OT: If Ukraine and Russia make peace, who keeps the Russian occupied land?

Your father should have done that 9 months before you were born.

And they are already running out of children, demographic collapse and all that!

Depends on how you pronounce the J. Think of the Dutch name "Jos" as the perfect example.

And they will - a country with a devastated economy that no one trusts.

Judge Russia by its friends - hmmm - China, N Korea, Iran ...

Less than a week. Didn't take Yevgeny Prigozhin long to get up that highway from 900 kilometres away. Pity he hesitated - and lost.

Russia has publicly stated it wants the USSR back, the whole eastern bloc. Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia. Herzegovina. East Germany . And it wouldn't mind Finland either.

Peace would consist in letting them have it. All of it.

Americans may find that an acceptable price. Not many Europeans do: They have the T shirts.

R bowman is geopolitically and historically beyond ignorant.

It's just one of the problems faced when romanising other alphabets. In Cyrillic, Zelensky's name ends in two almost identical vowels. The second has an accent to indicate that it is shorter than the first. In English, "Zelenskyy" isn't technically correct but there isn't really any other way to show it. I'm not sure that German has managed any better.

Zelenskyi?

Or very anglicised, "Zelenskiey".

Curious that Boris met with Zelensky *after* he'd been removed as PM. He was *supposed* to be an ordinary back bencher again, representing the interests of his constituents. What was the purpose of that visit? What did they discuss? We were never told.

It's a possibility. However, in RP English the letter "i" is rarely if ever pronounced as "ee". (Bracing myself for a flood of counterexamples.)

They both wanted to get their faces in the newspapers. Boris woudn't have had anything useful to say. but Zelinsky wouldn't have cared.

Jah... Y is infrequent in German and in a word like 'typisch' is more of a 'u' sound. For loan words like Handy (cellphone) it's pronounced as in English. I've no idea how 'yj' geets pronounced. Eeeee-Yah?

Curious how that suddenly popped up. It is a good indication that the Russians are getting their clocks cleaned

They should not be. It is not an excuse for Russia to invade though.

Also keep in mind that our own presidency is not legitimate.

I've seen the Zelenskyy but I think the single 'y' is more common. RT uses Zelensky (and Kiev) unless they're trying to piss him off.

Just about every Pole in the US... :) Not that we speak anything resembling RP.

All to true. FDR moved heaven and hell to make that happen. My brother was quite a bit older than I and was down at the USMC recruiting center bright and early on 8 December. I was brought up to shun all things Japanese. Since we were of German heritage Germany got a pass. It was easier to sell a war on yellow people in a country where the largest ethnic group is German. They sure as hell couldn't intern Germans.

The BRICS seem to be getting along fine.

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