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I think that's an important point to make..a lot of people this week feigning shock at this war.Putin has form as history shows,he is battle hardy and is no novice to war.

Just to put this “very simple” project into perspective.

Ireland, with its status as a corporate tax haven, is one of the locations taking center stage in this fiasco. Leasing companies based in the country account for US$4-5bn of the estimated US$12bn in leased commercial aircraft now involved. AerCap, the world’s largest lessor of commercial aircraft, is based in Dublin. 

AerCap itself has, according to the Times, 152 planes – the most of any leasing company, according to consultancy IBA – valued at about US$2.5bn in Russia and Ukraine. Its customers include Aeroflot and Rossiya who hold, by value, about 5 percent of AerCap’s fleet as of December. (https://airwaysmag.com/industry/repossessing-aircraft-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR2bzhf8klSqYhddsroCjsjuyeDhpuzl-0HqK_memZzKURGSpIDjv9PzSOo)

Mariupol ceasefire not really for humanitarian reasons but to allow Russia to reorganize and deploy more cannon fodder (19/20 year old soldiers). Fewer artillery strikes and air strikes. Russia could lose this war through its own corruption.

I would say Abramovich and Usmanov are drawing up a list of the government hierarchy(Ministers, advisers, Generals) who will be handed over to face war crimes. Vladimir Putin is cowardly beyond belief. There is no way he is in Moscow. To call him scum would be an insult to scum.

It's all well and good Putin hiding in the middle of nowhere, but I'd fully expect the Americans to have at least 2 nukes locked in on that exact position

Is it the first time ever a peace keeping mission has called a cease fire..

I'm really struggling to understand how Russian people are so blinkered..I had really hoped that they would cop on sooner than this. Grimble grumble where ever he is hiding can't keep his atrocities from them forever. Approximately 100 million(?) ex pat Russian people worldwide sitting idly by afraid to speak up. Disgusting

Merkel was all about trade and dialogue and as a child of the Soviet block felt she had a handle on Putin. Maybe she had but not this version of him. They were looking at the mutual benefits and under the illusion that Russia could be persuaded to be a good partner to Europe. For a while the signs were decent but sadly a regime obsessed with the glory days of the Soviet/Russian empire are just not going to do that. Laughing at Trump is really no great affront to anyone, apart from to Trump himself.

They are not blinkered, they are blinded by the State. What can these 100m do? If they have any family at home there is a huge risk to them.

They seek him here

They seek him there

At the Golden Gate

And Freedom Square

He must avoid the death squads, this is his solemn test

'Cause he's a dedicated leader of the Ukraine

Some guy that I was speaking to was trying to state that the loony left are evil, and that National Socialists were left wing.. He is the Fox News and RT type.

Everybody has some understanding of what Nazi means. It is a fascist who puts the glory of the motherland above human-life and will systematically kill the innocents to achieve their”Reich”

It's very close to China to be lobbing a couple of nukes at a lad in a bunker. Can't see that happening

I have an awful feeling that Zelensky is the out for Putin and that when he's gone then nato will say enough and putin will say I got what I wanted.