Far From Defeated, Putin Intends to Escalate War in Ukraine

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/11/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-putin.html

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https://archive.ph/kYzQt

Austria’s chancellor visited President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Monday — the first Western leader to see him in person since the Ukraine invasion — and said he came away feeling not only pessimistic about peace prospects but fearing that Mr. Putin intended to drastically intensify the brutality of the war.

Describing Mr. Putin as dismissive of atrocities in Ukraine, the visiting chancellor, Karl Nehammer, said it was clear that Russian forces were mobilizing for a large-scale assault in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, the next phase of a war now in its seventh week.

“The battle being threatened cannot be underestimated in its violence,” Mr. Nehammer said in a news conference after the 75-minute meeting at Mr. Putin’s residence outside Moscow that the visitor described as blunt and direct.

The Austrian chancellor said he had told the Russian president that as long as people were dying in Ukraine, “the sanctions against Russia will stay in place and will be toughened further.”

The Kremlin, playing down the meeting’s significance in a terse statement, said only that it was “not long by the standards of recent times.”

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Then we need to match.

Kill every tank and missile carrier all the way back to Russia.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. +1

[PortTack]

5. Agree!

Slava Ukraine!!

[orwell]

3. Of course he does...

...why does anyone think they can rationalize with a madman?

When someone tells you who he is, believe him!

[Crunchy Frog]

4. I'm afraid that things are about to get unimaginably more horrific.

[roamer65]

6. 1914.

[David__77]

7. Once again, I'm thankful Biden has kept the US away from direct engagement.

This is thankfully not the war of this country.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

8. Weeks stretch to months then years, he don't care how many die, it's a narcissist war trip to hell