Baldrick,

So you think it's wise to let Putin enslave your citizens? Apparently, no one else does, which is why the pope is desperately trying to rescue his credibility by backpedalling at 100 mph.

Meanwhile, Ukraine has been attacking Russia's fuel depots and refineries with their new drones with a >1000km range. With fires burning wildly as far as St Petersburg and Moscow, damage from a few $m to a few $bn and about 13% of Russia's refining capacity knocked out. And that's only in a week.

Luckily Ukraine is churning out a few 100,000 more.

Putin after stealing yet another election is looking weak as Russian patriots capture Belgorod and his refineries are burning

Russia is losing this war.

You two blokes have a weird fixation on the Russia/Ukraine business: something you can't do a damn thing about. You might enjoy your sparring, but it’s all a waste of time.

The country where you actually get to vote has enough problems for you to "solve".

And, no, AC. I don't know if they voted against war. Do you?

Macron ‘panicked’ over leaked Ukraine reports – Marianne
http://www.rt.com/news/594168-french-military-reports-ukraine/

And yes, Zelensky campaigned on a platform of peace with the Russians

I don't see anything a out voting against war.

The leaked French report above says 30,000 volunteers in Russia per month btw.

"So you think it's wise to let Putin enslave your citizens?"
What exactly are you referring to?
Impositions of an autocrat have both positives and negatives, one of them being opposition groups and Western NGO's and free speech need to be kept on a short leash because the west uses them to conduct overthrows.

America screams 'They hate us because of our freedoms'
So the country in question tries to give its citizens freedoms, and then America uses this as weak points for which to drive a wedge and create protests and civil unrest. Then the autocrat cracks down on these movements, and the heavy handedness required is plastered all over western tv's as proof they're 'evil dictators' and the liberal intervention is justified, for the people, when it was just a large minority they stirred up to get out on the streets.

If you don't understand the lay of the land then you're an idiot.
It's just conquest and imperialism by another name.
- And the West are warmongering weasels trying to conquer the whole planet.

"Putin after stealing yet another election is looking weak as Russian patriots capture Belgorod and his refineries are burning"

Putin didn't have to steal anything.
The Russian people support their leader more than our citizens support theirs.

Here's your refineries - Supply shocks increase the price of crude for Russia - Think of it as an OPEC+ production cut.
(And increased US gas prices will see Biden out of office; andTrumps vowed not to give a penny to Ukraine, and Europe can't keep it afloat on its own.)
Watch 2 minutes of this...
http://youtu.be/qk8Y5ItjRoE

And here's your 'Russian patriots' dead all over the place and a few running away getting hit by drones
http://www.rt.com/russia/594352-belgorod-ukraine-incursion-kozinka/

Hi ttbn,
"I don't see anything about voting against war."
- It wasn't in the link sorry.

But it is well known that Zelensky campaigned on a platform of peace with the Russians and an end to the hostilities in the Donbass.
He apparently stated he would kneel at Putins feet and beg for peace or something, and then he won and became President.

Ukraine’s leader stood on platform of peace, but finds himself on brink of war - 20 Feb 2022
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/20/ukraines-leader-stood-on-platform-of-peace-but-finds-himself-on-brink-war

"When Volodymyr Zelenskiy sought to become Ukraine’s president he stood on a platform of peace. Zelenskiy promised to sit down with Vladimir Putin and to reach a deal with Russia. He would end the unpopular war in the east and concentrate on important domestic reforms. These included ridding the country of corruption and oligarchs."

- Zelensky won on a platform of peace - promising an end to the hostilities in the Donbass.
This is what the Ukrainians voted for in 2019, (but the West had other plans)