Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Boris Johnson revealed, in a telephone call before the Russian invasion with Putin. That Putin threatened him with a missile strike that he could have Boris dead in less than a minute.

This was as Putin had his forces prepared for invasion in February.

The documentary Putin V the West will be broadcast tonight on BBC 2 at 9pm.

Little Napolean.

I came on here the other day with a link to a report by the Rand Corporation, a well-known US thinktank funded in part by the US government.

The report stated that it was in the US interest for the Ukraine war to come to an early end.

Since then, I have been attacked by a range of posters who want to make out that I am anti-US and pro-Russia. I can't think what I posted to make you people attack me, other than not following a specific line on Ukraine.

I guess you'd be happier if I just came out and complained that "posters X Y and Z are US imperialists and bla bla bla" because that would put me in a nice little box for you. But of course not all people fit in your little boxes. Deal with it.

Australians are absolutely mental, when it comes to sport. They have absolutely no sense of self awareness when their brains engage sport-mode - it's like a red mist decends over their consciousnness and their IQ drops by 70%, their pupils shrink to tiny pinpricks and they start hyperventilating like a bull about to charge.

When they get like that, there's no reasoning with them, whatsoever. Very embarrasing. There was at least a slight saving grace in that they did keep Djokovic's father out of the venue for the final after his on camera pro-Orc scumbagery.

If the two of them were to suddenly vanish from the face of the Earth, it would be a relief.

Australia, and particularly Melbourne, does have a large Serbian community, not to mention Croation, Greek, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese...

The Ukrainians have several times pointed out that the mobilisation never ceased and has quietly continued since it was announced that it had.

and what proof do they have of this?

Why do all the news article talk of an upcoming new wave of mobilisation (and only ever: "Ukraine warns of next wave"), and never mention ongoing mobilisation?

I've no issue with the dollar. I simply provided my view, and apparently you don't like it. That's fine, but I wonder why.

While you are considering your response, maybe you'd like to answer these two questions:

1. Is the Euro being used to trade petrol these days?
2. Are various other countries doing deals without using the dollar?

I see you haven't posted up your bank statements yet. Please provide them.

I would trust a nigerian prince email before bojo.

Last I heard hes living in the "home" of a multi-millionaires wife, for ""free"".

Claims hes broke, poor lad. Came out lately he put 4 grand on govt expenses for a dinner.

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The bored expressions

Which would your instinct go with?

Your mistrust of Boris Johnson?

Or your sense that Vladimir Putin wouldn't threaten a head of State with death in a phone call prior to an invasion that he's been building his whole life as a statesman towards?

Very interesting piece on the Poles repairing Ukrainian equipment and sending it back

"WARSAW—In a sprawling factory complex surrounded by derelict buildings, hundreds of technicians are working around the clock on one of the biggest challenges of Ukraine’s war: repairing artillery and heavy armor and returning it to the front line.

Mechanics buzz around the football-field-sized workshop housing three AHS Krab guns, the air thick with the smell of metal dust and automotive grease. Two of the Krabs, which look like tanks but are self-propelled 155mm howitzer guns, are missing parts of their caterpillar tracks and are riddled with bullet holes and contorted metal.

Another Krab stands sparkling clean, ready to be ferried back into Ukraine along a route that has seen the biggest transfer of arms in Europe since World War II. Each weapon can take up to two months to repair by technicians who must pass layers of security checks before they are allowed onto the floor of the factory at a location The Wall Street Journal agreed not to disclose.

In addition to the repair work in Poland, the mechanics are in constant contact with technicians in Ukraine—many of whom were civilians before the war—teaching them over encrypted apps how to repair everything from tanks to missiles."

"On the factory floor, technicians work in three shifts around the clock and are in regular contact with Ukrainians on the battlefield. They share information about best techniques for repairs over encrypted messages and a HelpDesk app that helps them to troubleshoot problems. 

Polish mechanics said they once used the chat application to teach a Ukrainian postman-turned-soldier to repair a missile. 

Mechanics sometimes find soldiers’ belongings inside the Krabs: a toothbrush, unfinished snacks or family photos. Dariusz Gawinek, a mechanic, said that repairing the hardware has made him more committed to helping the war effort.

“The Krabs arrive here with leaves, mud, sand, twigs stuck to the body and caterpillars. It is Ukrainian soil,” he said. “It hit me really hard the first time I went inside of one.”"

They have shown images of several mobilisation documents received by Orcs after the date it was supposed to have ceased, and pointed out that the legislation that needed to be passed to cease the mobilisation legally, still has not happened.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-december-3

A Bojo claim is worth nothing.

Bojo, David Icke, Mystic Meg, Scientologists warrant the same level of trust when they say something.

You can put Vlad in there too if you like, I wont object. But Bojo is just talking any old sht for money again imho.

Funny that none of this info is in the document itself. You might want to provide links with quotes. Relaible ones.