Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Would not be surprised if the bus was diverted to Sorcha for a dirty weekend or maybe it just went around the block - knowing Russia

Wasn't the head honcho splattered on here a few pages back telling all those mobilised that if they die for their country, they'd be looked after in heaven and other such mumbo jumbo. He basically gave the mobilisation and possibility of certain death the thumbs up

So who should they send - the 1 million skangers hanging around Moscow on the dole according to yer one? Or the various ethnic minorities that aren't really Russian in their eyes?

Yes no doubt some of these lads will be returning soon enough minus limbs or worse. But they've made a choice at the end of the day, out of a sense of duty or fear or for a bit of craic and adventure and they may live with the consequences. No tears shed here.

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'welcome to the glorious Russian army; now go out and buy your own equipment and medical supplies because we've got nothing'

I partly agree with you, at least in the sense that German anxiety about nuclear accidents was probably bigger than it needed to be.

As for green tech and renewables: these ARE the future of energy and fossil fuels will be left behind. So of course it's a business too and plenty of people will make money off it, and they do have an agenda. In itself I don't think this is bad. Yes it's unfortunate that in the short term it meant turning to Russia as one solution. But everyone is wise after the event. Let's remember that at the start of this year countries like France and even Ukraine themselves were in denial about Russian invasion plans and were telling the US to stop spreading panic. So I think it's very disingenuous for people like Peterson to basically say the green lobby are to blame for all this, especially when it's clear that part of his agenda is to undermine climate change as a human caused event

Small gains being made north of Lyman

Plus hard to know whether it was tanks, SPA or missiles that were responsible for this

Although the land immediately to the east of the Oskil river is shown as Russian held, I get the feeling many parts of that are contested.

I disagree with almost all of what he says. Gas from Russia is because of businessmen making 'good' deals, it was not an attempt to save the planet. Also he says Putin is not a Hitler. He is.

Speculation that Russia will combine Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia into a single Federal District after the sham referenda.

Dmitry Rogozin, the former head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, is rumored to be appointed Presidential Envoy for the fake District.

Rogozin was the guy who came out with multiple crazy threats earlier in the year, like mocking up a video depicting leaving American astronaut Mark T. Vande Hei abandoned alone in space, and claimed the sanctions against Russia could cause the International Space Station to fall out of orbit. He was also a former Deputy Prime Minister and ambassador to NATO.

They likely won't arrive home to the same fanfare

Believe me, cnockbui, being an ethnic Russian ( or ethnic Russian supporter ) in that part of the world is not really a good idea.......People are under the mistaken impression that everyone who lives in Russia is actually "Russian" , and indeed while citizens from all the republics have a Russian passport, ethnic Russians are not popular everywhere, and especially in the Caucasus region.

Being interviewed by Piers Corbyn too, who has the exact same schtick.

Jordan Peterson is not on the level when he talks about Russia. This is a man who has spent extensive periods in both Russia and its ally Serbia (seeking treatment for issues that can't have been helped by going on a quack diet recommended by his daughter). He's basically no different to the posters who show up in this thread trying to shift the blame on to everyone else, apart from Russia, for this conflict.

The main msg seems to be " Don't antagonize the population.....at all costs." And then the usual who is to blame part, and the recommendation that anyone "abusing" the call up procedures ( IE trying to achieve their call up quotas, by fair means or foul) be sent directly to the front lines. They are going round in ever decreasing regulatory circle's, until they will eventually vanish up their own asse's.

Russia's Medvedev raises spectre of nuclear strike on Ukraine

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ukraine/update-1-russias-medvedev-raises-spectre-of-nuclear-strike-on-ukraine-1368965.html

Taken from that article, basically they think that Russia using Nuclear weapons in Ukraine will not result in a retaliatory strike from the NATO

I think the most concerning thing here aside from the fact that a nuclear weapon could be used is the fact that , if that were to happen (A Nuclear Power uses WMD against a non-Nuclear Power) it could result in a huge number of countries attempting to develop Nuclear weapons.

Russia knows now it cannot win in the Ukraine in a conventional sense, their backs are to the wall. I think the only hope now of this ending "without incident" (term used lightly) is for Putin to be removed. Very few Russian leaders have voluntarily taken the retirement package.