The Inevitable Has Taken Place Overnight , Putin Has Launched An Attack On Ukraine

[Bobbisox1]

https://news.sky.com/story/putin-clashes-with-ukrainian-forces-inevitable-12550026

I pray for the safety of these innocent people and worry about my two young friends Viktoryia and Nadya,they live in a town on the Belarusian border with Russia , children of the Chernobyl disaster who friends of mine had them here for two weeks when they were little girls and I’ve been in touch ever since with them

I hope Putin goes the way of other evil dictators before him like
Hitler
Saddam Hussein
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Augusto Pinochet

Bullies don’t win in the end !

[ichkeria]

It is also curious is it not that for all the stories of "genocide" in E Ukraine by Ukrainian forces, you never see any evidence on TV.
Only pictures of smiling or indeed sacred inhabitants.
All pawns in the game.

[ichkeria]

"scared" (!)

[jno]

agree with Gromit at 11.08, with the proviso that Trump was right to call for Europe to pay more for its own defence. Even now they (and we) seem to be taking our cue from Biden.

[grumpy01]

Wonder if there will be an attempt to eliminate Putin.

[jourdain2]

I would think so, grumpy, but its not as easy as that. A volatile situation and at least there is a partly understandable leader. Take him out and the situation becomes even more unstable - who would take over direction etc...
We (OH and I have talked and agree) have a very bad feeling about this. He went through WW2 as a kid and then Nat. Service and the Cold War at 1st hand, so is worth listening to.

[ichkeria]

1700 arrests in Russia.
Can’t see anything happening soon alas.

The war isn’t going that well for them I say. Ukraine has retaken Antonov military airport