10’s of thousands of dead Russian soldiers and trying to keep a lid on an insurrection from 40million people who hate them. Great plan Vlad
Western aid is speeding up the conclusion. Russia is losing men and resources at a staggering rate, it's Army has to bring in head choppers from Syria because too many Russian soldiers do not want to fight Ukrainians.
That's an incredible admission of weakness by Russia. "Please send help, we'll pay you well".
Oddly enough that's why I don't think he will use the nuke.
That's his trump card for this particular conflict, once he uses that all bets are off. The threat of it does just as good a job.
(I'd argue withholding fertiliser and grain is much more destructive relatively speaking)
DB apparently out after a lot of reluctance
They are irrelevant because they have zero influence. Stop trying to misrepresent what I'm saying. Anyone above Forrest Gump intelligence can follow what I'm saying.
We’ve already seen Putin has that aspect in hand right now- he’s currently using cluster bombs and is likely planning chemical weapons and nuclear terrorism on the nuclear reactors - if you’ve believed Putin to date, if you had to start unbelieving him now, there would be a huge cognitive dissonance in your brainwashed little Russian head- it’s not going to happen.
Unless those in power in Russia, other than Putin do something, they’ll remain Putin sheep
Is Yuzhnoukrainsk NPP now in bother, or could these intermittent data transfer problems be due to connectivity issues I wonder?
Suicidal brave
I think the point is the sanctions aren't aimed at self-sufficient peasants in their rural wooden cottages.
They're aimed at the oligarchs and also the very real middle-class. 15m in Moscow give or take. Another 5m in St Petersburg. Plenty are poor but many are doing as nicely as you or I. If the economy tanks utterly, you'll see a fair few of them impacted. Then you get towards civil unrest and riots (particularly if Putin tries to put down civil unrest the way you presume he might)
Roight
Has this been posted yet?
You would have to despair at some peoples complete loss of their ability for critical thinking. Russia total gas exports in 2021 were 55 billion and Germany buy 1.1 billion per day, hmmm. Let me get my abacus out
Hit on the move.
If the Russian military is the second best military in the world then I'd imagine the third best must be in complete rag order! I know Russians aren't the brightest but ffs! This lot haven't a notion. But I guess the clue was in them making a dead eyed thug their president.
Medical supplies are still going to Russia including from companies based here
You think you're being clever. Well done, you've fooled one person.
Some of the deceased or sacked tank commanders and Generals may yet get a commendation from the west for not participating in this war
Indeed and from a poster I've seen banging out about posters getting info from Twitter
Not really related to the conflict in Ukraine but just shows what a s*** show this year is going to be for food, especially in developing countries.
"China is expecting a partial crop failure, US and Argentina are expecting drought to reduce yield, and other areas are expecting floods. Add to that fertilizer ins in short supply and there will be food shortages. The question is how bad will it be."
Copied from a post on Reddit.
But isn't that exactly what you were doing by calling me Komrade? Thinking you were being clever.
Census Day April 3rd- that will be interesting
So, how long does it take you to commute to work?
Erm let me see, take a plane to Poland. Then walk a few hundreds miles, get bombed- pick up a frapachino on the way- oh, 10 days give or take?
Western Europe buys a billion a day of Russian gas and oil.
If it walks and quacks like a duck 😝
Preparations ongoing:
Guarantee you, IF there’s any sort of “normal” resolution to this war, part of that resolution will be restrictions lifted and the oligarchs money to be returned to them
Watch this space in the weeks to come -and also let’s see just how quickly western businesses like McDonalds return to normal when permitted, vs other companies refusing to do business
Check your “facts”
Yep they did, even facilitated currency conversions and payments for the nazis throughout occupied Europe(no euro back then of course). Funny enough Rolex were the only Swiss watch brand who refused to supply the German military before or during the war. The backed the British from day one, which was brave at the time. The rest of the brands supplied both. Well, until the nazis started to run out of hard currency of course and then the Germans had to use their own watchmaking industry. Watch when the Russians go broke how quickly the Swiss will change their tack. Their neutrality is based on being money grabbing bastards to everyone, until you run out of money. They're a grubby little bunch only concerned with the ringing of tills. I found it the most boring nation on earth too. Like walking around a pretty, but expensive coma. How doctors can tell a Swiss is comatose is beyond me.
Just watched the longer version ,the first few tanks scattered but one got a couple of shots off in the general direction of where the rocket was fired
Has there been any confirmation of the Swiss stance apart from a single tweet from a a single source posted here?
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