They are supppsed to be arriving since last Thursday. I feel they just won't get there or Europe will say there sending them and actually won't. Its doesn't matter now anyway, Ukraine destiny is over.
Along with the other video earlier of the father and son this just goes to show the absolute vile and disgusting behaviour of certain groups operating on Putins orders - targetting civilian vehicles with the single intent of killing the occupants
I often wonder about people who take these eejits seriously and whether they have memories. I mean, these cranks make measurable and testable claims about the world and it's possible to figure out if the claims that these people make end up being correct or not. Myself, if someone is wrong a lot, I don't even bother listening to them as it's obvious that they don't know what they claim to. They might as well be a magic 8-ball. The records of these kooks is all there, timestamped on the internet. You would think that people would remember the claims made by these people and notice that they were so wrong so often but that's not the case. It's as if they wake up in the morning with their memories wiped clean.
You think it's not going to go down much further?
That sky video is insane.
I see the Ukrainians have started a counter offensive in Kharkiv.
It's something of a turnaround that Conservative America, which has historically been particularly anti-Communist and used to be all about McCarthyist persecution and 'better dead than red!' now seem to admire and go to bat for a man who used to be in the KGB and who regards the fall of the USSR as the greatest tragedy of the 20th century.
What makes you think they are not arriving ,they have received thousands of anti tank weapons and anti Aircraft the weapons are flowing in ,
And we seen them in the hands of Ukrainans every day
So given that last paragraph you obviously accept that the invasion of Ukraine is pointless?
The gas kept flowing the entire Cold War. If the Russians did decide to cut off one of their critical revenue flows, sure we'd have issues, we'd have to find alternatives. It's definitely a big challenge. That discussion has already started in 2014, but now it's very much a reality
Wheat is fine, we don't import much from Russia/Ukraine
Fertilizer bit of an issue, but Algeria is our key provider now
The more the Russian economy declines ironically the more reliant it is on key exports to Europe. It'll take time for us to switch, but it will also take time for them to switch infrastructure to China, who are guaranteed to pay bottom dollar.
Maybe if economic conditions are bad enough the Russians will rise up like 1917 or 1989, or maybe they won't. Either way they are about to have much more significant problems than a country which is no threat to them.
Fantastic.
so you want ww3 and the real prospect of nuclear war is it?
It's not enough.
Seeing that insane Sky video tells me I'm just not cut out for war. I'm bricking it just watching it. Imagine being in that car getting lit up knowing any second a round could go right through your melon. Not for me. In a war effort, I'd make the sandwiches and clean their boots. Every little helps.
I may be totally off the wall here but why the fk didn't they turn the car around at speed after the first round and put the foot to the floor. They pulled over an opened the doors...?
The sanctions will not be lifted as long as Russian troops remain on Ukrainian soil. This could go on for years (though I have a suspicion Putin will be 'removed' at some point).
They probably saw the Sky video - do these guys get danger money for this kind of reporting does anyone know?
Engine was probably wrecked, if you saw the other video it had big holes through the whole car - dunno if they were using the same calibre bullets but any bullet would quickly disable the engine
Just got sent this by a Polish friend. If you copy and paste the phone number and text on your mobile phone you can deliver the news to some random individual in Russia.
For those that are curious, the translation of the text is as follows:
Dear Russians, your media is censored. The Kremlin lies. Thousands of your soldiers and Ukrainian brothers are dying in Ukraine. Find out the truth on the free Internet and the Telegram app. Time to overthrow the dictator Putin!
Putin may have to think about shutting down the Russian telecom network. 🤔
People are tough, it's really only when times are tough that they shine.
People think that the pain will all be one way with sanctions, it will not.
Energy and food, the most vulgar and looked down upon sectors of Europe for 30 years are still reasonably important.
Russia will probably go down in flames at the end of this but the turmoil unleashed because of this looks like being a epoch definition event.
There is going to be no nuclear war, it can't happen because there is no winner this way. So get that fantasty out of your head. I don't want to watch the TV every day seeing innocent people children and babies getting killed by constant shelling because of the ego of a bully boy from Russia. What do nato actually do if he says I'm going to strike Poland with a nuclear strike if I can't capture it? With NATOs thinking they will say yeah no problem take it, its only Poland.
Cars don't stop bullets. Engine blocks do. By the time they turn and speed off, you'd put 30 rounds in them easy. From the back, the car has little protection. Rifle bullets would go through the back, hit the ones in the back seat and keep going to hit the ones in the front seats.
Disappointing to see such large pro Russia demonstrations in Serbia tonight.
You should consider senior management.
Unfortunately NATO/US can't intervene directly, that would be WW3.
There is a lot of equipment going Ukraine's way. Keep in mind they have a standing army of 125,000, national guard of 60,000 and almost million reservists with some form of military training. Relatively high morale. Equipment isn't the best, but they have experience in the form of an 8 year hybrid war with Russia already, so they aren't all completely green.
They've already destroyed/captured at least 620 tanks, infantry vehicles, artillery pieces, aircraft, helicopters of the Russian military in 9 days.
Yes the odds are stacked against them, and despite low morale, lower pay, the Russia military is bigger and more advanced but I wouldn't say it's completely lost yet
One4all vouchers. Tax-free, kerching!
But yes, I know someone in this line of work, and if you're sent to a conflict zone for a major outlet, there's an element of danger money involved. Not as much as there probably should be though. Some journalists have balls of steel. Simon Ostrovsky (not my friend) reporting for Vice during the Donbas conflict put himself in serious danger to inform people. Real journalism, the sort that gets stomped in authoritarian societies.
That series was the gold standard in conflict reporting. I haven't seen him at all during this war, and I don't blame him for not going back.
So much for your username then!
It does not matter where you buy it from if 40% of the worlds supply goes demand increases then prices skyrocket. The market set's the prices
No surprise. Those lads got done over by NATO. Any anti-NATO type stuff goes down well there.
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