Not really.
Not being able to have the UN go to war against a nuclear power is a feature not a bug.
USSR was committing worse atrocities for the entire period it coexisted with the SC.
I’m open to the idea that the veto should be changed, but we have to engage with the nuclear argument. What’s different today vs 1960 or 1970 or 1980?
Tanks and artillery and planes are needed to recapture open terrain that Russia holds in Donbas.
So any nuclear power - or psycho leader of a nuclear power - can just hold the whole world to ransom. Sounds like a shit system.
Unfortunately humans mostly really, really, really are assholes. And some of the absolute WOATs end up leading countries.
I’m being simplistic and emotional obv.
This is kind of wrong but I still laughed.
https://twitter.com/Sputnik_Not/status/1511445457028980738?t=9zU97SiBOSCdx1kdCVv1gw&s=19
russia isn’t going to hold on to open terrain. the entire reason the south axis was successful was because UA defenders would be sitting ducks on the steppe. RU might have an objective to hold the water canal from Dniepr to crimea, but it is a longer shot, and much smaller prize than a city like mariupol or kherson.
Ha ha ha! Those Russians will totally have to own up to their lies now!
Ah, nevertheless!
Odessa commander/press sec revealed UA has used the captured russian TOS-1A missile system for the first time in the direction of Izyum counteroffensive.
Izyum seems to be the spot to watch for the next few days.
I get the feeling Russia is what the US would be like if 60-70% of the public was addicted to FoxNews (or worse) instead of 40%.
Sorry, I’m bad at geography but it all looks pretty open? If they’re not going to try to hold on in the south (unless they can take cities?), what’s left? Try to press forward from the areas where they made gains in the east? That’s where the gas fields are.
https://twitter.com/KatrinaNation/status/1510806382177669120
Yes, giving a potential rape victim the means to defend themselves is just going to get them hurt. Teach them to lie passive and accept whatever happens.
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1511556357018701830
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1511556700444102657
Wait - what?
https://twitter.com/colinmort/status/1511557141588549634
From recent history, the tipping point seems to be low 40s. At 45, I think we’re clearly toast.
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1511528319656755205
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1511528666840281089
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1511528699870339079
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1511528775527194624
This dude makes some really long threads, but they’re always interesting.
I, for one, will be so bold as to say that the consequences being wrought on the innocent civilians of Moscow are preferable to what is being wrought upon the innocent civilians of Bucha or Mariupol, or basically anywhere else in Ukraine. It’s really unfair to compare losing access to a McDonald’s to people getting summarily executed just for being who they are.
my grandfather had a joke. What city is the most tasty? Izyum (raisin).