Your reminder that Ovechkin licks Putin's semen not because he has to but because cool factor > concern over all the people killed by his regime.

this is messed up, so many unnecessary deaths and lives ruined

Zelensky has the biggest balls on the planet

Mam they're losing Ukraine back to Russia almost as fast as Afghanistan got lost back to the taliban.....

They are discussing a location for negotiations.

Putin wanted Minsk and Zelensky was like yeah no lol

Soooo. When do the "allies" do anything?
How long before China takes Taiwan?
North Korea going for the south?

thing is Ukraine isn't technically an ally. the invasion is basically pre-empting them taking serious steps towards joining NATO.

that said, I'm concerned that markets didn't fall much in response to the invasion. means investors/corporations think Russia's integration with the world economy isn't expected to change much, so probably no real harsh sanctions/embargos like the US has against Iran.

Looks like the Euro countries are coming around on banning Russia from SWIFT.

Not that I know what that means, but it sounds important.

SWIFT is a transaction intermediary between banks internationally. Russia has their own alternate system though, which includes Swiss banks. So it's being floated among politicians as a big deal but in reality not that impactful, and not something the US wants to do to not spur competitors or crypto.

concerned with Putins endgame / beyond Ukraine