Azeem

Ah man !

There is a 40 mile long military convoy of Russian forces heading towards Kiev. It is going unchallenged so it probably means Russia has the edge in aerial superiority.

Turkey is very hesitant to close the straits for Russian warships. Seeing Europe's largely poor reaction towards Ukraine it is understandable they don't want to instigate Russia.

These negotiations MUST lead to something.

Yeah I can only see Ukraine becoming a Syria like buffer zone between Russia and Europe

I understand people being concerned more about issues near to them but some media coverages are super cringe. ' it's happening in Europe to blue eyed blonde people not Middle East ' There are literally blue eyed blonde people in Syria and Middle Eastern looking in Europe.

Talks finalised in Belarus, all war equipment in Belarus will remain on the ground while negotiations

Not a single currency but an alternative payment and messaging system in global transactions.

Yeah Russia and China met in November to discuss creating an alternative financial system.

Trabzonspor may win their first league title since 1984

Last time a foreign voluntary militia was formed against an aggression from Moscow, it was successful but became very notorious later

Madness.

I don't believe this conflict is on ideological grounds ' democracy vs autocracy ' this current Ukrainian government was doing jailing of opposition, bans and whatnot too. It's a power status and security issue. Simply put when USSR fell Eastern European states went with West, Central Asian states stayed with Russia. Ukraine was caught in the middle. Now both NATO and Russia are ok as long it's their advancement towards the other, but big no if it's the other way around and Ukraine is the most substantial of those advancement.

Whenever this is over Europe should lessen it's security dependency on US and draft it's own working relationship with Russia.

Turkey wouldn't take that decision unilaterally, it means potential siege of Istanbul

Zelensky tweeted implying Turkey may close Bosporus for Russian warships !!! If confirmed this can be huge

He's in my top 2 of TF365 smart people hierarchy list

Quite a few videos circulating where Ukrainian citizens are confronting Russian soldiers, if they are true there seems no fear from Ukrainian people and real aggression from Russian soldiers towards them, does that mean a general lack of animosity because of 'Slavic' relation ? Pointing out this because such interaction between soldiers and people in war zones usually results in horrible things because of mixture of fear and misunderstanding, US's operations abroad and Russian's own military operations elsewhere for reference

Better not to believe anything from any side for sure while the conflict is going on.

Why?

The point mainly is that hopefully after seeing war close to them, people in West/Europe aren't that naive like in Iraq 2003 when their governments try to create 'consent' for war in far off places.