General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfter spending 90 minutes on the phone with Putin, Macron thinks "the worst is yet to come"...
Emmanuel Macron pense que "le pire est à venir" en Ukraine après son échange avec Vladimir Poutine, qui a fait part de "sa très grande détermination" à poursuivre son offensive et dont le but est "de prendre le contrôle" de tout le pays, selon l'Elysée #AFP
Translated from French by Google
Emmanuel Macron thinks that "the worst is yet to come" in Ukraine after his exchange with Vladimir Putin, who expressed "his very great determination" to continue his offensive and whose goal is "to take control" of the whole country , according to the Elysée#AFP
Link to tweet
Ray Bruns
(4,023 posts)Like he did in Chechnya.
Walleye
(30,729 posts)femmedem
(8,190 posts)I suppose I'm not really surprised, but it still is disturbing to hear a leader say it out loud.
dalton99a
(81,085 posts)Chainfire
(17,310 posts)How is that "news?" If you want news, you can add a long list of other countries that they want too!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)If he takes it all now, he has to control it all. Which suggests an especially grim and ruthless picture.
A different sort of option would be to break all or part of it up and annex parts to nations already effectively- within the Russian empire, rather than to Russia, requiring them to control their new territories He could leave part of Ukraine as a much weakened state, to finish later, perhaps forcing the resistance to focus on defense against frequent attacks. Etc.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,495 posts)NOTHING is going to change that.
God damn Putin's soul to the fires of Hell and all who support or praise his "genius" and "savvy" strategy here in the United States.
Time for some Pagan curses.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)sharing much history and culture in common. Ukraine was forced to become one of the first founding states of the USSR and is important to the empire he wants to restore. Also, many Russians have personal ties to people in Ukraine. Etc. He's not hoping to turn that vibrant land of wheat fields into dead, scorched earth.
Anyway, murdering over 40M people while the human race just accepts it? "NOTHING" will change it?
The behavior of other nations now should be a clue that that could never happen.
Irish_Dem
(45,657 posts)And he could turn Ukraine into nothing but dead bodies and rubble.
Omen78
(81 posts)to reflect an Eastern and Western Ukraine.
Irish_Dem
(45,657 posts)Just a piece of land with rubble belonging to Russia.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)The worst is yet to come.
Irish_Dem
(45,657 posts)And it is going to be ugly.
2naSalit
(86,072 posts)Brutus to make a move.