ruling neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv — Sergey Lavrov

Can you leave me alone, please? Thank you. — Sergey Lavrov

No where do I claim Ukraine is ruled by a Nazi regime. — boethius

Ukraine still isn't ruled by a Nazi regime; those claims are straight from the Kremlin's propaganda machine (don't echo them)
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Apr 25, 2022 - Dec 20, 2022 - Aug 2, 2023 — Nov 28, 2023

Ukrainians change for the better for example — boethius

Criterion               Jun 2023       Nov 2023
Constitutional Court    Good progress  Completed
Judicial governance     Completed      Completed
Anti-corruption         Some progress  Some progress
Anti-money laundering   Some progress  Completed
De-oligarchisation      Some progress  Some progress
Media legislation       Completed      Completed
National minorities     Some progress  Some progress

↪boethius, the Kremlin gets their way, or it's the nuclear way...? — Nov 9, 2023

Ukraine still isn't ruled by a Nazi regime; those claims are straight from the Kremlin's propaganda machine (don't echo them)
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Apr 25, 2022 - Dec 20, 2022 - Aug 2, 2023 — Nov 28, 2023

he will echo them — ssu

Should South Korea capitulate to North Korea, "or else"? I don't think laying waste to North Korea is an option (shouldn't be). — Nov 26, 2023

It's not 2014 Crimea. Putin's decision has become costly. What might be next on his (public) agenda? — Nov 26, 2023

Should South Korea capitulate to North Korea, "or else"? I don't think laying waste to North Korea is an option (shouldn't be). — Nov 26, 2023

It's not 2014 Crimea. Putin's decision has become costly. What might be next on his (public) agenda? — Nov 26, 2023

The current regime that exists on the territory of Ukraine has proven to be completely toxic.
We do not currently see any options to coexist with it.
So, [if] all goes like the President (Vladimir Putin) said:
Maximum denazification and demilitarization [will] set [Ukraine] free from the external influence and external management [in the West] — which is dangerous for the Russian Federation and those who live in Russia.
When this danger is eliminated, the goals of the special military operation are achieved.
NATO commits its own violations which they should be held accountable for.
Those include weaponry supplies, violation of the norms, when they openly support the conflict and supply banned weaponry, when they actively cover for and legalize the actions of the Ukrainian regime, including in the international institutions.

We can counter NATO [for] as long as [is] needed to achieve the task set by the President.
And our task is to eliminate the danger that we face from Ukraine. — Rodion Miroshnik · Russian ambassador-at large

I would assume the same would be true for the US if China were running military drills in Mexico. Wouldn’t make the US right to invade Mexico, but I think the least we’d say is that it would be a major factor. — Mikie

NATO expansion was the most direct cause of this war. — Mikie

This is what distinguishes a true world leader from the people we call temporary caretakers, who come for five minutes to show off on the international platform, and then disappear just as quietly. — Putin · Oct 2023

The question is whether we — the US —should have taken the Russian perspective seriously. — Mikie

Effective coordination between the aerial reconnaissance of a separate artillery brigade of the Russian Air Force and the HIMARS calculation for the destruction of the enemy "Gradu".

Russia spent decades building its arms trade. Now they're going back in secret to their customers trying to buy back what they sold them.

For the first time in the history of the existence of nuclear missile weapons, our country is ahead of its competitors in this [nuclear] domain. — Patrushev (Russia Today)

For some reason, American politicians who are held captive by their own propaganda remain confident that in the event of a direct conflict with Russia, the United States is capable of launching a preventive missile strike, after which Russia will no longer be able to respond. — Patrushev (Rossiyskaya Gazeta)

The natural consequence of the United States' destructive policies is the deterioration in global security. The risk that nuclear, chemical and biological weapons will be used is increasing. The international arms control regime has been undermined. — Patrushev (TASS)

Thunberg — Deacon

It is the younger generation who is "setting one generation against another". — Agree-to-Disagree

Just like in the first world war we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate.
I realised that is exactly where we are because just like then, the level of our technological development today has put both us and our enemies in a stupor.
On our monitor screens the day I was there we saw 140 Russian machines ablaze—destroyed within four hours of coming within firing range of our artillery.
The simple fact is that we see everything the enemy is doing and they see everything we are doing. In order for us to break this deadlock we need something new, like the gunpowder which the Chinese invented and which we are still using to kill each other.
It is important to understand that this war cannot be won with the weapons of the past generation and outdated methods.
Let’s be honest, it’s a feudal state where the cheapest resource is human life. And for us…the most expensive thing we have is our people. — Zaluzhnyi

No, it has not reached a stalemate. Russia is consistently continuing to conduct a special military operation. All the goals set must be fulfilled. — Pesky

Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one. — Dr Emmett Brown (1990)

if people can remember what mistakes not to repeat — Vera Mont

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. — Santayana (1905)

At 11:54 he again forgets that the US isn't handling satellite states like Stalin did with NATO members and Ukraine or Georgia [...] — ssu

Never mind. We'll do it our own way later. — Stalin

And Western Europe would create it's defense towards Russia without the US — ssu

Slovakia's new populist Prime Minister Robert Fico said Thursday that his government was stopping military aid to Ukraine. Fico told MPs that the country would "no longer supply weapons to Ukraine", repeating promises made during his election campaign, but would still supply humanitarian aid to its war-torn neighbour. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on Russia's brutal war on Ukraine and Slovakia's decision to end military aid to Kyiv, FRANCE 24's François Picard is joined by Dr. Domitilla Sagramoso, Senior Lecturer in Security and Development and expert on Russian foreign and security policy at King's College London.

why not just ask the US to supply the longer range — boethius

One day the president of Israel will be a Muslim and all the old people will be like, I thought this would never happen! — frank

all is fair in love and war — @user-bx6we4od7d

Russian authorities are intensifying mobilization efforts targeting Central Asian migrant communities in Russia. Russian Internal Affairs (MVD) Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev met with the MVD board to discuss “migration problems” and “ethnic crime” and insinuated that migrants commit crimes at a higher rate than natural born Russian citizens.⁽⁷⁾ Kolokoltsev defended recent Russian law enforcement mobilization raids on migrant communities and claimed that Russian law enforcement is enforcing standard legal norms.⁽⁸⁾ A Russian insider source claimed that the Russian Investigative Committee is conducting investigations into naturalized migrants with Russian citizenship and is reopening previously terminated and canceled criminal cases in order to mobilize migrants to fight in Ukraine.⁽⁹⁾ The insider source also claimed that the Russian Investigative Committee will now investigate migrants for committing any offense, even minor ones, and will expand that individual’s investigation to include their friends and family. The insider source claimed that unspecified actors, possibly the MVD or MVD Head Alexander Bastrykin, ordered Russian state media to increase reporting about ethnic crime in Russia, likely to set informational conditions for further mobilization raids on migrant communities.⁽¹⁰⁾ Bastrykin has continually advocated for the targeted mobilization of migrants with Russian citizenship, in line with Russian law enforcement’s recent expansion of its efforts to detain and forcibly register migrants with Russian citizenship for military service.<sup>(11)

(7) https://t.me/NeoficialniyBeZsonoV/30299 ; https://t.me/vysokygovorit/13239 ; https://t.me/MedvedevVesti/15640 ; https://mvdmedia.ru/news/official/vladimir-kolokoltsev-provel-zasedanie-kollegii-mvd-rossii-posvyashchennoe-protivodeystviyu-nelegalno/
(8) https://t.me/NeoficialniyBeZsonoV/30299 ; https://t.me/vysokygovorit/13239 ; https://t.me/MedvedevVesti/15640 ; https://mvdmedia.ru/news/official/vladimir-kolokoltsev-provel-zasedanie-kollegii-mvd-rossii-posvyashchennoe-protivodeystviyu-nelegalno/
(9) https://t.me/vchkogpu/43131
(10) https://t.me/vchkogpu/43131
(11) https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-22-2023 ; https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-20-2023 ; https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-29-2023 ; https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-12-2023</sup>