analysis World War III

[oldtimer]

I believe that President Biden was right when he said that Russia is going to Invade Ukraine.

Any intelligent person is going to come to the same conclusion knowing that Russia has already decided to pay any price imposed on it by the West through sanctions.

Short of full military confrontation by the West there is nothing that can make Russia to change its mind as they see this as a golden opportunity to resurrect the once powerful superpower that was equal to the USA.

But Russia’s ambitions are not going to stop with taking over Ukraine since it already has made plans to increase its sphere of influence to Asia, Middle East, and South America and perhaps the whole World knowing that the West is most likely not going to do anything beyond just imposing sanctions which ultimately will hurt the West itself by effecting the Global economy in an adverse way the longer that they go on.

I personally don’t like any of the old ideologies, philosophies, and doctrines of Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, Religious Fundamentalism and all the other “ism” that are derived from the bad human characteristics of Greed, Lust, Hate, Cruelty, Jealousy, Prejudice, and lack of Empathy and that have been infringing on our rights in one way or another throughout the history because they can only exist through supporting inequality, oppression, suppression, torture, killing, and War.

When it comes to saving the World the last thing that I want to see is the further expansion of these old systems that have all already proven to be a failure in dealing with the existential problems that are currently facing Humanity and the Environment.

We don’t want all these political, Religious, and Racial parties and groups to resurrect their past, we want something new that can propel the World into the next Era that is based on the Universal Principles and Values that have been derived through Logic and Compassion and not through Force and Violence.

By “We” I mean all the Intelligent, Righteous, and Peace loving people of the World.

IMO

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[oldtimer]

Yes, but they have been not verified, and those news channels remark it.

Ukraine government investigates video alleged to show torture of Russian PoWs​

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ideo-alleged-torture-russian-prisoners-of-war

"Video footage purporting to show the torture of Russian prisoners of war is being investigated by the Ukrainian government.

The film, which has not been verified, appears to show Ukrainian soldiers removing three hooded Russians from a van before shooting them in the legs.

The Ukrainian military commander Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi accused Russia of staging the videos.

“The enemy produces and shares videos with the inhuman treatment of alleged ‘Russian prisoners’ by ‘Ukrainian soldiers’ in order to discredit the Ukrainian defence forces,” Zaluzhnyi said.

“Currently, no one can confirm or deny the veracity of this video,” he said. “It’s not known where it’s happening, or who the participants are.”

I did mention myself that these reports were going to be investigated by the Ukrainian government.

I hope that they make the results of their investigation public soon.

If it turns out to be true we all need to strongly condemn such actions regardless of which side is doing it.

There has been a history of such actions in the past in the Donbas region so the reports are not completely baseless.

From what we have seen in the past Wars around the World logic says that we should always be on guard about the possibility of torture, abuse, or mistreatment taking place by all sides.

War is a dirty business and it can make even the most righteous persons do some horrible things after they see so much death and destruction specially if their family members and friends are killed right in front of their eyes.

But regardless of the situation we still should require everyone to respect and abide by the rules of engagement.

IMO

 

[Sutruk]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1508207873796579338

 

[Sutruk]

Ukrainian forces retake control of town of Irpin, says local mayor​

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...ntrol-town-irpin-says-local-mayor-2022-03-28/

"LVIV, Ukraine, March 28 (Reuters) - The mayor of Irpin, near Kyiv, said on Monday Ukrainian forces had seized back full control of the town which has been one of the main hotspots of fighting with Russian troops near the capital.

"We have good news today - Irpin has been liberated," Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn said in a video post on Telegram. "We understand that there will be more attacks on our town and we will defend it courageously."

 

[Cal2]

The situation in Ukraine is the pure invasion of a sovereign country and democracy by a megalomaniac and mass murderer in order to reinstate his dreams of the Soviet Union.
Add it to the fact that Putin is a dictator that badly hates seeing Ukraine with freedom and democracy for its people, and you have the reason of Putin's aggression and massacre in Ukraine.

For Putin, the real threat is that russian people can see how ukrainians live in democracy with true elections and freedom, and so, in near future, also ask for freedom and real democracy in Russia. That is what really panics Putin.

It's a look at what else could be motivator/s to the war, beyond what's being shown and talked about. Access to and control of significant natural resources that are in demand seems a good motivator, not only for politicians. And what they might do for it... As one CEO of a corporation that's into natural resources told me after he'd gotten done dealing with another corporation's attempt to push them out of a project and take over control of it, "They kill people".

 

[oldtimer]

Today's peace talks in Turkey have been somewhat constructive with Russia announcing the reduction of the military activities around Kyiv and Ukraine being able to resume the humanitarian evacuations along three corridors.

There is some optimism on both sides that a ceasefire could be achieved soon, but there are still some issues that need to be ironed out perhaps in future talks.

IMO

 

[Kingslayer]

Today's peace talks in Turkey have been somewhat constructive with Russia announcing the reduction of the military activities around Kyiv and Ukraine being able to resume the humanitarian evacuations along three corridors.

There is some optimism on both sides that a ceasefire could be achieved soon, but there are still some issues that need to be ironed out perhaps in future talks.

IMO

Load of rubbish and these peace talks have been a complete waste of time for the most part, Putin has no intention to make peace, he's made that perfectly clear.

Even if peace was agreed and Ukraine demilitarized and agreed to remain neutral, would anyone honestly trust Russia? This is a country who believe Ukraine are nazi's and spread false info to justify invasion. Who's to say, they won't make a false claim in the near future to justify attacks again ie:- making out Ukraine broke the agreement, but only this time Ukraine don't have a military to defend themselves.

It must be a nightmare to have a country like Russia right on your doorstep and a country who share a boarder them cannot demilitarise surely, espcially after this nation as just tried to wipe them off the map for no reason.

 

[.X.]

Load of rubbish and these peace talks have been a complete waste of time for the most part, Putin has no intention to make peace, he's made that perfectly clear.

Even if peace was agreed and Ukraine demilitarized and agreed to remain neutral, would anyone honestly trust Russia? This is a country who believe Ukraine are nazi's and spread false info to justify invasion. Who's to say, they won't make a false claim in the near future to justify attacks again ie:- making out Ukraine broke the agreement, but only this time Ukraine don't have a military to defend themselves.

It must be a nightmare to have a country like Russia right on your doorstep and a country who share a boarder them cannot demilitarise surely, espcially after this nation as just tried to wipe them off the map for no reason.

Maybe Ukraine is using tactful talks with Putin , it could work, use tactful talks to create a cease fire , then figure out how to remove Putin from power IMO

 

[Sutruk]

Dmytro Kuleba @DmytroKuleba March 28, 2022

Getting no local support in Ukraine, Russian invaders abduct elected local leaders, activists, and journalists. Join the Day of Action by Ukrainian human rights activists @zminaUkraine. Post names and faces of the abductees with #TheTaken hashtag. Demand their immediate release.

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[Sutruk]

MFA of Ukraine 🇺🇦 @MFA_Ukraine March 28, 2022

Olena Zelenska, 🇺🇦 First Lady:

The war in #Ukraine is a war on the doorstep of your home. Stay open, stay responsive. Stay on the side of peace and humanity. Then the victory of Ukraine will be your victory!

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[mr-x]

Russia is using the "peace talks" to regroup and resupply. Watch for an overwhelming attack if I'm correct.

 

[bmugford]

Russia is using the "peace talks" to regroup and resupply. Watch for an overwhelming attack if I'm correct.

I agree. It is basically just misdirection.

I don't think they are serious with the peace talks.

Brad

 

[Sutruk]

Bipartisan Senators Ask White House to Clarify U.S. Mission in Ukraine, Provide Answers on Speed and Specifics of Lethal Aid​

https://www.ernst.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=B004BD6D-3FB4-4952-93FE-926F75B85C5E

WASHINGTON – Over one month since the beginning of Putin’s unjust war on Ukraine, and following a bipartisan Senate delegation visit to Poland and Germany, U.S. Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) are leading a bipartisan group of senators requesting answers from President Biden’s national security advisor (NSA), Jake Sullivan, on the speed, specifics, and supply of lethal aid provided to Ukraine.

In their letter to NSA Sullivan, the senators write: “We request a timely response to these questions detailing your provisions, risk assessments, and strategy to enable Ukraine to defeat Vladimir Putin and return to sovereignty and freedom.

Ernst and her colleagues conclude by writing: “The U.S. mission in Ukraine must go beyond ensuring the country merely has the means to defend itself against Russian aggression. The strategy must deliver Ukraine necessary weapons to defend itself, counter the Russian forces' advance, and give the Ukrainian people a chance to win this war. Success cannot be a Russian-occupied Ukraine - it must be a free, independent, and sovereign Ukraine. Authoritarianism cannot prevail in this conflict. Defending freedom in Ukraine is defending freedom everywhere. We anxiously await your response.”

 

[Cal2]

I agree. It is basically just misdirection.

I don't think they are serious with the peace talks.

Brad

Your previous twitter feed post seemed to give the answer as to how serious Putin is about any peace talks:

"Russian media is suddenly explicit about what Russia is really doing in Ukraine. Citing Vasily Zenkovsky's writings from 1931, propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov laid it out: "Russia will never cede Ukraine to anyone... it has to be part of Russia, even against Ukraine's own will.""

https://twitter.com/x/status/1508196832136122381

 

[Kingslayer]

Russia is losing so much military equipment in Ukraine that weapons monitors are overwhelmed​

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...raine-military-equipment-losses-b2046501.html

 

[Cal2]

OP-ED

No compromises with the Kremlin: Why we must denazify Putin’s Russia​

As the largest conflict in Europe since World War II enters its second month, surprising numbers of Western politicians and commentators continue to question why Ukraine does not simply accept Moscow’s demands. They fail to appreciate that there can be no meaningful negotiated settlement with a regime that openly denies Ukraine’s right to exist while actively seeking to destroy Ukrainian statehood and identity. .......

Calls for Ukraine to reach a compromise with Putin’s regime are as short-sighted and inappropriate as advocating negotiations with Nazi Germany at the height of WWII. The only outcome that should satisfy the West is the complete defeat of Russia.

If Ukraine stops fighting in exchange for the illusion of a temporary truce, the consequences for both Ukraine and the wider world will be grave and the costs of stopping Putin will rise even further. Instead, the goal of the international community must be the denazification of Russia.

https://www.kyivpost.com/article/op...emlin-why-we-must-denazify-putins-russia.html

 

[Sutruk]

OP-ED

No compromises with the Kremlin: Why we must denazify Putin’s Russia​

As the largest conflict in Europe since World War II enters its second month, surprising numbers of Western politicians and commentators continue to question why Ukraine does not simply accept Moscow’s demands. They fail to appreciate that there can be no meaningful negotiated settlement with a regime that openly denies Ukraine’s right to exist while actively seeking to destroy Ukrainian statehood and identity. .......

Calls for Ukraine to reach a compromise with Putin’s regime are as short-sighted and inappropriate as advocating negotiations with Nazi Germany at the height of WWII. The only outcome that should satisfy the West is the complete defeat of Russia.

If Ukraine stops fighting in exchange for the illusion of a temporary truce, the consequences for both Ukraine and the wider world will be grave and the costs of stopping Putin will rise even further. Instead, the goal of the international community must be the denazification of Russia.

https://www.kyivpost.com/article/op...emlin-why-we-must-denazify-putins-russia.html

That's a great article worth reading in full.
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"The great irony of the current war is Russia’s attempt to frame the conflict as a campaign to “denazify” Ukraine. This portrayal is very much in line with the Kremlin’s long tradition of labeling any manifestations of Ukrainian national identity as “fascism.”

Unfortunately for Russia, international audiences are no longer completely ignorant about Ukraine and increasingly understand that Moscow’s “Nazi” slurs are baseless. As international coverage of the current war has frequently highlighted, it is both absurd and grotesque to label a democratic country with a popularly elected Jewish president as “Nazi.”

Likewise, the pitiful electoral performance of Ukraine’s far-right parties has often been cited as evidence of the emptiness of Russia’s claims. Whereas far-right political parties have enjoyed considerable success across the European Union over the past decade, Ukraine’s marginalized nationalist fringe consistently struggles to secure more than 2% of the vote. In practical terms, Moscow’s definition of a Nazi is politically meaningless and includes any Ukrainian who rejects the idea that their country belongs to Russia.

In contrast to democratic Ukraine, Russia itself is now in many senses the epitome of neo-fascism. Vladimir Putin has constructed a strikingly fascistic culture of extreme nationalism and expansionist militarism fueled by a carefully cultivated sense of historical injustice together with nostalgic appeals to a highly idealized and largely imaginary past. This is almost a textbook definition of fascism.

As the supreme leader of his one-party state, Putin has focused much of his ideological attention on demonizing and dehumanizing Ukraine. In a series of rants designed to justify the February 24 attack on Ukraine, he denounced the entire country as an illegitimate “anti-Russia” and declared his intention to embark on what the Kremlin media trumpeted as the “final solution” of the Ukrainian question.

The ensuing Russian invasion of Ukraine is rapidly taking on the form of a Nazi-style war of extermination, with the systematic destruction of civilian populations and reports emerging from occupied regions of mass arrests, kill lists, and forced deportations. It is hardly surprising that so many people now regard the “Z” branding of Putin’s invasion force as a modern-day version of Hitler’s swastika.

While peace talks have been underway since the early days of the war, Russia has so far shown little sign of a readiness to compromise. Instead, Moscow demands Ukraine’s demilitarization along with the above-mentioned “denazification,” which in practice would mean leaving the country defenseless and stripping it of its Ukrainian identity. Russia also seeks Ukrainian recognition for the annexation of Crimea and the so-called separatist republics of eastern Ukraine."

 

[Cal2]

Russia Finally Rules Out Using Nuclear Weapons Over Ukraine War​

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia is not considering turning to nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, and reiterated Moscow's stance that the use of such capabilities would only follow a "threat for existence."

Peskov told PBS "no one is thinking about [...] using a nuclear weapon," and that the Ukrainian conflict has "nothing to do with" any threat to Russia's existence. The comments come a week after on CNN he repeatedly refused to rule out that Russia would consider nuclear force against an "existential threat."

In the PBS interview on Monday, Peskov had been asked to clarify comments from former President Dmitry Medvedev, who has listed scenarios in which Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons if it faced an existential threat.

Russia has around 6,000 nuclear warheads and Medvedev said Russia's nuclear doctrine did not require an adversary to use such weapons first.

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-peskov-putin-nuclear-weapons-biden-1692753

Putin's way of minimizing thoughts, actions about taking him out?

 

[BRANDERX]

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Peskov told PBS "no one is thinking about [...] using a nuclear weapon," and that the Ukrainian conflict has "nothing to do with" any threat to Russia's existence. The comments come a week after on CNN he repeatedly refused to rule out that Russia would consider nuclear force against an "existential threat."

That's right, they can't claim it's an existential threat without a single missile fired towards Russian soil.

 

[BRANDERX]

Russia is using the "peace talks" to regroup and resupply. Watch for an overwhelming attack if I'm correct.

I don't know about that, they'd putting their diplomatic relations with the mediators & others at great risk if it's just a show. Plus, "regroup & resupply" doesn't happen in secret these days, satellites/foreign intelligence & even Google can see everything. They never had the element of surprise to begin with, not even on day 1 of the war.

 

[LoveCatchyDomains]

Thank heavens there is more reassurance about Russia not being an imminent nuclear threat.

Right now, the Covid threat deserves more immediate attention, given the "Stealth" subvariant. A hypothetical Nuclear War could kill many. Our nasty little Covid-19 variants likely will continue to kill many, unless more aggressive measures are taken in especially vulnerable areas.

Hopefully, Russia will do the right thing. Stop fighting in Ukraine, and help the world in conquerinig our most nefarious enemy of this century -- Covid19. IMO