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Zellenskyy (Ukraine President) is speaking now (Original Post) milestogo Feb 2022 OP
It sounds like it was compelling. AngryOldDem Feb 2022 #1
I keep hearing reporters claim the Ukrainian people don't think this a serous risk while hlthe2b Feb 2022 #2

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
1. It sounds like it was compelling.
Sat Feb 19, 2022, 11:04 AM
Feb 2022

Ukraine gave up its nukes on the promise its territory would be defended, now it may have neither.

He’s taking a huge risk by being in Munich right now.

hlthe2b

(102,247 posts)
2. I keep hearing reporters claim the Ukrainian people don't think this a serous risk while
Sat Feb 19, 2022, 11:21 AM
Feb 2022

simultaneously deriding Biden and suggesting our security agencies are either lying or incompetent.

I would hope this now convinces all that this is damned serious. If you don't think the US and the rest of the world is likewise at risk--both economically and with regard to our long-term security, or you disregard Putin's potentially realized ambitions dating to his final KGB days following the breakup of the USSR, I beg you to read some valid sources of contemporary reporting and history.

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