Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I would expect her to say nothing if there was nothing to say. The AC has a history of being factual, so there's no reason to doubt this information.

Has any foreign nation started rolling troops into Kosovo with the aim of taking control of a larger area?

No. The answer to that, is no.

these are the words of a tyrant-

But it is unnecessary, as they say, to stop halfway. We are ready to show you what real decommunisation means for Ukraine."

It will be interesting how this plays out.

Profile of Putin ..from 2014

The main point is

'Psychologically speaking, the very worst response would be appeasement because this will simply fuel his contempt and strengthen the justification for his position. Strong consequences have to follow from his contempt for international law and treaties. This will cost the West dearly, economically speaking, but the longer-term costs of appeasement will make the costs of strong, early action appear trivial in retrospect.@ihrobertson'

Are you capable of addressing the current issue? Whatever may have happened in the Middle East does not exculpate Russia. As for massacres, I would put those down principally to Saddam Hussein, Bashir Al Assad and whatever monsters are/were in charge of ISIS.

Firstly, two wrongs don't make a right. The Internet seems to have forgotten that phrase, thus every time someone does something bad, you can bet as sure as night follows day that there will be, "....butwhataboutwhataboutwhatabout???!1"

Secondly, plenty of people recognised that what the USA was doing was wrong at the time, and what its allies in the escapade were doing was also wrong.

Vladimir Putin has just claimed a whole swathe of territory that the Ukrainian army currently occupies. That's as good as a declaration of war as you're going to get. He didn't even bother with a pretext. He's just straight up invading another country for no other reason than he wants to.

And yet, I see the "What about..." brigade are out in force.

Jesus Christ lads, would ye give it up?

You don't have to compare everything to America. You can just say that something is wrong.

If you cannot admit that what Putin is doing now is wrong then there is no hope for you and you've effectively outed yourself as a useful idiot.

Zero chance of boots on the ground. They'll do a bit of hand wringing, some sanctions to appear to be doing something and then basically give Russia the green light to annex the Donbas. It's the Crimea in 2014 all over again.

This all about oil, energy and the West insane crazy financial and social policies.

Russia is one of the worlds biggest oil producers pumping nearly 11m barrels per day, Saudi Arabia by comparison only pumps 7m barrels. The USA is marginally ahead pumping around 12.6m barrels. Russia is the worlds number one gas producer also and has immeasurable coal and other resource reserves, they are the worlds largest country with enormous wealth. The play in Ukraine has surged energy prices so much that Russia is earning around €2-€3 billion dollars per day from sales of Oil and gas, they pump almost 1trillion cubic metres of gas per year at $2.1/ cubic metre. This has surged their exports and if the Europeans don't want it then the Chinese and Asian market will soak up the demand.

The Ukraine is a largely artificial creation much like Northern Ireland and I don't see much of problem with reunification with the motherland, Ukraine is so corrupt that Russia looks like a haven of freedom in comparison and under the Russian flag I can see things improving rather than the pivot towards the corrupt sick EU.

Putin is out to create wealth and bring back the days of the imperial empire and won't stop there and I can see the annexation of the baltic states before a drive into Poland and he will aim the restore the Iron Curtain, Nato are like Eunuchs and the US has the worst ever president at the helm who helped cause this to protect their own corrupt interests in Ukraine. If Trump there then there would be no war as a deal would have been done.

This is....this is....wow

"The Ukraine is a largely artificial creation much like Northern Ireland and I don't see much of problem with reunification with the motherland, Ukraine is so corrupt that Russia looks like a haven of freedom in comparison and under the Russian flag I can see things improving rather than the pivot towards the corrupt sick EU."

Jesus wept! This must win some kind of prize, but delicacy forbid me from saying what kind exactly.

Russian soldiers are entering into the area and the Ukrainian military hasn't done a thing.