But it's good that you yourselves seem to have realized this is not an option either. — Tzeentch
I am amazed by our people—and I unfortunately know many of them—including those in very high circles, who are afraid of this and are scared to call things by their proper names because of what people over there may think. We could spit on what they think over there! People who are afraid of the Hague—listen, you should be afraid to lose, to be humiliated and be afraid to betray your people. Let me tell you that if we manage to lose, the Hague—whether real or hypothetical—will come even for a street cleaner who is sweeping the cobblestones behind the Kremlin. — Simonyan
There won’t be any Hague if this happens, there won’t be anything at all. The whole world will be reduced to ashes. — Solovyov
God forbid, we can’t allow it and don’t even say it out loud but suppose that suddenly something happens and our country is unable to achieve victory: then we should proceed from the premise that everyone with no exception will be held accountable—whether they are located within the Russian Federation or abroad. Those abroad will most likely be immediately arrested. Whether he is a collaborator of Putin’s regime or was just passing by, it doesn’t matter. All of us will be considered guilty. What’s at stake is not only the existence of the country, but also the carefree existence of every citizen of the Russian Federation—our future is on the line. In order to avoid the Hague tribunals, the initiation of criminal cases, compensation, reparations—in order to avoid all this, we need a total intensification of military actions, we have to squeeze and pressure them so much that they approach us about a truce or a peace process… Otherwise, they will insist on capitulation. — Skabeyeva
How can we sleep while knowing that we aren’t sharing and aren’t participating? Rich people should get a hold of themselves and remember that we can’t continue living the way we’ve been living since the disintegration of the Soviet Union. We have to restore social equality. I am calling on you, citizens: you have to share! Raise the taxes on the rich and the well-to-do people. What is there to be afraid of? Raise the taxes! — Simonyan
However, Russia will likely reap the benefit of a significant portion of the close to 27-million-ton wheat crop, said Skakun. The analysis showed that 5.8 million tons of wheat was harvested from areas that were not under Ukrainian control. That represents a loss of at least $1 billion, Abbassian noted.
:up: Address the point they brought up (plus public awareness) — Dec 3, 2022
But what are the odds for him to succeed? — neomac
Macron is only stating the obvious — Olivier5
Good point.Opening to Russia's anti-NATO security concerns before even having Russia opening to Ukrainian and Western security concerns, along with Macron's position toward Putin since the beginning of this war seem more in line with a political agenda and likely an understanding of NATO's role that neither the US nor other more involved NATO partners are sympathetic with. So not only Macron is far from stating the obvious but he holds no leading position to weigh in. — neomac
He's talking about discussing "security guarantees" for Russia. And as far as I know these are the security guarantees Putin wanted — neomac
I doubt Macron is trying to appease Putin. I don't quite see what the point of that would be, and he can't do that all alone anyway. I mean, the guarantees he is talking about would be given by NATO, not by France, so there's no sense in trying to go alone on this. — Olivier5
So he’s trying to use Russian security concerns as a pivot to make Europeans step in that direction, hopefully with the support of other prominent allies. — neomac
That's speculative, and far fetched. — Olivier5
had the European leaders understood the need to take into account Russia's security concerns earlier, in say, 2021, this entire war could have been avoided. — Tzeentch
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