Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Watched quite an amount of footage this morning (a lot of heavy/grim stuff) but the anti-tank weapons, the ATGM's and Javelins seem incredibly potent against Russian tanks and armor. Unless Russia changes it's tactics dramatically I don't see how they can sustain these losses for months let alone weeks.

Political woke gone mad (in my opinion)

I just found it surprising that Hanan could be so upfront about finding certain 'types' acceptable, and other 'types' not. Usually Brexiter racism is obfuscated under a couple of layers of disingenuous nonsense.

It seems to me that Russia has never asked itself in all of this why Ukraine never joined CSTO instead or why Poland and the Baltics opted for NATO.

Let's face facts, here:- Russia is, and always has been, a second-rate economy compared to the USA, constantly failing to make the best use of the not inconsiderable resources at its disposal. It's also f*cking grim, ruled by sullen authoritarians, and the national narrative is one of, in the words of Gerry Hannan, "Misery, misery, misery. The whole flipping way..." It's no wonder the governments/peoples of those countries that once comprised the eastern bloc would look west. On the one hand, you have Hollywood, Las Vegas, the American dream, "egalité, liberté, fraternité", Rock n Roll, general post-war optimism.... and on the other hand, blocky soviet kruschyovkas and meditative art films by Andrei Tarkovsky. It could be of no surprise which way hearts and minds would go, and with those went their governments. Russia didn't have enough to offer, and it would always require a certain amount of coercion to keep those countries within its sphere of influence, and therefore, ironically, an even better reason for those countries to want to be a part of NATO, and so we arrive at the Ukraine situation.

Pressure being brought to bear with sanctions, the wedge driven between the Russian people and their government will increase. That will put people in a difficult position where they are struggling for fuel and food yet the Russians can over spend on defence. It goes back to the point I made about Putin last week, I dont think he is of sound mind

Now that is a blast from the past - although I have to admit I have an Amiga emulator and various Lemmings games I can run on the PC I'm using this very minute!

UK and US to announce ban on Russian oil today.

Someone posted a link to BBC drama 'Threads' a few pages back and everyone tapping on their phones and their keyboards about using nukes would be well advised to take a look at it. Even after nearly 40 years, it's still the best visual representation of what would happen after an exchange of nuclear arms.

I watched both that and its American counterpart, Testament. My takeaway is that feature length films on nuclear holocaust are a slog because they don't have anywhere to go. I would suggest The War Game as a more succinct warning. It's 17 minutes in total, I think, but here's a minute long excerpt. Nothing like that old RP voice to really put across the cold reality of a situation...

Yes I think we are in for some pretty big changes. One positive (out of this horror-show) could be a much stronger push towards renewable energy sources

We are getting closer and closer to NATO been involved, they are absolutely pushing the boundaries of been in direct conflict with Russia. It will be a big question mark over Putin, will he react if Poland send jets to the Ukraine. If he doesn't respond, he will look weak and it could be the signal for NATO to push into the Ukraine.

The last tiome the Brits said they would stand with Poland, they lost over 5 million of their population, had their country moved Westwards and spent 46 years living under ruthless Soviet occupation.

Can anyone imagine any of our politicians doing likewise ?

I presume you mean weeks let alone months