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[soulmate-ph]

New life in the midst of destruction. The bird made a nest and laid an egg on the sill of a destroyed apartment in Kharkiv

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[fidjiefidjie]

Dessins....histoire de chars 😁💣😏

Dessins de presse de Ixène, Coco, Soulcié, Plantu, Placide, Chaunu.

Bel après-midi 👋

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[milenaolesinska]

"..., or negotiating the Minsk peace accords in 2014 and 2015, which Ukraine viewed as disadvantageous for its own security."

What disgraceful nonsense. By vetoing Ukraine's & Georgia's NATO membership action plan in 2008 she facilitated the wars."

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[taylorscottbarnett]

Putin is talking about peace with Ukraine.

From a war he started.

My dude that's simple:

Immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from occupied Ukraine territories, the return of Crimea to Ukraine control, as well as 1.3 Trillion USD paid to Ukraine for the cost of reconstruction and reparations.

$800 Billion for the cost of the war directly, and $500 Billion fine for Putin being a gigantic megalomaniacal ass, as well as the immediate halting of support to separatists.

My dudes, let me clarify. This is less a groundbreaking news revelation and more a "Putin is full of fucking shit and can choke" commentary from me.

A rehash of what the megalomaniac has already been saying what he demands of Ukraine.

The "de-Nazification" of Ukraine, based on the bullshit state line that Russia had to invade Ukraine -- err sorry "special military operation" or whatever bullshit RT news is spewing, that Ukraine promise never to join NATO, and -- I shit you not "disarmament" of the country, and amending Ukraine's constitution to expressly declare it "neutral" in regards to NATO v Russia.

As well as mocking the fact that Russia has occupied Ukrainian territory for over a decade now and maybe they should GTFO. (And if Putin wants this war to end, Ukraine should demand immediate withdrawal of Russia from Ukrainian territory and publically recognize that Crimea belongs to Ukraine.)

"$800 Billion for the cost of the war directly, and $500 Billion fine for Putin being a gigantic megalomaniacal ass, as well as the immediate halting of support to separatists."

Kinda thought this bit would have made that clear but, my bad guys if it was not, but this demand is something Ukraine should not negotiate on. Putin has caused massive destruction in the country, committed atrocious war crimes.

Russia needs to learn a lesson from this. It needs to learn that Europe will not be bullied into accepting a two-bit dictator's demands.

It needs to learn that the US will not shy away from defending our allies.

It needs to learn that breaking international norms leads to consequences.

My point being Ukraine (and the west) should not accept peace terms dictated by Russia, and (the west) be prepared to continue supporting Ukraine against its invaders. Russia is not the US. It cannot finance a war via issuing new debt. (Unlike how the US has financed the Afghanistan and Iraq wars for two decades at some 8 Trillion USD and counting).

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[martinastro1]

Hier wird jetzt alles eingeworfen, was Räder hat. Erinnert mich an Monty Python, wo aus der Burg ganze Kühe geschleudert wurden...

#russia ukraine putin

[infinitemonkeytheory]

Blinken cited various sources, including eyewitness accounts and the Russian government, to confirm that Russia is removing Ukrainians from their country and making them pass through filtration camps, where some are detained and even disappear.

Approximately 260,000 of these Ukrainian deportees are children, including orphans and others separated from their parents.

#russia ukraine putin #no war in ukraine #ukraine #putler

[blueiskewl]

Russian Terrorist Attack

At night, Russia fired S-300 missiles at a residential building in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. The two upper floors are completely destroyed. Rescuers pulled out an 11-year-old boy from under the rubble, who was trapped there for 6 hours.

Governor Kim reports that the 11-year-old boy who was pulled out from beneath the rubble of his apartment 6 hours after a Russian missile strike, has died in the hospital.

He was conscious as they pulled him out, hugging his parents.

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[blondiepieradio]

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[soulmate-ph]

I would never have thought that I could distinguish by sound the flight of an airplane, rockets, artillery shots, automatic bursts. I didn’t receive this knowledge of my own free will.

#ukraine #war #russia ukraine putin #war in ukraine

[fidjiefidjie]

"Je n'ai pas besoin de chars ni d'avions, ni de bataillons chevronnés, monsieur le directeur. Donnez-moi une machine à écrire, une rame de papier et je conquerrai le monde."

Yasmina Khadra

Gif Pixabay

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[jloisse]

OTAN EN EMPORTE LE VENT

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[skifff-ua]

You can't lose a war if you change your goals as you fight it

#russia ukraine putin #putin #ukraine #war

[taylorscottbarnett]

As the US frets about giving Ukraine weapons that might escalate tensions with Russia, Germany be over here like:

You said we dragged our heels before in supporting Ukraine? Well here's a giant fuck you to Russia. *gives Ukraine more advanced missle defense tech than even the US owns*

#politics #russia ukraine putin #ukraine russia war #russia #ukraine #germany

[uboat53]

Well, after years of outright lies, half-truths, and omissions out of the Russian government, here is a statement that, as far as I can tell, is entirely true (SHORT RANT (TM) ahead):

"[W]e are at war not so much with Ukraine and the Ukrainian army as with the collective West. At this point we are really at war with the collective West, with NATO." -- Sergei Shoigu, Russian Minister of Defense

This statement is worth analyzing because I believe it is entirely true. Understanding what he means will mean a greater understanding of what the next several decades, perhaps even the next half-century, will look like.

So yeah, Russia's attack on Ukraine, not just the most recent one but all of their bellicose actions back to and even before their 2014 invasion of Crimea and the Donbass, is actually an attack on NATO, the west, and the very concept of western values such as individual liberty and liberal democratic governance.

These values threaten authoritarian and autocratic governments like Vladimir Putin's Russia and Xi Xinping's China among others. Putin's moves against Ukraine have all been motivated by a desire to suppress the rising embrace of western governance and values by the people and government of that country.

Ukraine is particularly important to Russia in this regard because of the close connections, linguistically, culturally, historically, and personally, between people in Ukraine and people in Russia. This closeness means that ideas that spread in Ukraine are also likely to spread to Russia, this is the reason that Putin has acted aggressively in ways that the leaders of other authoritarian countries have not.

But that doesn't mean that this will continue to be an isolated event. The fact that other authoritarian countries are not currently threatened by cultural ties to populations that are beginning to embrace these kinds of western ideals does not mean that they won't be in the future. In fact, we already see China building up its military capacity for a likely assault on the island of Taiwan.

This is similar to the conflict that we faced in the Cold War, though even more drawn on ideological lines. The conflict in the Cold War was largely defined along the lines of economic systems; communism and capitalism; the state control of industry vs the free market. The conflict now seems to be different, a conflict of systems of governance. Autocratic governance pitted against, not democracy, but liberal democracy, democratic governance but with strong protections for individual rights.

And that last is important. An autocratic or authoritarian government can exist in a democracy. What western values truly mean in this context is a respect for individual liberties, the right of individuals to protest and even oppose the government short of violence if they wish. It is a society in which the government itself cannot use its powers over society to privilege the views of those in power or punish the views of those who oppose them.

Those who have been listening to the rhetoric of authoritarian leaders such as Xi Xinping, Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orban, or even the leaders of more open countries such as Jair Bolsonaro or Donald Trump will have noticed that they have increasingly crossed the line in terms of using the power of their governments to promote their own views and suppress those that oppose them over the past decade.

In my view, this will likely be the defining conflict of the next several decades. When the Cold War ended, liberal democracy, free market economics, and the countries that practiced and promoted them were ascendant, that is no longer the case. The rise of China in particular has shifted the balance of global ideology and created a powerful actor devoted to autocracy. It may be that it is possible to avoid further direct conflict between the major powers involved in this conflict, but I do not believe that this conflict of interests will be settled amicably anytime in the next several years.

The conflict in Ukraine, then, is genuinely as the Russian Minister of Defense says it is; a conflict between autocracy and liberal democracy. It is important, then, that those of us in the west who believe in the values of individual rights and liberties as well as representative government commit to supporting Ukraine. The conflict is likely to be long and grinding and there will be a good deal of suffering and bloodshed before it is finished, but if we do not then autocratic nations will be encouraged to attack their neighbors and suppress individual rights and liberties anywhere in the world in order to preserve their own autocracies at home.

That's not a world I want to live in, I hope I'm not alone in that regard.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/time-come-top-putin-official-201022301.html

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[theviralstyle]

AC DC FUUCK PUTIN T-shirt, Who need it?

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