Because we have a free press and access to news from around the world. In Russia you can only get the news provided by the government unless you can get access to the internet. Putin has blocked a lot of it though.

They’ve literally closed down every independent paper, radio and tv station. Then today the Russian duma (government) have passed a law making it an offence to criticise the Russian military or operations involving them. Punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

I've stated this on other threads. Responses need to be about the post NOT the person posting.

Don't be surprised if posts which don't comply are removed.
(One has been already).

After watching that crap Putin came out with today it’s clear he’s going to take over the whole of Ukraine. Every reason he’s come up with is total garbage.

It’ll get worse before it gets better but I’m sure this is the undoing of Putin. The Ukrainians aren’t going to lie down they’ll keep fighting and the Russians will have to spend resources and blood to control it. That coupled with the sanctions I can’t see it being long before the oligarchs and military get sick of Putin and Medvedev and eliminate them.

Russia have no legitimate security concerns.
Ukraine gave up their nukes along with Kazakhstan and Belarus in the 1990s after they signed the Budapest memorandum along with the US, UK, and Russia, in return for the other nations respecting their borders... guess which country broke the agreement.
The Eastern European countries that joined NATO chose to do so themselves, and were free to do so in line with the Helsinki accord, which the SU also signed in the 70s. There was never any agreement made with Russia that guaranteed NATO wouldn't expand. Those countries joined NATO peacefully. What did Russia do when Hungary wanted out of the Warsaw pact?

What is it with far left tankies who bend over backwards to criticise western (primarily US and UK) imperialism, but then make all the excuses in the world for the atrocities of fascist dictators like Putin, Asaad,, and commie dictators like Ping, Chavez, and Castro?

Have you ever read news about thailand for example.
It is run by a corrupt autocratic king supported by a corrupt dictatorship who subvert oppress and murder the civilians in turkey shoots on the streets, with democracy supporters and activists being murdered.
Where is the western outrage?,
The last three democratically elected governments have all been overthrown by the army in deadly military coups. The west turns a blind eye over the last 20 years, and cossetts the illegal Thai dictator to joint naval exercises..

Biden and Lyin Boris say there is no place for dictators referencing Putin, but are fawning all over the general pinochet type General Prayuth.

Total and utter western hypocrisy

That is an avid description of the illegal US and UK invasion of Iraq
So who is deceiving who here?

It would be illegal and punishable by death to post that in Thailand, but who cares, not Sleepy Joe, or Lyin Boris, they are filling their boots out of the Thai people’s oppression and suffering, but it’s not splashed across western media 24/7 cos nobody cares, all hypocrites

The best part is that the dictator Thai king is allowed to reside in Germany of all places,you couldn’t make it up.

Has Sir Kier Starmer gone completely bonkers or are the blue bits on here Russian expansionism

Baghdad illegal shock and awe razing 2003, by America and U.K., this is just 7 mins of it, thousands of brown skinned people murdered by western hypocrites
No outrage

Cognitive dissonance is strong with this tankie.

No outrage? Millions of people all over the country protested it, and Labour have never really been able to fully regain public trust because of it.

Again, what does that have to do with Ukraine? They weren't even involved in the Iraq war. Are you suggesting Putin's invasion of Iraq is justified because America invaded Iraq?

Correct. Just one March had over 1million people and we held an inquiry into the war that found it to be illegal. Russia on the other hand have passed the new law through parliament that would make it illegal to say anything negative about the unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine.

Still the Russia today, Farage addled fifth columnists won’t have it and still think they’re patriots.

- before anyone mentions brexit it’s nothing to do with it. I’m talking about farage’s support for Putin even describing him as “the world leader I admire most”. After he’d poisoned one of his critics in London with polonium and killed two Brits with Novichok in Salisbury.