Worst day for the World for at least 70 years. I am shocked and speachless. Me as a german can't believe that rhis can happen after we all know what happend 80 years ago. I am feeling helpless. Hope you all stay strong.
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Thank you for the wishes. It helped me come out of Ukraine safely. Thank you Germany for letting the refugees find safety in your country.
How is this worse than Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, etc?
All of this is bad. There are so many wars I can't understand. Iraq, apartheid, boko haram, Yugoslavia, murders are also happening in my town. However, this is a conflict that can, and probably has, trigger something very big. Hence my mention of the last 80 years. It's not about one country or just Europe, but a large part of the world is now affected. And the Ukrainians are the first to suffer.
Some people started to buy high quantities of gasoline in Poland, so the feeling of safety is starting to fade away even here. Putin playing his games to take Ukraine apart step by step without consequences. The war shouldn't be an option, Russia should be totally cut out of the outside world. No imports, no exports, but the world needs its money, and where the war is there are opportunities to make huge money.
Fully agree! I would mention "swift" as well. I can´t understand why my own covenment decline this opportunity.
From my understanding, the answer to your "why" is more than obvious. They are afraid of Russian countermeasures, primarily of cutting the Nord Stream pipes. (60% of German energy supplies depends on it. Same or similar goes for Italy, Austria, and even France.)
Think about it from the perspective of the average resident, i.e., in Munich and vicinity where the current temperature ranges between 1°C and 5°C (33.8°F - 41°F). How many of them depend on gas heating? As well, how and how long they may survive without it? What are the alternatives? (If current, how much and how long before the system overloads and collapses?)
Although, I believe the main government(s) concern is, in fact, industry impact and through it economic impact - in short, the money not the people.
I certainly don't support this war and invasion, but talking from the experience, unfortunately, I don't see any nation even less government who would sacrifice their earnings and comfort to help the Ukrainians. And therefore, I am afraid that they are more or less left alone, depending only on themselves.
All these announced sanctions, in my eyes, are only empty threats. The only eventual game-changer might be (ironic truth) Russian oligarchs, but only if some of those announced sanctions would affect their businesses and earnings. In that case, they might make some pressure on Putin.
Although I wouldn't count on that too much either, as history teaches us, it was never a problem for Russians to get rid of or even execute dissidents, no matter how rich or at how high position they were (starting from Romanov family and through later regimes further on). In other words, Putin (not the oligarchs or anyone else) still controls the army, police, and judiciary.
Does that justify another slaughter?
Cab you tell me the origin of "nazi" and wher this word cam from? Putin used it as well. What does this word stand for?
Ok, that is what I thought. You just replyed Putin without knowing what it mean. Nazis (not Neo-nazid) in Germany in 1933-1945 tried to exterminate all Jewish people. Now tell me samething about the Ukraine president. What do you think he is?
I believe he is seriously suggesting that Russians invaded whole country killing civilians, bombing the nuclear waste warehouses, destroying civilian infrastructure, fighting national army not to conquer the country and include it to Russian territory but to fight this small local, armed group that they considered a threat... to Russia.
Can't help here, I think the best choice is to ignore him.
As far as I know, Zelenskyy is of jewish heritage. Would make for a pretty dysfunctional nazi. 😂
That is what I try to say.
If you don't see how being a jew and being a nazi contradict each other, I'm afraid I can't help you. I can however suggest you read up on the 2nd world war, the holocaust, "the final solution", and the Nuremberg trials.
You clearly stated so: "Wonder why nobody is helping Zelenskyy.. I wonder how helpless the people who tried to negotiate with these Nazis for 8 years have felt [...]", but is to be expected that a Russian propagandist spinelessly twist even his own words, just like the KGB rat Putin. There's more contradictions, deception and lies than when discussing gender with a woke fanatic.
The Ukrainian civil war does of course not have anything to do with Putin's invasion and annexation of Crimea in 2014, I assume?
The only one responisble for murdering Russians is Putin, and soon he won't be able to hide the horrendous losses of young Russian boys from his own population, as he sends them to the meat grinder. All for a meaningless war, that only serves his own vanity and paranoid delusions. The Russian economy is collapsing, and even close partners like China clearly doesn't appreciate what's going on. Putin will send you all back 100 years or more in living standard, so then you might get the Russian Empire you want – living as 19th century serfs under tsar Putin, in a broken isolated pariah state on par with North Korea.
Remember all Russian revolutions have resulted from failed war efforts – after the Russo-Japanese war, during the 1st World War, and after the Soviet–Afghan War. Get rid of this power-hungry, paranoid madman yourself, before you doom all Russians to even worse suffering and pain for decades to come.