Ukraine is legally barred from having a national election during war time, so Ukraine would have to act undemocratically, ignoring their Constitution, to have an election. ps. this misinformation isn't new, Tucker Carlson spread them a few months ago Ukraine Can't Legally Hold Elections Till the Invasion Ends (foreignpolicy.com) JULY 11, 2023, 1:12 PM Ukraine’s next elections for deputies of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) were originally scheduled to be held on Oct. 29, 2023. Campaigning was to begin 60 days prior, meaning that rules would have had to be finalized by next month for the candidates to prepare their campaigns on time. If not for the war, Zelensky’s turn at the ballot box would have come in March 2024. These regularly scheduled elections were disrupted by the state of martial law declared in 2022, at the start of the full-scale Russian invasion. This can be expected from a country fighting for its very existence, where significant portions of its territory are occupied. Martial law is established as a concept in the Ukrainian Constitution and last updated by the national legislature in 2015, before Zelensky entered politics. Article 83 of the Ukrainian Constitution states that if the term of the Verkhovna Rada expires under martial law, it shall automatically be extended until a new Rada is seated following the end of martial law. Article 19 of Ukraine’s martial law legislation specifically forbids conducting national elections. Thus, for Ukraine to conduct elections while under martial law would be a violation of legal norms that predate Zelensky and the full-scale Russian invasion.
A quote from the former British officer being interviewed. Had you watched the interview, you might have actually understood the context. Instead, you continue to babble your nonsense. As for World War 2, Putin's invasion of Ukraine has instigated the first major land war in Europe since WW2. I haven't mentioned it until this moment. Meanwhile, you continue to make yourself look like a fool. The suit fits you.
Yep, I can't imagine another 1-2 years of the same American support while political discourse devolves any further... Attrition war better work for Ukraine:
Yep, everyone knows that. Talking about overseas - lol - have you lived over there son? I have......and you have zero clue how a government balance sheet works if you think the general populace has to pay back any loan that is forgiven, they don't it is just cancelled off the books. Once again the US government is not a business nor is it run like one - and it prints it's own money - sorry some of you dunderheads have a hard time understanding that point, and are stuck in the GOP blender where they lie to their people about having to pay back for the college kids.....just lie after lie after lie with them. I hope the USA goes until Putin is executed by his own countrymen - or is on the run.......the world would be better off without him....and he can take his b**** Trump with him too. DD
You’re an obese video gamer equating govt balance sheets to your world of Warcraft adventures while spending 90% of your existence here and the other 10% saying dumb things like trump is worse than hitler. So no your post about living overseas doesn’t ring true. In fact I can’t take you seriously period
A good 25 minute video interview between a very experienced retired US General, General Hodges, and two young Ukrainian Canadians in Toronto about the very recent missile strikes by Ukraine against key targets in Crimea. Well worth watching and not your usual "CNN" interview. I want to add that those on the board who often appear so eager to "hand over" part or all of Ukraine to Russia and Vladimir Putin's dictatorship in order to achieve what they view as "peace" should take a few minutes and watch this video. As I said, it isn't your typical "interview with a general" you might see on CBS or ABC or certainly CNN or Fox. General Hodges is much more relaxed talking to these two young Ukrainian Canadians compared to when I've seen him on major US or British news programs, but also very frank in discussing not only what is happening now, but the Russian perspective and things President Biden could and should have done differently. An interesting perspective and opinions I agree with.
Support has already decreased significantly. I think overall, US support has dropped from around 70% to around 50%. Support remains pretty high among those aged 65 and older (perhaps they can still remember WW2). Support has plummeted among Republicans (not surprising, this is the 'follow the leader' effect). NOTE - support for Ukraine is still very high, but US funding and weapon support has gone down quite a bit. It will likely go down further unless Ukraine makes good progress. This is the first large-scale social media war, and I believe it has a major impact. If I were Russia, I would continue to invest significant resources into disinformation and weakening international support for Ukraine. And if I were Ukraine, I would urge the EU to ban X and any social platform that spreads Russian disinformation.
ALL wars are filled with propaganda and misinformation from both sides. This is nothing new. Both sides endlessly talk about how the other side is incompetent and losing the war. This is why I find it highly comical when people on these forums continue to talk about how Russia has no idea what they are doing, how evil they are and the endless flow of misinformation. And here you are encouraging the 'good guys' to censor and silence the misinformation that you deem inappropriate. What you are suggesting is a highly authoritarian view that is shared by the same person you believe to be is evil, Putin.
You would rather allow the free spread of misinformation? I am all for labeling and stopping the spread of misinformation. Is that really authoritarian? If it isn't government mandated?
While it's nothing new, it's everything new and different. No previous war has had the scale and reach of disinformation/misinformation/propaganda like this war has. To simply imply it's the same as before completely misses the reality of modern social media platforms and how quickly and massively information flows today. A mirror is a good friend. I think you have been talking about the Ukrainian president as if he's clueless and evil. It would be good if you provided sources to support your opinions. Without those, I can only guess, and if I were to guess, I think you may have been misinformed. Showing sources would inform and educate others. I simply tried to put myself in both sides' shoes and said what I would do. You chose to interpret that through your own lens in a way that reflects your opinion, but I don't think it's accurate. What I suggested is for the EU to ban disinformation, which they can do legally. I didn't include the US because US laws do not allow the government to ban social media platforms for their content. The EU has very strong democracies but with less freedom of speech than the US. It is just completely inaccurate to say they are similar to Putin's authoritarianism. We all know that Russia has an undeniably long record of disinformation and propaganda. Ukraine is newer to this game. I can't yet judge them. PS - Putin is an autocratic dictator that murder opponents (you could call that evil too), but he's likely neither insane nor stupid. However, he did make a huge mistake by invading Ukraine and is now stuck.
How well each side is doing is obviously subject to interpretation and the information can be manipulated. On Russia being evil, they did invade Ukraine, evil or not they are the aggressors. You only have a very few who thinks the invasion was warranted and even less now because of some of Russia's tactics
He has nothing in his little mom's basement to live for - so he lashes out at others more accomplished than him - I pity him. He has been taught to fear the witches instead of those that burned them. He lashes out, and when he gets push back he gets personal all while cowardly hiding behind anonymity himself. DD
The invasion of Ukraine was not warranted (my opinion) just as the invasion of Iraq and 20 years occupying Afghanistan was not warranted.
Yes. Yes. and Yes. The founding of this country was based off the 1st amendment. Other countries and private individuals are welcome to police their environment how they see fit. The initial Hunter Biden laptop story was labeled as misinformation. Much of the COVID nonsense was labeled misinformation. People can label whatever they want. But stopping the flow of information is censorship. Censorship is an extremely authoritarian view set. It implies a certain subset of individuals has all the answers and also implies this individual person or group is some sort of deity. It is NEVER the governments job to label somethings as true or false.
You're delusional. Many of the founding fathers also owed slaves. The idea we blindly worship them is ****ing stupid. Get out here with that garbage. There's nothing illegal or wrong with labeling misinformation. What's wrong is jailing those who are spewing misinformation. There's a difference between your rights and having the government not push back at all. The same ben hodges who claimed during the early days NATO needed to implement a no fly zone or else russia would've win in days? Ben hodges literally went on national TV advocating for world War 3 or else we would "lose the global world order." Fast forward and somehow everyone forgets what he said and how wrong he was. The issue with America is we worship morons who are proven to be wrong and we elevate them as experts. Its funny how forgot to give background info on who Ben really is. Now we should magically listen to what he has to say lol. Cmon give me a break
