The planes will not be worth recovering once parking charges have been taken into account.
2022 will see a recession on the west for sure
There are rumours going around of larger than normal offloading of US and other countries sovereign debt this past week on the bond markets. No surprise at all to see some nations dropping payments made in certain currencies for oil and other things and requesting payments in Gold instead.
Who was speculating that?
Interesting article from CBC earlier today re: a survey of leading economists on the economic consquences. Most agreed that the global economic fallout will be stagflationary:
Dozens of prominent economists were asked this week in a recurring survey run by the University of Chicago whether we're about to witness a ground-shifting economic event.
Those economists from Yale, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley and Stanford were specifically asked whether this weaponization of dollar finance might lead to countries shifting away from the dollar as the dominant international currency.
Most confessed to not having an answer about where things go from here: 42 per cent said they didn't know, 16 per cent predicted a shift, and 28 per cent predicted no shift. Fourteen per cent had no opinion or did not answer.
Ireland plane leasing companies look set to lose billions of euros worth of planes to the Russian tricksters "what planes you didnt give us any planes" a new slightly larger North Korea in our midst
could the Russian tyrant (not using his name as it gives him too much respect) be deliberately drawing out this initial phase of the ‘cleansing / de-nazi boll0cks’ to give the world a false impression that his army and weapons are weak and that over the next couple of weeks he will send in his ‘A-team’ troops and tanks etc as well as chemical weapons and possibly some small scale ‘nukes’ also….to show the west and NATO what he is capable of thereby deterring them from getting into direct combat with him…?
if a cruise missile or bomb is dropped in Poland or some of the other bordering countries will it trigger direct retaliation….? If so the worst car scenario could easily commence….
given the megalomaniac the world is dealing with here it’s looking more likely that there is no way in hell that he eill retreat and agree to a cease fire. Last thing he will want to show us that he got things very wrong as again it will show weakness which doesn’t fit with his ‘super-hero / macho image ‘ wrestling bears in the wild and riding horses topless etc……
Was that a quote from Idi Amin I think
There was actually a picture of a Russian woman holding up a blank placard the other day. I think she got arrested.
Heard something like this a while ago: 'In Russia you are free to protest. But you might not be free afterwards.'
Haven't seen this mentioned before but the American killed today didn't in fact work for the New York Times well to be clear he did a few years ago but he wasn't one of their current employees and had no assignment in Ukraine.
And the area in which he was killed isn't currently under Russian control. Some speculate that he was killed by some trigger happy Ukrainian civilians or he undercover with the American government.
more peacekeepers .. how kind of putin im sure they will all be wearing un peace keeper outfits ..
An old joke from the Soviet Union:
A man is standing in the Moscow train station, handing out leaflets to everyone who passes by.
Eventually, the KGB turns up and arrests him, but they discover to their surprise the leaflets are just blank pieces of paper.
"What's the meaning of this?" they demand.
"What is there to write?" replies the man. "It's so obvious!"
Could be more innocent than that. It might just be people getting rid of clothes they no longer use. It could be as simple as one person in a household looking to load up a bin liner of old clothes and saying that to the rest of the people there who then proceed to clear out their wardrobe of old stuff without malice, favour, affection or ill-will. Just stick it in the bag.
As @road_high said, it's all been a bit rushed.
Ireland is only a small country- it doesn’t have the real wealth and cachet of the likes of London, Paris, Switzerland etc. It’s a backwater in financial and wealth terms
They had a presence... Sure Roman Abramovich wanted to sue us if the banks defaulted
Hi Guys, just a curious question. How is it that the Russian Oligarchs never established a presence in Ireland? I mean the IFSC would have been available to them to launder their dirty money. Also, we had our fair share of crooked bankers, Fingleton, FitzPatrick, etc who wouldn't have hesitated to cut some deals. The size of our population is similar to Switzerland in which they have sought refuge. Would the existence of CAB have concerned them? Just curious.
To be fair if they believe there is a chance they will be shot down over Ukraine trying to do exactly what they done in that attack last night then doing it the way they did and doing that damage without losing any planes was the smart thing to do. To be honest this is what Russia should of been doing off the mark right away when they started their invasion. If they had of used their airforce and cruise missiles on the opening day properly with overwhelming force then Russia might of had this war won by now or a lot less casualties on their side for sure.
He's hiding behind his ratling nukes like an arrogant child who has the protection of an older brother
^ The UN and Red Cross have campaigns going too if goal isn't to your taste.
The Russians got a right walloping in Finland in WW2.
really makes me wonder how seriously Russia is taking peace talks when I see stories like this.
I’m wary of the likes of GOAL getting involved- some of these have chequered enough histories when it comes to accounts and where their funding is going ie 6 figure Chairpersons salaries with rampant nepotism thrown in.
I think people are so stupid that when they hear refugee they think poor and then send things they associate with being well off or luxurious, hence high **** heels.
People doubt the existence of the Ghost of Kyiv, but the existence of the White Death is unquestioned, AKA sniper Simo Hayha who is often credited with over 500 kills in the Winter War.
Hopefully if the Russians ever tried that on Finland again, they'd get the same treatment as they got then. The Finns don't f*ck around in that regard.
People mean well (mostly, but very mindful of opportunists especially NGOs) but you’d really have to question the value of sending some of the tat over.
Needs to be more professional direction targeting exactly what is needed and where but understandably this was all done in a but of a rush. Medical supplies, practical food supplies and emergency accommodation/toiletries would appear to be the priority.
Polish president mentions weapons of mass destruction will be a game-changer and Nato will have to think about how to respond, saying nothing but saying a whole lot
Joe Joyce has a better credit rating now
WP is an incendiary.
Restriction is on “air delivered incendiaries on urban areas”. If fired from artillery or onto non-urban areas, there is no flat prohibition and like every other weapon starts to become more contextual.
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