Russia - threadbanned users in OP

"Separated from Kyiv control for years". So you are saying you're OK with this for areas previously carved out by Russia? So you will be OK with the death and destruction this leads to right? You would be OK with talking to the family of the people who loose their lives in this as "you were separated from Kyiv control for years so it's not an issue".

Did Russia veto Ukraine's request for peacekeepers to those areas previously?

Ah cool. So you will be the mouthpiece for the great new USSR. No, NATO, an alliance to try and prevent wars is the bad one. They've annexed "nothing", so they are truly the aggressors here.

There was a Globemaster 3 appeared as well, no sign of the global hawk that's been on station the last few days

Yes multiple times at the UN

amazing how putin never mentioned russian peace keepers in his speech tonight.....

wonder as one previous poster mentionned what russian people make of all this from their 20+ year benevolent dictator..

Feel so sorry for the people of Ukraine.

Suppose what were all wondering is whether they will stick to the current front lines as the border or secure the whole region.

A lot of posters here claimed Putin would not do anything like this. They should hang their hands in shame.

We should send in German troops as peacekeepers for rest of Ukraine

No sanctions now or in the future will work. Russians have become accustomed to going without, for a long, long time. And Putin and his cronies likely have billions salted away so they couldn't give a shite.

Of course the huge danger here is the West arming Ukraine to the teeth, Putin's massive army then becomes entrenched - after the initial weeks of the conflict - in a war that will likely descend into guerilla warfare and go on for years. Massive casualties on both sides, soldiers and civilians alike.

Except... I don't see Putin ever accepting defeat, backing down or enduring the wrath of his own people when tens of thousands of sons are killed. He's the milder, devious form of madman, as opposed to Hitler's in your face kind of madman. His itchy trigger finger will be engaged quicker than a toilet after you've had a vindaloo, and he will seek his place in history as the lunatic who launched nuclear armageddon on the world. Biden had best make sure his key is readily to hand. So should every other nuclear country.

Now where was I?..... oh yes ..... googling nuclear fallout shelters.

I expect a piecemeal approach, but who really knows. The logic would be that you weather one outrage before moving on to the next. That's the great thing about the international news cycle from Russia's perspective. Attention spans are short. People move on to other things pretty quickly. The DNR and LNR situations become, if not accepted, 'normalised'. Just not that big of a deal to the international community, just like Crimea. No one does much of real consequence about it. Western leaders make some speeches about sanctions. Some people on Facebook put Ukraine flag overlays on a picture of themselves drinking with the lads. Same old, same old.

Bolshevik policy was to kill everyone who challenged them, disagreed or was even possibly a threat.

In the context of the Ukraine it was especially murderous from Day one.

In this he is probably complaining that the Ukraine wasn't set up then as a region of Russia, not as it's own entity in the USSR.

But, but , but they were causing fear and should just but out of it and leave it to Sholtz & Macron.

Zalenskiy is chatting to Boris so it's all good.