i don’t know how to keep going on and hold on to hope with all this all this bad news, all the lives lost from this already - i know it’s not worth worrying about something that might not escalate to the rest of the world, but i can’t help feeling helpless
i can’t go on with life as per usual knowing that all this is happening. how do you feel hopeful after this happens, covid, national politics, and now this.
Michael you really need to talk to someone for your mental health. Please be safe mate.
I have a cousin in Ukraine we have not heard from him. Im hoping he’s safe though
I’ll be fine, I should probably stop watching the news/twitter 24/7 to start to improve my well-being, thanks for the kind words though, appreciate it 
Because of international law?
Wow. Wishing you and your family all the best
What international law?
Conceptually, international law is about as useful as speaking with a cow and expecting them to understand what you said.
The main reason why the West is hesitant to act harshly is because Putin has nuclear weapons and seeing what he’s done so far he’s likely to invoke that option if the West fought back. China and India are not acting directly because they don’t want to damage their relationships with Russia but I can sense some hesitancy (at least from a face value, who knows what the CCP is thinking on the inside) from China about what Russia is doing.
Besides, if Russia is allowed to run amok against international law, the West not reacting will only justify their move into Ukraine and throw any law and order into irrelevance.
Indeed. Western leaders would rather have Putin make the first move on a NATO ally than NATO forces intervening in Ukraine.
Also, this eerily seems familiar to the start of World War II when Nazi Germany annexed Austria and invaded Poland, Czechia and Slovakia.
It was a question I have no idea. I don’t really understand why Russia have done this in the first place.
I mean a country is invading a sovereign nation - either you support that or you don’t.
If you support it then you support Australia being invaded.
I can’t really see how there is two sides here. Unless you are Putin
Heck, even my Russian mate is in shock of this and doesn’t agree 100% with Putin. From what I’m sensing on social media, there’s a sizeable number of Russians are who not happy at all.
Depends on whether you believe Ukraine is a threat to Russia or you believe Ukraine will be joining NATO.
Yep… this really is the first war where we have seen social media platforms dominate. But we need to remember that some information being posted can be inaccurate and not factually correct.
How does that justify Invading a sovereign nation?
Neither is true and doesn’t justify an invasion by Russia despite that Kremlin organisation trying to spin that as a ‘special military operation’.
Putin and his ministers are just a group of miserable dinosaurs who dream of returning to the days of Stalin and the USSR. Someone needs to give them a reality check that it ain’t happening.
Iraq were a sovereign nation too, but we went there. There is over thirty years of politics at play here and I am suspicious of both sides - East/West.
I am eager to see what impact the West’s sanctions have over the Russian Federation’s leaders and supporters.
I mean… we could go back to talking about the coverage rather than the event itself
I think with the way this is going we could have two threads, one for coverage and one for discussing the event itself (which could be one of the most significant geopolitical events in decades).
