The Russian-Ukrainian War Thread

[rsemmes]

Pretty much, yes.

As Feanor said: "A convenient excuse to disregard what you don't like or don't want to face up to." Hopefully, most of them, are facing reality now, not their reality.

'Donald Trump has said “I don’t need international law” and that his power is limited only by his “own morality”. In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.'

‘I don’t need international law’: Trump says power constrained only by ‘my own morality’

President says morality ‘the only thing that can stop me’ in New York Times interview on limits to his authority

www.theguardian.com

That is a democratic elected leader in a western democracy (like a certain Austrian lance-corporal, for those fond of Teschen).

 

[swerve]

What Trump is saying is very scary.

 

[KipPotapych]

I will try to later post on the subject of “order” in the NATO thread where some of it was moved and I will tie it to Greenland.


Controversial versions/accounts of the damage caused by the Oreshnik strike yesterday have emerged. The NYT described it as follows:

The missile landed on a military site in western Ukraine and reportedly inflicted little damage, leaving a couple of unimpressive craters in the frozen earth. But its true target was farther afield, analysts and political officials said: Ukraine’s allies in Europe.

Via the archive: https://archive.ph/L0LWa

The mayor of Lviv, on the other hand, said that the damage that exists “is certainly horrible”. Ragozin has a video with English subtitles here:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2009724928057299138

I still tend to think that it was more related to the Paris agreement of “intent” as other means would probably cause more significant damage. it’s not like Lviv area had never been hit before.


Neat when people argue with some of the more recognized experts in the field though:




Edit: There is also rhis: