Russia-Ukraine War

Netherlands and 7 other EU states want to stop Russian diplomats (aka spies) and their families travelling freely across Schengen borders

Germany, Austria and Italy are opposed of course!

Stealing?

Criminal asset forfeiture has plenty of precedent in both national and international laws

Russia started an illegal criminal war, committed war crimes and their president is even wanted at The Hague

Best of luck to them arguing this war of theirs is not criminal in a court

If anything might set an example that causes future Fuhrers from starting stupid wars in Europe if it makes them stop and consider what might happen to their loot

Russia; we will destroy post WW2 world order and peace institutions while spitting on laws like Geneva conventions

Also Russia: bwhaaaaa they breaking the rules!

You are not the only one, I asked earlier if not western countries then where exactly all these third rate places invest? There is literally nowhere else with rule of law, low corruption and the depths of markets available

Russia stole a quarter of another country

If someone breaks into your house robs it clean and then starts squatting in living room, you sure as hell wouldn’t be calling the CAB as “criminals” for seizing the bank assets of that robber/murderer/squarter in your house and giving it to the victim

Or going on about how this would set bad precedent for other criminals not to keep their loot in the bank

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Bild is gutter press journalism but once in a while they get something right. This sounds plausible enough (assuming it happened before Lavrov "died" recently, a rumour the same poster was pushing)

Some countries like Sweden are putting the likes of the US to shame.

Yep.

The war they started is coming home.

What air defences are there are causing more damage than the drones by slamming into buildings

Aside this poses a big issue for the “but but Russia has DA BOMB” crowd, if Russia ever uses a nuke then the same drones can render every major Russian city unlivable by delivering dirty nuke bombs, some of these are already converted civilian crop duster planes, a fine coat of plutonium or cobalt isotope dust would cause more radiation than an airburst nuke

Although it can be tempting to think that continued drone attacks on Moscow will have an impact on the local population and the war, is there any evidence of this having happened during other bombing campaigns in history?

Frequently, support for a regime, even if unpopular, increases when the citizens feel threatened.

Militarily, I doubt if there’s anything of importance in Moscow. Drone attacks on Moscow can only be “poking the bear” in the hope that he makes some stupid decisions.

Like Hitler did in 1940 when after the RAF bombings of Berlin, he switched the focus of Luftwaffe bombings from the airfields to London and started the Blitz.

In so doing he gave the RAF, who were on the ropes at the time, enough breathing space to survive.

That's what I was advocating recently (and was attacked by some of the same posters celebrating this event), there should be more and more of it.

Will it make the population turn against Putin? Of course not. If anything the opposite might happen. But it's still a bit of well earned revenge for what Ukraine has to endure. Keep it coming

The point here is we weren't following the law, or at least the ECJ deemed we weren't following our own law. The money comes to Ireland, not the EU, though if it's classed as a windfall then it has to go pay down our debt.

It's not really the same situation where the EU are to take money from another jurisdiction.

The US has no issues servicing it's nat debt and US treasuries are top notch collateral

Russia on the other hand has a GDP lower than Texas

Delivery of Iranian ballistic missiles to Russia for use against Ukraine has been confirmed. The West, as usual, responding with talk of new sanctions instead of what would actually make a difference: give Ukraine free use of weapons anywhere they want on Russian territory, and tell Iran that Israel gets a green light to destroy more Iranian weapons facilities.

For someone with military knowledge: what exactly are the significance of these ballistic missiles compared to what Russia already has?

Hopefully we can spend it on ditching the USC...

And then Ukr beats Russia

Would be great to see a US admin. have courage to tackle Netanyahu, he (and Israel's behaviour under his govt.) are a source of chaos in the ME just as much as Iran is IMO.

Just another wannabe tyrant, constrained a bit [compared to Putin or Khamenei] by the pre existing systems of a democracy but able to do a lot of damage.

Netanyahu has (or had until quite recently!) no problems with Putin, or the Russian conquest and genocide of Ukraine.

Israel has not helped Ukraine much at all (not much aid, no military help, no economic sanctions on Russia post Feb 2022). It has also blocked others from supplying weapons on 2 occasions that I have read of:

• Spike anti-tank missiles that Germany wanted to send to Ukraine (designed/coproduced with israel), and;
• Hawk air defence missiles/systems (in stocks that the US supplied to Israel, and asked for back, to send on to Ukraine).

Hope this turns out to be true.

New Iranian missiles dead on arrival

Thanks for explanation

The new revelation by Campbell came two weeks after U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan undertook his first trip to Beijing and met Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top officials.

U.S. authorities have been ramping up pressure on Europe to more assertively respond to Beijing's support for Moscow in the Russian war against Ukraine. 

Oh I wonder who would be dragging feet because they are afraid they might not sell as many BMWs

Iran should (already!) be under same set of EU sanctions as Russia. That should have happened right after they sold Russia the Shahed drones & technology/designs etc. Don't understand why it still hasn't happened.

About time if so. Ukraine needs to hit Russia on its own territory more and more: military infrastructure, transport hubs, energy, key industries, everything.

If the Americans give the green light, Germany might be next. Scholz always follows America's lead