Posted on 03/20/2022 2:08:57 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia has given Ukraine until the early hours of March 21 to surrender the besieged city of Mariupol, according to a Russian state news agency.
Russian Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defence Control Centre, has given his counterparts until 5am Moscow time (2am GMT) to respond to his ultimatum, RIA reports.
According to the state controlled media outlet, "the Ministry of Defence wants to receive a written response from Kyiv to these proposals before 5am.
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<<>> Speaking Russian does not equate to being pro-Russian, especially when the leader of Russia is trying to kill you.
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What happened? How Kharkiv which used to be culturally and politically pro-Russian so quickly turned super anti-Russian? It's a huge cultural change and a very recent one. And the answer would be: Putin's conflict manufacturing strategy killed pro-Russian sentiments in Ukraine
When Putin manufactured the Donbass War he presented it as an Ukrainian inner conflict. Many in Russia bought it. Many in the West bought it. Many idiots even now talk about "Ukraine shelling civilians of Donbass for eight years". Bad Ukrainians being bad, that caused the war
Nobody in Ukraine bought it. Russians and Westerners considered the Donbass catastrophe as a Ukrainian problem. In Ukraine however, it was seen as a Russian problem. Donbass was simply a part of Ukraine which fall under the Russian rule and its nightmare was purely Russian-made.
So now Putin has also a “red line?”
“When brought up to Madelein Albright, how the sanctions against Iraq killed 500,000 civilians she said it was “worth it.””
500,00 is a leftist fake number.
I’ve read that Putin is ill. One account said that he was poisoned. He looks “puffy” like someone with kidney issues.
Yeah, sure. You probably believe Saddam had chemical weapons too.
Let HIM worry about “what else”
I see your point.
It’s in the wrong place.
Ah, personal insults....bye!
The US did not invade Serbia. Russia invaded Ukraine, and did so with precisely the excuses Hitler used to invade Poland. That is the beginning and end of the story about legitimacy of action.
I am not totally convinced of the presentations of the mockingbird media. I actually have family on my Grandmother’s side who are pro-Russian in central Ukraine. The overthrowing of Democratically elected Yanukovich pissed them off even more. Crimea voted 95% to exit the Kakistocracy join Russia. This is not a United Nation. Anyone who has been there multiple times knows this.
Obviously you did not read the Wikipedia article. They were a Italian they have been taken into the National Guard as a regiment. Keep reading
I said battalion, but my phone typed Italian. The crazy techno world we live in
Ok, I’ll save my conversations for intelligent people.
While you try to come across as intelligent, you fail to do so. My comments are unpopular because they go against the MSM. During Covid was the same thing. So many people here just bought it. I was actually very surprised.
I want this war to end and I don’t want the west sucked in and I’d really like to avoid being nuked. You take issue with that?
I have.
They were not Slavs. There used to be a rather large germanic minority in the Crimea and Ukraine.
And even if they are, the leader (well, nominally) of Ukraine is Jewish.
Which in Nazi idelology is a bit worse than slav.
“Ok, I’ll save my conversations for intelligent people.”
You mean people who won’t challenged your bs.
No, I mean other patriots. Those that don’t swallow everything the media tells them to.
“No, I mean other patriots. Those that don’t swallow everything the media tells them to.”
Patriots to what country?
USSR?
Is the media telling you the Donbas regions call themselves People’s Republics?
No.
All you need to see is that Germany is still supporting Putin Russia the same as always.
Media hype about Ukraine is empty jingoism that has nothing to do with reality.
Ukraine and Ukrainian people are pawns and unimportant to what Brandon, Putin and Schwab are doing.
I never said the people weren’t good. Though I have spent quite a bit of time in the region, I know lots of good people.
I’m a patriot to North America, that’s what I care about.
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