I'm speechless. This spineless worm, never fecking liked him after the shite he pulled during our countries the largest tax evasion scandal, but I just lost any shred of respect I had left for him. Absolute scum, just like his party buddy Gerhard Schröder.
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I'm speechless. This spineless worm, never fecking liked him after the shite he pulled during our countries the largest tax evasion scandal, but I just lost any shred of respect I had left for him. Absolute scum, just like his party buddy Gerhard Schröder.
100% sure this wouldn't happen the way it does at the moment with Merkel in charge. Our government is the weakest in decades, hence the international unimportance of our country.
They need to actually win the war first... They'd like to do it quickly, they courted the CNN reporter to show Spetsnaz taking over a Kyiv airport to force speculation that Kyiv will soon fall, media & viewers lapped it up. They need to show victories but it appears they don't really have that many...
I'm reservedly optomistic that this has gone very badly for Putin's forces so far, very early days though.
That’s tough to view.
Yeah i'm not happy. However Merkel didn't exactly leave us in a nice place to face this after 16 years of fiddling her way through either. Incompetence has made Germany vulnerable for a long time now.
(And the truly horrific thing is that even worse incompetence elsewhere has masked it for far too long).
Just stop, please. This is making my eyes regret knowing how to read.
This proper cut me up. Just can't imagine the pain. Gutted for these people.
Because Europe needs to pay for Gas presumably?
No gas and the lights go off and it's back to the 19th century pretty much?
Basically all the big Ukrainian cities economically. Lviv is more a Central European place, lovely for tourism:
Scholz's party has a special relationship with Russia we should never forget that. Schröder went straight from being our chancellor and leader of the SPD to being a board member of Gazprom and they just can't shake free of that influence he still has in the party. That's why they didn't bring a stop to NS2 up as a probability until they had absolutely no chance left to keep it up anymore.
This is false equivalency. Western countries do not go around simply invading their neighbors (anymore) just like Russia is now doing with Ukraine. And when western countries go to war for unconvincing reasons (Iraq), there is significant outcry, unlike your claim.
There is plenty wrong with western foreign policy. But you are off the mark here.
He’s out of touch with what the people of his own country actually want…
He’s out of touch with the mindset of the global population.
What is it with this persistent take on here?
People have already pointed out that that war inspired some of the. biggest, if not the biggest, protests in recent history for most European countries.
Absolutely true. We've become so weak, but still, Merkel was strong enough to keep peace most of the time and I'm really certain this situation would be completely different with her. but you're right, she was burnt out in the end and didn't leave us in good shape. We're in decline since the 90s, I'd say, and we're accelerating even more. Baerbock, Scholz and Lambrecht being the most important figures for this situation, feck me, mindblowing light weights
It's quite amazing that such a country like Germany still depends so much of a fecking Russia who is light years behind them.
Biggest cowards so far in this.
Biggest cowards so far in this.
This kind of thing really hits home. Hope and pray this brave man gets to be with his family again.
I'm so clearly out of historical and current affairs. I can't believe NATO members inflicted these kind of atrocities on innocent countries in the last 40 odd years. Yet, various posters in this thread have accused them of having done just that. Likening America to Russia. Sheesh. If history wasn't so damn boring I'd read up on it. In the meantime I shall regretfully admit that I believe NATO members are good, honest guys defending democracy (and their own interests - but shucks, nobody is perfect)
Could the Ukrainians leave the airport and absolutely flatten the area, including the Russian airborne troops, with rockets? They'd lose the airport infrastructure (if it still exists) though...
Heading towards a massive bloodbath.
And that's totally irrelevant to why France uses nuclear power energy, these are two separated programs. If France stopped producing nuclear energy they would still have the capacity to enrich uranium, they would still have a military program dedicated to it. Now why France uses nuclear power energy because when the plants were built France(EDF-Framatome) happened to be good at it and it was cost efficient and cost stable. Why EDF, Framatome and now Areva wants to stay in that direction because they are still very good at it, it serves their financial interests and since EDF in particular is a massive company in 2022. An other point is that strategically as long as France is in 'control' of Niger, nuclear energy makes France far less reliant on countries they don't want to depend on.
Every government. A CDU/CSU (conservative) led government would behave exactly the same.
The Greens maybe would exclude Russia from SWIFT. On the other hand they are still against arming Ukraine cause it would split their base.
I dunno what their artillery capabilities are, plus their desire to shell their own territory. Terrible choice to be faced with
I have pictures of Helms Deep and the armed peasants in mind
Yes, they're kaviar communists and they're weak. Always hated Sozialdemokraten with a passion, it's the most spineless party there is in germany.
for what it's worth, I have no problems with being wrong. I didn't think Russia would invade Ukraine. I have problems when people wait for you to be wrong, or want you to be wrong, to somehow "win" by virtue of it. That's a sad way of being, no? Basically "gotcha" type posts. But on the continued membership of those five countries, particularly the UK and France, I don't believe I am wrong. If I am, happy to be told why (one poster has made one good counter argument),
Then basically posts like the above. Essentially pointless. Some posters will tell you why/where you're wrong, which is more or less the point of this, and others just assume some kind of nonchalant superiority from the sidelines.
Well that was worth the time.
Sanctions are far more powerful than SWIFT being blocked. It's simply not as key as it was a decade ago. Russia are more than prepared for it so it's basically just a minor inconvenience for everyone involved which obviously includes EU buying gas.
Strange it's become a thing on twitter to be honest.
Heart breaking stuff.
In the news earlier, they interviewed an older man who was trying to get out of Kyiv saying "We at least want to get our kids out of harms way, I hope we can do it. God-damn this bastard." While he couldn't hold back the tears anymore. That really hit me hard as well. What a fecking tragedy.
I rate Merkel highly, but I don’t think her being in office would have made any difference at all here.
Heartbreaking to watch and it's what my family went through. My brother was born in Sarajevo I'm 92, just 1 month later my brother and my mom managed to get out to Croatia while my dad had to stay, and they didn't hear from each other for 6 months and he didn't see them for a full year. Just seeing all of these images and videos brings all of the stories my parents had to endure to a very grim current day reality. Just heartbreaking.
Despite the right to protest being guaranteed by our constitution any peaceful protest that goes against our government’s politics usually ends in a bunch of arrests. There were a surprisingly few policemen around, usually the whole center is filled with them but I guess that most are mobilized and sent west (a lot of “police” on those protest are military in a police uniform).
Global leaders need to step in.
Putin has meddled in Brexit, he’s undermined American democracy, he‘s wildly stepped over the line in recent years - they need to act, globally.
Time to move on from him and let the World develop without his toxic control.
That's something I guess, but how much could they really do against a full organized army with tanks and everything else?
Its an obvious thing to say really but still refreshing to read when there is so much crap spread around on the net