Sigil23

Chinese navy finally doing something useful in the Southeast Asia Sea

Add to that the enormous level of conflicting news reports on downright disinformation on the net anderen in printed media at times. Wish i could somehow stop banging my head against the wall out of utter frustration

Even got me fooled for quite some time as lots of sources on the net still talk of guarantees. Have to thank M.E. Sarotte and Marc Galeotti for enlightening me.

Couldn't agree more. Wish the EU would take them as an example on how to deal with Putin, but i'm afraid it'll take a few years of talking first.

1994, yes, though UKR could do diddly-squat with those nukes apart from driving them around. The damn thing about 1994 is the wording of the memorandum, making everyone think it provides guarantees in return, whilst it merely talks about assurances. It wasn't even a legally binding treaty.

After 2014 the West started to arm and train Ukraine, Paulette. For sure, not enough, but it was one of the reasons why the UKR army in 2022 performed way better than in the Crimea invasion of 2014.

Your phrase just became a serious contender for the "The Understatement Of The 21st Century" award.

“Earned”?
Did Nazi Germany “earn” Poland and France back in the day Mr. Whitaker?

Preferably with European weapon systems then, as far as that is possible.

"Oh no, not that again..."

"What the heck is she talking about?"

"What am i doing here?"

"Can someone just please make her shut up?"

Just some random thoughts that filter through to the expression on these faces.

Next step: Trump slapping 500% tariffs on Germany for "robbing him his Nobel price"

2008 was the best opportunity they had for that and it didn't happen. It certainly won't happen now. Putin will do his utmost to keep the border bleeding. I'm ashamed of our leaders who didn't believe in the resilience of Ukraine and didn't gave their all right from the ugly start.

A bit similar to the dungheap that Netanyahu got himself into.

The kind of news i like waking up to. In sharp contrast to items about people meeting in Alaska.

Curious if Trump's gonna hand it to him. I'm also of the opinion that he cannot allow the war to end. The moment it ends, people will start evaluating things, soldiers will come home and start talking about stuff that got never shown on TV. Questions will be asked and fingers will be pointed.

Fingers crossed to that. But they're sucked in way deep into the rabbit hole

Touché. It's hard to get noticed through the never-ending stream of "news"

Personally i start to feel a certain disdain for US-citizens who's only opposition to what is happening in their country seems to be a couple of strong-worded posts on social media.

Does he care about the courts?

Apparently no-one else cares either, as apart from #nokings there was no further protest worth mentioning overseas. Have democracy-loving Americans resignated this quickly?

Embarrassing is the fact that apart from #nokings (which was a good start, but no more than that) there seems to be nothing happening anymore to stop this grand guignol.

Post from Spiegel concerning their talks. Kremlin calling them "constructive"...

Wenn es für den Kreml schon konstruktiv ist...🙄

Nichts. Keine von beiden hat vor den Fußball raus zu holen.

They may be safe from drones but they must be vulnerable to everything else, considering they are almost blind.

Now imagine having to bail out 😂

Good if true

Lest we forget

Classic case of projection