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Yes and they need to be challenged. The EU is far more than Germany and France in 2022.

With Britain gone it has never been more than for Germany and France. There is literally no one left to challenge them.

Not everyone is Russia is brainwashed https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1528324181758291968?s=20&t=cjhA2lc5nAHTmdluUzhJAQ

One wonders if we'll see more of this in Russia this summer as the war drags on. There have been a few similar incidents to this reported this week and shown on social media. The regime was surely never planning for a long, drawn out war on its borders.

Germany steps up at last Rheinmetall from Germany prepares the supply to Ukraine of 88 Leopard 1A5 tanks and 100 Marder IFVs | Defense News May 2022 Global Security army industry | Defense Security global news industry army year 2022 | Archive News year (armyrecognition.com)

The small detail of when it will happen doesn't seem to feature. Germany have dropped massively in my estimation as a result of their response to this war. Never thought much of France to start with but I thought Germany had a bit more about them

Or an ever increasing Nr of their soldiers arriving ( or not) home in body bags....

But they don't arrive in Moscow. And Moscow puts out the information. And all remains well.

FORTE11 from Sigonella https://fr24.com/FORTE11/2bf278b0

https://fr24.com/FORTE11/2bf278b0

Forte11 has been very gutsy with its flight path today, travelling right down past Sochi as far as the Georgia/Turkey border.

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The Eastern block won't have any faith in them going forward and after our experience of the crash, we should be wary of them too.

That's what we should be taking out of this. Our position on the western edge of Europe, behind a large island that has left the EU, leaves us pretty exposed to indifference.

That reminds me of the Catholic church relevations in Wexford. Heard of a case where a woman in her twenties stood up just as an involved priest was taking to the pulpit. She wasn't abused herself but spoke out against his involvement. Some told her to sit down. Then a few more stood up and said their piece against the priest and they walked out of the church together.

But the reaction of whoever filmed this piece in Russia. Laughing at her. As if there's one above her station looking for publicity.

There was the same reaction among some women when they heard of the woman speaking in the church. Totally in hindsight now it's a self preservation action was for them to not feel like a coward and thinking of a false superiority idea over the woman.

But anyway whoever filmed it, still shared it. So the latest idea of agreement may be there. ??

Or else they really hate this wan above her station and want to see her in the Gulag..🙄

A few weeks ago, on this forum, I theorised on the activities of the Russian Fleet off the Irish Coast just before the war. Seems my theory may have been correct. I took my Dad into the Curragh Camp to meet a few of his old army buddies ( Note to the commander who is also over the museum. Open it on a Saturday! It's crazy to have the one tool for recruiting young people closed up and out of reach on the one day that people are free. Dad's sick of saying this.)

Anyway, our boys in green were and are expecting that there may have been a nuclear mine or dept charge positioned in or around the Data Cables by the Russians. The Russian activities at this spot was also one of the reasons how the US knew that Russia was definitely going to attack.

There was also a rumour within our defence forces that Russia had planned on invading Ireland ( yes, seriously) and there is absolutely nothing we, as a "defence force", could do about it,

We spend .029% of gdp in defence.

It should be 2.4%

Satellite imagery of Ukraine. Interesting talk about the different sat types in orbit.

Absolutely unbelievable to be so far removed but knowing what's occurring, yet feeling like there's an effort not to do a dam thing.

There was talk of agri commodity traders last year knowing something was brewing with Russian traders buying grain for stockpile and buying futures.

GRAINS-U.S. wheat futures slide on Russian crop exports, U.N. grain talks | Reuters

Meanwhile it looks like the UN want to get the world trading again with Russia by buying their grain and fertiliser.

The modern high tech civil servant western type world really doesn't pay enough attention to the grain trader, tillage type commodity, agro set. To me it's like it's this type in Russia planned this war and they've planned it to perfection. The tillage land in Ukraine has been taken, the prices have gone through the roof, machinery and grain stolen, UN is about to push through their reacceptance into the world trade to avert famine, same reason will probably be used by france, germany, UN to give these territories to Russia.

Looking that way to me.

Only hope Ukraine have is to tell em all to go to hell.

I think you maybe out with your % of GDP spent. But it's still nowhere near what's needed, even before the Russian invasion.

But I hate people quoting the 2.4%, you could allocate all of the 2.4% to wages/bonuses/pensions or MRE's and still be as worse off as we are but we can state we spend 2.4% on defence.