Putin wants the war to end quickly | Lord George Robertson

[@allip4226]

If Putin wants the war to end, all he has to do is withdraw all his forces. What he really means is he wants the war to end, but only on his terms - but you don’t get to dictate terms when you’re losing a war you started. 😂

[@JusTHayK]

Dude...you even don't know what gonna be soon ))

[@DSAK55]

Putin wants to win the war quickly

[@DanaVastman]

@@JusTHayK Putin Puppet

[@jackt6112]

@@JusTHayK Dude...that's what Putin is afraid of.

[@watson4694]

Well said!

[@edc1569]

Ukraine is going as fast as they can, have some patience Putin.

[@ridethecurve55]

Russia: A nuclear-armed barracks pretending to be a country.

[@marshallmintz7564]

Hahaha......good one...the dwarf is on the run.

[@wellesmorgado4797]

@@ridethecurve55 That used to be a gas station...

[@joemagarac405]

@@ridethecurve55 trailer park… they have no soldiers left to populate a barracks

[@robt3078]

Yes they need to have lunch breaks. Can’t take back land all the time.

[@bernardfox9078]

He wants it to finish quickly because he knows he is about to get routed.

[@kimweaver1252]

He will also be routed internally. Russians with power and money are done with him. The average rooooskie bombarded by state propaganda is more supportive, but even that is beginning to wilt. Soldiers are bringing the truth back to rooooshia and Pootie can't stop it.

[@ericconnor8419]

He can end it tomorrow all he has to do is make a phone call and bring his orcs back to Mordor.

[@schloops8473]

1) open window 2) jump ... but he'll need pushing because he doesn't care about the rest.

[@pp2021]

Maybe beyond your scope of attention, however, this is reality where real people get killed on a daily basis on both sides. To imply a fantasy world which you obviously live in could be taken either a lack of intelligence or a solid belief that Hollywood is real.

[@Jo.King_]

More chance for the return of the ghost of Kiev😅

[@schloops8473]

@@pp2021 but it is a war that happened because of putin and that dictator is keeping it going because his legacy is more important than most Russians even staying alive.

[@andrewjacobson556]

🤣🤣🤣!!! Or back to Moscow whichever!!!

[@Zaf2010]

It can stop the minute he gets all troops off Ukrainian soil including Crimea, accepts war crimes have been committed and agrees to pay many billions as reparations

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Respect the people's wishes on the ground. The Dombas has been fighting for independence since the burning alive of Russians at ODESSA and the coup against the ELECTED government of Ukraine 8 years ago.

[@macmcleod1188]

I'm sure ukraine can make a claim on the 320billion seized at the start of the war. And yea-- all he has to do is *leave* and the war is over. However, as of this morning, he's trying to ramp up to full war with new legislation pushed thru the duma.

[@caveman-zd5yv]

Crimea started their own defense forces. There is 2 million people there I don't think they are going to let ukraine take over again.

[@Dethfeast]

@@caveman-zd5yv lol, just like Luhansk and Donetsk. Keep believing that nonsense.

[@isihernandez9752]

@@caveman-zd5yv go back to the cave, trollsky. You'll be safer there when Bavovnyatko will pay you a visit.

[@davidtoti1269]

Putin's special military operation to "demilitarize" worked perfectly at demilitarizing Russia!

[@keanwong8381]

good one!

[@rg-cc5kg]

Now the denazifying of Russia should follow

[@Katoshi_Takagumi]

Now all that remains is to de-nazify Russia, or de-putinize, perhaps, whichever you prefer.

[@stephanledford9792]

The problem for Putin is that Ukraine is not going to be willing to give up any territory for peace, including Crimea. Bucha ended any possibility of a peaceful settlement, and when the Ukrainians take back Mariupol and find mass graves with 20,000 or more civilians in them, as has been rumored, anything but total victory on the battlefield, however long that takes, will become even more of a requirement.

[@mpwaterhouse]

The biggest challenge for Ukraine in Crimea will be the Kremlin funded relocation of up to one million Russian citizens into Crimea iteself so they now consider it "home" and part of mother Russia!

[@goenzoy712]

But you are just day dreaming Russia is not Iraq and if Putin is at risk of loosing Crimea he will just start using nuclear weapons or any other from of nuclear strategy

[@stephanledford9792]

@@goenzoy712 Then I guess most of the 144 million Russians and a huge number of Americans and Europeans will die shortly after that happens. Nuclear weapons will bring in NATO and that could quickly escalate into the end of civilization. But Putin can at least say, "If I cannot have Ukraine, no one will have Ukraine".

[@goenzoy]

@@stephanledford9792 Well using nuclear weapons will not end civilisation. The whole southern hemisphere is void of nuclear weapons. It's primary a US European problem. Not even Asia is involved. But you are correct never a nuclear confrontation was so close. Let's wait and see what will happen as of now Ukraine is not even near Crimea and winter is fast approaching

[@goenzoy]

@melonbobful Yes but that's not relevant as of now.Russia if ever will not use nuclear weapons tomorrow. mobilization and winter will come first but I wouldn't be surprised if Russia will move some of its nuclear capability into Ukraine. Saratov 63 is closer to Chertkovo than Kiev

[@yuzhonglu]

For all the Russian "patriots" here, when Putin announces general mobilization I'll be looking forward to your physical presence on the front lines!

[@inisus]

I agree with you. Too many naive voices here who are pretending Ukraine is winning because they had a few tactical wins. In the long term, Ukraine cannot win; not against somebody as dangerous as Putin. So either they give up the Donbas, or the Ukraine will get destroyed. And I am saying this as someone who is 100% anti-Putin. But my view on the matter doesn't matter in light of the facts: Putin is very dangerous, and when he says that eventually he will use nukes, we should believe him. And he will drop them on the Ukraine (meaning Kiev), not on any European territory. Since the Ukraine doesn't have such weapons, it will be game over (destroying the command infrastructure and demoralising troops in the field). A nuclear retaliation from the US or Europe - to revenge Kiev - would just mean all-out destruction on global scale; therefore, the West is unable to actually counterstrike, while Putin can get away with one tactical nuclear strike that is war-ending. I don't expect this to happen soon though, since his first strategy is partial mobilisation (300.000 people) and an increased weapon production in Russia (further switch to a so-called war economy). He can then further increase his mobilisation even more if needed, before he has to turn to the nuclear strike. Nowhere in this scenario is the Ukraine "winning." And neither is Europe.

[@baconbutt7367]

Yes, all our Russian Friends that comment on here, enjoy your time in Ukraine. I'm sure you'll get a Huge welcome.

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[@scottmcmaster4927]

Sure the war can end quickly, Russia can withdraw all Russian troops from Ukraine, apologize and begin repaying Ukraine for all damages, crimes, injuries, and lost lives.

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

Then we restart buying oil and gas, and demand that some of the profits go to rebuild Ukraine

[@lmao.3661]

@@StillAliveAndKicking_ nah. no more money going to russia.

[@Ultra-Violet]

@@StillAliveAndKicking_ Europe would be foolish to even consider that

[@francisverhelst9375]

No never buy anything anymore from Russia. They have proven to be not trustworthy

[@lifessogood2995]

Probably Russian will start another war, to increase energy profit

[@douglasjackson8758]

Putin can end the war by agreeing to only 3 Ukrainian conditions. 1 - Remove Russian troops from the entirety of Ukraine, including Crimea. 2 - Pay for all material damages and injury & deaths caused in Ukraine. 3 - Hand over all war criminals. Pretty simple. Only 3 conditions.

[@portwills]

Agreed but, they need to do more than just compensate.

[@ettoreatalan8303]

A demilitarized zone on the territory of Russia (no, not in Ukraine) must also be considered.

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Give Königsberg back to Germany, plus any territory stolen from Finland or Estonia. Same in the Caucasus, any land stolen from Georgia, give it back. Decolonise, pay for all damages over the last 150 years.

[@mpwaterhouse]

1. Putin wants to hold sham referendums via repressed citizens to indicate Crimea, Donbas and Donetsk as now being part of Russia. So the Russian troops now stay in the "new" Russia. 2. Putin will declare all the material damages in Ukraine as self inflicted fakes. 3. He would have to hand himself over as the principal war criminal ... probably not happening :(

[@97henrik041]

And allow the one million plus Ukrainians schlepped to Russia to return to their homeland.

[@SofieAndMe]

I've noticed that all the talk about allowing Putin to save face has mostly disappeared from the discourse now, which is a positive development for Ukraine. Also, for the love of god, straighten that picture on the wall.

[@alanmurtagh6675]

Good eye!😝

[@alanmurtagh6675]

Although, after review, it appears that it may be distortion from the wide angle lens on the computer.

[@americafirst2785]

At this time,there is no face to save,the whole world knows he is a loser.

[@lifessogood2995]

Lol Ukraine is going nowhere they are still next to Russia, "war forever"

[@cathie9614]

The picture is straight... He's crooked. 😋

[@mrb.5610]

He wants to save what's left of his face as soon as possible more like.

[@Jo.King_]

No mR Davos Putin is saving our Christianity. Mother Russia forever. Huuurahhhhh!!!

[@razorrabbit2789]

When you have seen Putin walk one step ahead, you immediately think it must have been a lie.

[@SteveSmith-oi2xz]

Exactly, except no right-minded person wants him to save face. I for one, would never tire of punching putin's face, followed by rubbing it into russian dirt. Humiliation is what this excuse for a human being deserves. Give Ukraine everything it needs to destroy the 'special military operation' and enable them to recover every inch of their blessed land. Ukraine and its people have earned this.

[@shelleywinters6763]

This guy can create any reality he chooses, so it's in his hands to make up some fabricated win for himself and f off out of Ukraine

[@SL-sd3sg]

Too late to save face for mr p.

[@WhiteDragon689]

He wants to end it quick, Fine give the order to withdraw from all of Ukraine.

[@jenifferschmitz8618]

he cant hes gone to far and crossed the line in to war crimes there is no exit ramp for russia

[@diamondtran8331]

When Putin said one thing, he always meant the opposite. Do we forget that, prior to the invasion of Ukraine, he repeated times over times that "Russia won't invade Ukraine"?

[@christianbenesch1]

Putin wants to save face. The question is: which of his faces?

[@MasticinaAkicta]

To his own people he needs to look STRONK. But, the economic downturn will hit them hard.

[@thomaskristensen4679]

Good one love it

[@sb4333]

John is my favorite presenter on Time Radio, more please

[@GUSCRAWF0RD]

I want him to do a whole show with a foghorn leghorn accent

[@saeedmustapha1334]

Yes we know you blow him.

[@johnviewpoint7813]

Ukraine has earned continued enthusiastic and generous support from NATO.

[@sumiland6445]

💛💙💜💙💛 🇺🇦 🌎 🇺🇸

[@viarnay]

Poland rather.

[@garymoore2535]

To be fair Russia has generously supported Ukraine too....indeed it's the ONLY country to have provided Tanks so far 😂😂😂

[@emanuelgaldes3515]

Nobody like Russia has provided so many tanks and target practice to Ukraine.

[@benwilson6145]

NATO does not support Ukraine! NATO is a group of individual countries who have a defence pact. The Individual countries can support Ukraine.

[@JohnnyD-u7]

🇺🇸💪🏻🇺🇦Victory to Ukraine!!

[@hybridarmyoffreeworld]

Moscow horde in 1905: let’s start a war with a weak and puny country to boost public morale. Moscow horde in 1905: loses to Japan Moscow horde in 2022: let’s start a war with a weak and puny country to boost public morale Moscow horde in 2022: is losing to Ukraine there’s a pattern here that Moscow horde seemingly wants to continue...

[@cantiaci]

Indeed, except it isn't to boost public morale it is to boost Putin's popularity. As a narcissist and the malignant variety at that, Putin needs his ego boost, his injection of praise, from the poor deluded, brainwashed souls that make up the majority of the Russian population. Russia had a torrid time during the Covid pandemic. Don't believe the death figures on Worldometer they are grossly under declared. In the first few months of the pandemic Russia were only declaring a handful of deaths every day despite almost every other European country declaring far more. It is ridiculous to think that Russia were somehow fairing better than countries with far better health services especially as Russian investment in their health service is way lower than almost any other European country. There were reports of bodies literally being piled up in the streets coming out of Russia yet their death figures reflected none of this. It is of course no surprise that these figures would be manipulated, both in light of public opinion of Putin and his government but also Putin's paranoia of the Western World seeing Russia as a weakened nation. Eventually once other countries death figures started mounting up they had little option other than to start declaring figures that were at least vaguely plausible. The Covid pandemic put a massive dent in Putin's popularity not to mention highlighting the gross underfunding of their health service. A Bloomberg report ranked Russia's health service 55th of 55 of all developed nations, this is a major decline since 1996 when their health service was considered quite innovative. I doubt I need to point out who has been in charge for the majority of the time since 1996, I wonder where all that money went that should have been spent on the health service.......

[@UninstallingWindows]

One on One, they would have lost the second world war too

[@Grahamgusbull]

Nice one George, I agree 100%!

[@DiogoF.]

We have to be very brave through our actions defending our noble values against autocracies. 🇵🇹🇪🇺

[@HansKoudenburg]

Lord Robertson....Thanks!!!!!👍👍👍🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦👏

[@Jo.King_]

Lord my backside😆

[@vrvaughn]

You would think with all the money being spent on weapons, energy costs etc… there would be 5 guys in the Kremlin security detail willing to be rich beyond their wildest dreams.

[@saeedbarkhordar5244]

or their families

[@annoyed707]

Those are picked because they owe everything to the structure as it is.

[@connectedonline1060]

Putin is sickening

[@TheopolisQSmith]

I suspect that there will be a level of hate and distrust between Russia and Ukraine for a very long time. Decades if not centuries.

[@0816M3RC]

Nobody should trust Russia.

[@carylhalfwassen8555]

A millennium I think.

[@jenifferschmitz8618]

we should has demanded reform in russia in 1991

[@vinm300]

The epithet "If X stops fighting there will be no more war, if Y stops fighting there will be no more Y" Actually belongs to Golda Meir. (4th prime minister of Israel 1969 to 1974) It was reshaped by Netanyahu. Then used by Jens Stoltenberg.

[@97henrik041]

That is the Golda Meir who was born in Kyiv.

[@vinm300]

​@@97henrik041 How marvellous that she should hail from Kyiv. What a lovely connection with the fight for liberty, freedom and independence.

[@97henrik041]

@@vinm300 Yep. In Bassina St. No.3, 200 meters from the Brodsky Synagogue.

[@davidking4672]

If he keeps at it like this. It sure will. 💀

[@HANKTHEDANKEST]

The war can end right now, Uncle Vova--just get your goons off Ukrainian soil, ALL OF IT. Glory to Ukraine and GLORY TO THE HEROES.

[@chriscoates2399]

Thankyou UK

[@rickstcharles7673]

Very very good news

[@lesjones7617]

Simple give Crimea Back?

[@CSGATI]

Not starting a war is faster.

[@elizabethhabib7327]

Then why did he tell Modi that he is in no hurry to end the war. Which he still denies is a war. Germany needs to realize that there is other oil producers besides Russia just as close by.

[@alexanderkanickelstall2060]

They do. The have decreased the import of Russian gas from 30% to 9% for example. Compared to before the war the prices have risen by far more than before the war, because it takes longer and it is more expensive to get it to Germany.

[@judithcampbell1705]

Ty

[@rbstevns1534]

Best clip is the Germans laughing at Trump when he said why would you get 90% of your oil from Russia? Putin owns you lol 😝

[@anitaruiz4097]

Putin chce szybko zakończyć ta wojnę ale oczywiście na swoich warunkach

[@christoft5468]

No! Germany is not paying the price for helping Ukraine. Ukraine is paying the price for Germany (Merkel) helping Russia (Putin)!

[@michaeleager4635]

People aren't factoring in Russia's need for geographic expansion to accommodate its population which is almost as large as Java's

[@ultonian63]

🤣 Good one!

[@jenifferschmitz8618]

russia population is in terminal decline they need more people

[@michaeleager4635]

@@jenifferschmitz8618 things can change. The decline is not inevitable but they cant afford to lose hundreds of thousands of young men, which could happen if they escalate in Ukraine or even just drag it out, nor have a generation traumatized by war

[@gavanwhatever8196]

The population density in Russia is 9 people per square kilometre. That's a little more than 10 hectares per person! The population density of Indonesia (of which Java is the most densely settled part) is 151 people per square kilometre. So whatever point you thought you were making, you weren't.

[@govinda102000]

John is the best interviewer. He doesn't string out his questions. Brief and precise.

[@johnmc3862]

Except from 1:27- 1:57 lol 😂

[@nigelbradshaw8266]

He’s a massive waffler

[@mryouben]

tx from Berlin 🇺🇦

[@5thmardiv636]

I would imagine that a Russian army that has been ill trained, ill organized, ill supported, ill supplied, and ill relieved, would not be greatly enthused to fight a winter campaign in the Ukraine.

[@dmitriyfolomeev5020]

Crimea held a referendum, as did Kosovo. Moreover, their withdrawal from Ukraine was unanimous. They never come back.

[@namiboosterhuizen6610]

I thought George Robertson was hopeless when he was in government and now he seems to talk sense all the time. Do people have to have a spell in parliament to "Dispell the idiot?"

[@anthonyplacide3929]

Ukraine should stop fighting only after they get the whole Ukraine territory back including Cremia

[@nunoafonso2593]

I think Ukraine is playing it very well in refusing to talk to Putin. As the pain increases on Russian oligarchs and average russians, now that he's going to try to mobilise, they're going to start to try to get rid of him very soon. That would end the war very quickly.

[@kevinbarber44]

THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHY NATO IS NEEDED.

[@victoriamorris3773]

Educational

[@simonjones3863]

I think Russia owes Finland some land as well. Might be a good time to put that on the table.

[@franciscook5819]

Russia is working to a plan started more than a decade ago to seize all of Ukraine. There is no chance that Russia would ever stick to any agreement negotiated in the name of peace. It ignored the Budapest Memorandum; the Helsinki Accords; the Minsk Agreement; the principles of the UN, its obligations under the UN Charter, its obligations as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, International Law, the Geneva Convention, the Nuremburg Principles, contract law, .... The only way forward is for Russia to be defeated and expelled from every square inch of Ukraine, including Crimea and all of Donbas, and for Russia formally to acknowledge the rights of Ukraine as an independent, sovereign state.

[@jenifferschmitz8618]

Poland should be in charge of EU policy towards Russia we need experts that understand russia

[@asan1050]

Thanks Much !.

[@coderider3022]

Good to see him back.

[@DaMartyr]

I hope prolonging the war is worth it when you can't afford to heat your homes this winter.

[@ec7696]

The Ukrainians are being unfair? Seriously? Stop dithering, send tanks and air defence. No more delays. Btw, it’s about time nato occupied western Ukraine, to deter Belarus and to free up Ukrainian troops and equipment.

[@patriciaschuster1371]

Putin....just quit. The war would be over.

[@vammekopinion6044]

End the war now so he can regroup & rebuild his army that is in shambles. Before RU ppl revolt against him for damage to their country.

[@MasticinaAkicta]

He has to worry about his own people yes. Many are loyal to him but only as long as he is strong...

[@martingibbs1869]

The problem is accountability. He is not accountable to anyone. Why wouldn't he continue?

[@jannibal9273]

No men left to force into fighting - they have already cleaned out their prisons. Unless Putin institutes the equivalent of a NATIONAL DRAFT and the "privileged" males in Moscow and St. Petersburg are subjected to the equivalent of the U.S. position in Vietnam in the late 1960s-early 1970s, Putin is losing. And Putin will surely lose his position if a draft is instituted for the WHITE RUSSIAN male elites!

[@LRRPFco52]

Yup. Everyone in positions of power in Russia have been placed there by Putin with the 2nd Generation of Oligarchs. The 1st Generation put Putin into 1 of 3 Deputy Prime Minister seats under Yeltsin, and eventually the Presidency. He cleaned them out and replaced them with his cronies during the 2000s, then welded himself to the Presidency, bypassing term limits with the stooge Medvedev, and now back into the Presidency. Any dissenter or political opponent has been murdered, silenced, or imprisoned.

[@nicooosterlynck4030]

Pack up and go home and it’s over…

[@Zenon00007]

❤️Ukrainian 🇬🇪

[@glenngammon7473]

The mgm't of russia would do well if yesterday or sooner they would start to figure out how to pay reparations to Ukrain!!!!

[@constantinvaldor3742]

Don't you think it's crazy how much Russia spent on military equipment over the years and NATO didn't even spend that much really to take them down. True say USA and NATO intelligence structure also helped Ukraine as well.

[@HANKTHEDANKEST]

The best part? ALLLL this gear we've been developing for decades to counter the Russians is FINALLY getting properly tested. I wish the circumstances were different, but the fact remains that this is the greatest live-action beta test of NATO ordinance of all time.

[@ivansyomkin2156]

That's because all the money "spent" on developing Russian military was actually stolen by Russian Oligarchs.

[@obriets]

It’s hardly even started.

[@dextercool]

If energy needs are a matter of national security, is it sensible to privatise it? Why should nations being paying so much for the skimming off of dividends?

[@ts6070]

Well it’s the UK capitalist extremism like Thatcher the child milk snatcher that sold UK national wealth to her Banker friends from British Telecom (now look our slowest Internet) to the British Water companies all polluting the UK rivers thank you Thatchers followers like the newest Nasty Party PM Trust is now going to be more Tax cuts for their rich Bankers at the cost of an increase UK national debt! 🤦🏻‍♂️ how dumb are the UK people?

[@marshallmintz7564]

Governments simply cannot run business and it soon falls into a corrupt mess.....no matter where it has been tried. Taxation is the best they can do.

[@Mark5mith]

Europe had eight years to get their energy elsewhere after Crimea but kept on buying Russian gas, as a matter of national security they really should have had a plan B considering it was Russia they were dealing with.

[@marshallmintz7564]

@@Mark5mith Yes, that was not bright. I remember the Americas after the 1973 Oil crisis......they went exploring for their own.

[@homeontherange733]

Putin's ego will not allow him to pull out of Ukraine. Many of his own people have been condemned due to it.

[@COM70]

Good man !

[@Bubonic32]

If he wants to end the war, then surrender. You lost buddy. Long Live Ukraine! Long Live Liberty!

[@cszulu2000]

Could a nuclear powered ship provide power to shore where needed for the winter?

[@mackermaldrill2656]

It wouldn't be enough for a small town.

[@mukamuka0]

Only ship that specifically designed for it can act like power station and integrate with current grid. It's more complicated than just input more power into a system. You need an ability to sync AC phase together with current grid.

[@rogerwilco2]

Not enough power, and no nuclear powered ships are allowed into the Black Sea, except for Russian ones. Probably also not the right infrastructure to transport the power.

[@gdfggggg]

Plug and play. Bish bash bosh.

[@Ragnarok540]

What?

[@janebishop5885]

Germany doesn't get an edge because of the reversal of their energy market because they created and benefitted from that market for years and were set to continue that with Nord 2 at the expense of Ukraine. Now, not to send to Ukraine what they promised, Germany continues to undermine Ukraine and shifts more burden to the other countries just as they have underfunded their NATO contributions. So, as an admirer of many things German, I'm a skeptic, as people and buildings in Ukraine are being blown apart and their infrastructure demolished. And, if Germany had told Putin, unequivocally, that Nord 2 would be halted if Russia did not conduct its "training" excercises elsewhere, then, I believe, that promise could have possibly prevented this attack that would have been almost on level with China telling Putin to back off ,!!!

[@cartmann227]

Jane Bishop Why are you supporting Russian propaganda by trying to devide western allies?

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Germany is the country that made it possible for Slovakia to send its tanks to the Ukraine, Germany is giving Slovakia new tanks, and there are more deals like this, Howitzers from the Netherlands and Germany went to Ukraine, etc... Germania is one of the biggest supporters of Ukraine. Most of it in secret. Do not compare Germany with Trumpghanistan please.

[@liloulux2739]

You have LITERALLY no idea what you are talking about!

[@peteguard3571]

Real easy vlad, tell your troops to lay down their arms, dismount, and walk home

[@edwardloomis887]

Welcome to the fog of war, Vladimir. Cue your inner Carl von Clausewitz.

[@Semiam1]

I can always count on good questions from The Times

[@marievictoire1939]

The clip at the start is in the interview, listening to it twice is irritating.

[@christianbenesch1]

It’s becoming funny😂

[@robertmason9265]

It was Netanyahu who said “If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎down their weapons ‎today, there would be no ‎more Israel'‎” Robinson quotes someone who purloined the expression.

[@graphosxp]

Most expressions go back as far as antiquity. hardly anyone says anything actually new, they just dust off and remix an idea to make it look new. Netanyahu no doubt and most likely himself "purloined" the expression from someone else. Eisenstein said E=mc², now THAT was an original statement that you won't find written on a 1000 year old parchment or painted by a caveman on a wall!

[@hudhinton8243]

Why do reporters keep questioning Western resolve? Frankly, it's amazing given the number of countries that have to approve any strategy. Russia and China lack the allies to do anything like it. Plus there are other countries that want to join NATO.

[@terjeoseberg990]

It be over as soon as he withdraws from Ukraine.

[@paulneilson4106]

Germany put itself in hock to Russia years ago and their misplaced sense of guilt has makes them slow to act. Remember at the start, US and UK arms supplies to Ukraine had to avoid German airspace. Ukraine losing would obviate any extra spending on their own defence. Macron played the bleeding heart for too long wanting to be seen as a big world negotiator which only gave Putin credence.

[@chancergordy]

Ask 'Lord' Robertson what discussions he had with Tommy Hamilton on the morning of the Dunblane Massacre?

[@HePants]

German people like all EU members will suffer indeed but let’s not forget what the German leadership policies did over the last 20 years to contribute massively to this war

[@Kuwandi]

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[@lw1zfog]

Lord George Robertson of Edinburgh’s Freemasonic Speculative Society, Thomas Hamilton, Dunblane.

[@finnjacobsen684]

Putin's dear friend, Erdovan, says that the Crimea peninsula should be handed back to Ukraine, and the Donbas region is part of Ukraine. (Recent interview in PBS.) His statement that Putin wants to see an end to the war is just Putin lying to his face. Erdogan so much want to be an important figure, but he seems quite powerless in helping solve this conflict. He will be remembered for trying to stop Sweden from becoming a NATO member.

[@RainerMichelle]

Erdogan does not want a conflict with Russia, he needs the money from the trade with Russia, but he is helping Ukraine, hoping they will get Crimea back with the help of the other NATO countries, Erdogan does not want a Russian military dominance in the Black Sea

[@williamdewarrenne5848]

Putin wants to stop this war, but only on his terms.

[@harrycordell1438]

Maybe its a good idea Might save some lives.

[@gherkamum]

The free world backs Ukraine.🇺🇦

[@ProtonCannon]

Too bad for Putin, maybe he should have *NOT STARTED* the war in the first place? You know, just an idea...

[@peterprentice9179]

so putin is withdrawing from Ukraine?

[@wethepeople3381]

QUESTION respectfully IS WHERE ARE THEY FLEEING TO? I HOPE NOT UK!

[@cjmatulka8321]

Very insightful, respect for the both of you.

[@nigelsensible807]

Ask yourself this Russians : How many from the Putin or Lavrov families are fighting at the front ?

[@smithcj218]

That's EASY.... Russia withdraws immediately from Ukraine

[@peterfitzpatrick7032]

This comments section summed up... "Red Man Bad !!" ... 🙄😂

[@fermisparadox01]

Putin has 2 options. One, he can end the war and accept the loss of Russia and best case scenario flee to North Korea or keep fighting. Which one would you do?

[@Mullac23]

urmmmmm. . . so why has he just mobilized 300k troops?

[@hare1729]

We all want the war to end quickly

[@Relkond]

This was always supposed to be quick - ‘3 days’. Fools. "The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions." - Robert Wilson Lynd

[@happy11111100]

I have taken LSD in my life but that picture in the back ground is doing my head in

[@danielosullivan7940]

Put your contacts back in…. Problem solved

[@stephenkiss1175]

KZbin is a totally different tone then Twitter and telegram are right now about Ukraine.

[@speculawyer]

All these comment sections are filled with Russian trolls so don't take them seriously.

[@jameswhitfield1375]

In his book, 'The Road to Unfreedom', Timothy Snyder gave an insight into the Russian political mind and why it is, according to those politicians, that Russia can never be wrong: 'The parliamentary deputy Tatiana Saenko...claimed that Western objections to the Russian invasion of Ukraine were a matter of "double standards." This common Russian argument made of law not a general principle, but a cultural artifact located among non-Russian peoples. Western states do not always follow every law, it ran, law had no viability. Russia, too, might violate laws; but since Russia did not accept the rule of law, this was not hypocritical. Since Russia was not hypocritical, it was innocent. If there are no standards, went the reasoning, then there are no double standards. If Europeans or Americans mention international law during a time of such Russian innocence as the invasion of Ukraine, this makes them a spiritual threat. And so reference to international law only demonstrated Western perfidy.' pp.143/4 Synder's book was first published in 2018.

[@LRRPFco52]

Russia is one of the most lawless nations I've ever lived in. If there are laws written somewhere, nobody cares. They are not the least bit concerned with laws, rules, or formalities.

[@joemagarac405]

Yes, a mystical cult mindset

[@darthvaper6745]

Russias badly maintained hardware will fail during the winter ❄️

[@invarietateconcordia1988]

No country supplies western tanks to Ukraine, not the UK, not the US. I wonder why Germany is permanently called out on this.

[@mhh7544]

I ve wondered the same, whats so miraculous in western tanks, apart the price off course. We have some 200 Leopard 2 A 6/ A4s, and we scrapped old soviet tanks long ago. I ve seen photo evidence of old Patria 6X6 wheeled APCs are being given, as well as 120mm mortars, modernized twin barell 40mm AA guns. That been said, I can clerly understand why we are not giving any tanks away.

[@glasweedgian]

Germany will supply legacy Leopard 2 tanks to Slovakia then they will send Soviet-era fighting vehicles to Ukraine deal signed on friday past i believe.