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ICT anti-war leaflet
http://libcom.org/blog/ukraine-neither-nato-nor-putin-no-war-class-war-26022022
More on the possible scale of refugees
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-60517447
UN aid agencies are projecting that up to five million Ukrainians could flee to surrounding countries.
At least 100,000 people have already been displaced by the Russian invasion, the UN refugee agency says. Around half of them left in the last 48 hours.
Poland has said that it is willing to take up to a million Ukrainian refugees. The UN has warned that nearly three times that number could be headed just to Poland in the coming days.
As I said in an earlier post, strange isn’t it the change of attitude to those fleeing war when white and Christian
Turkey declines to blockade the Bosphorus to Russian warships
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/25/cannot-stop-russian-warships-returning-in-black-sea-turkey
Russia will no longer be allowed to compete in this year’s Eurovision song contest
Now, that is what I call an existential sanction!!!
AC, Russia is now warning Finland and Sweden of serious consequences if they seek to join NATO.
“…Their accession to Nato can have detrimental consequences… and face military and political consequences…” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said
Refugees are now fleeing Ukraine and to be welcomed in countries that were most reluctant to accept those from Syria seeking sanctuary, Hungary and Poland.
Now tell me it was never based upon racism and bigotry.
Comparisons with Russian-speakers in Moldova and Georgia. I would make a similar comparison with Hitler and German-speakers of Sudetenland.
I wild guess but I believe Putin seeks the historic nationalist legacy that he put Russia back together again.
Being from RT it will possess a slanted view but I think the basic facts on Euromaidan as stated are fairly accurate.
https://www.rt.com/russia/550266-euromaidan-ukraine-history-results/
Another link that broadens the socialist case against all wars
https://socialist-courier.blogspot.com/2022/02/our-declaration-of-peace.html
Business as usual….
At the White House daily briefing, a reporter asked Biden economic adviser Daleep Singh if sanctions on the Russian energy industry were “totally off the table”.
“Our measures were not designed to disrupt in any way the current flow of energy to Russia to the world,” he said, adding that the sanctions on technology would disrupt Russia’s ability to develop the energy industry in the long term.
“Nothing in the short term as it relates to energy,” he concluded.
MS, you will note the blog says ‘full scale attack‘ rather than invasion.
I see no reason, however, why you cannot use the word full-scale incursion, if you prefer, in your translation.
You will also note that in an earlier comment here, I suggested that we do not know if it will lead to the Russian occupation of the wider Donbas region, presently under Kyiv government control, to enlarge the existing breakaway republics.
Is Russia intending regime-change, I don’t know?
What did Putin mean exactly by ‘de-nazification’?
If so, the presence of Russian troops we can envisage as a longer duration.
This war is still in its early days and just like the experts, I have no idea how it will develop or how it will intensify.
I’m hoping for a speedy ceasefire and capitulation of Ukrainian forces to avoid a long drawn-out war that would result in a heavy civilian toll
I once mentioned on the forum mission-creep, so perhaps Putin’s limited objectives may widen with what happens on the ground. I simply don’t know.
All we can do is speculate and exchange information that helps to clarify what is going on. And be cautious about accepting the claims from either side.
The economic and banking sanctions
https://www.dw.com/en/explainer-how-severe-are-the-new-sanctions-on-russia/a-60908391
Alexandra Vacroux, executive director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, told DW, “Putin doesn’t care what the economic impact is of this invasion. It’s not going to stop him from doing what he’s planning on doing,” she argued.
“At the same time, you have to punish him somehow and if you’re not going to fight him with troops, you have to fight him in other ways. Economic levers are all we have. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t use them, but I am saying that they are not going to deter him from continuing to invade Ukraine.”
Australia tries to widen the conflict by involving China
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-latest-updates-0224-303b0bfdc6148c8738d6ac0ca78142fd
