I Have Been Seeing War Bulletins About Russia's Intentions

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that Russia's unprovoked war with Ukraine is "meant to put an end" to US-led global domination and the expansion of NATO, according to a report
 
I've read Putin has been ill for awhile now with Parkinson's and possibly cancer. He's very puffy, possibly from steroids. I don't recall where I saw these bits, but any truth to them?

When was the last time he was seen in public?

The invasion was botched and I don't think he expected that.

Oh, there will be all kinds of rumors; propaganda or not.

As far as Russian people backing the invasion of Ukraine, when did the Russians ever get more than lies and half-truths?

I saw one of Putins goons on an interview who flatly denied there were bodies lying in the street in Bucha. The interviewer was aghast. The whole world saw these photos, but Putin's guy denied them!
 

The Russian army has failed in it's attempt to quickly capture the Ukraine. They will Not make the same mistakes Twice. Now, Putin has put a viscous General in charge, and they are amassing a huge convoy of tanks and armament that will unleash even more Hell on Ukraine. The Russian army has been humiliated in it's first attempt, and resorted to human carnage. The next wave will make the current situation in Ukraine seem minor, in comparison, to what awaits Ukraine in the near future.

Putin has reached the point where his Ego will override anything resembling common sense....and he will Not stop until he either captures Ukraine, or drags the entire world into a nuclear war.
 
As I've related since the invasion began, there is one dominant reason that is no secret, that the West avoids mentioning that is still key to ending the conflict. It is why the Kremlin had an arguable excuse to invade whether valid or not. Such an excuse has been dominant in China and India media. Russia has strongly protested NATO expansion for 2 decades and some NATO and militarists expected Russia would invade if they could get Ukraine politicians to provoke the Kremlin war monsters enough with the threat of expansion. Zelenski has been admitting he was played. Unfortunately Ukraine has been horribly sacrificed for the sake of warmongers and at this point they are much worse off versus what could have been a diplomatic solution last year of a neutral Ukraine.
 
Very interesting at this point in the war that the Vatican has now become publicly open about the same warmonger military industrial complex view this person who understood little about the war as it began, came to understand by studying history links on the decades old game being played out. The Vatican obviously was quiet about that media suppressed perspective given the dominant narrative being strongly pushed in Western Europe and the US, but that has become stale as it has evolved as neither side expected resulting in considerable ongoing death and destruction while greatly raising up goals warmongers on all sides pursue.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pope-francis-says-nato-started-135952616.html
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“I [Pope] feel that before going to Kyiv, I must go to Moscow,” he told Corriere Della Sera in an interview that ran Tuesday. But the meeting would not exactly be to condemn Putin, based on what he told the paper. He said that the real “scandal” of Putin’s war is “NATO barking at Russia’s door,” which he said caused the Kremlin to “react badly and unleash the conflict.”...

Francis repeated comments he has made in general audiences and in other interviews that the war is nothing more than a giant opportunity for a “trade in arms” and that it is still ongoing because of the constant shuttling of weapons to Ukraine. He has spoken twice by phone to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but mostly to urge him not to fight back. He also went to the Russian embassy to the Holy See days after the invasion began to “register his concerns” about what was happening.

“I don’t know how to answer—I’m too far away—the question of whether it is right to supply the Ukrainians,” he told the paper. “The clear thing is that weapons are being tested there. The Russians now know that tanks are of little use and are thinking of other things. This is why wars are waged: to test the weapons we have produced. Few people are fighting this trade, but more should be done.”

Francis veered toward conspiracy theory as he blamed the international community for instigating the war. “You cannot think that a free state can make war on another free state,” he said. “In Ukraine, it seems that it was others who created the conflict. I am pessimistic but we must do everything possible to stop the war.”
 
David777 said:
As I've related since the invasion began, there is one dominant reason that is no secret, that the West avoids mentioning that is still key to ending the conflict. It is why the Kremlin had an arguable excuse to invade whether valid or not. Such an excuse has been dominant in China and India media. Russia has strongly protested NATO expansion for 2 decades and some NATO and militarists expected Russia would invade if they could get Ukraine politicians to provoke the Kremlin war monsters enough with the threat of expansion. Zelenski has been admitting he was played. Unfortunately Ukraine has been horribly sacrificed for the sake of warmongers and at this point they are much worse off versus what could have been a diplomatic solution last year of a neutral Ukraine.
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The purpose of NATO is to safeguard the freedom and security of all its members by political or military means.

I don't understand why you think Ukraine shouldn't be free to join NATO if it wants to. Russia has a history, too, you know.
 
Malthus argued that an exponentially growing population will self-correct through war, famine, and disease. Malthus cautioned that in order to avoid catastrophe such as famine and war, people should enact deliberate population control, such as birth control and celibacy.

War IS necessary unless population control is mandated by laws enacted by all the countries on the planet or at least most of them. A two child limit to all families would end the necessity of war.
 
Am certain you have already read what I posted with a list of links weeks ago when the war began that you chose to disagree with which is fine. Anyone can go back and review those posts. I have little incentive to re-post as I care little if what I post changes any member's opinion including yours. Anything posted on this modest web board will have infinitesimal effect on the war.

What is interesting to me is how people view the war given a balance of information presented, that is a small reflection on what is going on nationally and globally. The amusing thing is your question is the same canned deflection change the subject response game, those with Western media power respond with instead of engaging with why well before the conflict began, the Kremlin exhaustively drew a line in the sand against their fear that given hostile political powers in Ukraine, such would lead to nukes close to their borders. The Vatican brain trust apparently saw through that narrative too.
 
David777 said:
Am certain you have already read what I posted with a list of links weeks ago when the war began that you chose to disagree with which is fine. Anyone can go back and review those posts. I have little incentive to re-post as I care little if what I post changes any member's opinion including yours. Anything posted on this modest web board will have infinitesimal effect on the war.

What is interesting to me is how people view the war given a balance of information presented, that is a small reflection on what is going on nationally and globally. The amusing thing is your question is the same canned deflection change the subject response game, those with Western media power respond with instead of engaging with why well before the conflict began, the Kremlin exhaustively drew a line in the sand against their fear that given hostile political powers in Ukraine, such would lead to nukes close to their borders. The Vatican brain trust apparently saw through that narrative too.
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Is that meant for me? If it is, what hostile powers in Ukraine are you talking about....the Russian tanks and soldiers that rolled into Donbas 8 years ago, who ignored the Russia-Ukraine cease-fire agreement?

The purpose of Russia's invasion isn't only about NATO, Putin wants Ukraine completely disarmed. No army, no self-protection whatsoever, no western military alliances. Complete neutrality and an iron-clad promise to stay that way. What business is it of Russia's if Ukraine has a military? It's a free country.

Putin says he's "de-Nazifying" Ukraine. What Nazi's is he talking about? Figments of propaganda. I'll bet there are more Nazis in the US than there are in Ukraine.
 
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Ukraine’s Intelligence: Russia plans to hold military parade in Mariupol on May 9. Intelligence Directorate reported that Russia is conducting “preparations for the parade,” by cleaning central streets from debris, unexploded ordnance and removing the bodies of those killed.
 
Murrmurr said:
Putin says he's "de-Nazifying" Ukraine. What Nazi's is he talking about? Figments of propaganda. I'll bet there are more Nazis in the US than there are in Ukraine.
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Azov is a far-right all-volunteer infantry military unit of the Ukrainian army whose members, estimated at 900- 2500 are ultra-nationalists and accused of harbouring neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology.
The unit was initially formed as a volunteer group in May 2014 out of the ultra-nationalist Patriot of Ukraine gang, and the neo-Nazi Social National Assembly (SNA) group. Both groups engaged in xenophobic and neo-Nazi ideals and physically assaulted migrants, the Roma community and murdering people opposing their views.

As a battalion of the Ukrainian army, the group fought on the front lines against pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, the eastern region of Ukraine. Just before launching the invasion, Putin recognised the independence of two rebel-held regions from Donbas.
 
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squatting dog said:
Azov is a far-right all-volunteer infantry military unit of the Ukrainian army whose members, estimated at 900- 2500 are ultra-nationalists and accused of harbouring neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology.
The unit was initially formed as a volunteer group in May 2014 out of the ultra-nationalist Patriot of Ukraine gang, and the neo-Nazi Social National Assembly (SNA) group. Both groups engaged in xenophobic and neo-Nazi ideals and physically assaulted migrants, the Roma community and murdering people opposing their views.

As a battalion of the Ukrainian army, the group fought on the front lines against pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, the eastern region of Ukraine. Just before launching the invasion, Putin recognised the independence of two rebel-held regions from Donbas.
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I believe there's a militant group called Azov in Pakistan, fighting to get Chinese/CCP interests out of Pakistan so they can get back their ports and mining/mineral rights and stuff.

I'll have to look into the SNA. The xenophobia neo-Nazi you mentioned could be a mischaracterization. What migrants came into Donbas? Asians? I'll look into it.

In any case, still not Putin's business whatsoever. No more than unrest in the USA is the queen of England's business. Aside from voicing sympathy or disapproval, England wouldn't even think of sending military ships and planes here to "help" quell civilian uprisings and stuff. That's BS.
 
While Russia is not a bright example of good governance in the post-Soviet space, and with Russia's vast natural resources, it can hardly be compared to Ukraine on a meaningful basis.
But Belarus can! Belarus is the perfect example of good governance in the post-Soviet space; not only did Belarus lacked the natural resources that Russia or even Ukraine have, it was in a worse starting position than Ukraine was, yet the Belorussian GDP per capita adjusted by PPP has more than doubled in comparison with the Ukrainian one!

So, despite all the chauvinistic Ukrainian propaganda, the Ukrainians themselves have not been good administrators of their country.

Now, the neo-Nazi groups in Kiev controlled Ukraine have a greater influence than their actual numbers, thereby explaining why the government can't control them. In Kiev regime controlled Ukraine, journalists and others are more likely to die than in Russia, when it comes to disagreement with the given official line.

So, here's my peak into the future... Russia gets Donbas and Crimea. Ukraine loses these territories. The former is the industrial heartland of the country, while the latter is both a resort and a geopolitical strategic point which partially keeps NATO out of the Black Sea. The West is stuck with a bankrupt government to feed, and to deal with the Neo-Nazis groups they helped spawn to overthrow a democratically elected government.
 
Russia's military said it would open humanitarian corridors from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol on May 5, 6 and 7 to allow civilians to leave the facility. Corridors would be open between 8am to 6pm Moscow time
 
squatting dog said:
While Russia is not a bright example of good governance in the post-Soviet space, and with Russia's vast natural resources, it can hardly be compared to Ukraine on a meaningful basis.
But Belarus can! Belarus is the perfect example of good governance in the post-Soviet space; not only did Belarus lacked the natural resources that Russia or even Ukraine have, it was in a worse starting position than Ukraine was, yet the Belorussian GDP per capita adjusted by PPP has more than doubled in comparison with the Ukrainian one!
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That's a poor comparison (imo). One of the reasons Belarus's GDP is good as it is because they don't owe a bunch of money to any countries besides Russia. And Russia has to keep propping up their economy, which has greatly improved their poverty level, but their economic growth is anemic because their state-run industries are archaic.
 
Russian shipping firm Sovcomflot is planning to sell up to one-third of its vessels to pay back loans before Western sanctions come into effect, Lloyd's List reported on Monday selling at least 40 of its 121 ships.
 
UK Minister of Defence Ben Wallace said it would be "inconceivable" that Britain would not defend Finland and Sweden if either of the countries were attacked, whether they had joined Nato or not.

Wallace made the comments at a joint press conference with Finnish Minister of Defence, Antti Kaikkonen (Cen) in Helsinki on Wednesday.
 
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his Italian counterpart, Mario Draghi, agreed Wednesday that their countries will fully support the government and people of Ukraine facing Russia's aggression.
 
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Patriarch Kirill: "Russia has never attacked anyone"

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All, head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia
 

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