Putin Threatens The West

[L00b]

9 hours ago, trastrick said:

Totalitarian Dictator and International "War Criminal" Putin gets to be President of United Nations Security Council.

 

Because that's just the the way it works? 

Each of the UN Council's 15 members takes up the presidency for a month, on a rotating pattern, and now it's Russia's turn again, since the rules haven't changed in the meantime.

 

So yes, all amoral that the situation may be, that's "just the way it works".

 

Sod all to do with 'the MSM', or 'with Biden', or <whatever other strawman you care to build on it>.

 

Yet all 'President of United Nations Security Council' that Putin may be this month, would not stop him getting arrested on sight, the very moment he sets foot outside his aircraft if he visited any country that is a signatory of the ICC, under the warrant issued 17 March 2023.

[Kidorry]

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I think this should make things a little clearer who will be the Russian representative. There is no way Vlad will ever attend.

[trastrick]

12 hours ago, L00b said:

So yes, all amoral that the situation may be, that's "just the way it works".

That's the problem, the "way it works" stinks.

 

We badly need leaders in government, who would change "the way it works".

 

Trouble is, they face political opposition, even persecution, from the establishment status quo, who are quite happy with "the way it works", and will do whatever it takes to maintain it.

 

So there's absolutely no incentive for any political outsider to try to change things.

 

On the contrary, doing so ensures a concerted effort to destroy them, their families and like minded associates

 

And so it continues, Crisis after crisis, economic chaos, and war after war!

 

Here's the "way it works".

 

WIKI

The United Natios Human Rights Council Members

China
Russia
Cuba
Algeria
Morocco
South Africa
Sudan
Bangladesh
Kyrgyzstan
Vietnam     
Georgia
Romania    
Chile
Benin
Cameroon
Eritrea
Gambia
Somalia     India
Kazakhstan
Qatar
United Arab Emirates
Argentina
Honduras
Paraguay
Côte d'Ivoire
Gabon
Malawi
Senegal     
Uzbekistan
Bolivia
Mexico
 

 

 

Edited April 3, 2023 by trastrick

[L00b]

2 hours ago, trastrick said:

That's the problem, the "way it works" stinks.

 

We badly need leaders in government, who would change "the way it works".

 

Trouble is, they face political opposition, even persecution, from the establishment status quo, who are quite happy with "the way it works", and will do whatever it takes to maintain it.

 

<…>

Who are such leaders, then?

 

 ‘Strong men’ like Trump, Erdogan, Putin, Jinping…?

 

Putin certainly is changing “the way it works” at home-

 

https://news.sky.com/story/russian-military-blogger-killed-and-six-injured-in-blast-at-st-petersburg-cafe-reports-12848536

 

-back to the good old communist days of political assassinations, neighbours spying on neighbours, journalists seized on trumped-up charges, high-ranking officials handing over their passports to stave off defections…

 

[trastrick]

Just now, L00b said:

Who are such leaders, then?

Notably missing from politics, these days.

 

Busy being successful in less hateful, and more respected fields?

 

Who needs all the crapola?

 

But they'll usually step up, when the people themselves call for change.

 

And not until! 

 

Edited April 3, 2023 by trastrick

[Pyrotequila]

Will this actually make a difference?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65164726

 

Quote

Finland will become the 31st member of Nato on Tuesday, the Western military alliance's secretary general has announced.

The application was prompted by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, with which Finland shares a long border.

 

[The_DADDY]

2 minutes ago, Pyrotequila said:

Will this actually make a difference?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65164726

 

 

Another dangerous escalation. 

[L00b]

21 minutes ago, Pyrotequila said:

Will this actually make a difference?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65164726

Not for Putin, he is too far down the road, no off ramp left.

 

But for Europe, absolutely. With NATO extended to the entire Finnish border, Putin’s got nowhere left to go east, without tripping Article 5. And the one thing he won’t do, is have at NATO, because then it’s curtains for him any which way it turns out.

[altus]

24 minutes ago, The_DADDY said:

Another dangerous escalation. 

It's a direct result of Putin's stated desire to rebuild the Russian Empire and the implications of what that means for Finland. I suggest you look up a bit of Finnish history.

[L00b]

28 minutes ago, The_DADDY said:

Another dangerous escalation. 

🤡
 

The only escalation to date, has been Russian.

Finland would not be in NATO, if Putin had kept taking the oil and gas money from Europe and stayed quiet, instead of escalating indeed.