Finland and Sweden officially invited to join NATO after Turkey's concerns were addressed.

For anyone still thinking that this invasion was motivated by avoiding a larger NATO border mission failed...

I knew Erdogan playing tough guy would not amount to much. He literally gained nothing of merit in the negotiations, only optics for his domestic theater

•Commitment not to support PYD/YPG and FETO.

Easy one, we didn’t do that to begin with

•No embargo and restrictions in the field of defense industry.

This one too is easy because we didn’t have an embargo.

Taking concrete steps on the extradition of terrorist criminals

Meaningless because it’s up to the Finnish courts and law.

Myesyats wrote:I knew Erdogan playing tough guy would not amount to much. He literally gained nothing of merit in the negotiations, only optics for his domestic theater

Like many autocrats, basically anything Erdogan does is for the benefit of his domestic prestige. The economy has gone downhill under his rule, most Turks, especially the urban ones, don't really love his very conservative brand of Islam, and Turkish families are networked really well, while Erdogan has censored Turkish media, they have absolutely no problem getting all information they need from foreign relatives, so his grasp on the Turkish government is tenuous - he absolutely needs to look good domestically, and he needs to keep finding foreign threats to unite the Turkish people behind him, before they start questioning whether he's doing more harm than good.

Crazy how much the narrative changed in the past few days.

People like Applebaum now openly talking of Ukrainian victory and Putins fall again:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/ukraine-victory-russia-putin/671405/

I bet Harmonica voted against her

Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin was asked about a potential off-ramp for Russia to end the war in Ukraine. Her reply: pic.twitter.com/VblWxkMuFc

— Rikhard Husu (@RikhardHusu) October 7, 2022

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim.
Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh to Muslim.
Good day to Others.

Since no one really care,
I post here.

not 100% confirmed yet tho

BREAKING: A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.

A Polish government spokesman did not immediately confirm the information, but said leaders were meeting on "crisis situation." https://t.co/W1hhjwa6ez

— The Associated Press (@AP) November 15, 2022

Poland is verifying if it needs to activate NATO article 4, consultation: Gov’t spokesman

— Ragıp Soylu (@ragipsoylu) November 15, 2022

Thanks I live closer to the German border so I’m somewhat fine, unlucky for the two people that died.

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Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh to Muslim.
Good day to Others.

This is just delusion. It’s another arms race Russia can’t win. US are happy and will keep supplying a shitload of weapons. A clash between Russia and the west was always going to happen. The fact that the US is not endangering a single American soldier while weakening and fucking Russia for years to come is priceless. These billions in aid are nothing in that context. Russia will destroy its economy and military while Uncle Biden sits back and enjoys the show, as grim as that is for the proxy nation defending itself in U.S. interest is for this war to continue, probably if I had to guess they were hoping for it to happen

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim.
Assalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh to Muslim.
Good day to Others.

Russian conscript complained
about the treatment.

HOLY SHIT I can't belive Blinken actually said it out loud LMFAOOOO #RussiaIsCollapsing pic.twitter.com/QV5nxESVtt

— Fella Uchiha (@KadirHama) June 2, 2023

#Sweden has met all the requirements of #Turkey and has the right to join NATO, #NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg said after talks with Turkish President Erdogan. pic.twitter.com/BUcgejjQq5

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) June 4, 2023

Russian military mercenary company Wagner is commiting and attempted coup that has been exposed. Things getting very unstable in Russia

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-66006142

CIA coup

This seems too good to be true. Probably a staged coup by Putin himself, Francis- this is a nation of rats!

It could be a bait to lure Ukrainians into launching a counteroffensive by making them believe it's the best moment to do so. I wouldnt ever accuse Ruzzians of being smart enough for this, but who knows. Maybe they have something prepared

In the east, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an offensive in several directions at once, according to Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hanna Maliar.

In the directions of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Bakhmut, Bohdanivka, Yahidne, Khreshchenivka and Kurdyumivka. In all… pic.twitter.com/o1Y1lTNS99

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) June 24, 2023

Either the bait worked, or Ukrainians are also putting out fake signals. Honestly at this point nobody knows anything

Dyumin and Matovnikow rumored to replace Shoigu and Gierasimov, not sure if related to the 'fake coup'

Dmitry #Peskov: An agreement has been reached that #Wagner PMC will leave for their field camps, and #Prigozhin himself will leave for #Belarus. The authorities will not persecute those Wagnerites who took part in the rebellion, given their front-line merits.

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) June 24, 2023

lmao, war is just weird on so many levels

El Gunner wrote:lmao, war is just weird on so many levels

Wagner group is basically murderers and rapists released from prison and given guns. It was amusing to see Russian citizens embrace them and cheer them on. We live in a society! I guess even the worst criminals are better than Pootin tho..

Pray 4 Africa!

#BREAKING Wagner group will continue operations in Mali, C. African Republic: Russian foreign minister pic.twitter.com/KX9W7XpWik

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) June 26, 2023

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/27/biden-endgame-ukraine-00133211

Reads like the West has given up on Ukraine and is willing to negotiate a surrender.

The thinking is that Russians should bleed and suffer economically and demographically is success enough, without Ukraine "winning" per se (that is misguided thinking)

Backing out paves way for full annexation of Ukraine in the future and a power shift in the Black Sea, so where is the success in that.

The only way I can rationalize this is, the West wants to establish a peace now to rebuild and prepare for a great war in 10-15 years. But then they'll risk their own men and women whereas now only Ukrainians suffer casualties. Everyone felt now is the right time to go all out but I guess not