Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[Lehrasap]

There are many German who support Russia.
Many reasons for this;

-Russia is a natural resource provider.
-Russia is a balancer against the UK-US axis
-Russian state and education is modeled after Preussian Germany
- Russian influence in former DDR area is still significant.
- Germans of Russian heritage
- Russia and Germany are geostrategically natural allies

There may be only a handful of German who think like this.
Remaining Germans are standing with Ukraine and EU.
Even the Russian speaking Germans (or at least their majority) are also not in favour of Putin.

 

[Big_bud]

Western hypocracy. West would cause its own downfall.

 

[QWECXZ]

You got to love Zelensky's Neo-Nazi gang

Such a fine group of gentlemen. ISIS is bad when it attacks Europe, it's good when it attacks Syria. Al-Qaeda is good when they fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, they're bad when they attack the United States. Nazism is bad when they kill Jews, it's good when they kill Russians and Muslims. I think you get the idea.

 

[Wergeland 2.0]

There may be only a handful of German who think like this.
Remaining Germans are standing with Ukraine and EU.
Even the Russian speaking Germans (or at least their majority) are also not in favour of Putin.

You are probably right according to present discourse.

Still what i said is valid imo. The thing is people are influenced by current events and media to a large extent. Disliking Putin and Ukrainian invasion is also not the same as hating Russia as whole.

 

[Messerschmitt]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1498716529784987653

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

 

[Oom]

This a defence forum right? Can members please stick to the topic. I’m sure there are other threads where they can discuss other matters.

It’s hard trying to follow the conflict, when page after page is filled with irrelevant matters with some useful post in between.

Just open a new thread for those who want to discuss matter incidental to the invasion.

 

[coffee_cup]

There are many German who support Russia.
Many reasons for this;

-Russia is a natural resource provider.
-Russia is a balancer against the UK-US axis
-Russian state and education is modeled after Preussian Germany
- Russian influence in former DDR area is still significant.
- Germans of Russian heritage
- Russia and Germany are geostrategically natural allies

Actually there is a significant Russian population in Germany. But Russophobian media onslaught has ensured that the German left (or interestingly German right) will have hard time supporting anything Russian in the coming years.

I feel for both normal Ukranian and Russian populations. They have nothing to do with this war.

 

[Lone Ranger]

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[Messerschmitt]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1498718721006882825

 

[The SC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1498718014925160452

https://twitter.com/x/status/1498192516985802754

 

[Shotgunner51]

Thank you for sharing @Shotgunner51

So the news was true then.

You are welcome. I didn't pay attention to responses of Latin America until I saw your post, and found those responses quite different from what I've imagined, say Brazil.

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-27-22/h_b2ead409d34681d2bd17cd7e29bce505

 

[NA71]

People have short memories. Russians are doing nothing as compared to what Americans did to Iraq, and its cities.

exactly, from carpet bombing to Mother of all Bomb to depleted Uranium ammunition...they tested every piece of military hardware they developed on Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan....now crying for human loss.

 

[PakAlp]

Ukraine is being supported by all Europe to N America. Russia is hit with sanctions, propaganda, military support for Ukraine. What are Russia allies like Belarus, Armenia, Syria, Iran, India and China, N Korea, Kazakhstan are planning to do to help Russia.

 

[LeGenD]

UPDATE

Over 600,000 Ukrainians are displaced and have fled to Poland by now.