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.
Some species handle radiation better than others. Children who got cancer and birth defects didn't do so well as birds and shrubs.
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.
"In Russia, more than 100 servicemen from the 200th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, which has already fought in Ukraine, have refused to continue participating in the "special operation."
Which team - such results."
I hope thats just the tip of an iceberg of such problems.
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.
And you have tested these mining sites and the follow up processing of uranium ore and followed the trail and measured the radioactivity and its effects on the environment?
It might be hard for someone that has drunk Putin's cool aid, but from a long term strategic point of view Russia is headed for global insignificance.
This whole invasion was a plea to 'look at us! we're still big boys'.
Of course, as you can see this has been an embarrassing failure.
What's your plan yourself - you seem young - will you stay in Russia or try to emigrate for a modicum of a decent life?
Medvedchuk was on the lamb from financing terrorism charges in Ukrainian territory and acts of treason to the Ukrainian state. The man is a Putin asset within the borders of Ukraine. F*ck him.
Well if I come across one it's getting its windows put in for starters.
Micro nuclear is extremely safe and can be shut down extremely easily. Two 300mW systems would provide Ireland with its base load with Renewables covering the rest with us generally producing a surplus. As we increase wind and solar deployment we would become an exporter of energy and you can see with Russia just how profitable that whole area is. Politically stable countries like Ireland becoming the go to countries for power generation is possibly the greatest driving force for good in the world.
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."
Russia lost when they tried to take Kyiv and were beaten back. Remember, in case anyone forgets, Russia liked to consider themselves a WORLD SUPER POWER. They can't even defeat a former soviet colony!
By every material metric Russia has lost. EVEN if they scraped some parts of Ukraine, in what world would that have been worth Russian humiliation, and the West moving away from buying the one thing that the West had value in - their fossil fuels.
It would take the best propaganda guru in history for the world to be convinced this wasn't a complete shıt show by Russia.
Captured British soldiers in Ukraine being used in russian propaganda and for prisoner exchanges now
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.
Doesnt look like Azov is ready to surrender yet
At least they now look like authentic Russian military Z vehicles 😀
The footage is probably old, According to Ukraine and RU sources, there is only one area of resistance left in the entire city, the Azovtal plant. This looks like a battle in a residential area.
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.
It's there not a thread discussing nuclear power???
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?
Worse still is that there are sympathisers driving around civilised Ireland with Z symbols proudly supporting this terrorism and murder. A small few semi-evolved goons on this very thread too. Non-human dirtbags.
Nuclear Fusion, which they are making great headway with. Might be another couple of decades though.
Just reading of some of the horrors endured by Ukranian civilians and the savagery of the Russian military and I for one am fully prepared to march on the Russian Embassy and burn it to the ground. A horrible nation that has no place in our world.
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.
Are the Russians invading with transit vans? I'm not sure what 5mm sheet metal is going to protect you against.
looks like Kharkiv is the next city to be rid of invaders
I don't believe this generational damage is a real thing or has remotely been proven. The radiation poisoning of the soldiers is real, but it's because they stupidly dug down to the layer where the radioactive contamination now is. After chernobyl, it was all lying on the surface, but the biome kept chugging away, trees dropped leaf litter and branches, insects and bacteria and fungi broke it all down to make soil - rain fell and washed the fine stuff down deeper into the soil with every shower, repeat and rinse for years and the thin layer of contamianation has been slowly sinking down through the soil, getting lower and lower, leaving the surface less and less contamianated. Have a look at photos of present day Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It's becoming almost more economically viable to just 'filter' it out of sea water - no dangerous, ugly mines necessary.
I love those old An-2's ("Anushka"). They look like someone stuck biplane wings on a bus. Super slow in fight and with leading edge slats that retract or extend depending on how much airflow there is to keep them in. The advice for engine failure is something like "keep the stick back and you'll hit the ground softly enough to survive". Possibly the most unabashedly agricultural aircraft ever.
I had one for FSX but could rarely fly it without blowing up the engine... 😡
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