Russian warship, go f**k yourself!

Bad stuff for sure There will be a serious loss of life if they want to take the cities.

Add Mick putin Wallace along with her.

So anti American became pro Russian. Not an ounce of middle ground looked for.

All these should have full audits done on themselves and family members.

Even the most apologist for Russia admitted they've fingers in pies everywhere and how millions were spent disrupting US elections, etc. It wouldn't be beyond the Pale now that a few shekels was being moved this way. Almost guaranteed with what we see now.

Edit: Maybe they were pro Russian all along first and the anti American was the play all along to show sovereignty and be part of it. ...(getting like the 60's again. Reds under the bed.)

Hands up never thought putin actually going to go off the deep end, his address this morning, showed he's truly gone psychotic....

Remember when Russia took Crimea in 14. The west put massive sanctions on them. At the time dairy products were exported there but stopped. Am I right in saying Russia imported a lot of Agri products, even grain, at the time, and Russia went from a net importer to a net exporter? So all the sanctions really done was make Russia look in house and develop it. In the intervening years they exported a lot of Angus heifers there, no doubt building up there herds.

They are one robust nation

It all stems from the 2014 uprising and the Russian leaning government been ousted, had this not occurred and the status quo remained in place as a semi-quashi Russia puppet Putin would of had no reason to lose his sh*t.....

Zelenskyy betted on the EU/America coming good and defusing the situation but it didn't play out that way

What a frightening post. What do you mean by this is the only card he had to play? You make it sound like a game.

The Great game, as it was known historically. He is correct though, this was the only option for Putin to achieve his goal.

War is politics from the barrel of a gun.

What he has done is totally unacceptable. It is to anyone that utterly abhors dictators.

Putin, a dictator achieving a personal goal like this should not be tolerated.

If Russia wants to be accepted as a normal country again, it needs to go the path that Japan followed after WW2.

I think you might be right unfortunately.

He kinda boxed himself into a corner where he had to invade to some degree otherwise he would lose credibility in future if it turned out he was just bluffing

Isn't it amazing Putin took Ukrainian land under Obama and is back for more now his vice president is in power. Weakness.

Wouldn't be using RT as a news source here. That would be the Russian perspective only and discussing how they are peacekeepers

Well yeah , everyone has a bias , and you look at who's paying the piper and what's they're angle - it gets worse when you realize that many media sources are just copying each other's articles -

But Russia does not allow dissent in their media .. RT is purely a tool of the Russian state - who've been building up to this conflict since 2014 ..

I've a friend married in Russia, says the news there is unreal, complete fiction and brazenly so.

People there didn't even know about the build up of Russian troops.

Same as ww2 then, how did there get to be so many 'citizens' in other countries.

I think you'll see energy self reliance become a big agenda with cooler nuclear power being pushed to the front, green agenda put more carrot than stick and the shackles taken off the bundeswuher. Possibly even an economy not based around if you think your dogs therapist approves of the gender you gave it woke nonsense and buying cheap shyte from china that's dumped the next day. Anti tank berms along Nato's border with the scandinavians quitely joining and pre prepared tank(the few that are left) emplacements so if you have a D10 or 11 time to make a few quid. Fabian tactics likely employed with the americans eventually potentially getting a competent president(rather than at the start of a new one) now there's a threat and event that's made everyone stop and think for the 1st time in near decades as despite the endless resources Russia lacks manufacturing with Religon also likelly to start causing fun in the southern regions. China might take the resources but absolutely not allow competition to use them.

It's the rare elements like polladium that's the issue. Aside from the hyperbole, the Russians are terrified of American air power as it's nearly 2 generations ahead. If the cv battle groups and in-air refueling fleet move towards Europe ****'s about to get real. Kalliningrad with it's battery of illegal missiles could do an amount of damage hoping MAD keeps things sensible. You don't need many boots anymore when enough computer power and a few targeted guided bombs puts your country into the stone age dreaming where the FFFF did you leave the pens and paper in the dark.

They've been having scraps in Syria for years with 'advisors-special forces types' and Wagner group etc for years. Until the fancier Us jets arrived and cleared the sky and the Russians retaliated a few days later to save face. Eg. Battle of Kasham which the Russian journalist who tried to report it was offed by the state for ruining the veil.

The rest of the world will be simply keeping heads above water as things get expensive for a while.

I'm interested in what Dawg says after against Nato expansion a few days ago. I do think that with the west calling out putins military exercises, it could have actually triggered this attack, as he would have looked very weak to back down

See a few thousand chech paramilitary forces are heading to ukraine to help out. Wouldn't be big Russian fans them lads plus battle hardened too

Heres one

They seem to be on both sides

War live with social media updates. The sad reality of war.

Looks like it might be an interesting week ahead.

If the new eu sanctions actually have any teeth, things could get very bad here fast.

Inflation will surge if anything happens energy supplies.

What does the eu do then?

Print lots of money and push us towards a hyperinflation scenario in a bid to hold the economy together or watch the economy entirely disintegrate.