Ukraine (Mod Note & Threadbanned Users in OP)

But the map you posted doesn't have areas illegally occupied by Russia but it shows how they in local elections but have been occupied for 8+ years .

Odd no ?

Fight for Donbas is still ongoing, and when was the fight for Crimea???

I was gobsmacked when the USSR collapsed.

I think everyone was. I was even a teen at the time put I still remember watching all the people going at the Berlin Wall with anything they could get be it a lump hammer or a stick and saying to my Father "Dad why are they doing that do they not know it will not do smash it.

I did not understand the politics or the consequences of it back then for the world or for the German people or Europe as I was far too young. Had not even started secondary school yet that was still a few years away.

Yes we all want to see a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine but I think it will take more than a little patience. Maybe the Russian army will develop a moral compass and turn around but I do not see it happening. I think they to have been brainwashed by Putins lies

I hope Zelensky gets the Nobel Prize for Peace.

If they gave it to him ahead of the usual timeframe it might protect his life.

Also it would confirm that the Nobel Prize for Peace does not require its recipients to be pacifists.

Mind you, I did suggest earlier that that prize should go to the Ukrainian people as a whole,who have laid everything on the line protecting us.

I agree he deserves it. Hope it gets it. When is it awarded anyway?

Well it could go to Zelensky and maybe he could dedicate it to the Ukranian people ir it could just go to the Ukranian people too. When the war is over he could put it somewhere where they could all view it maybe even have access to it as long as there was security there protecting it. Would not want someone robbing it for themselves.

Don't forget Mussolini

That was pretty savage at the time and Broadcast live for local tv

And yet when they were removed everything became immeasurably worse.

Libya and Iraq are now failed states more or less. One of the possibilities if someone whacks Putin prematurely. He'll be dead soon enough of "natural" causes no doubt looking at him, but that will bring with it a transfer of power to some more nationalists.

Nothing worse than a power vacuum though, anything can happen

Comrade Detritus, Of course I agree that Russia should not have invaded Ukraine, never suggested otherwise. But in trying to be impartial it's obvious that's it's a power struggle between two super powers. What I cannot fathom is Zelenskyy shouting from the roof tops and urging the rest of world not to trade with Russia in other words to starve the monster of hard cash (which I and all reasonable people agree with) Yet Zelenskyy himself is feeding the very same monster under his table to the tune of approx 45 billion Euro since the war began. Granted the actual gas supplied to the west since the war began may not yet be paid for, but it's the acutal principal of it and the sheer hyprocisy of Zelenskyy that boils my pi... He has to stand up to his US / NATO puppet masters turn off that tap and let them feel the cold winds of war too...it may help speed up armistice.

Am I right in assuming that if Zelenskyy stops ''feeding the monster'' (turns off the gas lever) EU / NATO / US will stop all military & financial aid. If that's the case he has more than Putins gun to his head, he has to grow a pair and face them down, call their bluff, deny them their pound of flesh. It's unconscionable that the ''West'' are, on the one hand, equipping & arming Ukraine and, on the other, financing the Russian war machine. If the Ukrainians ar paying with their lives, surely the least the West could do is to suffer the inconvinence of being without gas for a period.

Because apparently Zelensky is a "coward" and a "puppet" for not sabotaging 25% of Europe's gas supply from Russia that flows through Ukraine. I didn't think it could get any worse than the poster criticising Zelensky's facial hair but here we are.

Anyone catch the excellent documentary about Alexey Navalny last night on BBC2, in it he duped some Russian scientist over the phone into admitting he purposely poisoned him

They have between 1500 and 3000 troops stationed there , but Moldova only has around 5000 active soldiers very little armour , feck all artillery and no airforce , they sold 30 mig 29s to the Americans back in the 90s ,and very few air defense systems ,

Russia could hit them with missles and bombs from aircraft and Moldova could do little to stop them