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So then the only other alternative is for Western troops to do it.
No, it isn't. The reason that the Ukraine War doesn't look like any recent western war and looks a tremendous amount like the Great War is Air Supremacy. Remember a while back in the Ukraine thread when you (and others) decried Armchair generals discussing war and the types of vehicles being used (include airplanes) and so on ? Well the criticism I made at the time still stands, unless you understand modern warfare, how its conducted, by which force, and the reasons for that, you'll continue to make bad assumptions like the one I quoted up there.
And you really think Iran, China and others will be scared of the west after seeing the clusterf*** in Ukraine? They’ll be pissing themselves at how weak and incompetent the west is.
That teeny, broke, corrupt, Ukraine has held Russia at a standstill for the last 2 years should've have made all those militaries sit up and take notice. That Xi has recently had to fire the head of rocket forces in China becasue all their ballistic missiles were filled with water rather than rocket fuel, tells you all you need to know about how competent China's military are.
Big crowds are being reported in St Petersburg too.
I had a friend return from Russia last week and she was followed & videoed by police as she attended a vigil in St Petersburg for Alexey Navalny. She has personally known Navalny for a very long time so probably known to the police/FSB.
She said the vast majority of people in Russia refuse talk about Putin but she tells me they don't like him or what he is doing. Hopefully the death of Navalny will help bring about Putins downfall.
I have a horrible feeling this isn't going to end well for some of those brave enough to show their support
Safety in numbers today, but not tonight, tomorrow, next week...
Some balls on these people. I'm struggling to imagine any equivalent situation I could put myself in in Britain, doing something so simple and rising having your life (and or your family's) ruined or ended.
I’m struggling to imagine any equivalent situation I could put myself in in Britain, doing something so simple and rising having your life (and or your family’s) ruined or ended.
Becoming a journalist and reporting on American war crimes ?
What killing are you referencing with that?
What killing are you referencing with that?
Killings, plural
What killing are you referencing with that?
Busy thread. quotes help differentiate as to who that is being addressed.
Busy thread. quotes help differentiate as to who that is being addressed.
Apologies, that was for you. I'm aware of plenty if journalists getting killed, just not so many getting killed in Britain.
Apologies, that was for you. I’m aware of plenty if journalists getting killed, just not so many getting killed in Britain.
Me neither.
However theres two parts to the quote, so maybe i should have specifically pointed to the first part of it rather than the latter.
having your life (and or your family’s) ruined or ended.
So the part im referring to, and lets be fair given it can only refer to this part, "Ruined"
So while Mr Assange certainly would have his life ruined by being extradited to the US , it might also lead to his death, possibly by his own hand.
Given that it is Britain where the extradition hearing is being held, and thus the ruling on it directly affecting Mr Assange, Britain is playing a rather large part in what happens to him.
The British police were the group who entered the Ecuadorian embassy to forcibly remove Mr Assange and to take him into custody, probably due to a deal done between Ecuador and the united States.
I expect whatever this deal was it was probably aligned to an economic one, along the lines of the US-Ecuador trade agreement, which was announced in the spring of last year. Timing eh ?
'Put him out or the trade agreement wont be ratified' is purely speculation on my part, though the facts appear to fit.
Cheers @dynati response and clarification appreciated. Although MCTD's response is at risk of making me circle round to the same question round again...