I wonder if fElon would really be a little less unhappy if she had gone with Xena instead of Vivian? Of course, that isn't something she needs to care about – but I'm just wondering if he's stupid enough for that!
Putin has said so around 2010.
After Napoleon, Russia was occupying Paris for a while. Ergo, Paris is old Russian territory.
Also, Novgorod was founded by vikings, therefore everything vikings ever held is old Russian territory.
In the end times of Byzantine (Eastern Rome), Muscovy bought the right to call itself a successor of Rome. Therefore, Spain and Morocco are old Russian territories. And Israel as well.
Socialism originally spread from the Russia. Therefore, all countries that have been socialist actually belong to the Russia. Yes: Angola, China, Laos, Venezuela. Alaska is old Russian territory, and is one unit together with USA. Therefore, Hawaii and Texas belong to the Russia.
I think what must have happened is that I wrote a comment on Voyager, my android killed the app and when I restarted it, I accidentally opened a wrong link to send the mostly written comment to. Heh.
And no, I don't think the Russia can win, unless EU explicitly decides it should. And I don't think EU will do that. Trump can do a quite a bit to help the Russia, but most likely not enough for it to win.
But, we'll see.
True. But, if it looks like the Russia is about to win the war, it makes sense for China to decrease its support so that there won't be a victory. China needs the Russia to lose – only, after as long time as possible.
I don't think Zelenskyj considers USA an enemy of Ukraine. Trump probably yes, but USA not. It's just, Trump has his own foreign policy that is not at all in line with what almost everybody in USA wants, so that's what is now in effect. But if Trump disappears in a way or another, there's a good chance the US foreign politics will start making sense again.
I don't think Zelenskyj considers it necessary to send a message that Ukraine is somehow against USA. It isn't.
They have liquid cash until around middle of summer this year. After that they will have to get very creative, but will be able to keep their economy afloat for some time at least. Some are guessing their economy would crash around early autumn, others bet on early 2026.
Of course, Trump might save much of the Russian economy. Many of the sanctions are made by EU countries, but some are such that USA can really cancel them. For example, how does excluding the Russia from SWIFT actually work? Can USA just decide to include them in it again, without us in the EU having a say? That could give the Russia several extra months. It won't be enough to save them, but it will slow down their collapse.
I think China is interested in the oil fields in Sibiria. If the Russian economy tanks, China can buy large parts of the country. It can buy oil fields so that all of their production is considered Chinese, and no taxes need to be paid for the Russia. And, if it's lucky, it can get the Russia as a kind of a vassal for itself.
This would work so that they would make sure the Russia will not lose the war, but also not win. Eventually the economy will tank, the war will end and China can step in. The longer the war lasts, the weaker Ukraine, the Russia and EU will all be. And that means, the better edge China has on gaining Russian assets for itself. With other ones getting weaker and China not, China gets a relative advantage.
Keep in mind: this is purely my own speculation, and I'm not an expert.
Hm, cannot find that article anywhere. I found two articles that talk about refrigerated trains bringing bodies there, but they don't tell about the actual morgue at all. They are here:
https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/features-61567949
All articles I can find about the larger warehouse near Kyiv are from 2022. There are articles telling about swaps of Russian soldiers who have had influential relatives. In 2022 there has been a swap of 50 such soldiers – and the same amount of Ukrainians in the other direction.
Starting from summer 2024, there are suddenly several articles telling about swaps of hundreds of bodies at once, so at that point something has changed. Of course, with the Russia losing 1300 soldiers per day, and therefore about 400 of their soldiers dying per day, swaps of 200 to 600 dead bodies a few times per month are not that very many, really. Even if most of the Russian soldiers die in areas unreachable by Ukrainians, that still seems like a very low number. There is some amount of pressure inside the Russia for getting some of the bodies away from Ukraine, but none of the halfways recent articles tell anything about how many Russian bodies are currently in storage somewhere, waiting for repatriation to the Russia. Based on the amounts of a few hundred at a time, I'd say there must be many that the Russia does not accept. But no information on where in Ukraine they are physically located at the moment. Kind of understandable, because the Russian military could bomb the morgue to get rid of evidence, if they found out where it is.
It is weird that apparently no articles have been written on this subject in the last two years or so!
Countries are invisible lines on Earth. Nations are not.
Nations are groups of people that sometimes fill some lines, often leave some parts among the lines unfilled, sometimes cross them.
And nations can exist without any lines on Earth at all. If Ukraine was to somehow get completely occupied by the Russia, Ukrainians as a nation would continue existing. Until the Russia manages to actively purge them.
The Russia's official news agency that will not publish anything that Putin disagrees with, has written the clearest explanation about the genocidal goal. The important part is that in one part it said that all nazis in Ukraine must be exterminated, and in another part it defines Ukrainian nazis as "everybody who supports the regime of Kyiv". And then there's Putin's speech on February 21st, 2022, which was supposed to take place just hours before the missiles start flying, although the attack then had to be postponed by two days. And then there are the three articles published by RIA Novosti precisely at 08:00 Moscow time on February 26th, 2022. And Putin's speech from summer 2021.
I wish I could find the version of the "What Russia should do with Ukraine" article's text that is annotated in English language. I spent some hours looking for it a few days ago, to no avail. It's somewhere out there in the Internet – I can remember having read it.
The only land animals that aren't fish are animals with exoskeletons. Whales are fish just as much as you and me are. And we are fish :)