life and humanity is more than a list of I II III IV ...

best to read multiple viewpoints of the analysis of major speeches by the Russian president since 2014.

perhaps read about the Orthodox schism (j. schneider) or nuclear Orthodoxy (adamsky).

afterwards, consider a new cyberspace era (derek reveron on d vs k vs p).

and to think, russia gdp is size of texas.

or at opposite end of spectrum does china and russia control fate of any green revolution?.

Russia's foreign ministry said on Monday that those supplying lethal weapons to Ukraine will bear responsibility should they be used during Russia's military campaign there.

The ministry added that the steps the European Union has taken against Russia will not be left without a harsh response.

Atlantic Council - March 1, 2022
Four Ways The War In Ukraine Might End

The above was a follow-up to a speaking engagement weeks ago.

The AC is part of the calculating geopolitical machinery.

Thousands of Russian scientists and journalist have condemned the military action, risking fines or even prison sentences.

In an open letter to the increasingly isolated dictator, they said there was no 'rational justification for this war' and warned the country was 'doomed to isolation'.

More than 6,100 academics, scientific journalists and medics have put their name to the document despite Russia's strict anti-freedom of speech laws.

Any public criticism of the Russian state can result in fines of up to £6,200 or jail sentences, under laws introduced in 2012.

The coalition has demanded 'an immediate halt to all military operations directed against Ukraine'.

Some 6,840 people have been detained at anti-war protests since the invasion began on February 24, according to the OVD-Info protest-monitoring group.

DEFCON 4 is next on stage

Putin is cornered. Russia will wake up to Putin is wrong. Then what?
DEFCON 4 next.

Statements by Putin in last our on TV adds more proof this is spinning out of control.

Mmmm, another possible scenario:

The 'west' i.e. Europe / US pressures China and India through progressively more severe sanctions / goods tarriffs eg. on exports / imports; China / India in turn exert pressure on Russia to stop.

A diplomatic 'Off ramp' provided for Russia - eg. Crimea and Donbass region annexed to Russia.

Possibly also, Ukraine declares neutrality. West limits weapons / troop deployments in eastern Europe.

Sanctions lifted if Russia provides financial aid to Ukraine. Russia, hopefully, decides that they misjudged, this was a major mistake and does not try anything like it again.

Agreement reached between all nations that currently have nuclear weapons to a drastic reduction in their arsenal eg. 100-250(max).

.....just a suggestion.

Things can get much worse than you realize.

With no accurate prediction of Putin invading Ukraine until well after the troop build-up was into the later stages, this thought resonates:

The world has changed. There is no going back … we are in an entirely new era.

Early November 2021 is when US Intelligence agencies informed US President of growing threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Will the world know if China had knowledge of threat prior to early November 2021?

China President Xi will undermine Putin leadership.

russian missiles bomb Lutsk airfield 50 miles from poland border

2.7 billion China + India
450 million EU
145 million Russia
85 million Iran
10 million Belarus

China has 425 million poverty level

From a reliable Twitter account:

Belarusian military is set to cross the Ukraine border at 9 p.m. Kyiv time today.

No indication where but western Ukraine is mentioned.

President Biden: Direct conflict between NATO and Russia is World War III, something we must strive to prevent.

President Biden: Russia would pay a severe price if they use chemical weapons.

Unrelated to chemical attack, some wonder what happens if Belarus or Russian mercenaries create a crisis inside Ukraine.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba contradicts Putin and cited zero progress in talks while questioning President Putin's narrative directly.

FM Kuleba: Zero progress in talks... hard for me to understand what kind of progress President Putin is referring to.

DEFCON 4

Foreign news reporters:

Quote:
Ukrainian senior officials said Russia was doing everything possible to draw Belarus into the conflict.

We also understand that the Belarusian government has been doing everything possible to avoid joining this war, Ukrainian deputy interior minister Yevheniy Yenin said on national television on Friday.

China said to be providing intelligence to deesculate the Ukraine war but to whom is the question.

Russia threatens to target foreign military aid convoys to Ukraine.

Russian Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov said that Moscow had warned the U.S. that convoys of foreign weapons would be:

... legitimate targets for the Russian Armed Forces...

as cited by Russian media RIA Novosti.

NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg had earlier said that a Russian attack on the supply lines of allied nations supporting Ukraine would be :

- a dangerous escalation of the war.

Thousands of years of evolution of human morality, and we are at a place when a country can bomb maternity hospitals and be punished by losing McDonald's and Ikea.

Why Putin bombs the very same Russian-speaking people he claims to liberate.
....
Putin claims he’s come to save the Russian world and the Russians from Nazism — but he’s mostly bombing Russian-speaking cities. Kherson, Mariupol, Odessa, Kharkiv, these are all cities where the majority of the population speaks Russian
....
Putin doesn’t believe that Ukrainians exist. And he can’t let the new Ukraine state stay alive — he can’t let it slip away from him. So he has to derail the project. He has tried everything. The fact that he had to go to war is already proof that he wasn’t successful, that he couldn’t achieve his goal in any other way.

But the interview glosses over the carnage caused by Putin.

The missle strike on the Ukranian Yavoriv base attack close to Poland border shows Putin believe nothing stop Putin inside Ukraine.

Quote:

China and Russia are likely to establish far better relations with each other than either has with the United States.

Putin speech to Russian cabinet today is important. The first reviews of speech are not good.

China silence is deafening

China take over russia
china get all from russia cheap

m. shedlock for mishtalk give example in the news Ruble Regains 100 percent of Its Loss

Any recovery in Russia will embolden Putin on both a regional and global basis.

Only event that can help going forward is confusion in China.

China is the only beneficiary from the current environment since beginning of 2022.

Putin's reputation now permanent harm to more than a few.

China now owns Putin war crimes. Not sure China realized how significant the fallout develops on the world stage. Massive mistake by Xi.

China's Strategic Assessment of Russia - More Complicated Than You Think

from War On The Rocks
Commentary from March 4, 2022

crash

evil that has no limits

EU To Impose Full Embargo On Russian Oil Next Week

oil to cost way more in eu
$185 barrel maybes soon

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some in Russia are quietly hoping the West will show Putin a way out that lets him save face. But there’s little mood in the U.S. and Europe to reward him for inflicting such devastation on Ukraine.

That may throw responsibility back to those in the Russian elite who are desperate to avert disaster for themselves and their country to find the courage to press Putin to change course.

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President Putin launched this war in order to try and keep himself in power and to stop any growth of democracy in Russia.

Putin is believed to have surrounded himself with a group of hardline advisors and has dismissed attempts at trying to warn him of the cost, economically and politically, of the conflict.

quote from new story from website called - the intercept

Anomaly Six with Zignal Labs can monitor the movements of over 3 billion phones around the world with the press of a button

using data from a phone application installed by user with a user constant stream of data purchased directly from application developer like twitter