Russia - threadbanned users in OP

looks like Kharkiv is the next city to be rid of invaders

IMO solar has no place in Ireland at all, except on the rooftoops of people who are happy with the poor ROI and the very questionable ethics of how the panels are made.

These are purportedly Russian Z cars in Berlin.

Contact CNN and ask them to correct their views then? Germany is the largest economy in Europe.

"Germany would plunge into a deep recession if its supply of Russian natural gas was suddenly shut off, the country's top forecasters warned on Wednesday.

The country would lose 220 billion euros ($238 billion) in economic output over the next two years in the event of such a shock, according to a report by five German economic institutes. German GDP would rise by just 1.9% in 2022, and contract by 2.2% in 2023. Growth would be 2.7% this year if the gas keeps flowing.

Cutting Russian gas would push Europe's largest economy into a "sharp recession," said Stefan Kooths, research director at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and one of the report's authors.

But a ban on Russian gas in the near term would wreak havoc on Germany, which relied on Russia for about 46% of its natural gas in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency. It uses the fuel to heat homes, generate electricity and help power its factories.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/13/economy/german-economy-russian-gas/index.html

Germany was to shut down gas supplies from Russia there only going to harm their own economy. Will German citizens who are used to certain standard of living put up with the pain of factories shutting down?

Burning it to the ground would give Russia easy, "See? Told you the West hates us!" propaganda fodder and it would be the loss of a perfectly good building that could be used to aid Ukrainians in some way, were the diplomats currently working there to be expelled. It is infuriating what the Russians are doing to ordinary Ukrainians throughout their country, but I think the latter would be a far better way to stick it to Russia.

I don’t think there’s a simple answer to that. It depends on what the objectives are. If the Russian objective was genuinely to fully occupy Ukraine with a walk over and install a puppet government then they have definitely lost. If their objective is the total and utter destabilisation of Ukraine, the destruction of its towns, and enough intimidation to perhaps even convince the people to give up the separatist regions then it could be said they are on track to win.

I don’t think there’ll ever be a simple answer, unless Russia completely withdraws from all parts of Ukraine and declares themselves no longer interested, which is never going to happen.

According to Ukrainian police in Mariupol, there are more than a thousand civilians sheltering in the Azovtal plant, with many of them being women and children.

Edit:

"The occupiers are preparing to start a massive bombing of Azovstal today

According to the Ukrainian military, Russia plans to attack the company with FAB 1000 and FAB 3000 aircraft bombs."

Well if I come across one it's getting its windows put in for starters.

That would be silly, no need to bring strife to your life, bashing a window in wont change anything either. The best way to defeat your enemy is to out perform them and slowly freeze them out, no need to be reactionary. Over the next decade Russian standard of living will deteriorate and we will barely spare them a thought, like a child in the bold corner.

Agree but bogs aren't the place either. There's more than enough commercial roofspace to provide as much solar as we want except there's always some septic fcuk who only cares about money, doesn't control the roofspace and so wants to cover the finest of land in concrete bollards and our simpletons in kildare Street are happy enough once they get a kickback.

World bank has forecast that the Russian economy will contract up to 11% this year. To put that in perspective, economies contracted around 3% as a result of the pandemic in 2020.

They brought in hundreds of civilian vehicles after suffering mass Loses in military convoys they are Also stealing vehicles from locals too