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I've heard Putin might be having health issues. Who's #2 if he can't perform?
 
“Kremlin 'sends more than 400 mercenaries from private militia into Kyiv to assassinate President Zelensky and his government' - with group told peace talks are 'smoke and mirrors.”

Putin is the one who needs the dirt nap
 
Will history remember us as the country that gave huge amounts of military hardware to the Afghans - who couldn't wait to betray us and hand it over to the Taliban, while scrimping on aid to Ukraine? Not a legacy to be proud of.
 
ABM said:
It means I'm still seeking answers in all of this.
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What would it take for you to maybe not be on the fence with this whole disaster? I’m truly trying to think of what’s left. Like is there something that hasn’t happened where’d you be like “ok that’s it I’ve seen enough”? Civil War?
 
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Good news, but it must be remembered that Russian political/military leadership has never cared about casualties. Not under the Czar, not under the USSR, and certainly not under Putler. It will take a full-scale mutiny and revolution - or the assassination of the leaders.
 
Pretty sure these are the guys that our troops wiped the floor with in Syria.

 
Belarus to renounce non-nuclear status following Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Belarus on Sunday signaled that it would renounce its non-nuclear status, following the launch of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the former Soviet nation last week.

Authorities in the country — ruled by Moscow-backed strongman Alexander Lukashenko for nearly three decades — said the move was backed by a referendum.

According to the Belarus Central Elections Commission, some 78.63% of the eligible voting population took part in the vote, with 65.16% in favor of a new constitution that will shed the country’s non-nuclear status and give Lukashenko the opportunity to run for two additional terms in office.

But Western leaders will not recognize the legitimacy of Sunday’s vote. In a statement from January, the US mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) described the referendum as “neither a viable — nor credible — path forward for Belarus.”

The vote follows a years-long violent crackdown by the Lukashenko regime against his domestic political opponents, following the disputed presidential election in 2020 which was marred by fraud and triggered mass protests.

What this could mean for Russia: Belarus' new constitution could theoretically allow Moscow to place nuclear weapons on its neighbor's territory for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union, when Minsk gave up its stockpile and became a nuclear-free zone.

The amendments and additions to the constitution passed in the referendum will come into effect in 10 days' time, according to Lukashenko’s office.

Lukashenko and Putin: Addressing journalists at a polling station in Minsk on Sunday, Lukashenko said he could ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to “return the nuclear weapons” Belarus gave away if the West transfers any nuclear weapons to Poland or Lithuania.

"If America or ... France, two nuclear powers, start transferring nuclear weapons to Poland or Lithuania, on our borders ... I will go to Putin so that he will return to me the nuclear weapons that I, without any special conditions, gave to them,” Lukashenko said.
In his on-camera remarks, Lukashenko also accused the West of “pushing Russia to ignite World War III,” before warning that “a nuclear war would end the world.”
 
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Putin seems to be switching to phase 2 as his blitzkrieg failed, now heavy shelling of civilian areas, especially in Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, once considered a pro-Russian city.
 
calvin natt said:
What would it take for you to maybe not be on the fence with this whole disaster? I’m truly trying to think of what’s left. Like is there something that hasn’t happened where’d you be like “ok that’s it I’ve seen enough”? Civil War?
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What scares me most is if Russia and China lock arms and begin to deny the rest of the world the goods we're all dependent on. A major economic war might be next.

It saddens me that America has became so divisive. In the beginning, I do believe Trump had good intentions in terms of an outsider taking on Washington (swamp, whatever) as a whole, but he let it all go to his head and look what we've become. For all he did wrong, I think "Bill" Clinton did the best job of bringing sides together. It occurs to me that we were the most unified (and fiscally responsible) during his years in office.

I hope the Ukraine talks are successful.
 
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