How can you always choose the wrong side? lol
Russia stopping fertilizer exports.
That's a big deal. Bigger than their oil being stopped.
Ukrainian men are savage tough (in a good way). Born survivors. They’ve had to be with those Russian tramps as neighbours.
So, Russia are invading Ukraine in order to force the country in order to adopt a neutral position? Isn't getting invaded by a hostile country the exact kind of thing that would make a country think, "Hey maybe we should be part of a defensive alliance which would ensure that'll never happen again!"? That's absolutely sh*t logic from Russia, but then again maybe force is all Putin and his cronies know. If you were to take Russia's alleged line of thinking and reduce it down to a more human scale, just to illustrate its absurdity and cruelty, it would be like if you had been with this woman once, but you broke up, but when she started making eyes at your enemy across town, so you beat her up until she agreed to either be with you or just stay celibate. It's thuggery and intimidation.
No Facebook or Twitter. If they ban TikTok too, I might move to Russia 😁
The Russian “Ambassador” is an utter disgrace- clearly nothing more than a Putin mouthpiece (as we all knew). He is absolutely a danger to the stare at this stage with his spiteful rhetoric.
And it's not like they're the most advanced drones available. The fact Russia is struggling against these further proves that either they haven't deployed their best, or have been living off reputation for decades and aren't as effective a force as we thought.
Tubridy for sainthood
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The pressure must be immense. Especially in the USA. Coca Cola business is a Greek based subsidiary. McDonald’s are likely franchises but they’d still be supported by the main company. Tiny comparison but they left Iceland in 2009 after the financial collapse so there is precedent albeit small.
That bollix. He lied to our government for weeks and then goes on Russian TV badmouthing Ireland. Why that prick is still allowed in Ireland I have no idea.
Turkish Drones air showing the value in this conflict, many smaller nations will add these to their inventory, delightfully cheap and cheerful
Any chance the Russian Ambassador will be on and if you donate a few grand you get to throw a brick at him.
Coke definitely should. McDonald's is a franchise so the individual restaurants are likely Russian owners.
It's a good idea.
Late late show tonight will be fundraising.
Based on the state of their equipment and soldiers, I honestly don't think Russia could win a ground war against any of the serious players. I'm not even sure that their air power is much use against a country with air defenses and planes of their own, given that they haven't yet managed to gain air superiority over Ukraine yet. They have nukes but that's about it. I've been quite surprised by their incompetence so far.
Ukrainians are shooting some down, it's one thing to toss a conscript into a battle in a 20 year old tank, it's another to commit a $40 million fighter jet.
Sure didnt Coca Cola colaberate with the Nazis and help make Fanta.
Makes sense they'd want to relive the past a little!
In a conventional war, Russia would be pulverised.
Which is why it won’t happen.
how come the Russian airforce hasnt been able to gain air supremacy? its a good thing for the Ukrainians as they killed to senior commanders of that dreaded convoy headed to Kyiv
Theres a video showing a man carrying a mine at arms length across the road and into a field, with a cigarette dangling from his lips. Now personally, the only thing I found wrong with that was the way he was holding it....if it slipped from his hands, and hit his foot, he could forget the ball room dancing for a while...they are too bloody heavy to be holding at ams length,,, much more comfortable to hold them up to your chest ( unless they have handles )
But an unexploded bomb, either dropped from a plane or a shell fired from a tank etc. I'd be inclined to keep as far away from them as possible...because they are armed and dangerous!
"If they took Ukraine over they'd actually add to the size of their borders with NATO."
Except the evidence, on balance, would suggest that it was not Russia's intention to "take over Ukraine". And despite the ongoing invasion, to see that as its objective even now is highly questionable and, on balance, not the most likely Russian objective.
The Russian's objective appears to have been to force Ukraine to abandon its Nato ambitions and adopt a neutral position. This would create the neutral buffer zone it seeks. That it already borders Nato is true. But the strategic weight given to that now irreversible border is most likely less important than if Ukraine also joined Nato. It also "allowed" that border to develop when in a weaker and less assertive position.
So many major companies have boycotted Russia than the remaining ones (e.g. Coca-Cola, McD's) are coming under increasing pressure to do so
There's a load of different suggestions here:
Might be a good idea for the mods to set up a thread with NO debate allowed on rights/wrongs.. just info on practical ways to support humanitrian efforts in the region?
It's exactly that. It any case, if this was some attempt at weakening or pushing back NATO, it's doing the exact opposite. They're going to be bigger after this and there will be far more of them on his doorstep.
Yeah if he's going to attack a NATO country he might as well launch the nukes preemptively because he knows he would lose any conventional battle with American-led forces. But as long as Putin is still a rational actor he knows that everybody gets annihilated in a nuclear exchange. So unless he's mad or totally delusional Putin does not invade Poland.
back to the serious, geopolitical and defence.
Can definitely us going back to basics, which will include the above, but also mean renewed focus on manufacturing (and agriculture). In manufacturing we'll see more reshoring initiatives across the EU and the development of shorter supply chains, where possible. Covid had the manufacturing sector thinking about these things already... the past few weeks have given it added impetus. However, a lot of the pandemic-related tax relief, grants and other support programs for manufacturers are winding down all over Europe. There is also a manufacturing labor shortage. Unless we move to an explicitly war time economy that labor shortage will remain. Those support programs may have to be resurrected.
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