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Intercepted Russian phone call

Actually it does. If Russia gains a military advantage by ignoring the GC, and you need to also ignore parts of it in order to stave off defeat, then doing so is the correct thing to do,and is perfectly justifiable. At this point I doubt you could find a single point of the GC that Russia hasn't ignored and contravened, multiple times over.

"U.S. officials estimate that about 500 Russian troops are killed or wounded every day in Ukraine

According to Ukrinform, The New York Time reported that with reference to the latest estimate by American intelligence and military officials.

According to Seth G. Jones, the director of the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, such large losses significantly exhausted the Russian army and reduced the effectiveness of its actions on the battlefield.

“The Russian Army is seriously depleted. That has implications on their ability to fight an effective ground campaign in Ukraine,” he said, adding that Russians probably don’t have enough effective combat forces to even to fully take control of Donetsk region.

According to Evelyn Farkas, the director of the McCain Institute, the Russian authorities are taking every effort to attract new recruits for their army.

“They’re pulling people from all over. Unless they have a mass mobilization, which I don’t see them being able to do at this point politically, they’re going to be at a loss,” she said.

According to retired Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, who was NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe, the Russian military has lost so many troops that in some cases units have tried to force captured Ukrainians to fight." https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3549025-about-500-russian-troops-killed-or-wounded-every-day-in-ukraine-nyt.html

The cost of Putin's ego is horrendous.

The true culprit has been found - should have guessed.

The Russian public don't even seem to care. They are a very strange nation : I'd say if you could prove to them that 50,000 Russian troops had been killed in Ukraine, most of them would just shrug their shoulders and say "so what?". The lack of concern about even their own casualties on their social media channels is extraordinary.

Russia seems to be a real life Panam from The Hunger Games. Once the Capital and its citizens are fine. They dont care. The other districts can take the sacrifices, blood, wars, deaths, etc.

On another note, re: all the Crimea speculation, interesting that Zelensky has told members of his government to stop leaking details of/bragging about Ukraine military tactics to the media, that the less they reveal, the better positioned they are.

Here’s an idea, let’s build an LNG terminal at the end of the pipeline and ensure supply from their towards the UK and mainland Europe. ( I realise that involves minor engineering works on Moffat that as far as I know will be happening anyway).

Well an LNG in Ireland makes sense as we are at the end of the line.

So some engineering with the Moffat lines and we can pump gas into the UK and European grid from our LNG.

Yes, it does make sense but not many decisions in the civil service/government make any sense e.g. importing peat to "improve" carbon emissions (10k tonnes in '20, 42k tonnes in '21). Same issue will happen will continue to happen until we have actual experts and not charlatans leading the charge. Thankfully some good people are starting to get involved in these issues but progress is slow and it doesn't help that the likes of Matt Cooper and co. continue to give a platform to the likes of Gibbons and his ilk on these issues, influencing public opinion. LNG will be a factor for at least another 50 years, rightly or wrongly.

I think it might be something to do with the ginormous size of Russia too. Dublin to Kyiv is about 3000km. There are parts of Russia that are over 11000km from Kyiv! And so many of the soldiers being sent to Ukraine are from far flung, impoverished regions of Russia, they’re culturally and even visually not what any of us think of as Russian (western Russians included I expect). If there were more soldiers from Moscow, St Petersburg, etc, being killed like their rural counterparts are, it could be a different story, but as it is, the needless deaths are just not resonating with most of them (which in fairness, might have something to do with the actual amount of deaths being massively underreported in Russia)

https://amp.france24.com/en/live-news/20220517-young-poor-and-from-minorities-the-russian-troops-killed-in-ukraine