I'd have hoped they were delivered. VT fuses are WW2 technology.
The dissolving of the Russian federation is actually in China's interest, although they'll never openly state that. China would never interfere in letting Russia dissolve because the eastern part has de facto been in an extension of Chinese economy since the dissolution of the USSR.
China already leases large tracts of Russia for mining and solar farming so a dissolved Russian federation means another fire sale.
He looked surprisingly healthy :(
Clearly Peter the Great was provoked by NATO back in 1700, so he was forced to conduct a special military operation to denazify Estonia, Livonia (now Latvia) and Finland. Did Putin mention it took him 21 years?
Julia Davis reports that the narrative on state TV has already changed after Putin's comments yesterday and that Solovyov and Olga Skabayeva are now talking about the Russian empire "expanding" in coming years (interesting that they don't even try and conceal that they take their cue on what position to take directly from the Kremlin).
Northern Khazakstan, which is Russian ethnic majority will be vulnerable. Not NATO protected, but we'll see what China has to say when the Russian Empirepalooza roadshow comes closer to their geographic area of interest.
I saw a vox pop from there a couple of months back on YouTube and the Kazakhs are very wary of Putin and do indeed fear invasion by him.
Yeah, plenty people here were saying he was at death's door a few weeks ago.
I think it's fair to say none of can see into the future about this awful event or predict how it will end
Lots of Russian stuff burning. Dramatic-
Since China returned to their "brilliant" Zero-COVID strategy there has been very little out of them. If anything there is even more fence sitting apart from Russian energy purchases. They need to be very careful to ensure that the "poor partner" label doesn't spread to them as well. They are already uncompetitive on labour costs in comparison with the likes of Vietnam and more than one country is looking at having indigenous hardware production, especially chips. They also have a very big demographics time bomb heading their way pretty soon as the population begins to shrink fast.
I was one who thought he was at deaths door…
Macron should take note.
I can only say " God help them" the day they divert from the official line....redundancy will be the least pf their worries....😂
Can you imagine the morale effect seeing that size fireball and hearing the explosions , coming from behind your own lines ...
It'll be rapid counter battery radar matched to mounted artillery systems that'll be needed to give Ukraine an edge in tbe artillery duel ...
And they'll need better anti-aircraft cover to protect those valuable counter battery systems ..
The comments about expansion of the Russian empire is complete grandstanding rhetoric from the Russian establishment to whip up support from the domestic audience. We all know Russia have little to no capability to have a go at places like Finland and Sweden and if they ever tried, their soldiers bodies would be stacked high and wide. 3 and a half months into what was supposed to be a two week operation and they're nowhere near their goal of conquering Ukraine. There's no doubt that there is significant grumbling in the West about the wider austerity this war is generating, but there's no worry about direct military subjugation by Russia. Not a hope of it, in fact. All Putin has is the button and I don't even know if he's tall enough to reach it.
Ukraine are being beaten badly at the moment.
Russia using long range artillery to crush them.
They need the same weapons but it isn’t coming.
Russian artillery as far as I'm aware will be outranged by western artillery systems. Where Russia has the edge is the sheer quantity of them, plus air and missile forces.
Slava Ukraine
Slava Ukraine is all well and good but right now they are been pounded by long range artillery.
Until Ukraine get these weapons they are doomed.
These sanctions simply arent working to curtail attacks,too slow with cost of too many lives now
Its an open secret european leaders have been pressing ukraine to concede ground to russia/occupation for peace
From an outside pov,it would seem russia has a spy very high up in ukraine government and is battering kyiv/transport hubs every time new weapons land,even before they been announced......
looks a pretty unwinnable sutuation for ukraine,but not necessarly a loss either,and imo the us would be more than happy to drag russia into an endless ground war,.....those ukrainian refugees are gonna be here alot longer than they taught
Chemo is like that. There is a lull in the middle that can last from 3 months to a year and a half depending on the cancer and the person. Hopefully in Putin case it's 3-6 months
Thanks to Eamonn Ryan we won’t be sending any.
Hopefully the stress reduces his time on this earth.
C##t like that live on stress
Unfortunately
Solovyov and his chums bragging about how Poland and the Baltics will be part of the 'new' Russia :
Why is everyone thinking Putin looked in the best of health in that video he did - he barely moved, his right hand is still immobile, even looked quite slovenly
It was quite evidently a puff piece to try to make him look with it but came across as not bar his mind is still there and I don't think anyone was ever questioning that
The BBC catching up with what we’ve been discussing here.
With all the people Covid killed its a disaster that it didn't take this cnut. There could at least have been one upside.
I said back on the first week of the war that the west need to support Ukraine properly and put this lad back in his box or he would be emboldened and take the fight elsewhere. Cue all the hand wringing about nukes and other waffle. But the fact is, the longer this is left continue the closer we come to a head to head conflict of nuclear armed states and then we do have an issue.
It's been 4months now. No excuses left. Send your best equipment and grind these fcukers into the ukranian dirt with a show of force that let's them know, never to raise their murdering, thieving, raping, paedophilic heads again.
Great, the mask has completely slipped. Has anybody asked Daly and Wallace their opinions? They'd be the first to run the Russian flag up in government buildings.
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