Russian Tensions
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February 18, 2022 at 10:40 am #226627alanjjohnstoneKeymaster
Russia announced massive drills of its nuclear forces…the Russian military announced that President Vladimir Putin will monitor a sweeping exercise of the country’s nuclear forces Saturday that will involve multiple practice missile launches — a stark reminder of the country’s nuclear might amid the showdown with the West.
February 18, 2022 at 11:03 am #226628ALBKeymasterThat’s sabre-rattling for you !
February 18, 2022 at 1:30 pm #226629AnonymousInactiveNeither Ukraine nor Russia want a war, so neither would stage an incident. Only the CIA and NATO would do tha
So, the CIA and NATO are independent of the USA? It sounds like all those conspiracist theories that are invading the internet blaming everything on the CIA acting independently, the so-called deep state, and the USA’s invisible government. Every capitalist country is potentially imperialist or expansionist. The socialist logic is totally different from the conspiracy theoreticians
February 18, 2022 at 1:47 pm #226634AnonymousInactiveSo Ukraine and Russia DO want war?
Let’s hope the weather’s nice for them.
February 18, 2022 at 1:54 pm #226638ALBKeymasterThat’s a good article against conspiracism. I wonder who A.W. is !
February 18, 2022 at 2:22 pm #226658AnonymousInactiveElderly, women and children to be evacuated to Russia from Donetsk and Lugansk.
February 18, 2022 at 2:56 pm #226663Bijou DrainsParticipantBBC Lunch time news seems to be winding down the rhetoric, saying some form of negotiations will take place when the Russian manoeuvres are over, perhaps their good friends at Vauxhall Cross have tipped them the wink?
February 18, 2022 at 3:23 pm #226664AnonymousInactiveSome economic reports are indicating that Russia is making higher oil profits now than before this conflict
February 18, 2022 at 3:35 pm #226665AnonymousInactiveThreat to world is ‘higher’ than in Cold War – UN secretary general
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said the current threat to the world is greater than during the Cold War.
Speaking at the annual Munich Security Conference – which Russia is not attending tis year- Mr Guterres said: “I am often asked whether we are in a new Cold War.
“My answer is that the threat to global security now is more complex and probably higher than at that time.”
He added: “I urge all parties to be extremely careful with their rhetoric. Public statements should aim to reduce tensions, not inflame them.”February 18, 2022 at 4:56 pm #226676AnonymousInactiveThe United Nations has been the first promoter and supporter of wars, and they have always propagated war hysteria. They have also invaded other countries
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-haiti-politics/u-n-peacekeeping-mission-to-haiti-ends-after-15-years-with-mixed-legacy-idUSKBN1WU2SPFebruary 18, 2022 at 6:41 pm #226687AnonymousInactiveNow they’re saying Russia has 190,000 troops on the border. 40,000 more than yesterday.
February 18, 2022 at 6:55 pm #226688AnonymousInactiveYou still really think there won’t be war?
February 18, 2022 at 7:14 pm #226690AnonymousInactiveFebruary 18, 2022 at 9:55 pm #226691AnonymousInactiveIndependent online:
“Russian state media said on Friday that a parked jeep with nobody inside it had blown up near a government building in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine. No one is thought to have been hurt.
A news outlet for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic urged residents to remain calm and not to move around the city if possible. Images of the wreck show military personnel inspecting what is left of the vehicle.
It comes just a day after the UK and US accused Russia of using false flag tactics to set a pretext for its potential invasion of Ukraine. Boris Johnson said western nations “knew” this was happening after an attack yesterday on a nursery in Donbas – another rebel-held area.
Earlier, Germany moved to agree with Mr Johnson, insisting so-called false flag operations would be the way Vladimir Putin justified a war against Ukraine. At the Munich Security Conference, German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock admitted she too feared this was the case, and that it was the “most likely scenario”.
(So much for Scholz’s upbeat visit to Moscow! Germany towing US/UK line).
February 19, 2022 at 12:31 am #226693alanjjohnstoneKeymasterIf war does come and we do not know for certain it will or the scale of the war, the WSM will issue its customary declaration of peace, that no patch of ground, whether it is the Ukrainian nation or the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, is worth the sacrifice of fellow workers’ lives.
I believe we have members who can translate our statement into both Russian and Ukrainian.
But the sad reality means that there are very few who take notice of our view.
Nationalism remains a dominant ideological belief for many and the Great Powers continue to contest with one another for global power.
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