Posted on 03/30/2022 7:11:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
ATHENS — The considerable fanfare surrounding a fresh round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine at Istanbul yesterday risks fizzling fast — and if you are among the thousands still trapped in the besieged Ukrainian city (at least for the moment) of Mariupol, it probably already has.
That is because the real power broker in this mess, Vladimir Putin, has shot down an incipient humanitarian aid mission to the city that forces under his command have largely destroyed.
The idea for said mission started with a Greek proposal, to which France glommed on and Turkey too, but Mr. Putin reportedly told President Macron in another of their lengthy phone chats that Ukrainian forces still fighting in Mariupol would have to surrender before humanitarian aid can be dispatched, the Greek daily Kathimerini reported this morning.
Ukrainian fighters laying down their arms is little more than a pipe dream for Mr. Putin, who for his part appears to be throwing more mettle into the fight he started, its provenance be damned.
Russian state media reported that a Chechen warlord accused of multiple human rights abuses, Ramzan Kadyrov, has traveled to Mariupol to continue the Kremlin’s brutal onslaught of the strategic port city. According to the Times of London, the 45-year-old Mr. Kadyrov is notorious for torturing his critics in the tightly controlled Muslim republic he rules in the south of Russia.
Mr. Kadyrov has been one of Mr. Putin’s principal cheerleaders for the war in Ukraine, the paper reports, has mocked Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has taunted Elon Musk on Twitter, and has a penchant for wearing pricey Prada boots. If some of that has a surreal ring to it, the hard facts are that thousands of civilians have likely been killed in Mariupol since bombing began four weeks ago,
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I find the New York Sun to be one of the publications that tries its darndest to report the truth. It’s better than over 90% of the media out there in my humble opinion.
Enjoy your ride.
I have been here since 1999 princess. You deserve no respect whatsoever.
Not our circus, not our monkeys.
I signed up before you, shortpants. You obviously aren’t worthwhile freeper material. Puttziness is not a virtue.
As you probably already know, KEVMO is a hysterical POS.
***Frack off, puttz.
His postings are no surprise as IT is more concerned with Ukie borders than our own borders.
***I have posted on our own borders. It is the right thing to do, close our borders. Invade Mexico, set up a 100 mile buffer zone between us and the Mehico Narco State that regularly sends in Illegal Colonizers. But the current administration aint gonna do that. It is the right thing to do, they aint gonna do it.
It’s also the right thing to do, support the sovereignty of the Ukraine which got INVADED by a local thug just like the Sudetenland. But pantywaist p^ssyhat wearing aPPeasers like you are too scaredy-scared to do the RIGHT thing here. Currently the democrap admin wants to do the right thing over this country that got invaded. Just because it’s the right thing to do here doesn’t mean someone unsupports our own local border problems, jerkwad. What a Manichean Maggot Muncher you turned out to be.
“Asking Mariupol Residents About Russian Attacks On Civilian areas”
The person below was recommended to watch on another FR site, which now I have done so earlier. Now have watched today this one as well. Finding these interviews with persons on street in cities under attack and bombed to be compelling, and have a genuine ring as no NYT and MSM propaganda has. This Patrick Lancaster speaks Ukraine and Russian, awkwardly. The responses are in Ukraine/Russian and put in English onscreen in realtime.
The interviewees claim that the Ukraine Army and not the Russians are destroying their city and homes.
Mar 31, 2022
Asking Mariupol Residents About Russian Attacks On Civilian areas
#RussiaUkrainewar #Russia #Ukraine
Report by Patrick Lancaster
“US Navy veteran and independent crowd-funded journalist.
Over the 8 years of the Ukraine War I made more video reports in anti-Ukraine Government (Donetsk People’s Republic) controlled territory than any other western journalist. All so covered the Armenian Azerbaijan war reaching over 8 million on his youtube channel with his reports there
I show what the western media will not show you.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLZ2ZzoD-W0
Ridiculous, irrelevant. You are mixing everything up like an antifa nut. Either you are a paranoid schizophrenic or you appeal to those as your army.
Watch the report at post #67.
Again, as Russia invades, that makes no sense. In fact, another spin on this would be that it is Russian troops which are using residents as human shields by taking location inside Ukrainian cities specific. And there is an argument that Ukrainians are dong that too, which is credible. However, this is a Stokholm syndrome issue strategy the Russians have plaid well fundamentally, and while it is effective propaganda, it does not justify their going willy nilly nor believing them as saviors of Russians in Ukraine. Russians get better pensions abroad than in Russia, by the way.
By siding with our own tyrannical government, who would gladly destroy all of us, your type of “patriot” is worse than any foreign enemy.
I “side with my own guvmint”???? You mean, Biden favors giving the Ukes back their nukes? Whodathunk it other than a Manichean Meatsack like yourself...
I am sure that most on FR are tiring of you and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade. If you feel the need to be a “last-word Queen”, fire away. No one gives a shit about some loser tilting at windmills.
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