Russian invasion of Ukraine | Fewer tweets, more discussion
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Being Putin-friendly doesn't attract enough voters?
Good to see, maybe French intelligence has turned her and she's revealed some shit.
Meh, I'd be wary of exaggerating Macron's rhetoric. Here's the usual "but now is not the moment" disclaimer.
https://apnews.com/article/france-macron-ukraine-troops-caa788d2455dafb06dd87f79c4afe06f
The truth behind the EU’s new €5B weapons fund for Kyiv
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-weapons-fund-ukraine-war/
I agree, nobody should expect to see European troops in Ukraine anytime soon, it ain't happening. It is still an important change in rhetoric though and shows at least one EU leader is taking the situation as seriously as it should be, hopefully that influence spreads.
If that carries on, it would be the largest pan-European coalition to make a stand against one single enemy since the Seventh Coalition fought against Napoleon in 1815.
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feck, I thought shit was going to get down and France grew a pair. Disappointing ....or not. Who I am to be disappointed for not sending french people to die in a war that I am following through the screen?
France could spread the rhetoric sending more arms to Ukraine at the same level as Germany or UK. They are far behind compared to the other 2 strongest economies in Europe
Yeah, one would hope that's what it leads to.
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Not sure what's going on. There appears to be a Twitter campaign about French troops going to Romania for eventual use in Odesa.
It sounds like posturing from Macron.
Doubt Germany will follow route. Scholz is a spineless coward.
Anyway this change in rhetoric comes 2 years and a few months too late.
The moment Russia invaded Ukraine it was too late.
The West should have made clear to Putin, if he invades Ukraine, the West will immediately establish a non flight zone and nothing is off limits.
Instead Biden and other Western leaders made public statements saying there won't be any NATO soldiers involved in the war. This was like a free pass to Putin to go forward with the invasion.
Should I check the state of my building's atomic shelter?
After yesterday’s Macron’s performance I would say that risk has greatly diminished. The only way anyone uses nuclear is when you know that you can get away with it.
Quite liking that response, its a bit dumb, but dumb questions should always be met in kind.
At least 20 killed and scores injured in Russian ‘double tap’ missile strike on Odesa
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/europe/missile-strike-odesa-russia-ukraine-double-tap-intl/index.html
I fear this spring summer we might see a russian offensive more than the other way around
That's the expectation, yes. Many articles suggest that 2024 will be a rebuilding year for Ukraine so that they can launch a new offensive in 2025.
This is basically the same thing Putin did in Syria for years, killing many among the "White Helmets" and other people coming in to help civilians in need.
Not entirely sure on the implications here. If there's a spill, the insurance company won't pay? So who will pay for the environmental cleanup?
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Sure, try to run over a trench with a tank. I have a lot of success myself doing that while I'm playing Enlisted or War Thunder... not.
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This could've gone terribly wrong for the Ukrainians in the trench if the whoever was firing towards the Russians mistook the already entrenched Ukrainians for the enemy.
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Sure, try to run over a trench with a tank. I have a lot of success myself doing that while I'm playing Enlisted or War Thunder... not.
You'd assume they were on the blower to the artillery/ drone guys and it's not just chance as to where they were firing.
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Moscow airport also been hit with multiple drones this morning.
Great stuff, hit them where it hurts. Price of fuel will be crazy in Russia if they kept taking these out you'd imagine.
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I'm baffled as to why the Ukrainians haven't just walked into Transnistria and routed the Russians, who mostly have a police presence there. They could give it back to the Moldovans and eliminate the possibility of a potential western staging point for the Russians to attack Odesa at a later date.
I don't think that would fly. Even if Moldova formally asks for it, I'm not sure it's a priority for Ukraine and possibly the West wouldn't accept it either.
The west wouldn't have a say in the matter. The Ukrainians would simply be taking out a potential staging point for an attack on them from an area that doesn't belong to Russia in the first place.
Ukraine would have to explain itself to the international community for why they conduct an offensive military operation into Transnistria. I doubt they want that diplomatic heat.
Regardless of Transnistria's legal status, I don't think the Ukrainians are interested in it as long as Russia doesn't stage an attack out of Transnistria.
This kind of rhetoric makes much more sense in the world where Ukraine is undertaking an independent war effort.
In the world where their war effort is funded in large part by western powers, the west does kind of have a say.
Transnistria belongs to Moldova, so unless they object to booting the Russians out and returning their land to Moldovan control, there wouldn't be any explaining to do, especially since Moldova isn't in NATO. Transnistria isn't some benign territory that can't be used against the Ukrainians in the future and removing it from under Putin's thumb would inflict a cost on the Russians.
And when that happens, Ukraine would be well placed to remove the threat from Transnistria. They'd probably see it coming anyway, with support of Western intel agencies.
But as of this moment, my guess is it's just not a priority.
Now that answers what I previously asked about whether or not Ukraine would receive new choppers other than the Mi-8s and Mi-17s from Croatia and the US.
Moldova doesn't want war on it's territory, which Transnistria is. And so far Ukraine respected that.