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Can the West take money from Putin and the Oligarchs off them which is held in Western banks to help towards the cost of reconstructing Ukraine when this is all over?

Ukrainian news saying civilian death toll is now 2,000 😓

https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/805489.html

Not sure what your getting at ,if you watch armoured vehicles /tanks getting hit with anti tanks weapons the damage tends to be very limited to in and around the vehicles , they don't have a massive explosion that spreads outs meters in all directions, there is some scorched trees but nothing unexpected ,I watched thousands of videos of vehicles being tested and blown up from multiple weapons , there's plenty images for Russian tank turrets on the side of the road with little damage , but the rest of the vehicle is a burning wreck ,

There's also alot of people who will post on social media with claim's of ohh it's an obvious Photoshop but give no details to back up their claim, which sows doubt In other people

He has used the threat of nuclear war 3 times. By the third time he would have launched a nuke if he was serious. I am starting to think now that he is allegedly holed up in his Ural bunker, that he will be dead within 2 weeks. His armed forces are failing either deliberately or accidentally, and because of incompetence and corruption. He has replaced advisors and ministers a lot over the last 10 years, and has fallen for his own state propaganda, thus expecting the Ukrainians to welcome him with open arms. Now his own people are protesting on the street in greater numbers. I His death will be either by his own hand or someone that can get close enough to him.

Yeah that's not even remotely surprising, Moldova is an easy target and relies 100% on Russian gas. Last year as the energy crisis started kicking off the Russians increased the price significantly and reduced the amount being delivered, so much so that Moldova declared a state of emergency and this came very shortly after they elected their first pro-EU leader.

I would imagine they have a few already, they've a proud history of sniping Russians

Indeed ties in with his picture board from yesterday, are they really that stupid to make such a slip though, or is it more mind games? And if so for what reason?

A disturbing statement.

A Soviet army is marching through a Finnish forest when a general hears a voice from over a hill shout: "one Finnish soldier is better than 10 Soviet soldiers!"

The general promptly send 10 soldiers to root out the voice, there is gunfire, and then silence.

After a few minutes, the voice shouts defiantly: "One Finnish soldier is better than a hundred Soviet soldiers!!"

The general sends a hundred men to remove the nuisance, there is a racket of gunfire, and then quiet.

The voice crys out loudly once more: "One Finnish soldier is better than a thousand Soviet soldiers!!"

Enraged, the general sends a thousand men charging over the hilltop to shut up that voice once and for all, an epic battle rages, and then quiet. After a few minutes, a gravely wounded Soviet crawls back over the hill and crys:

"It's a trap! There are two Finnish soldiers!!"

You do know that the Soviets had huge losses in that battle?

The numbers involved on the Soviet side were collosal and the defenders had some very tough battle hardened devout nazis.

Putin can't afford to get bogged down in a city street fighting and start sustaining massive casualties.

Sadly it is the only way the Ukrainians can really hurt him.

There is no way they can really fight Russian forces out in the open and hope to win anything.

Quite easy to boycott Russian and Belorussian shyte.

Drink Finlandia or Absolut rather than Smirnov or indeed Diageo's Smirnoff. Feck Diageo they are as bad as the Russians.

About the only thing the Russians have that some people in some parts of the world need is gas, oil and wheat.

They are fecking disgrace.

Anyone know how the Quinn's one is doing ?

On more than one occasion in the past. I've been stuck on the side of the road in traffic, unable to move because a sniper was active up ahead, and the time it took to confirm he had left or was killed. I remember one particular episode where a sniper was posted in an unfinished high rise building in Kandahar, and they sent 2 Blackhawks up to get rid of him. Which they did as far as I know, but did a fair bit of demolition as well. and and of course, everything was at a standstill while this was going on. Pound for pound, snipers punch way above their weight in a fight.