Oh, he was a moron. I just think that he was very unpredictable, and very irrational, so who knows what would have happened.
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Oh, he was a moron. I just think that he was very unpredictable, and very irrational, so who knows what would have happened.
Ding ding ding
Used to watch every video of his before the seedy details came out. Ruined it for me. Wish I never read about it.
Or he wasn't a rapist. Probably the latter more.
Couldn’t agree more
He is a scumbag for sure.
So they're not Ukrainian?
Geez, can you imagine how depressing the selling point for a President might be to leave NATO in the next election?
Dude, the UN Charter simply says who are the permanent members. There are no stated conditions. Here:
Article 23
- The Security Council shall consist of fifteen Members of the United Nations. The Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America shall be permanent members of the Security Council
fingers crossed the dymchurch expansions are approved too
The stated conditions are that those five are (were) the only nuclear powers on the planet. You have literally no clue what you're talking about. Why do you think those five are the permanent members and have remained so for so long?
Edit: for reference: " Scholar Sudhir Chella Rajan argued in 2006 that the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, who are all nuclear powers, have created an exclusive nuclear club that predominantly addresses the strategic interests and political motives of the permanent members—for example, protecting the oil-rich Kuwaitis in 1991 but poorly protecting resource-poor Rwandans in 1994."
The five powers (one nuclear, one quasi-nuclear, one almost there via espionage, another guaranteed said status by its relationship to the first and second, and the fifth, China) were granted this status in 45. Within twenty years, the only thing that kept them in that position was nuclear capacity (once China had come on board). After which they have maintained their position ever since. None of these five states will ever abandon nuclear and it is not entirely because of energy (it is possible, for example, that the UK will not need nuclear in three decades but it will retain the capacity to enrich uranium at a high level within its own terrestrial borders).
I'm open to a different interpretation. Perhaps these five being nuclear states really isn't why they have kept the security council closed for 80 years (60 in practice).
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Not all of them, there's a fair amount of volunteer vets gone to help, including from Britain.
Our consistency is impressive at least: still fighting over the western Eurasian steppe since, well…the dawn of history I suppose.
Wait, rapist? What? I don't want to derail this thread but that's news to me. I'd heard that he approached random Ukrainian women and proposed sex (sometimes paying for it?) but I had no idea about anything like that! Are you sure?!
Going to be a lot more of this to come unfortunately 
My work colleague’s father is there. feck.
FYI, the Russians have not gone all in yet:
Half a million people took to the streets in Berlin alone to make their voices heard against the Iraq war. Western nations like Germany and France openly opposed the war.
What other invasions? Afghanistan was invaded because of 9/11. Yugoslavia was bombed because of a civil war that included ethnic cleansing and genocide.
It's plain wrong that there is no outcry over US/NATO wars. And none of these wars included invading a democratic country to annex it into your country.
The main Russian attack come through another former Soviet state in Belarus but here our media doesn’t make a big deal out of it and continues with the *Putin has no support* line. Laughable.
Hence ‘unverified’ but we know the offensive was beaten back by Ukraine and they took a lot of prisoners, now they’re getting bombarded if you go look at recent Twitter videos. Point being, awful for both sides.
i went down a Reddit black hole one day after finding the details and saw court documents and loads of details - yeah. He also committed pretty serious financial fraud If I remember
Yeah I was the same. Really enjoyed the channel and then saw it was true and haven’t watched since. Really dodgey stories about him and I think it was some Redditor who exposed him.
If we spent the resources we spend on warring we'd be a lot closer to them though.
Probably is for the Ukranians, and who can blame them?
Why was I quoted? I’m talking about Biden.
I'll have to look into it and judge for myself, but if what you say is true, it's going to make it difficult to want to watch his content. Which is a shame, he seemed so likeable and down to earth. FFS!You don't know what you're talking about. UN Charter of 1945 made all 5 permanent members, only 1 had nukes at the time.
I don't think that such numbers hold truth. But if attrition and disheartening become serious among Russian troops, I can see situations in which soldiers will outright shoot their own officers and walk back home.
Going to be a lot more of this to come unfortunately
There needs to be as much real footage and accounts like this as possible.
It’s crucial that people understand war from a human point of view, and not just from a media narrative.
That goes for every war. The reality is that normal people don’t like this, it isn’t ‘in our nature’, it’s disturbing and painful and we hate it.
Innocent people must stop dying and suffering for the greed of pathetic sociopaths.
It feels so surreal seeing something like this happening and something the younger generation has ever experienced. I was too young to even remember 9/11 let alone anything like the Cuban missile crisis or the wars in the Baltic countries during the 90's (apologies if i got that wrong). But seeing all the various twitter updates throughout the day, information right or wrong, makes me wonder what on earth life must of been like in WW1/WW2. Back then most people relied on radio for news and most news wasn't broadcast until the news was confirmed. It must of been torture potentially going hours not knowing what's going on and wondering what the fate of the world and life as they know it will be. Compare that to today and the second something happens it's pretty much on tv and twitter straight away.
Huh? At the time the UN Charter gave those five countries permanent seats on the security council, only the US had nuclear weapons.
Ask America how much they will like if Cuba became ally of Russia and they plan to set few rockets in Cuba.
Some will remember or know that the last time that happened we were one push of a button away from not following the MAD.
If I understand it correctly you are mistakenly mixing nuclear-weapons countries with the possession of nuclear power plants. That's a pretty basic mistake.
Oh man these footages are heartbreaking. Also the shelling vid.... fecking hell imagine being there
10/10 for dodging my question
Are you trying to trick our friend?
From a Ukranian guy thats has been one step ahead of every news channel so far:
"Ukraine air force lost 15 aircraft, Russia suffered severe casualties in 1st wave, 2nd wave beginning and now assaulting Mariupol"
"Ukraine air force lost 15 aircraft, Russia suffered severe casualties in 1st wave, 2nd wave beginning and now assaulting Mariupol"