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Both responses are right, Zelensky is correct to keep pleading for the world to take action, and likewise US/NATO are correct not to take direct actions to trigger WW3
Let's be honest and im not critisising them, but the Ukrainian govt is trying to drag us all in to a war here.
Fine for them as they are screwed anyway.
There needs to be much firmer pronouncements about the limits of what the west collectively will and will not do.
A no-fly would be lunacy yet it's still being demanded.
you must now be a tad embarrassed by this assessment of mr Putin….?
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Jeez, look at that photo - Clare really could do with botox injections - in her lips and tongue.
I have perhaps a stupid question
When the British for example send anti tank missiles into Ukraine ...who payes for the missiles ....is it the British footing the cost or does the Ukranian Government receive an invoice in the post ?
Everyone keeps saying no fly zone would be lunacy as if Putin would immediately say "right, we're going to nuke the whole world". He's far more likely to back down and seek a quick exit than do that.
The West's fear is basically giving him a green light to hold any country he wants hostage.
Perhaps, but Russian drivers have been beating each other long before 'Z' was a thing.
but this one is still my favourite
Thanks - I think I'm becoming desensitized to the images of death.
I've added a warning to the post.
I hear there is a chalet in Switzerland full of terrorists.
They are gifts.
Social media actually found a useful purpose
Not that simple.
Crops takes months to grow, you can't just decide in July to start planting.
It would need to be decided now.
Things now totally different to say back in 1940s when the Emergency (kids around here should look up a history book to find out about it) forced farmers all over the place to go crops like wheat, barley, oats.
For a start back then there was fook all mechanisation and you had huge number of people working the land to provide the labour to till and harvest the crops.
Ploughing was mostly done by horses, harvesting by horses and grain crops manually stooked and then stacked to be threshed later.
How many old threshing machines are still usable today?
Where would you now find the manpower to harvest tillage crops manually?
So the alternative is mechanisation and that adds complications.
I would bet there are certain counties in Ireland without a single combine harvester.
So forcing farmers in say Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon to plant even barley proves problematic if the machines don't exist in the area to harvest it and the Irish weather is not forgiving enough to claim that people can wait their turn.
It is just too costly to do it, just like it is more cost effective for people to buy their veg in a supermarket than plant their own garden.
First point exactly.
Some of the videos and footage over the last couple of weeks have been really harrowing. But there is something that gets to the very core of you when you see a fcuking maternity hospital bombed. Mam's and babies.
I hope that man see's the Hague one day. A knife in the back is too good for him.
Well, not to be funny about it, because it would be quite a serious situation, but if people were hungry enough, I'm sure there'd be no shortage of volunteers.
Oh lookee he is using the excuse why the Allies didn't bomb Auschwitz-Birkenau
They might have killed people, the people that were destined to die anyway. 🙄
Could be a bit of both or could be along the lines of lend/lease
It's hung from a gallows in Kiev he should be,never mind the Hague
Which one is Clare? The one on the left or the right?
I see the Ukrainians turned away a British man who had offered to go out there and fight...they said they didn't have the time or resources to train him which is fair enough. He said he had no military experience and has never fired a gun. There was another guy who was 60 years old, ex military I believe but he said they never emailed him back lol.
In fairness it only makes sense for young men who are military trained to be going over there and even then they cant speak the language.
@Munstergirl854
There was another guy who was 60 years old, ex military I believe but he said they never emailed him back lol.
There are people who can't keep on top of their email inbox even when their country isn't being invaded.
The only way such an operation could be done if if a state agency did it. Farmers would relinquish control of certain fields for say the year and the agency would plant and harvest them.
A few years ago I thought BnM might be restructured for something like this but for energy rather than food crops.
In any case it's fanciful stuff. Given the price of grain anyway, if tillage farmers can afford the inputs it's likely they would put the maximum under crops anyway, instruction or not.
Assistance with inputs is required for a good harvest and hopes and prayers for a decent summer.
The state of those two fooking C....
Finally! took them long enough.
Per the former US Ambassador to Russia:
"Let's just get rid of this euphemism 'no-fly zone.' Let's call it for what it is. It's war," McFaul said. "If we try to implement a no-fly zone, that means that an American pilot has to shoot down a Russian pilot. And if we do that, that's a declaration of war, and [Russian President] Vladimir Putin has been very clear that that's the way he sees it."
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