Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-23 and Invasion

[Josquius]

Apparently the long table thing is based on choosing not to accept a covid test administered by the Russians. Scholtz and macron had their own doctors do the tests.
Presumably the Belarusian dictator doesn't have the same hangups about Russian doctors that sensible people do.

[jimmy olsen]

@CBSDavidMartin reporting US can see Russia units moving out of assembly areas toward the Ukraine border; it looks like Russian military uncoiling in preparation for an invasion

Link?

[Sheilbh]

Just heard a UK journalist talk about the flight to Ukraine. There were two counter-terrorism police at the gate who were checking people's IDs and asking why they were going to Ukraine etc.

She said she'd seen this before when flying to Syria and Iraq - and apparently the reason is basically the same. UK authorities are quite worried about neo-Nazis/radicalised far-right travelling to Ukraine for "weapons training" or just the opportunity to fight - in much the same way as violent Islamists/extremists tried to get to Syria or Iraq. It's pretty ghoulish to think there are people traveling and in Ukraine who are super-hyped that it'll be a war so they get to do some violence

[Josquius]

Devil's advocate, it would be a nice way to get rid of them and use their flesh for something positive.
Though yes. When there's a delicate situation and no war they're not really who you want on site.

[The Brain]

How do they separate the good volunteers from the bad?

[Duque de Bragança]

Just heard a UK journalist talk about the flight to Ukraine. There were two counter-terrorism police at the gate who were checking people's IDs and asking why they were going to Ukraine etc.

She said she'd seen this before when flying to Syria and Iraq - and apparently the reason is basically the same. UK authorities are quite worried about neo-Nazis/radicalised far-right travelling to Ukraine for "weapons training" or just the opportunity to fight - in much the same way as violent Islamists/extremists tried to get to Syria or Iraq. It's pretty ghoulish to think there are people traveling and in Ukraine who are super-hyped that it'll be a war so they get to do some violence

So to avoid ant-terrorism police, just take a flight to Poland or Romania and proceed then by road, train or another plane (not green I know)? I guess they are after the not-so discreet and bright ones.

[mongers]

So to avoid ant-terrorism police, just take a flight to Poland or Romania and proceed then by road, train or another plane (not green I know)? I guess they are after the not-so discreet and bright ones.

Yep, low hanging fruit. 

[Sheilbh]

Slightly fascinating/grim - a historian who's working on a book about espionage and was reading a British intelligence report from Ukraine in February 1922:
https://twitter.com/calder_walton/status/1493746680021368835?s=20&t=WYrFNaO8EwNPOqJWpLk3qA

My informant naturally looked forward to the reconstruction of an independent Ukrainian state... I pointed out to him that no Power would intervene against Russia now, and that the Russians en masse would never permit the Ukraine to separate itself entirely from Russia.

[Tamas]

Russian embassy in South Africa joining foreign ministry in attempting to switch things to "lol it was all for the lulz":

https://twitter.com/EmbassyofRussia/status/1493884806022713344

[Josquius]

The daily mail is getting its pants in a twist over Graham Norton cracking a basic joke.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2614499/Video-Graham-Norton-quipped-Ukraine-soon-southwest-Russia.html

[Admiral Yi]

How do they separate the good volunteers from the bad?

This.

[viper37]

Just heard a UK journalist talk about the flight to Ukraine. There were two counter-terrorism police at the gate who were checking people's IDs and asking why they were going to Ukraine etc.

She said she'd seen this before when flying to Syria and Iraq - and apparently the reason is basically the same. UK authorities are quite worried about neo-Nazis/radicalised far-right travelling to Ukraine for "weapons training" or just the opportunity to fight - in much the same way as violent Islamists/extremists tried to get to Syria or Iraq. It's pretty ghoulish to think there are people traveling and in Ukraine who are super-hyped that it'll be a war so they get to do some violence

When the ISIS fighters were coming back, most leftists were telling us they should be welcomed back with open arms and not ostracized.  I wonder what they'll say about the neo nazis

[Zoupa]

Just heard a UK journalist talk about the flight to Ukraine. There were two counter-terrorism police at the gate who were checking people's IDs and asking why they were going to Ukraine etc.

She said she'd seen this before when flying to Syria and Iraq - and apparently the reason is basically the same. UK authorities are quite worried about neo-Nazis/radicalised far-right travelling to Ukraine for "weapons training" or just the opportunity to fight - in much the same way as violent Islamists/extremists tried to get to Syria or Iraq. It's pretty ghoulish to think there are people traveling and in Ukraine who are super-hyped that it'll be a war so they get to do some violence

When the ISIS fighters were coming back, most leftists were telling us they should be welcomed back with open arms and not ostracized.  I wonder what they'll say about the neo nazis

Please link surveys of "leftists" expressing that opinion. Thanks.

[HVC]

Yeah, that's the first I ever heard that particular line.

[mongers]

It was a relief to not hear news of a Russian invasion when I woke this morning, somewhat dreading the days immediately after Xi's propaganda games.