Washington post can no longer deny this reality
What’s your point?
Okay, their banking system recovered, better than expected, for now.
What will their (& our) grocery stores look like?
The war & carnage continues,
which offer only escalating cascading negative consequences,
and fallout that will ripple through all our lives, over the next months and years.
Why wasn’t this thought out before economic warfare was launched?
Diplomatic resolution was never an option.
All we got from the western media was this
Obviously there was a lot of forethought. Why did Putin think he could drive in a few tanks and take a country?
This has turned into a global crisis with the west economic sanctions having massive ramifications. What will the USA do? Help continue the war or end it ?
What are your suggestions for how the US could end this war?
Lordie milkthecow, you act as though we started the war.
Do you have any expectations of Putin?
Not start but made the conditions for war possible
Yes,
The bad, bad United States responsible for all the ills in the world.
Give it a rest, will you?
Well, they would say that. Definitely in the realm of possibility, though.
Certainly is thatoneguy
Yo, Milk,
saying this will be bigger than the change WW2 brought to the global order.
Geez, you think?
More like world global disorder and speeding our own relentless drive towards utter self-destruction.
- Why did Russia invade Ukraine?
- Who is winning the war?
- Why is Russia’s military performing so poorly?
- What has the war meant for ordinary Ukrainians?
- What do Russians think about the war?
- What is the US role in the conflict?
- How is the rest of the world responding to Russia’s actions?
- Could this turn into World War III?
- How could the war end?
milkthecow has a way of stating things so that no matter what happens, he can say he predicted it. It works in reverse also, where he can take any two facts and claim a causal connection. He’s been warned about this form of trolling and will probably not be able to correct himself.
Yeah, you’re probably right. Guess I’m just trying to trick him into some actual dialogue.
oops, I gave away my plan. 
Well, begging hasn’t worked, so take your best shot. He probably feels like people are trying to trick him all the time. So he’s suspicious of a direct question.
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1 the events since the breakup of the ussr have been discussed here. You know Russias grievances with nato 2014 coup and dombas
2 90 % of Ukrainians think that they are winning and will defeat Russia
3 poorly in what respect?
4 east or west Ukraine - Life changing events
5 putins approval rating way up as the war progresses
6 supplying endless arms and dictating 
Negotiations with 
to try and make this russia Afghanistan quagmire
7 the western club of USA Europe Canada Australia New Zealand UK are have taken war against Russia with arms supply and initiating economic war
The rest of the world in particular China India the ME Africa and South America have not condemned Russia but rather forging closer ties and working towards a new world order
8 if the neocons on both political parties win their battle with the Pentagon especially the no fly zone issue then yes Lordie
9 if 
want forever war in Ukraine it will lead to complete destruction of a country and lots of their land will be lost . West has to acknowledge Ukraine will never join NATO no nato troops military bases or exercises in Ukraine and recognition of
autonomous regions
Some questions for you now
- Why is the US prepared to risk WW111 with a proxy war?
2 what do Americans think of Biden’s handling of this conflict?
3 do you believe Russia is losing and will lose?
4 what will be the effects of western sanctions on Russia to ordinary people around the world?
5 do you support calls for regime change in Russia , even to calls of putins assassination by the likes of Lindsay Graham ?
- Why can’t the US bring itself to say Ukraine won’t join NATO ever?
7 do you agree with Biden that this needs to be a long war?
8 Why is the west supporting neo Nazis within Ukraine?
9 Should USA implement a no fly zone and send its troops to Ukraine?
10 what will end this war?
11. Why is the USA avoiding a diplomatic solution to this conflict?
Your answers are straight out of Putin’s talking points. Not worth discussing with you.
You seem to have your facts all topsy-turvy. It is Russia who is at war, and it is Russia who will decide how long or short this war is.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/01/opinions/putin-lies-negotiations-ukraine-ghitis/index.html
Frida Ghitis, - … Within hours, Russian shells and missiles started slamming buildings in Chernihiv and in the outskirts of Kyiv. Chernihiv Mayor Vladyslav Atroshenko, describing a “colossal attack” on the city, said, “This is yet another confirmation that Russia always lies.”
Suddenly, the sunny Russian proclamations of “significant progress” by one top official in Istanbul were replaced with dark statements from another in Moscow.
That truth is the first casualty of war has become a cliché. But it didn’t take a war for Putin’s Russia to launch a stream of falsehoods and disinformation. The deceptions started decades ago and they never stopped. The war allowed the world to see it deployed in real time.
How do you negotiate with an interlocutor who lies routinely, repeatedly and without compunction?
How do you negotiate with a regime that has a decades-long track record of breaking its international commitments?Among the many broken promises is the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, when Russia, in exchange for Ukraine’s agreement to hand over the nuclear weapons it held from the Soviet era, vowed to respect Ukraine’s borders, sovereignty and independence.
And in Russia’s 1997 “Founding Act” agreement with NATO, it promised not only to commit to democracy and the rule of law, but to refrain “from the threat or use of force…against any other state, its sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence.” …