It was Putin who called Macron today, according to the Elysée. The call lasted an hour and a half. Macron told Putin: "you are lying to yourself". "There was nothing that Putin said that reassured us", a source in the presidency said. France is preparing for the worst
More detail on the above: according to the same Elysée source, Putin expressed his determination to take control of all of 🇺🇦; his term was its "neutralisation"; he conceded nothing on humanitarian or diplomatic grounds; his objective is total capitulation
Macron: Now there is someone I trust and want to listen to!
Macaron is a poodle. All it took to prevent it is to press Zelensky to implement the Minsk agreements. They had 8 years for this.
The First world war was to bring down the Czar to install socialism in Russia. The Second world was to install communism in China. Who do you think is the target for WWIII?
This may be to install socialism in the US.
After that, there is nobody left who can resist.
Well what are you doing to help them
Next up: Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.
[”Toyota said it is halting production at its plant in St. Petersburg, and will halt vehicle shipments to Russia. Honda will stop exports of cars and motorcycles to the nation, while Mazda Motor Corp. is suspending shipments of parts to a plant in Russia, “]
Russian unemployment going to shoot UP.
I agree, that Russia appears to want all of Ukraine.
I think given the UN vote, that NATO will eventually get involved. They are just waiting to see how much more of the Russian army Ukraine can destroy.
Then they will issue an ultimatum and deadline to Putin to turn his troops around and withdraw. And if he doesn’t, they will establish air superiority and being attacking the Russian troops from the air. It’ll be a slaughterhouse.
But NATO will probably offer a cessation of some of the sanctions as soon as Putin withdraws. So a carrot and stick approach.
Sure it risks nuclear war. Putin will have to decide if he wants his legacy to be as the one who started a nuclear world when the whole world was against him. The West can only be nuclear blackmailed so much befofe it calls his bluff.
Putin is looking for a way out, so he went to Macron, who I don’t trust.
This means it isn’t going well for Putin. He tried to start WWIII and he failed, the blowback is just beginning. The only people Putin helped were Chinese and the Biden crime family.
Never read so much about tires as this twitter thread.
Also read that Russians are using cheap Chinese tires on their vehicles. Tires are coming off.
“This is a thread that will explain the implied poor Russian Army truck maintenance practices based on this photo of a Pantsir-S1 wheeled gun-missile system’s right rear pair of tires below & the operational implications during the Ukrainian mud season.”
https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1499164245250002944
> Vladimir Putin wants to seize all of Ukraine <
My guess: Putin does not want all of Ukraine. He just wants two eastern regions, Donetsk and Luhansk.
At the peace talks, Putin will demand everything. But he will “reluctantly” settle for Donetsk and Luhansk. Sanctions will then be lifted. Putin wins.
Macron has no idea what he’s doing.
[”Putin has put in 90 percent of his pre-staged combat power in Ukraine - U.S. official”]
Pretty soon, reserves will have to be called up in Russia for the “special military operation”.
If Putin takes all of Ukraine, who will pay the Big Guy his 10%?
In other news: “U.S. Navy Recovers F-35C from South China Sea” that was lost a while back. Didn’t want China to recover it.
“Putin wants all of Ukraine”
Not sure why that would be surprising to anyone.
Putin will be hanging by piano wire from a lamp post in Red Square soon. The rabid crazed dog is single handedly destroying Russia.
Captain obvious.
Wow. Was really hoping he wasn’t going to say/do that.
Perhaps it’s time for him to say it publicly.
cue the Office Space guy meme but with “I was told...there would be no invasion” or “I was told...Putin only wanted Donbass”