Diplomats say Putin’s brutalisation of Ukraine has brought back darkest memories of occupation under Stalin

Diplomats say Putin’s brutalisation of Ukraine has brought back darkest memories of occupation under Stalin

Nato must be ready for Russia launching an “existential” war against the Baltic states “masked by a blizzard of disinformation”, ambassadors from the three countries have warned.

Writing exclusively for The Sunday Telegraph, the top diplomats to the UK from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said that Russia could “pivot quickly” from Ukraine to invade the Baltic.

And they said that Vladimir Putin’s brutalisation of Ukraine is evoking the three countries’ “darkest memories” of occupation under Stalin.

The Estonian ambassador Viljar Lubi, the Latvian ambassador Ivita Burmistre, and Lithuania’s charge d’affaire Lina Zigmantaite, wrote the joint article to mark Friday’s 20 year anniversary of their countries acceding to Nato.

    • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
      41·
      8 months ago

      Yes lies are often openly said in the news, that’s the point of lies.

      But you know that’s not their actual reason.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        8 months ago

        No it’s quite clear this is their actual reason. They offered a truce for it.

        In any case since you’re so smart go tell Biden to send weapons to Ukraine. Since Biden is so committed to infinite war at least give the Ukrainians something more than a few sticks to fight with.

        • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
          31·
          8 months ago

          They did not. They pretended to offer a truce.

          Actually it’s a reason they invented after the fact. The initial reason were supposed to be “Ukranian terror attacks in Russia” which were going to be false flags by Russia themselves, but UK and USA called them out on it in advance and then they invented different reasons. If they had a legitimate reason from the start it would have been the one they lead with when invading, and yet the did not.

          They have lied and lied and lied, and additionally they have ALSO broken numerous ceasefires.

          Putin personally want to restore old Russia, that’s the only reason for the war. He’s the one who can end it right away.

          I’m not American, I don’t have any influence over that.