After Ukrainian forces said they had repulsed a Russian attack on their capital Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelensky shot a selfie-style video to vow to stay and fight on.
Volodymyr Zelensky Statements
- We will not give up any arms. Glory to Ukraine
- We will not lay down arms.
- Are arms are our truths
- It’s our land, our country, our children, and we will defend it
- Glory to Ukraine
Zelensky turned down a US offer to evacuate and told the US “I need ammunition not a ride.”
Putin Pronouncing Peace Talks Dead
Bloomberg has a series of reports on the latest situation, spelling the president’s last name as “Zelenskiy”.
Putin Ramps Up Ukraine Invasion Pronouncing Peace Talks Dead
China distanced itself from Russia, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi saying that the situation in Ukraine “is something China does not want to see,” adding that it was “absolutely imperative” for all sides to exercise restraint.
Perhaps the most dramatic shift came in Berlin, where Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government announced that as well as allowing weapons for Ukraine it was throwing its weight behind European Union moves to exclude Russia from SWIFT. That’s a change of heart on a drastic step that would threaten to inflict damage on the European economy and on that of Germany as well as on Moscow.
“Look, you have two options: Start a third World War, go to war with Russia physically,” Biden said in a podcast. “Or two, make sure that a country that acts so contrary to international law that ends up paying a price for having done it.”
EU Cut Some Russian Banks From SWIFT, Target Central Bank
In the most significant sanction yet, EU Cut Some Russian Banks From SWIFT, Target Central Bank
A decision by Western nations to exclude some Russian banks from the SWIFT messaging system, used for trillions of dollars worth of transactions between banks around the world, was announced in a joint statement Saturday.
In addition, the nations said they would act together to impose “restrictive measures that will prevent the Russian Central Bank from deploying its international reserves in ways that undermine the impact of our sanctions.”
“The speed and unity to take this unprecedented financial action will give Putin pause,” said Josh Lipsky of the Atlantic Council. “The SWIFT move was largely expected but striking at the Central Bank will reverberate in Moscow and beyond.”
Unusual and Refreshing Integrity and Courage
I am not used to seeing politicians display any integrity or courage.
Unlike Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who went into hiding for a week over a trucker protest, Zelensky is staying put in Kyiv and appears to believe he is not going to be alive much longer.
Best wishes to Ukraine.
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Europe sees
this an existential crisis. That explains the extreme reaction. Military
budgets will double and Europe will be more forceful internationally. This is a
180% swing in little time. I very much doubt that that had been in Putin’s
plan.
onwards: namely to stop Hitler before he got started. This time Russia
is able to do it by itself. In other words, Putin feels that he is
making a pre-emptive attack to stop June 1941. This is very serious
indeed and indicates that the Russians are going to keep going until
they feel that they can safely stop.”
For me, this is hard to take. It is really serious if Jews are now also Nazis. What next? Christians loving their neighbors? Capitalism caring about the people under it’s tyranny? the NRA wanting to keep guns out schools?
The Kenyan
ambassador to the UN explained last week to the General Assembly this same
question and gave an eloquent and very true answer. It is well worth watching.
Tout le monde s’en foutre de Kosovo et les Serbes. Il y a
vingt-cinq c’était diffèrent car les tueries débordait et nous les Occidentaux
n’était pas à l’origine de ça mais nous savons bien qui était responsable.
Ukrainians and their allies are much better than the Russians when it comes to
the psychology war. This is a good example. The Ukraine Defence Ministry set up a hotline Saturday for family
members of Russian soldiers. A Russian mother can call them to see if her son
in the Russian army is on the list of captured, wounded or killed by the
Ukrainians. As explained by the Defence Ministry:
“On this phone line, you can
find out whether your relatives are still alive, taken prisoner, injured, and
you can decide when and how to take the body of your deceased relative,”
the Ukrainians and dehumanizes the Russian military because they, as opposed to
the Ukrainians, will never give out that information.
The Germans got their heads around it and saw the stakes involved. When
people wake from an illusion the change can be drastic. Till now the Russian
invasion is not going to plan at all. The population is much more hostile than
anticipated and the Ukraine military has turned out to be more professional and
effective than expected. Frankly I am shocked at my lack of awe at Russian’s
military performance till now and many others, friend or foe are having the
same reaction.
Pray tell why did Putin wait 8 years ? Lol.
2 territories voted for their independence, effective Feb2022. This was all expected as a result. For Those that know the history this is very transparent. LOL
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/ukrainian-ambassador-warns-country-may-seek-nuclear-weapons-if-denied-nato-membership
So, Russia invaded Ukraine because the latter was going to acquire WMDs. Sound familiar?
I read that Blinken was talking about it just last year.
And now, the DONORcrats are getting hoisted by their own petard! Couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of people! LOL.
Most governments, including the US, are fascist kleptocracies. 35% of my income is stolen for which I receive no return.