Ukraine (Mod Note & Threadbanned Users in OP)

I think he's main aim in Ukraine is to establish a puppet government like what China has in Hong Kong

He'll never beable to hold on to Ukraine as the gorilla warfare will continue

Is India and UAE a surprise? They abstained too. Or is it cowardice on their part.

Zelensky and his gov are playing a blinder. They are calm and steadfast -

because they wouldn't notice?

The same country who tried to complain about the annexation of east Germany from the Soviet union in the last few years

We'll should keep this post on file, along with all the "Russia won't invade, there are only a handful of troops on the Ukrainian border just to protect themselves from NATOs expansion east" posts from the Putin apologists a week ago, for future reference.

He or the Russian military are well capable of levelling a City and have done so in Putin's time.

IMHO The bottom line rests with the Russian population. The end result might take time. But when the sanctions start to really bite - including the cancellation of the a swift payment system- the average Russian will feel very disgruntled along with the ‘well/very well off and we will hopefully have a coup, assanation, ‘ a natural death’!!, a general uprising ( there are presidents), or whatever you are having. In the meantime the poor Ukrainians have to go through an. Awful experience

I was always of the very clear opinion that’ a director of a company, member of an organisation , member of a committee, or similar always physically removed themselves if there was a conflict of interest. In other words the individual could not input into the discussion and should not be able to hear details of discussion. What the hell were they thinking when they were drafting the rules of engagement re the decision making process. Was not the whole idea of the security council process to make sure that future Hitlers will never be allowed to operate , to avoid another world war, and suchlike. The King With No Clothes Scrap Saturday come to mind. Is there any possibility of the UN reviewing the whole process - needs a review after all those years anyway- cancel the security council and replace it with , say, a committee called the Soverign Guarantee Caucus or whatever. I assume all such at UN Level are by majority vote apart from the current Security Council

There is a thing called path dependency that explains all of this. Early decisions made when forming the UN after ww2 had massive consequences for the future direction of global politics. Giving a veto to the permanent members early on resulted in the situation that none of those countries would ever act to remove their own veto

It ends in the ludicrous scenario where Russia can chair the meeting aimed at sanctioning themselves and veto the outcome by arguing that they are not party to the conflict that they started and are currently undertaking

And the other permanent members allow this because they use the same tricks themselves to avoid the consequences of their own illegal wars and interventions

The UN died as a peace keeping force the day Bush didn't get his resolution and said fk it I'm invading anyway.

In better news Cyprus have caved and agreed to kick Russia out of Swift

One action NATO could actually take is to rid the world of the Wagner group. Declare them for what they are a terrorist group and hunt them down like dogs in Africa.