Originally posted by vinteuil
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That bit, at least, I was envisaging. As for the rest ...
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. -
I am just wondering how much longer China can maintain its slightly at one remove support for Putin. From every viewpoint - Russia's, Ukraine's, "the West's" - an ideal Putin replacement would start off by being prepared to sit down at a negotiating table, which the Zelensky government was prepared to do well into the invasion - with foreign advisers if necessary, and they might have to include some who might not be considered unbiassed by various sides - and decide on how and in what timescale the war and occupation can be ended. Any new Russian régime might consider such a course to be reputationally and from a practicable point of view the best way of getting out of a sticky situation for themselves.Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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Russian response to the drone attacks on Vnukovo airport: ' "An attempt by the Kyiv regime to attack a zone where civil infrastructure is located, including an airport that receives international flights, is a new terrorist act," foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Telegram.'
If attacks on civil infrastructure are terrorist acts ... ? But as in Trumpworld, black is white, false is true, the guilty are innocent, the innocent are guilty.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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But sadlyOriginally posted by richardfinegold View Post
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Latest post from Freedman père (Ukraine) et fils (UK politics):
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Has Lukashenko ratted on the deal re Prigozhin?
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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What deal would that be? We only have rumour, not chapter and verse of the arrangements made, to inform us.Originally posted by french frank View PostComment
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I assume Prigozhin thought there was a deal that was favourable to him; otherwise why go to Belarus? There may well have been a deal between Lukashenko and Putin, the details of which were known only to them.Originally posted by Bryn View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Interview in The Times today with Kyrylo Budanov- Ukraine’s intelligence chief. Last week he warned Russia was laying explosives at Zaporizhzhia, the good news is he now sees that threat receding.
I certainly hope that proved to be correct.Comment
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This from 14 hours ago: https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-whats-...hia/a-66129374Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View Post
On Prigozhin: if he'd had any misgivings I think he'd have had a good case for seeking asylum in the UK. He's probably got a Big Boat, as well as aircraft of various sorts.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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He'd be arrested for war crimes if he tried or at least one hopes so. He'd be a huge intelligence asset, though.Originally posted by french frank View Post
Who knows what to believe from anyone at all in this saga? Everyone is probably feeding misinformation to everyone else but no doubt the truth will emerge in time."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard HaitinkComment
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Yes, frying pan or fire for Mr Prigozhin, I'm afraid. If he can persuade Putin of his usefulness, it might save him, though I think I read that a lot of his assets had already been seized by the Kremlin.Originally posted by Petrushka View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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. . . St. Petersburg news outlet Fontanka reported Tuesday—citing undisclosed internal sources—that around 10 billion rubles ($111.2 million) made up of boxes of U.S. dollars and five gold bars were returned to the disgraced oligarch, who last month led a Wagner Group mutiny against Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chair of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. . .Originally posted by french frank View Post
My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)Comment
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