Thanks. Learn onething today.
Some explanation on this video I happened to watch last week. It covers more than radial-ness though so skip to 5 minutes or so. How much the radial-ness matters when not running at 60mph on a road I don't know, but based on the **** Chinese tyres that are somehow allowed to be sold in Europe if they're taking those kinds of shortcuts then I can't imagine the quality is going to be good. That Twitter thread is interesting on maintenance.
You'd be surprised. People like money.
A retired polish General on polish news during the week, stated the only way Nato could interduce a no fly zone, was If they had confirmed knowledge that if a nuclear strike was ordered by putin that the order would not be acted on in the chain of command in relation to a strike authorization.
Did he say why?
If NATO is what they say it is, they wouldn't in a million years ever introduce a no fly zone.
Hell of a risk to take.
I've a firm belive this invasion would be finished already if that was the case.
This thread is getting funnier by the day.
Listening to some of you, you'd swear the Ukraine are on the verge of defeating the Russians.
The Ukrainian regime have been completely abandoned by the US/EU/NATO - their only option now is fleeing the country. It will avoid more death and destruction for the Ukrainian people.
Tbh I didnt see any translation on the video.
Probably cos the ruble isn't worth a piss at the moment and post this crisis were gonna all be way less reliant on Russia for anything one way or another.
On a recent televised broadcast Putin has stated that Russia has “no ill intentions towards its neighbours” and calls for international cooperation to return, for relations to normalize
Ah yes, abandoned by the big bad NATO/Americans.
Please.
Cus he needs it to happen to keep people on side.
Thanks.
Use of "regime" instead of government to describe an elected body is quite telling about your nature.
There are 44 million - make that 43 - Ukrainians. 2 million are on a round up and dispose list.
How does than number flee?
It's Ukraine, not The Ukraine. Unless you're 80 and still call Argentina, The Argentine. Secondly the EU/US have imposed some of the harshest sanctions on Russia in the history of the modern world and did it near overnight and NATO and others are supplying Ukrainians with arms and aid, and again very rapidly. Few believe that Ukraine can win in a conventional war, but they'll make it hell for Czar Vlad's forces throughout this campaign, while his subjects at home see their money become paper and many things they came to expect dwindling. Europe is rearming and won't be so quick to regard Russia as much more than an untrustworthy pariah state run by a dictator. So not bad for less than a fortnight I'd say.
You're trying too hard to sound non Russian kid!
Because their economy is getting decimated.
There is talk that he has become unhinged but I think he has been the whole time. I don’t think consequences matter to him. The talk of five dimensional chess was garbage, he is just a psychopath that the world was afraid to confront.
Public opinion in Russia: here's an example of what we're up against. A Russian woman living in Kyiv can't even get her own mother back home to believe what's going on...
It was intended as a joke. :-)
Wasn't Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country sort of an allegory of the collapse of the Soviet Union, based around a Chernobyl-type disaster on a Klingon moon?
I thought the world would be in a much better place in 2022.
He (and you can see this in the propaganda around Brexit too) see a world of fighting empires and nothing else. They’re lost in the 19th / early 20th century.
That in a nutshell is the key issue. John Mearsheimer was making the same point years ago - Putin is a 19th century 'leader' in a 21st century world. What we perceive as barbaric, he sees as a show of strength. He cannot be reasoned with and from his perspective the West is weak because their leaders choose to use strong words and sanctions rather than engage in a military conflict. Under his leadership Russia will continue to do as it has done until his objectives have been achieved.
So how do Irish people feel about adding Ukraine to the EU?
I think it would be a calamity right now, perhaps in 20 years. I was already against the last expansion.
That's f*cking bonkers.
Spoilers ffs! 😂
The Original Series of Star Trek should be watched by most people. If you have a decent interest and/or memory of TV shows it's incredible how many tropes/memes were created on that show. Also it's a great little time capsule. Sure the acting can be hammy but it's mad when you remember that at the time TV acting was new and was still being honed. I doubt at the time they thought anyone would be watching in HD 50+ years later. 😅
But yeah, overall it had a nice message about co-operation and spreading but made it clear that when someone makes you fight then you better be ready to fight.
Well you had the "Save Lives" crowd pivot to "War on Russia" in the space of a week
Aye, like one of the Russians I know who has lived here for over twenty years, who became 'more Irish then the Irish themselves', a fully engaged and worthwhile member of society exposed to all the media on the planet. They're not quite following the Russian party line, but not too far from it. Set against that thee's little hope for those in Russia. Look at the post I replied to a few posts back. The poster thinks the 'WORLD' supports Russia even when faced with hard facts that this is clearly a nonsense, their minds quite simply can't process this. hey really don't need 'bots' on the internet, enough of their ordinary everyday people buy this bullshít. They've honed their propaganda for centuries. It works.
Said it earlier in the thread, when this is over there should be huge EU aid given and maybe 10 years later if they are ready and want to join then go from there. Make it completely clear that the aid isn't a bribe or contingent on future EU membership. Unless the Russians hold a lot of power in what's left of Ukraine.
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