Absolutely, I'd say they (and others) are quite bitter over Syria and other events in the M.E. so probably had a few demands themselves. That said, in the long term I reckon they want to be on the right side of this new Cold war.
I said this days ago.
An ex CIA Moscow station guy the other night mentioned it.
Russia is so corrupt that everything is done to ensure the insider connected ones get their cut.
Thus a legitimate supplier is out in favour of someone that is connected, and how can the quality of kit be proper if a lot of the spend is gone straight into people's pockets.
We heard stories of how bad US and British kit initially was in Afghanistan/Iraq, how they were getting killed because they didn't have enough armour protection.
Well look at how they learned, they dumped the old humvees/landrovers and developed better armour protected vehicles.
The Russian soldiers weren't considered and are not getting their asses handed to them.
I have no pity for them as they are doing the bidding of their master.
Given that nothing is really worth a world that is rendered uninhabitable by nuclear winter and radioactive fallout, Russia could technically march on Poland and the Baltics, despite their NATO membership, and NATO could say, "Yeah, well, there is article 5 and all that, but we just don't feel that, as an organisation, we want the world to get nuked. Yes, this does diminish our standing in the world, but, y'know, we'd prefer there to still be a world for our standing to be diminished in. So, to those countries being invaded... you're kinda on your own. NATO, as an organisation, is not coming to help. But we wish those member states well, and suggest that they maybe don't resist. After all.... nukes"
Sickening **** sickening. Children trapped under the rubble of the maternity hospital.
There's been many lowpoints in this war war but bombing a maternity hospital probably lowest.
Dirty **** pricks and anyone that supports Russia the same.
I don't doubt that Putin would see it as an act of war. He also calls the sanctions an act of war. But he hasn't started bombing EU countries, has he? Like I say, he's at least as likely to back down as escalate
Can we afford to be wrong about what “he’s likely to do”?
I’ll answer that for you: No, we cannot.
It's starting to appear that all that money spent on investing in the armed forces was being pocketed on the sly from people in the Ministry of Defense.
Sergei Shoigu is closed to Putin, they holiday together. But I bet he and his subordinates are sweating buckets at night for when the ministry of finance look at the books and it would appear that they took a bigger cut than they were supposed to.
I would say there was a bit of arm twisting and horse trading done because weren't they one of the ones that abstained in UN vote.
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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."
Finally! took them long enough.
The state of those two fooking C....
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.
@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.
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.
Which one is Clare? The one on the left or the right?
It's hung from a gallows in Kiev he should be,never mind the Hague
Could be a bit of both or could be along the lines of lend/lease
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. 🙄
Where would you now find the manpower to harvest tillage crops manually?
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.
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.
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?
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.
Social media actually found a useful purpose
They are gifts.
I hear there is a chalet in Switzerland full of terrorists.
Thanks - I think I'm becoming desensitized to the images of death.
I've added a warning to the post.
Perhaps, but Russian drivers have been beating each other long before 'Z' was a thing.
but this one is still my favourite
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