Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Russia didn't lose any troops in Ukraine. That's all fakery. All that happened was a fellow hurt his finger carrying a washing machine, and he is being cared for by world experts in washing machine accidents, in Moscow.

South Africa didn't vote against, they abstained.

Yep, my apologies. Wrong vote I was thinking of.

Was there not efforts to cut of some of their EU funding based on their anti democratic moves within Hungary prior to all this?

I would say Soviets is the widest form. They were citizens of USSR, which consisted of many nations, so it is wider notion than Russians. But people usually call Russians Soviets. While Bolshevics were members or at least fans of communists party. So each Bolshevic was a Soviet, but not all Soviets were Bolshevics. In Poland we call certain way of thinking as Bolshevism (derogatory term), kind like Putinism. Anyway it is my understanding. But I might be wrong.

EDIT, yeah, but in 1917 Soviets were probably councilmen.

ireland has no embassy in The Sudan BUT the Irish embassy in Egypt looks after Irish interests in The Sudan. At least that used to be the case. ALSO in some countries where Ireland has no embassy but the British has, the Irish Government would have an arrangement with British embassy to look after certain matters eg Irish citizens with certain issues.

SO , why not have a strategy whereby the Russian Embassies in all the , for example, EU member states be closed down and let any business to be handled with Russia be handled by a newly set up ‘EU Embassy’

AFTER ALL, because of the new IRON CURTAIN most countries supporting sanctions will have little or no business dealings with Russia so there will be no need for an Embassy and the SUGGESTED EU Embassy should be able to handle the bit of business there might be.

Russia should not see this as a ‘slap in the face’. It’s because there will be so little business to be transacted. We, for eg Ireland, still have maintained the embassy concept by rearranging how we plan to do any business with RU in the future

the above concept will @also kill RU. Espionage activities stone dead

Every single day for the past 45 odd days someone on here and elsewhere says Mariupol is about to fall.

And every single day it doesn't.

They have vowed to fight until the last man / woman, the criminal scum have no such aspirations.

I'll give them a while yet. 👍️

Russian soldiers kept 130 people inside a school basement 65 meters squared for four weeks, they had to live with corpses, some had to sleep standing up because there was so little space. Some were taken outside and used as human shields.

Not only that. There's a war going on and the Brits are still arguing about cake. Re. the soviets - I heard a version that Stalinism was not the plan. Stalin seized power from the true communists and created Stalinism. He prevented true communism from coming about in Russia.

Very true. The west has all but lost its belief in anything and has become divided in detail. That division is its weakness.

I think an unidentified threat should be made against Russia that guerilla sabotage attacks will be conducted within Russian borders.

I'm not suggesting that Ukraine should claim responsibility, it would surely be the work of Nazis.

Such an outcome would drive Putin the rest of the way to insanity.

If I can think of it, others must be thinking it too. Either way, Russia is going to be royally fcuked, sideways.

Above Video: WW2 Weapons Used in Ukraine War

I found this FASCINATING - one of those videos that you end up having to pause so you can google the equipment being discussed! also demonstrates that older weapons are phenomenally useful in this war -

Thought id share perhaps some of you may enjoy the distraction :~)

This war will be a real game changer in terms world politics. And when the dust finally settles, it will be on a completely different landscape. Hard at this point to see what will happen exactly, but I'd say that there will be growing divides and how they work out will definitely be impacted by the voting patterns we are seeing presently.

Just put it on Putins tab, along side the reconstruction costs....