Thumpalumpacus
Major
I can't remember the English writer who penned the aphorism, "All it takes for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing." It is very apt in the matter of these abstentions.
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Still trying to figure out why South Africa keeps abstaining. Pick a side damnit. As far as I am concerned a vote of abstention is equal to a vote against. You are a Russian ally.
This rocket is called 'Putin's nightmare'. Japan wants Russia to know they can access it
During routine military exercises on the island of Hokkaido, Japanese and US forces brought out a very expensive missile with iconic status on the battlefields of Ukraine.www.abc.net.au
Don't give them anything.Cuba for years has been supported by Russia. After the recent hurricane going through Cuba, they asked the U.S. for aid, the first time in decades. I guess there are no Rubles left.
Don't give them anything.
The Cuban people are actually really nice, in spite of what they've had to endure under Castro's regime.Don't give them anything.
He later went on to drive this in combat...The quality of BTR-80 driver training as a synonym for Russian military prowess. Watch to the very end as the APC ploughs over one of the soldiers on parade, and some of the others duck out of the way. Amazingly, the soldier who was hit got up afterwards...maybe he'd had his fill of tile cleaner for the day.
Depends on what the people have done at the behest of their government. The Russians torturing and murdering Ukrainian civilians, and firing missiles into Ukrainian schools, homes and hospitals are just ordinary people, with parents, spouses, siblings, the same as the rest of us. But some go ahead with what they're told to do, and then some. I was just following orders no longer flies.Let's not forget its the government we disagree with, not the people who often suffer at their governments expense.
We can see the mines right there FFS. I appreciate we have an overhead view, but clearly these mines were not buried.He later went on to drive this in combat...
Depends on what the people have done at the behest of their government. The Russians torturing and murdering Ukrainian civilians, and firing missiles into Ukrainian schools, homes and hospitals are just ordinary people, with parents, spouses, siblings, the same as the rest of us. But some go ahead with what they're told to do, and then some. I was just following orders no longer flies.
We'll never get Putin to follow Milošević into the Hague. No, he's more likely to end up like Ceaușescu or Pinochet, shot or deposed and dying under house arrest by his own people. But some high ranking Russians of Putin-level culpability will do.
He later went on to drive this in combat...
Notice how China, Cuba and several other "friends of Russia" have moved from "against" to "no comment" (and even several voting in favor) since this all began?
That in itself is a solid indication of Russia's fading support.