Princess Pooper
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I commented to my husband when we saw the footage that they didn't seem very enthusiastic...
Will Putin invade ?
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Not a football fan but find it funny that a Russian owned team, Chelsea, actually play in the colours of the Ukrainian flag!
Tubbylew
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Chap on telly t'other night said the belarusians didn't support putins presence in their country and lukashencko is very unpopular despite what their allowed to say, have seen pictures of belarusian volunteers supposedly fighting for ukraine, hope it's true.I wonder if this is the start of a coup d'état?
Lukashenka's flag was removed from the #Belarusian embassy in #Vilnius and replaced with the national white-pass-white flag and the #Ukrainian flag. It is reported that the national flag was also noticed at the Belarusian embassy in #Paris.
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ollie989898
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There was a post mentioning that some people from Belarus had arrived and were fighting alongside the Ukrainians.
Courier
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“We all thought he wouldn’t invade ….”
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If they aren't then they should be sanctioned as well
Tubbylew
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I think I heard they tried to overthrow lukeshenko but failed when he was elected.
Tubbylew
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- Herefordshire
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextf**kin...an_protestors_starting_to_protect_each_other/
Can't get link to work I'll find it elsewhere and try again
TheTallGuy
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"elected" is a questionable term...
Farfrae
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The situation in Ukraine is of course not as clear cut as the western media would have you believe. However, I'm not going to comment as most people don't want to hear it.
Perhaps it would be better to remember the words of the great Carl Sagan
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbour life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
Perhaps it would be better to remember the words of the great Carl Sagan
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbour life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
Tubbylew
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Tubbylew
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I hope she gets another chance at the job, old vlad wouldn't look so tough without jaws by his side.
The Russians need to cause as much civil unrest as possible , easier said than done
Tubbylew
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JohnGalway
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Most interesting person I follow on Twitter, does a lot of Who's and Whys
I suspect they really wanted to chuck in the towel but dont want to end up in siberia
To be fair if you dont want to be there its genus. How else do you stop fighting in the middle of a warzone
TheTallGuy
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One wonders what a 2 man crewed vehicle was doing out & about on its own in "enemy" territory....