This is so sad. "We are being sent to war like cannon fodder....I will say that Ukrainian military are nice guys, they did not hit me and gave me food. For what? Everywhere here live peaceful people and no one wants war."

I well-up every time President Zelenskyy appears on tv. A truly great leader.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6v3nnxOrh4

ya know if russia attacks a nato member i dont think its nuclear war at least not right away ..???? there gonna fight a conventional war the first few months i think ..???

central and southern europe will be the victims in this battleground

now i really dont know how Suicidal USA will be in if they bomb russia proper or not idk if they wanna push russia that much but u never know

seeing how russia is struggling with Ukraine i doubt the can take on a powerhouse in poland & buddies

No doubt in my mind that Conscripts are being thrown into a grinder to soften up Ukraine, but I'm also not one for believing that all Russian soldiers who surrender are treated humanely, same as any captured Ukrainian soldiers. I haven't seen too many instances where Ukraine has done any truly ****ed up things yet, but it's hard to see even if there was due to Russia's insane propaganda machine. It makes discerning anything very difficult, and frankly, I think it hurts them more than anything in the eyes of their people and the rest of the world.

The main way Ukraine strengthens nato is by threatening and/or weakening Russia. Where as the Russian empire is more or less hopeless without the Ukraine. The difference in strategic value here is staggering.

1. Who ****ing cares? You aren't owed client states.

2. Russia's relative weakness is why they have less control over there sphere of influence and have a tendency to roll in with tanks. Hence the former Soviet republics wanting NATO protection.

Whether you are owed a buffer state is not the point. Their national security depends on said buffer state. Thus they have strong interests to intervene in the process of Ukraine gravitating towards nato. Much more so than any other former Soviet territory. So the idea that Ukraine is just step 1 to Russian conquest in Europe is pretty dubious.

I understand why those nations want nato protection. I also understand why that's a direct threat against Russia when a country that has a large wide open border is going to potentially have nato troops and arms on their border which they will then have to expand the military to protect.

The United States would never abide this sort of thing in our own back yard - the Monroe doctrine dictates we have supremacy over essentially the entire Western hemisphere.

You may be right, it may be conventional initially (which scares the Hell out of me for my friend in Croatia- and she's in Zagreb too)

But don't think for a minute we're going to let ourselves be ruled by Mr. Putin. If he launches a nuclear missile (and he will go first), it's lights out for everybody including Russia (and yes, the US as well).

Don't be Putin ideas into people's heads. We're better Biden our time. Kyiv it a chance; we don't want it to be fiNATO before talks or mediation.

I apologise: I don't know what came over me! Where am I? What day is this? How long have I - no! Really?

Ukraine Forces Reportedly Kill Russia General Andrei Sukhovetsky in Blow to Invading Army