X will need Putin for Taiwan.
No. I'm doin' the mother tact on you and I ain't stoppin'. Not for money, marbles nor chalkPERIOD
Now, get ta in' your mother, some more.
X will need Putin for Taiwan.
and Putin is just a failed version of Colin Powell
cant properly create excuses for war and then cant win them either![]()
Though he ain't run out of a country like MF Biden in Afghanistan, got home and the children were waitin' on him,,,out at Dover...there to meet them were their mamas and papas, & Biden...
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thanks for reminding us that Biden got us out of a ty war![]()
Here's DMC to not express any opinion about any actual political issue!![]()
Russian fast-food chain backed by parliament to replace McDonald’s reveals near-identical branding
Moscow has invested in domestic fast-food chains after McDonald’s shut its restaurants in Russia
Uncle Vanya's burger shop logo
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2037987.html
The chickens coming home to roost
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Gravy Sealion
Madison Cawthorn's rant calling Zelenskyy a 'thug' gets massive airplay on Russian state TV
https://www.rawstory.com/madison-cawthorn-2656976340/
As West shuns Moscow, officials say India eyes more cheap Russian oil
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/...ay-2022-03-14/
Ukraine conflict:
Putin lays out his demands in Turkish phone call
The Russian demands fall into two categories.
The first four demands are, according to Mr Kalin, not too difficult for Ukraine to meet.
Chief among them is an acceptance by Ukraine that it should be neutral and should not apply to join Nato. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has already conceded this.
There are other demands in this category which mostly seem to be face-saving elements for the Russian side.
Ukraine would have to undergo a disarmament process to ensure it wasn't a threat to Russia.
There would have to be protection for the Russian language in Ukraine.
And there is something called de-Nazification.
This is deeply offensive to Mr Zelensky, who is himself Jewish and some of whose relatives died in the Holocaust, but the Turkish side believes it will be easy enough for Mr Zelensky to accept.
Perhaps it will be enough for Ukraine to condemn all forms of neo-Nazism and promise to clamp down on them.
The second category is where the difficulty will lie, and in his phone call, Mr Putin said that it would need face-to-face negotiations between him and President Zelensky before agreement could be reached on these points. Mr Zelensky has already said he's prepared to meet the Russian president and negotiate with him one-to-one.
Mr Kalin was much less specific about these issues, saying simply that they involved the status of Donbas, in eastern Ukraine, parts of which have already broken away from Ukraine and stressed their Russianness, and the status of Crimea.
Although Mr Kalin didn't go into detail, the assumption is that
Russia will demand that the Ukrainian government should give up territory in eastern Ukraine. That will be deeply contentious.
The other assumption is that
Russia will demand that Ukraine should formally accept that Crimea,
which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, does indeed now belong to Russia. If this is the case, it will be a bitter pill for Ukraine to swallow.
Russia has no legal right to own Crimea and actually
signed an international treaty, after the fall of Communism but before Vladimir Putin came to power, accepting that Crimea was part of Ukraine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60785754
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