@KoljaKari@mtmalinen Russia lacks soft power only for the intellectually weak and dishonest. Very few countries have produced works of science, literature and the arts, not to mention world leading athletes, consistently, over a century and a quarter. With far less money spent than Western analogues.
@mobbs_mentality Ukraine attacked three refineries and a residential building in Perm, almost 900 km east of Moscow, while your two real estate brokers in Kiev. Russia kept its word and didn’t strike Kiev while those two morons were visiting.
@BeijingDai Jaishankar will go down in history as the worst foreign minister India has ever had. Megaphone diplomacy — and loudly advertising that one knows realpolitik — seldom works. Transactional diplomacy can be dressed in better ways, but sadly, his brand is the emperor’s new clothes.
@BeijingDai This is a thoughtfully written assessment. Sadly, Inagree with everything you say, with one caveat. Modi’s constituency is the cheap, ignorant and bigoted Indians, who are loud and very visible, and completely eclipse the quiet, sober, decent and hard working majority.
@CanadaFP Please condemn the Zionist entity in the same breath, will you? It appears as though Canada’s role in international affairs is to issue trite condemnations every week. You are in a trade war with the USA. Show some spine.
@I_Katchanovski@IuliiaMendel It is a nonstarter without de jure recognition of Crimea as part of Russia. This draft also doesn’t mention Kherson oblast.
@HavryshkoMarta Dress is overrated. Gandhi met Churchill and the King in a loincloth—and he was decidedly a greater statesman than both combined. Volodya, on the other hand, would remain naked even if he wore a heavy sheepskin coat over his tee shirt.
@Karmabash 2-3% of the populated areas in Donbas remain under Ukrainian control. AFU overstretched in the North and Northeast, barely holding the line in Zaporozhye — Orekhov will likely fall nonetheless. Kiev increasingly closer to the range of KABs. That’s the reality.
@Alex_Oloyede2 I hope they haven’t promised not to bomb the train line to Warsaw in this period. Please, Vladimir Vladimirovich, the world implores you to take action and destroy that line!
@MarioNawfal You are a dumbfuck, Nawfal. A deal will happen on Russian terms when Ukraine runs out of ammunition. For all their bluster, the EU states will not send their troops to Donbas to get killed by Russian drones and snipers.
@Amy_Siskind American propaganda hasn’t quite caught up with Donald Duck’s 48-hour ‘flip’ vs ‘flop’ cycle. Propaganda remains consistent with Biden era messaging so like a broken clock it corresponds to reality every two days. Btw, Russia is doing a very good thing by helping Iran.
@ashoswai This speaks for a realization in New Delhi that the world order is changing for good, and it needs to be seen jumping on the right bandwagon. In this changing landscape, India’s ties to Tel Aviv are a liability.
@HavryshkoMarta Bessent is a fool. And saying that Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure is driving fuel price northwards is nonsense. It might be a minor factor, but the fact of the matter is that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz, and the flow of Gulf oil is down 60-70%.
@james_rogers Given that the last two tests, eight years apart, of Trident missiles were failures, your argument isn’t that convincing. Yes, both Britain and France have enough nuclear weapons to level major cities in Russia, but the means of delivery and their preparedness are questionable.