In case anyone thought I was BS'ing.
Cnoc, we've had our disagreements, but you've put your cock on the block there. Fair play.
Good review of Day 4
You last paragraph just went off the rails and exposes you !
Your rants on this thread have been of exceptional quality, in moral tone and gestalt.
So Putin has not used lies? Has not called the Ukraine government Nazis? (of which the current president is of Jewish heritage)
He has not called them drug users? He has not said they want to build nuclear weapons?
That last paragraph was ridiculing Putrid's reasoning and position.
I wonder how many soldiers they can muster for the fight. I presume they will make up the losses anyhow that Russia has taken, infantry that is.
They should be seeing the price of RUB drop soon, any minute and then it will crash.
Your knee jerk rant reactions !!! Excuse me for not being a fan of mass hysteria .
Markets are open in Australia and the Rouble is down 30%.
In one way i feel more contempt for Alexander Lukashenko than Putin.
Whilst the EU are doing everything they can short of placing boots on the ground this d**k comes along to bolster Russian attacks.
Yes, its all very complicated with pressure applied from Moscow but even still!
Again i repeat why is there not harsher sanctions being imposed on Belarus.
ECB have reported that the EU subsidiary of Sberbank is collapsing or likely to collapse. They haven't given a timeline however it experienced massive outflows over the weekend seemingly.
What's good for the goose...
No they not,the socalled Kinszhal and Zircon are conventional missiles
They are managing to achieve this stalemate just before the weaponry starts flooding in from Europe.
I'm against the shutting down of RT in Europe, it should be let stay for people to make their own decision to view it or not. Shutting down media outlets is what you do in kips like Russia and China because those in power don't like what they see, we are better than that carry on.
Shutting them down hurts them financially, which is the point of the sanctions. If they want their precious channels be back on the air in Europe, it's up to the Russian government to stop acting like a rogue state.
Is CNN and the likes broadcast in Russia? I presume it's not but have no idea.
I think they shouldn't broadcast in Western countries, they only exist to spread propaganda and create an anti Europe sentiment in the West. You could see it on this thread and many others how watching that crap can distort peoples worldviews in disturbing ways. It's more or less brainwashing but at a very slow pace.
I'm all for having different media types and difference of opinion but no good will ever come out of publicly broadcasting state propaganda from tyrannical countries who are in direct conflict with us. If we want to have an honest public debate about Russia let's do it with historians and the like, not Putin's paid mouthpieces.
and given the behaviour of Russia this past week I would not be at all surprised if Finland added NATO membership to EU membership before we hit 2023.
Lets just hope they can hold out long enough for all the weaponry to get where it needs to and keep it coming so they have no ammunition issues.
Nail on the proverbial head. I have said it before if NATO was genuinely the issue then why did Putin who was president of Russia at the time not invade the Baltic nations prior to their joining NATO in 2004. That was over 10 years after the Baltic nations regained their independence from Russian occupation and I would say that Russia's behaviour this week has shown the benefits of that decision by Lativa, Lithuania and Estonia.
David Starkey has a pretty good analysis of how we got to this point:
The Russian Central bank just raised its interest rates to 20%
It's a **** mouthpiece of lies it should have all funding cut off. It serves no purpose than to rile up the usual conspiracy cranks that have been lapping this **** up for years.
Why should it be?
Being able to live in peace? Russia has invaded them what twice in the last 8 years....why would they listen to a word they say.
Surely the best way to hit Putin would be to get oil prices lower. They’re not much more than a petrol station.
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