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US threatened China if they don't sanction Russia, publicly. That will go over well.

So once big bad Russia is gone, then it will be China, then India, then Pakistan, then Iran and down the line we go. No matter that over 2/3 of the world population are the bad guys.

Yeah ask anyone south of them how much better it is... For ****s sake, even Puerto Rico is in a ****ty situation.

They have so much more to lose...

Seems the Ukraine goverment started killing their own. Wonder what he did to earn that. And the US's military tactic was scorched earth, where they would bomb the **** out of everything in advance of their troops.

I've been itching to rewatch that series.

Have you ever read about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars?

Because they didn't care about Syrian lives. I think that Russia is still hoping that after a victory or a surrender from Ukraine all of this will blow over. I really don't see how that can happen as far as the Ukrainian people are concerned. At best they will achieve a goal and demilitarize Ukraine, but the people will still hate them. Then again, I don't know what Ukraine's public opinion of the west is right, seeing as how they left them out to dry.

It was never really illegal, the only thing it would change is that companies could use it without fear.

Final edition for me.

I would think he learned how to dance that dance by now and it's not like those billionaires can really do anything with that money right now. Seems like the push in to Kiev starts tomorrow or very soon after.

What do you guys thing this condemning of the UN actually does?

With the V8?

I don't think this will end until he gets guaranties that no NATO military will be present in Ukraine.

Where are you getting this from? As far as I see the Russians are making steady progress.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/02/russias-roscosmos-refusing-to-launch-oneweb-internet-satellites.html

Yes, from what I can see at least.

Is England a factor either way?

For sure, the risk is so high to not be worth it. My point was more along the line that there could be nuclear engagement without the MAD scenario.

There is still a scale of nuclear escalation. Tactical Nuclear weapons don't necessarily equate to endworld scenario, this is the role of strategic Nuclear weapons.

Swing and a miss, Bruce, swing and a miss...

Difference being that the Russians gave advance warning and only disabled the tower and did not destroy it. NATO leveled the RTS building and Avala tower to the ground without any warning for the civilians to evacuate. The saddest thing, apart from the victims, is that they destroyed most of archives RTS held in their basement.

And when those particular bombs didn't do anything, then the good old American negotiation kicked in, "retreat or we will bomb you back to the stone age". They would have done it too.

Congrats!

Bulgaria didn't even translate the Chapter requirements in to Bulgarian before being admitted in to the EU. They just winked at the Russian economic union and the EU tripped over themselves to let them join. Even today Bulgaria doesn't have it's internal laws and courts aligned with the EU. It's all a matter of want and the EU stopped wanting after Bulgaria and Croatia.