Aeroflot CEO Demands Russia Punish Foreign Airlines

Biden was right. Putin shouldn't be running any country at all.

He is absolutely correct. No explanation required. The US and NATO share equal blame on why there are so many problems in Europe now. They kept pushing and provoking Russia into this mess. Look at all the countries the US have invaded and occupied. This is all the evidence needed. The US is full of shit. The Russian people are one of the nicest, respectful, kindest and best humans on earth. I used to teach for several years at MGU. I know Russians well.

After seeing the comments, I'm going to offer the perspective of an American who has lived in Russia for a decade. First and foremost, keep in mind that all media is extreme propaganda: FOX, CNN, MSNBC, etc, as well as Russian media. You'll never get a fully truthful or fair or balanced viewpoint from any of them. That being said, I encourage people to read media from both perspectives (RT is an English-language Russian state media source). Read between the lines and don't take everything you read or watch on TV as the absolute truth. Secondly, this conflict is the ultimate result of a massive (intentional?) failure of diplomacy, and both Russia and US-backed countries utterly failed. On the one hand, the US was interested in a weakened Russia harried by NATO allies filling it's western border. Part of that weakening included stirring up a coup in Kiev that would ultimately leave Russia feeling as if it had no choice but to respond militarily. Basically, it feels like a situation orchestrated to draw Russia into a proxy war without a direct confrontation with the aim of severely weakening it. I have several Ukrainian colleagues that fled Ukraine following Maidan because they saw this coming. They did not trust the US, and felt that the US would simply use Ukrainian blood for its own purposes. This conflict seems to have proven their fears right. On the other hand, Russia kept pumping weapons into the breakaway regions, which resulted in continued fighting and the impossibility of implementing the Minsk Agreements. Russia seemed interested in keeping Ukraine in a situation whereby NATO wouldn't dare bring them into the fold in fear of Ukraine triggering Article 5. For Russia, the instability in Ukraine and the Western influence is deemed a security threat. Third, make no mistake. Ukraine is NOT fighting for democracy. It was neither a free nor democratic country following Maidan, as a large portion of Ukrainians were effectively disenfranchised due to the banning of major politcal parties. It is illegal in Ukraine for media outlets to dissent with the official government position. The Ukrainian government has seized assets of and jailed individuals that dared criticize it. Nearly 30% of its population are no longer allowed to speak their native language, and that started well before the conflict. Effectively, the current regime has used the situation to speed up what it had started before the conflict - total control and power with no dissent allowed. In other words, it's effectively the same type of corruption seen in Russsia. Literally no difference. Fourth, Ukrainian soldiers have committed unspeakable atrocities that have been largely ignored, swept under the rug, or directly blamed on Russia. They are NOT innocent lambs. For example, the dead women and children that were killed in Donbass by Ukrainian shelling over the past several years attest to that. The many photos of Ukrainian soldiers donning Nazi symbols is very concerning. The extreme xenophobia that Kiev displays against even ordinary Russians around the world is worrying, and so there IS an element of truth to Russia's claims of Nazism in Ukraine. They literally are trying to erase everything Russian. Fifth, this war shows why major countries cannot fight one another directly in modern warfare. Russia has advanced modern weaponry, and the US is supplying Ukraine with advanced modern weaponry. The result? EXTREMELY high casualty rates on both sides of the conflict. This conflict will remain a bloody stalemate as long as weapons are pumped into Ukraine. Eventually, Ukraine's benefactors will run out of money or weapeans, or maybe even desire. Russia has significantly more resources, so I don't see a realistic victory for Ukraine. Henry Kissinger's peace proposal seems to be the most practical one, as both Ukraine and Russia's (especially Ukraine's) peace demands are too far apart and simply unreasonable. Ukraine will never regain it's pre-2014 borders. It simply won't happen. There will be no tribunal for Russian leaders, as a UNSC P-5 member will never submit to that, and no one has the power to enforce any judgements against Russia's will. Plus, any tribunal should account for Ukrainian war criminals as well, and I somehow don't think that'll happen. Ultimately, it's time for both sides to negotiate without preconditions and be willing to make concessions. Until that happens, nothing will change. Let me finish by saying this: Russians are not evil, as so often portrayed in Western media. I am a teacher. I look into the eyes of the hundreds of Russian kids that I teach, and I see no evil. I see kindness, intelligence, talent, creativity and, above all, innocence. They're normal kids with the same desires, interests and insecurities as American kids, or German kids, etc. My Russian neighbors, people who work in shops, parents of my students, colleagues, etc, all treat me with kindness and respect. Please, don't hate an entire country because you don't agree with its government's actions. Remember, your country is probably an aggressor nation, too. Keep that in mind while you're being a pot calling a kettle black.

You have one side that understands both sides and, therefore, understand that the Russians struck back only because they were getting surrounded by NATO military bases. You have the other side that listens to CNN regurgitate CIA's talking points. They can only scream "Russian bots!" and have nothing substantive to add. Maybe consider actually learning something instead of repeating talking points. "Anybody who disagrees with me is a Russian bot" is not an argument. Clearly nobody here is a bot, it's people who understand both sides vs people who regurgitate talking points. * Gotta love the guy who made spelling mistakes in his own post accusing others of not knowing how to spell even though that person's posts had perfect grammar. Very symbolic of the whole debate.

In Budapest at the moment and Russians are everywhere especially the nice restaurants so sanctions seem to mean nothing . As far as the Aeroflot boss goes he has to say the right thing . It would be terrible if he fell out a hotel window or slipped and hit his head in the shower.