Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I am certain at this stage that Putin has lost his mind. Judging by some politicians that have meet him in recent times they are thinking the same thing. Like it or not, looks like Europe will have to face him down as if he gets away with his maniacal war in Ukraine he will turn to the rest of us in due time. A no-fly zone being enforced over Ukraine is the first step.

Time to completely blank all fanatics on the ultra-left supporting the madman putin.

cant enforce a no fly zoe over Ukraine with WW3

Warsaw government is taking over some Soviet buildings that were not returned back when the Iron Curtain felt in 1989 despite of Polish court verdicts. Those properties will be used to accommodate the refugees.

Nah, mine was an explanation of how the Poles feel about Germany. It's mostly benign historically and currently as against their visceral hatred of Russia for that nearly 200 years of brutality. If you want to swirl that all around in six years of history, extremely shameful history no question, you are most welcome.

Beating around the bush.

An aggressor, Russia, has invaded a sovereign state and is currently killing civilians. What is preventing you from judging this extremely harshly? I'm genuinely curious. The hard left in 2003 were marching on the streets:

Richard Boyd Barrett, head of the Irish anti-war movement, said the unprecedented size of the rally would force the government to listen. 'They cannot ignore what has taken place in Dublin. This is the people saying that enough is enough, we want the US military out of Ireland and we don't want this evil war.'

The hard left when Russia illegally invades a democratic state: "ah now, we can't be making any rash judgements here"

Moral bankruptcy.

I wouldn’t bet on it. A severe energy crises in Europe could change things quick.

What makes you think of don't judge it extremely harshly?

Long paragraphs waffling about not being able to find out the truth.

The first casualty of war is always the truth.

The Ukranians, if they have any decent missle launchers, need to bomb the last 500m and the first 500m of that convoy. It effectively immobilises the whole thing as they can't just drive into the field as most of them will sink. After that its bide your time and wait for the new planes to take out the rest at their leisure. Losing that much equipment would not only scupper the Ukrainian offensive it would would Russia itself in an incredible weak position. Losing that much equipment would leave them in dire straits should other states rise up.

You weren't talking about Poland though, were ya? You were talking about Ukraine, and how the Germans and Austrians 'ran the place in a civilised manner'. When I called you out on how the Germans actually ran the country in a total barbaric manner less than 80 years ago, you decided to get smarmy and throw some pissy digs about me bashing a keyboard.

No, I said Poland, you assumed Ukraine. The Polish partitions occurred in 1773, 1793 and 1795. Ukraine at that time was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the western part went to Austria with southern Poland. Think the rest of it ended up in Russia.

Do you honestly think the people maimed and killed by cluster bombs, or the family burned alive by a missile strike just a few hours ago are just really good crisis actors?

Putin has been attempting to undermine the West and the world order for years. He'd of course like to see NATO break up, but it's killing him that he's been unsuccessful in the venture so far. He thought he was close when Trump was POTUS, but it turns out that Trump is an incompetent, raving manchild who fell at the COVID hurdle and couldn't stay in the job.

And what a terrible position to try and negotiate from by invading Ukraine. This action has severely spooked the western world, and spurred it into action. We were enjoying a nice period of peace in Europe (you don't have to do much reading before you realise just how bloody the history of Europe is) and here comes Russia drunk on vodka, being the pr*ck at the party.

Poots... if I may call you that. You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar. If you want more countries nearby to align with you, maybe stop being the leader of a country with increasingly less and less to offer the world culturally and economically.

Bottom line is that if there must be hegemonies in the world, I'll accept the American one with NATO backing it up, even though I far from agree with everything they do in the world. It's still more open and rich than the glum Russian alternative.