's ok. It's Russia
It's not whataboutism, for me civilian is civilian, russian, Korean, Yemeni, American, Iraqis, civilian are civilian.
Even though sanctions are in place on Russia it doesn’t include medicine and food so they will be fine. Ukraine are the ones who will be struggling soon to get supplies as I am assuming one of Putin tactics will be to control what goes into the major cities and slowly cut off their supplies.What if the 3 years old with cancer is Russian? Her meds are sanctioned so she can't get it?
Oh, it's ok. It's Russia
It's not whataboutism, for me civilian is civilian, russian, Korean, Yemeni, American, Iraqis, civilian are civilian.
Yeah it's great news especially since Russia will definitely think "oh look at that brave civilians from Nato countries armed with Nato weapons who are definitely casual brave civilians and not trained Nato solders". This will definitely deescalate the crisis.Makes me want to sing “Ukraine Foreign Legion” to this tune:
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The fighting will never stopThe more that Russia destroys, maims, injures and kills their brothers and sisters in Ukraine, the more hate they are building up and the more difficult it is going to be to maintain their control once the fighting stops.
What they are doing absolutely disgusts me and the rest of the free world.
Keep crying.Yeah it's great news especially since Russia will definitely think "oh look at that brave civilians from Nato countries armed with Nato weapons who are definitely casual brave civilians and not trained Nato solders". This will definitely deescalate the crisis.
And before someone says to me Sweden is not a Nato member, I know that but those Foreign Legion solders comes from all Europe including Britain for which Johnson said that they will arm every man who volunteers to fight in those legions.
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Yes indeed.The fighting will never stop
Wars creates extremism.
The slaughter, the atrocities, the agony the Russians are piling on the Ukrainian people will naturally create Ukrainian groups harbouring extreme hatred towards Russia and the fight continues for as long as the Russians are their.
your point being?9
Imagine if this was Muslims going to defend a Muslim country...
And what would happen then?9
Imagine if this was Muslims going to defend a Muslim country...
This is my greatest fear as well. The longer this goes the harder it will be to de-escalate. It is so frustrating, it is obvious most of the combatants and casualties are unwilling party to this but the longer this goes on, the hatred will become real and may take generations to heal. All thanks to a dictator.The more that Russia destroys, maims, injures and kills their brothers and sisters in Ukraine, the more hate they are building up and the more difficult it is going to be to maintain their control once the fighting stops.
What they are doing absolutely disgusts me and the rest of the free world.
Top posts.The goal here is to turn the Russian people against Putin and the war as much as possible. We're not getting these repeated videos of Russian soldiers calling home for no reason. And in fact the EU has discussed proposals to try and create a brain drain from Russia into the rest of Europe. They actively want to lure highly qualified Russians into their countries.
What you're proposing seems (amongst many other things) insanely conterproductive and stupid in terms of the actual approach at play here. Putin is trying to convince Russia they're fighting Nazis and you want to do the heavy lifting for him by putting Russians who have done nothing wrong into internment camps.
Yeah fair points all round, . Obviously they wouldn’t vote for it though.Egypt and Russia are on the same side in Libya. And they have an important trade partnership. Egypt relies massively on Russia's wheat.
Nothing surprising in Iran vote. They can't vote for the resolution, they'd be supporting the US. And they can't vote against it, it would be support for Russia's actions in Ukraine. It makes no sense for the Iranian regime to be constantly denouncing KSA and Israel's war crimes and occupation in Yemen & Palestine only to turn around and support the exact same thing when Russia is the perpetrator. These regimes have to make some sense to keep their propaganda alive.
But didn’t loads of muslims sign up to fight in Syria? Like whole swathes of Europeans.9
Imagine if this was Muslims going to defend a Muslim country...
Ugh, why use a conflict like this for your own agenda? Islamophobia is a thing, yes, but what the feck does it have to do with thousands of Ukrainians being slaughtered. Don't make this about something else - be better.9
Imagine if this was Muslims going to defend a Muslim country...
Spinning this with a religious angle, christ9
Imagine if this was Muslims going to defend a Muslim country...
It was actually illegal for them to do so in the UK.nobody would give a feck if muslims were starting to aid a muslim country in the war against another muslim country that's the oppressor...can't understand why you make this about religion - it really isn't @Zlatattack
To be fair, these countries are extremely outnumbered by the number who voted yes on the resolution so you can't say that all non-NATO members are seeing it the same way when it comes to this particular war. When the only people who voted no are North Korea, Belarus, Eritrea, and Assad's Syria are voting against it, that's not the group one would in any way want to be seen to be similar to.Maybe its not easy for European and American audience to understand but NATO is seen as hostile by non NATO members. With entire Indian subcontinent, China abstaining, it shows how little trust is there with western powers when countries can’t openly condemn blatant invasion.
People hate to talk about it but there is a real racial element to this conflict and people can't just chalk it up to Russian disinformation. Especially when you now have heard many stories of discrimination against non-Ukrainians (of a darker skin color) not being given a chance to board trains/buses/cross borders etc. Furthermore, it's clear that the fact this is happening to a European country makes it far likelier for the stronger Western countries to provide aid (although the Ukrainians are still held in a lower regard by some Europeans). Ultimately though, the visible signs of racism in Ukraine are a cancer that Zelensky will have to cut out, if it is allowed to metastasize it can undo a lot of the goodwill towards the country in the long run.I’m not a Muslim but my wife is and it’s difficult even with that personal relationship to comprehend how hard that can be for her. She’s broke down in the past few days due to this war because of how it is being perceived in the UK, not just by the government but in the workplace and social space too. There is a genuine fear that if you are a Muslim who comes out supporting a Muslim nation in a war or in the case of Israel/Palestine etc. that you will be labelled as a terrorist and it has happened. She, along with everyone else at her work has been offered support or someone to chat to due to the Ukraine/Russia conflict, but weren’t offered it for other conflicts. I don’t think it can be ignored that countries in Europe such as the UK are treating this differently to other wars and conflicts. I can’t really say I understand because I don’t being a white non-Muslim compared to her as a non-white Muslim but I can and have noticed similar hypocrisies. I imagine it can be linked to people feeling that this is much ‘closer’ to home but yeah. Obviously the situations of Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Palestine are more nuanced than a direct comparison but I feel for her and others in the same boat, as too for the people of Ukraine etc.
I have no idea about the situation in the UK, but as far as I know the german situation, only people who supported terrorist groups had troubles coming back again.It was actually illegal for them to do so in the UK.