xs4me2 replied to Hanse Mina's status
This indeed is what happens if we do not hold dictators accountable. We have seen it before in the 1930s.
Where should we draw the line?
Be warned, be very warned.
#putin
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Hanse Mina replied to Hanse Mina's status
2/ President Vladimir #Putin on Monday ordered the regular size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active servicemen in a move that would make it the second largest in the world after #China's.
In a decree published on the #Kremlin's website, Putin ordered the overall size of the armed forces to be increased to 2.38 million people, of which he said 1.5 million should be active servicemen.
Vladimir #Putin signed a decree to increase the Russian armed forces by 180,000 personnel, bringing the total to 2.39 million from 1.5 million.
Sahra #Wagenknecht, the head of the left-wing German #BSW party, who has been dubbed "#Putin's friend" in the media for her pro-#Kremlin stance, has presented a pro-Russian "peace plan" for #Ukraine.
Wagenknecht proposed to Vladimir Putin that the West would stop supplying weapons to Ukraine if the Kremlin leader "agrees to an immediate ceasefire on the current line of contact"
Wagenknecht believes that negotiations should begin on Russian-occupied territories
Aho replied to Hanse Mina's status
On paper, Vladimir #Putin’s most fortunate friends are nowhere to be found in #Europe. Since #Russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, the #EU has passed laws to ban prominent Russians from business circles, freeze financial assets, seize villas, and confiscate yachts.
But ask hotel managers, restaurateurs, and people who rent out boats on the palm-tree-lined streets of the Côte d’Azur and they’ll say the Russians are still coming.
And to the surprise of absolutely no one (with a grain of sense)
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/13/politics/biden-administration-rt-russian-intelligence/index.html
#Disinformation #Putin #Russia
Peter #Stano, the spokesperson for the #EU’s foreign policy service, stated during a Friday briefing that intimidation tactics by Russian leader Vladimir #Putin regarding #NATO and European countries’ involvement in the war if Western long-range missiles are used on Russian territory will not alter the European Union’s stance on supporting #Ukraine.
