Looking at these Chechen soldiers, they all look to me like Barry from 'Four Lions' just with an assortment of beard colours.
Frankly I'm just waiting for some small, non-aligned nation like Ghana to send a full battalion of troops officially to fight alongside Ukraine. I mean, it won't start a nuclear war and it'll make NATO/EU seem pretty silly.
They wont get far without supplies
Hmmm
In theory, sure. But that would affect the Ukrainian GPS as well, and the Russians do have the GLONASS system, however good that is.
BBC reporting that Germans have finally agreed to cut Russia out of Swift
The Netherlands has promised it will send additional military support to Ukraine.
The shipment includes 200 Stinger missiles and 50 Panzerfaust-3 anti-tank weapons with 400 missiles.
Defence Minister Kasja Ollongren says they are also investigating, in co-operation with Germany, the possibility of supplying Patriot missiles to a Nato battlegroup being formed in Slovakia.
Above source: BBC News website
Apparently there are massive queues of people in cities all over the Ukraine waiting to enlist. Whole families, mothers, grandmothers, even young teenagers. It brings a lump to your throat when you see folk - just like your own family - willing to lay down their lives in defence of their country.
Putin is well aware that his actions, and his actions alone, will be directly responsible for the needless deaths of many thousands of everyday ordinary folk, not to mention the suffering of the hundreds of thousands/millions displaced. A whole generation of people scarred for life by this despots cranky vision and butchery.
If Aladdin's Lamp were real, and I were fortunate enough to have a go and summon the genie, then my wish would not be for fame or fortune for myself, it would simply be to be magically transported to within two feet of Putin's back - with a dagger in my hand.
An interesting question posed earlier was, is it possible that even Russia's nuclear arsenal isn't up to scratch / un-maintained?
I don't know.
But after the third-rate spectacle we're seeing in Ukraine, it could be true (to at least some degree).
But that doesn't take away from the valiant, heroic, and quite frankly inspiring efforts by President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people.
Quite amazing.
Did they find a nuclear pill or nochichok in his tea or did he fall out of a window
Given most of Russia is geographically in Asia. Uefa should kick Russia out and say they play with their Asian counterparts,. Uefa is for free European countries. They seem to be allies with China now, let them play sports with them too.
Given how racist Russia is this again will turn people against the short man. Kick Russia every way possible away from the west including in sports
This is the thing. People are surprised by the equipment the Russians are using here. If you spend any time on the internet, you're bound to have come across some videos of the latest Russian super weapons. Su-57 being a great example. A fantastically capable machine, but there's less than a handful of them. Maybe two that are combat capable. And they probably don't want to use these either. There's some superb engineering, but a large part of what brought down the USSR was money for these weapons. They simply couldn't afford to keep up with military jones of the US. And again a lot of their capability even back then was completely fabricated.
China is the worry though. They've the money and are building like there's no tomorrow. Their ship yards will ensure they've a larger blue water fleet that the Americans fairly soon. And whatever the Chinese eventually decide to do with it, you cannot remove them for the global economy. It's simply impossible to replace their position in the global supply chain, and I'm not talking about iPhone production here.
If it is, I’d like to see democratic nations strike back.
About time.
The news of such a strong Ukrainian stand against the Russians is very heartening, even if it does transpire that they're ultimately doomed. Firstly because it's always good to see people fighting for the righteous cause. Secondly because the longer they hold their ground the more difficult it becomes for those in the west to ignore it.
It's a given that there are many figures in the political, business and sporting world whose ideal scenario was for Ukraine to be quickly crushed. They'd spend an hour giving platitudes about how dreadful that it's come to this, give a condemnation of "both sides" and a comment about refugees. Then they'd move straight on to "It's time we normalise relations with Russia again, this adversarial attitude gets us nowhere, time to reset the clock, diplomacy always works, if we do business with them they'll become a friendly happy nation, keep politics out of sport etc." Effectively the same bullsh*t that meant all the warnings about Russia were dismissed, so that they could continue making money.
It's also why it's important that, vacuous and facile as some gestures may seem, talk of standing with Ukraine can play its part. The clearer it is where the vast majority of people's sympathies lie and that it is anathema to be supporting Russia in this, the tougher it will be for these same figures to openly advocate abandoning the Ukrainians to their fate and get the money flowing again to and from Russia under the guise of "moving on".
Few of these will scramble the sat navs no problem
Here we go. Hopefully will be as lacklustre as the previous few days.
Cracks starting to appear due to external / internal pressure?
From covid to this ffs
Why do you think Russia developed GLONASS, your phone more than likely supports it.
Warning the above post may cause uncontrollable "awws"
I hope Rambo and his new owners stay safe!
Looks like 2 MPs from Russian Duma (lower chamber of the parliament) are protesting against the war. There was some info that the parliament didn't know that Putin is going to start a war. They gave permission to army operation outside of Russia believing it's a stabilization mission in Donbass/Luhansk, not bombing Kiev.
Still hard to believe this is even happening.
The russian military budget ist officially 70bn, 100bn inofficial.
15bn a day strike me as ridiculous. You can buy 200 F35 for that every day.
The whole world is waiting for it,unfortunatley the outcome could become rather unpleasent if nuclear missiles starts flying or China gets involved.
Any reputable links? Other post was from russian site from yesterday, google gives nothing
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