After the recent Hurricane in Florida I saw huge amounts of posts along the lines of "We should be spending the money we send to Ukraine on the victims in Florida instead". It was the first time that I saw a lot of people complaining about the Ukraine money and it was all very sudden and all MAGA type accounts.
I'd love to see some analysis on where that messaging originated.
Nobody is proposing that non democratic countries get no vote at the UN.
What people are saying is that you stop pretending to be a fool and acknowledge what you know to be true. The people of non democratic governments are not represented by their governments so the votes of those governments do not represent the opinions of their populations.
That is self evident and you chose to ignore it. Therefore you are either pretending to be a fool/are a fool/ or take the rest of us to be fools.
What happens to the nuclear power plant if that dam is blown up?
Putler must have shares in a Russian brides website!
I cannot envisage the Russians giving up Kherson to Ukraine without doing something nasty to it on the way out. The argument against them blowing the dam was that it would negatively affect the water supply to Crimea. However, the Russians probably assume that the Ukrainians are going to switch that off anyway so it's going to be gone either way.
Blowing the dam might also wash away evidence of war crimes that they have no doubt carried out. All those basement torture chambers and shallow graves that have been found in pretty much every other location they have occupied.
I'd be a Toyota Landcruiser man myself, especially the ones with the V8 engine fitted.
He must put those share certificates alongside those for window glazing companies 😂
Good question. I would imagine that that would depend on how much the water levels drop in the Dnipro river adjacent to it and if their cooling systems can continue to operate efficiently at those river levels.
We have that here in Ireland too a growing chorus of opinion that Ukrainians are a burden on us. I always counter with the scattered Irish who were welcomed in countries around the world when our government was using emigration as a safety valve.
they're fine while the Dems hold the WH, the President can serve up quite a bit of aid even without the support of Congress
Well a number of things could happen in theory, most of which I don't think anyone in their right mind would really want to test out.
They're all VVER power plants, which are a Soviet design of a fairly normal pressurised water plant, similar to those used in the US, France, etc. They're nothing particularly unusual, and are in pretty good condition, with modern control systems and so on, as Ukraine had done a lot of work on both modernising and keeping them up to code, working with companies like Westinghouse and Areva etc. There are similar plants used in Finland for example.
So, the comparisons with Chernobyl, which was a totally different type of reactor and a very flawed design, don't really add up.
However, there are still issues with pushing any nuclear power plant to extreme conditions and to and beyond their design limits. There won't be any kind of massive explosion, well at least that's very unlikely, and the cores and essential systems are inside the primary containment, which is a huge reenforced concrete and steel building, capable of withstanding a missile strike or an aircraft crash, but it doesn't mean that you can't have something go seriously wrong that's not been planned for. If you look at Fukushima for example, what happened there shouldn't have been possible.
Best case scenario is it just shuts down and goes into a safe state. Water moderated reactors simply shut down when they lose their coolant - you can have some issues with on-going residual heat and so on, but it's nothing at all like what can happen at a graphite moderated reactor like Chernobyl. The core literally went on fire, the carbon acting as a fuel, in the open air there!
Worst case scenarios are numerous, but fairly unlikely. Nothing's on the scale of Chernobyl though. The design of that plant is too complicated to go into here, but it's just a totally different scenario. Look up RMBK on wikipedia, and there's a fairly good description of what was wrong with it.
The biggest risk is probably someone dropping a missile on an unprotected structure that contains cold/cooling stored fuel rods, as that would potentially scatter stuff everywhere or if there's a significant fire in one of those - rising smoke particles etc.
I'd just add that there are a LOT of heavy industrial / heavy chemical plants around Ukraine which are also an enormous environmental threat and several of them have been bombed to bits. There's a huge local environmental impact of all of this, particularly where big infrastructure is hit - even just things like scattering asbestos all over the place from power plants, insulation of old buildings etc and that's before you even start getting into things like chemical plants, refineries etc etc.
To describe this as a mess is a gross understatement - it'll take decades to clean up.
But the Ukrainians would have to take the left bank of the Dnipro to block the canal. And that's not going to happen any time soon. It's only the right bank that's on the menu now.
Sky reporting that the Iranians have now agreed to supply surface to air missiles as well as drones to the Russians. With that and the American GOP news today, its going to get a lot tougher for Ukraine soon :(
Any actual evidence of this from a proper news source?
Think I am a little bit pessimistic for Ukraine today Putin seems to have a few countries willing to assist him and with his control over his own country he seems to have time and enough weapons to take out most of Ukrainian infrastructure even if his army only make small gains just can't see h im Being pushed out and accept he made a mistake .Hope I am wrong of course .
Russia will collapse internally under the weight of sanctions and body bags
I am against nuclear weapons. However the fact is they exist, and I believe that if Ukraine had them, then this invasion would not have happened. Neighbours India and Pakistan both have them, and neither would dream of invading the other
Looks more like a deportation going on in Kherson than an evacuation.
I certainly hope you are correct but I am concerned that as the war drags on and on the resolve of some countries will weaken under pressure from their own people to help at home first .No doubt Russia has lost a lot of men but most likely they are spread out over a vast area and protests are no where near the level that might change something .
Unfortunately this war will rumble on for years and disappear from the news cycle soon enough. The elephant in the room is what happens when the Republicans regain the house in a few weeks time.
@Run Forest Run "Nations like China should be frozen out and ignored, just because they don't govern their nation in manner to the west's pleasing?"
Why should bullying millions of people be pleasing to the west? Why should Russia, treating their people like cattle and like children be pleasing to anyone? Why should Iran's treatment of their people be pleasing? Iran is a mad-cap country run by life-hating, freedom-hating old relics with barmy ideas about religion. Are you pleased with them?
WW2 called..
Doesn't really look like the Putin administration has years left in it. The full-scale war might not last that long. Russia using Iranian drones to hit power plants is pretty desperate - they can't achieve anything on the battlefield, so they're reduced to terror bombings.
..no doubt someone will now arrive to say they've taken 1-2 villages in Kharkov and have advanced another two feet near Bakhmut, and how it's just a matter of time before hundreds of thousands of troops and tanks will arrive to the front.
Here's the Financial Times Ukrainian correspondent quoting the mayor of Kyiv:
and here's a picture he took himself of the aftermath:
No doubt he'll mention it in a piece for that paper later on. You can wait until then to confirm your disbelief.
Have you got a reputable source for that?
Plenty of other proper news outlets reporting the same.
Rubbish.
Even if America went cold and dark tomorrow, this is a War in Eastern Europe that threatens all of Europe and the European nations will carry on supporting, supplying and highlighting Ukraine, because they have no other choice.
I don't click on Twitter links thanks very much. If you get further information from a solid outlet let me know thanks.
I believe the term is 'forced relocation'.
European nations dance to the American's tune, if you don't know that then i can't help you understand.
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