Russian invasion of Ukraine

[nellyonthewing]

False flag i reckon

Bet the wind was blowing towards Ukraine.

 

[KS55]

It’s a regional trading bloc first and foremost.

Foreign policy remains a competency of individual member states.

So the 140 EU embassies are just for show then?

 

[KS55]

Germany is in mourning for the death of its two decade old Russian policy and struggling to come to terms with the fact it turned out to be a strategic mistake.

Even worst, it turned out that the Eastern Europeans were right all along.

Germany is always reluctant to change course - nimble footed it is not - but bashing them repeatedly over the head is the only way to get them to move. They’ll get there in the end, though.

Ostpolitik is more than 50 years old.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Been a while since I've seen a Russian helicopter taken out - One for the Russian military family album

 

[domalino]

Been a while since I've seen a Russian helicopter taken out - One for the Russian military family album

Nothing is ever going to top that one from the first fortnight of the war where the camera was at 90 degrees to the helicopter and got everything in perfect HD as the missile was fired, hit, and then the crash.

That’s going to get reused in documentary and stock footage for decades.

 

[Grassland Blue]

The fucking EU has quite a lot to do with Ukraine and this thread mate.

Absolutely.
As a previous poster rightly said Ukraine wanted to join the EU (and still do).
If Ukraine was already a member we would now be at war with Russia.

 

[BobKowalski]

Ostpolitik is more than 50 years old.

There is cold war Ostpolitik and fall of the Soviet Union and reunification of Germany, Ostpolitik.

It’s a tale of two halves.

 

[domalino]

The Americans seem optimistic:

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

some people behave like its war porn wtf. Peoplpe dying and shit!

 

[bluethrunthru]

follow thru?