Can anyone post a full list of the sanctions against Russia, or a link to them, much appreciated
If this is true then it would make you wonder wonder how Russia are getting so much wrong.
It's known Russia are willing to lose units to get the job done but I feel this is even a bit much for them.
I see. Will be interesting to see when what's going on when cloud coverage clears.
Maybe the EU will need to be thinking along the same lines......
My Grandad told me that reading about events of WW2 in the papers at the time was like reading the results of World Cup matches as it seemed like this far away event where you were just provided a broad outline of what happened.
I asked him was it tough living through The Emergency, he said they were low on sugar mainly.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-sanctions-has-world-put-russia
Edit....if you are Putin looking for info.... you're a very naughty boy..
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1500218786741653504?s=20&t=DLSZCsiAyf7IViFyT4gneQ
I was going by the news reel. Maybe you didn’t watch it.
Looks like Hungary, Bulgaia and Moldova are banning wheat exports to ensure they have enough.
As it stands from what we have seen over the last number of decades from Afghanistan , Chechen wars ,and not Ukraine ,If putin attacked Nato they would anilate Russian forces in days , Russia is good when they are leveling civilian population centers or infrastructure but give them a modern combined military to fight , guarantee its a purely one sided affair,
But nato aren't going to shoot first now matter how many times you call them weak.
Satellites these days don't just rely on optical sensors, they have radar and IR so they could still track the convoy under cloud or at night.
Given the seriousness of the current situation where tensions between Russia and the west are bubbling over and there is currently being a war waged (by a major power) on European soil for the first time in nearly 80 years and it's unfolding in a bloody, harrowing way right in front of our very eyes, the idea of comparing to the actions of other countries in the past feels pretty pointless and an unnecessary distraction from the current crisis.
Classic whataboutery, to me, is pretty much saying what about this or what about that with no attempt to parlay that into why it holds significance to events at hand other than we're all being hypocritical, which is a cynical attitude. What is the greater point being made? That because no-one cared about A, why should we care about B? That because the USA invaded Iraq, who are they to talk about Russia invading Ukraine? It seems to me that a lot of people have forgotten the phrase, 'two wrongs don't make a right'.
Hopefully the West can keep a united front on this and face down the Russian threat, and we can afterward resume discussing geopolitical hypocrisies in a world with generally safe atmospheric radiation levels.
I'm sure nato can see exactly whats going on and don't need to wait for satellites and the weather
I said ‘far left’, by which I meant the ‘far left’ and not Margaret Thatcher.
Crazy if true, and the first admission by Moscow that they realise they're facing a massive defeat.
Imagine appealing to the same body they've been threatening
If putin attacked Nato they would anilate Russian forces in days
How are you so sure?
Interestingly the main headline in the Business Post tomorrow is that the government is telling all Irish farmers to plant crops.
Not sure if related.
Very sure ,
Extremely sure based off evidence of the last 30 + years of russian military adventures , bombing a city is easy when nobody is shooting your aircraft down on large numbers or blowing up hundreds of your military vehicles.
Just look at The Warriors of Ukraine , making a mockery of putin and the mighty Russian army
“Moscow was particularly worried that portable anti-aerial Stinger missiles could end up in the hands of terrorists, posing a threat to airlines”
The absolute fooking cheek of them after MH17.
Yep.
Wrong link
It said Moscow was particularly worried that portable anti-aerial Stinger missiles could end up in the hands of terrorists, posing a threat to airlines
Oh really...
They failed in Afghanistan and had to get out, where else did they fail massively?
I think we are all pretty much aware of the hardship that is coming if this madness continues. But we are also aware that we will ,if we wish, watch match of the day tonight or go for a few pints or a nice walk with the dog. We will sleep peacefully in a warm bed all going well. Meanwhile the misfortune people of Ukraine have to flee their homes and homeland in terror from this tyrant putin. Whatever economic pain that's coming our way will never get near their suffering. Finally, surely there must be, there has to be, a group within Russia that are capable of taking out this monster. I don't give a f**k what censorship or oppression is in place there needs to be a response from within Russia. God bless Ukraine 🇺🇦
They don't have anything else!
This is what happens when you siphon off the country's wealth to invest in property, yachts, and football clubs
Your free to research it yourself ,
Probably another thread at this point
There's a thread on Twitter explaining what is thought to have happened to it.
And put a roof over the fields then is it?
I posted last week about the similarity of this to the famed Republican Guard convoy back in the gulf war, another media led hyper drama which never materialised
The essential point merely one of awareness. There is nothing new happening here and people have been warning about Putin for 20 years now. It's all well and good to say we can't talk about such things, but when you have situations where states are wagging fingers over this where previously they were saying everything's fine and cosying up to the likes of Putin, it's bound to draw questions.
Time and time again this happens and writing it off as simple "whataboutery" is wrong.
People like Putin and a whole host of other characters like him are allowed to fester because various other actors on the world stage allow it to happen because these nasty articles have something to offer in the immediate term.
There may be some who will be cynical about this and say "why should we care" and perhaps they're happy to let the world burn. But not everyone who makes historical comparisons are of that particular persuasion.
The thing is Brainy, you say "Hopefully the West can keep a united front on this and face down the Russian threat". But what will, more than likely, happen is that when all of this has blown over, it'll be back to business as usual...and that's bloody problem that people are talking about.
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