mclumber1

Complete withdrawal, including from Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk, in exchange for guarantee by Ukraine not to join NATO (but still leave the EU open for consideration) Or Russia can keep Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk, but Ukraine will join NATO and the EU.

This is good, in case Russia is able to knock out other comms systems in Ukraine. But seeing as how they haven't done so yet, leads me to believe they have a bunch of Gomer Pyle's running the invasion operation.

It's like when your grandpa gets a certificate of authenticity with that Trump coin he bought from an infomercial on Fox Business last Saturday night.

Hearing a lot of explosions on this stream:

Well Russia has been nothing but foolish so far...

The dam holds back about 12 meters of water in the reservoir, and if it was released quick enough in a breach of the dam, that would probably flood out large portions of the city. Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

CNN is reporting that a dam has been destroyed by Russia north of Kyiv. Possibly this one?

They are embarrassing themselves

There's a really fascinating amateur written novel about a theoretical war between the Warsaw pact and NATO that takes place in the late 80s or early 90s. When the Soviets start to lose control of the fight, and some of the pact countries start to defect, the Soviets launch nukes at (but don't directly hit) these country capitals in order to scare them into submission. I'll see if I can find it.

You jest, but I wouldn't be surprised if most of their warheads and missiles don't even function.

Zelensky claims "all European countries" have agreed to cut Russia off from SWIFT

If true, Turkey cutting off access to the Black Sea to Russian warships is a huge development. It escalates the conflict of course, but it also limits the ability of the Russian Navy to help their own fleet which is now trapped in the sea.

EDIT: Wrong thread, foo I posted something about Ukraine ITT, and I removed it.

Isn't Slovakia wealthy in supermodels?

Even SPAIN participated in the Iraq war - the same Spain who decided not to get involved in World War 2.

Didn't India have pretty close ties with the Soviet Union back in the day? Or, at least they were more closely aligned with the USSR than they were the USA.

Holding talks in Belarus, which is definitely NOT a neutral country, is ludicrous.

I wonder if NATO would consider an attack on Romanian civilian shipping as an Article 5 incident?

lol at Russia if Sweden and Finland join NATO. They would have done this to themselves.

It's clear that Russia fights wars differently than the US/Western democracies. They aren't afraid to throw their boys into the meat grinder.

French = stinky Mystery solved

Time for some tit for tat

If that was a plane, it must have either had a lot of fuel, or it had a lot of bombs onboard. Way to bright and energetic to be just a fighter getting hit.

Well you know, Zelensky is a Jew, so... But he's also a NAZI, according to the same people.