Followed this guy, just before the conflict he released a video "explaining" the Ukraine situation (it was similar to Russia lines), I see that video is now gone
I wouldn't expect many changes to Ru prices or supply issues at the mo, but will be interesting to see the situation a few months down the line. Not really into his political views, but his survival videos are good and hopefully he keeps producing updates on this
Jaysus, the NLAW looks pretty crap now when you see the numbers.
Queue in front of Turkish Airlines office at Valova street, Moscow.
Truly horrendous. To think that Italy allowed Putin's young flexible partner to have his baby in a swish clinic there.
The Russians had their own Afghanistan crap and it pretty much led to 911 and the war on terror and all that guff. Another proxy war. As was Vietnam and Syria. And I'd protest all of them, but today, at this moment it's the Russian twats that are doing the invasion and butchery.
He will be what is euphemistically called "a bullet catcher".
Apparently this is illegal under the Russian constitution.
I'd start at the bit where he has military trainig. According to the Ukraine government, after watching a bit of news, 20,000 people have gone to Ukraine to join the fight.
This Russian guy has a great YouTube channel on bushcraft amongst other things. Here he is doing a comparison from 2nd march to the 8th to see how sanctions have effected his local shop.
Ummm, naw. Defend him all you like but the guy obviously has an ‘issue’ with poles living in Ireland. No surprise really. Did you see the state of the ‘protestors’? Same oddballs you see protesting outside abortion clinics.
Lay off the dramatics too. Some of you are enjoying this war way too much.
Listen i think the greatest mistake the west made was to assist Putin.
Turning a blind eye to his clear drift to full on autocrat
Taking few measures at all RE 2014 Crimea
Allowing him to enrich himself and his regime in the west
If Putins only issue was with NATO - that would be one thing (still atrocious behavior of course)
But its clear he wants a say in how Ukraine is run, and that it not enter the EU - it would become too successful, affecting his bloviation on Liberal Western Democracy being useless -
Look i have a feeling that we are singing from a similar hymn sheet - just wanted to respond, in good faith as always
Seriously, you don't see a problem? That someone in Scotland would drop everything, and get himself to Ukraine because he's watched a lot of news recently?
Where to even start?
Let me fix that for you.
You live next door to an MMA fighter.
He wants you to play with him.
He wants you to only have dinner with him - of course he picks what you have to eat.
He doesn't want you mixing with anyone but him.
He wants it the only one that ever visit your house is him.
You refuse and say you will decide who you will be friends with, who you will eat with, who you will have visit.
He decides to take a chunk of your back garden as his.
You still refuse to do as he demands.
He then knocks the fence down, starts wrecking the house, beats you up, rapes your wife all because he claims you were looking to get your back garden back.
massive bounce in the stock markets today in anticipation of peace talks tomorrow in Turkey, Im pretty sure the Russians are not ready to quit yet though, this rally will be short lived
Well I'd reckon most of that is down to history. Since Pearl Harbor the Americans have had to build a worldwide logistics network because they never fought a modern battle on their home soil. Their outlook was external and more based on attack. Pretty much all of Russia's wars were on home soil or just outside their door and more based on defence. So using their rail network across that vast nation was very sensible. But that means when they try to copy America's Shock and Awe beyond their shores against any real opposition it's more Mild Surprise and Ah Bless.
And then there's their lack of cash. Biggest nation on earth with an economy worth about 3X of Ireland's. Much of that seemingly funneled into billionaire's megayachts. Check this out.
Top of the line Sukhoi cockpit. Dead fancy only the yoke the arrow is pointing to is a commercially available on amazon made of the finest chinesium GPS reciever gaffer taped to the dash...
Russian Gold & Silver blocked from London & New York metals exchanges
The notion they've got One Million troops available at any time is unadulterated waffle. It it's evidently the case they can only get close to that number by picking young and old men up off the streets and throwing them into battle in 1970s uniforms.
This explains
Russian propaganda is trying to make this into a "thing".
Indeed, some people seem to be portraying this as a food shortage apocalypse. I'm not downplaying the serious-ness of it but I presume wheat-growing countries can increase supply somewhat. Russia hasn't claimed it will suddenly stop exporting all it's grain, Ukraine is still exporting (via train). Could fertilizer and grain supplies be affected? Yes. But our current supply system is not set in stone, there is some flexibility there. Likewise we just had a pandemic where the world shut down for a month in 2020, and things kept going, we are adaptable.
That was Indonesia the worlds biggest exporter by far. The EU already put a ban on Malaysia's palm oil and they are number 2 by far.
That takes out 90% of the worlds Palm Oil.
I really appreciate the effort
but i'm not really planning to dwell on this.
the point i'm trying to make is that Russia since 2008 made it unequivocally clear that US meddling in Ukraine is recipe for disaster and we walked right into it.
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this does not mean that the Russians are not being barbarians in Ukraine
this does not mean that the Russians are not committing warcrimes in Ukraine
this is does not mean that Putin does not deserve to be put on trial and be locked for a lifetime over what he's doing in Ukraine
But at the same time this does not mean that the west and the US in particular did not play a role in this.
I'm not debating if Russia has the right to do what they're doing, because of course they don't even if they have the power to get away with it.
But at the same time, i'd wish if our policy makers can be a little smarter in the future.
that's all. :)
But they said no conscripts would be used only professional soldiers.
Liars 😂
The most ridiculous aspect which I don't see mentioned much is that he finished 3rd and was standing directly beside an actual Ukrainian who came 1st and didn't feel the need to wear any symbols or make any political statements even while his country was being invaded.
Not to mention the fact the little scumbag wasn't even technically there representing his country because his country is currently banned from competing due to endemic doping. You almost couldn't make this crap up.
The only thing keeping Russia relevant are the nukes.
Their military is falling behind as evidenced over the last couple of weeks and they must definitely no longer have the reach they once had where they could afford to back numerous regimes around the world e.g see Cuba.
Yes they are a relevant producer of resources particularly oil and gas, but so are loads of states in say the Middle East.
To a degree they are like the ottoman Empire in early 20th century, of course with lots of nukes.
China has replaced them in terms of influence around the world.
The Russians I think wisely decided to start concentrating on the cyber world as it was one of the only ways they could afford to influence events around the world.
And I believe the really stupid thing is the West gave and continue to give the Chinese a massive economic leg up which they can then use to wield power around the world.
The only ones stupid enough to give the Soviets a leg up were the Brits who basically gifted them their jet technology.
Let me correct the analogy - imho
You're turning your backyard into a zoo and your neighbour is spooked by lions - REALITY - You are doing up your back garden, and yes you have some pets. Your neighbor Exaggerates this. Tells the neighborhood that you are turning your garden into a Zoo.
You're sheltering 500 cats cats into your backyard and your neighbour is allergic to cats - Your neighbor claims, without any proof, that they are allergic to cats. Claims these cats are a 'clear and present danger to he, and his 'family' - when one of his family interject that, actually they quite like cats (wouldnt mind having a few, and point out that at one stage, we too had cats) - the family member vanishes from sight - when seen again they are bruised, showing signs of scars, and remaining silent. Neighborhood makes clear they dont believe a word of this.
the idea is that whatever you're doing in your backyard is affecting your neighbour. Neghborhood disagrees and tells you to calm down and sober up
and continuing the analogy
You awake to find that your neighbor has set your house on fire - is claiming that it is not your house, it is in fact HIS. Tells the neighborhood he will shoot anyone that tried to help you. He will only allow your family to escape into HIS back garden. Where your family members will be 'cared for' - Makes clear that he means you no harm. You are just confused. and while he is
He tells you ALL OF THIS WILL END, if you do EXACTLY what he says - indefinitely
Why would there "definitely be Pentagon-controlled biolabs" in Ukraine? What possible reason would the Pentagon have for housing biolabs literally next door to its de facto enemy #1?
I mean even little old Ireland has biolabs which contain infectious and dangerous pathogens and may contain novel strains or all sorts of potential nasties used for research purposes: https://www.tcd.ie/ttmi/facilities/cat3lab.php
Well I don't think that things are black and white. I just think it's contrarian edgelord-ism at worst and fanciful at best for Mr Mearsheimer to simply start the timeline for the attribution of blame at the beginning of any discussion about Ukraine potentially joining NATO and just wholesale ignore the entire expanse of historical development that precedes all that (not to mention Ukrainian self-determination). The US/NATO/West bears some responsibility for its strategy in dealing with Ukraine which has contributed to raising the temperature and Western diplomacy has failed Ukraine. But attributing all of this at the foot of the West isn't only incorrect, it is also an insult to the independent intellect of the Ukrainian people as well as being the most almighty whitewash imaginable of Russian aggression, nigh-imperialism and the fact that Russia is the one slaughtering Ukrainians at this very moment.
You see it as all being "US foreign policy" but it's just as much a question of Russian foreign policy and of course Ukrainian internal affairs. The Russians have been trying to sneakily play the puppet strings and massage tension and conflict in Ukraine just as the West has tried to pull the strings too. But the difference is that the sovereign will of Ukraine has drifted in favour of the West. Their democratic will is to break free from the Russian sphere of influence and to embrace enhanced co-operation with the West. Sure, the West has tried to shepherd them there and has played its own games, but the Ukrainians have brains of their own and know what they want -- and what they want is not to be Putin's serf. They opted to embrace the West not because Joe Biden ordered the infiltration of Ukrainian media with hypnotic subliminal NATO messaging -- but because they deem it that the Western system offers something better while the Russian system relies on little more than "stay in the fold, or else".
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