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warm weather and mud season is here. the bodies will start to rot aswell
There is a lot of chat out there about the Ru economy holding up well including having a low level of unemployment. Given its propensity for lying how can we thrust any information coming out of there. In Ireland we do not include people who are unemployed for a long time and are on courses as unemployed. This keeps the official unemployment level down.
I wonder how Ru handle those that have left the country to avoid being conscripted. As far as the Ru statistics office is concerned these have gone ‘on a foreign holiday/ overseas business trip/ trade mission’. So all of these - let’s assume that these are all working- are working even though they should all be registered as unemployed - or to be accurate- those that absconded should not be counted as a statistic in the Ru population
Also. How does Ru treat those that have been conscripted. For example, if 200000 are conscripted and 50% of those are registered as unemployed are they now registered as employed.
as a matter of fact Ru could look at the total pop of Ru - re those eligible for conscription- and could deem these to be employed like we treat people on courses
UN General Assembly calls on Russia to withdraw its forces from Ukraine
2023/02/24 - 11:06 • LATEST NEWS UKRAINE
Late on 23 February, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) voted to demand a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace and again called for Russia to stop fighting and withdrawal its forces from Ukraine. In a vote, 141 countries favored the resolution, while 32 other countries including China, India, Pakistan, Kazakhtan abstained, and six joined Russia in voting no.
The countries that voted against the resolution were Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea, Mali, Nicaragua, Syria.
The resolution reaffirmed the UNGA’s commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence, unity, and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders, extending to its territorial waters.
“The Assembly also emphasized the need to ensure accountability for the most serious crimes under international law committed in Ukraine through independent national or international investigations and prosecutions to ensure justice for all victims and the prevention of future crimes,” the UN website reported.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the UN vote:
I am grateful to all the countries that endorsed the crucial @UN General Assembly resolution "Principles of the Charter of the United Nations that underline the comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine". 1/2 pic.twitter.com/nFx8OuOMug
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) February 23, 2023
The UN General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding upon member states, and the UN’s website describes them as the expression of member states’ views.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/02/24/un-general-assembly-calls-on-russia-to-withdraw-its-forces-from-ukraine/?swcfpc=1
These idiots calling on a compromise and appeasement for Putin with some territory really need to read the start of WW2.
How it started with appeasing Hitler bit by bit.
Morons.
Polish doctor Eugene Lazowski did the same in WW2 he saved thousands of lives by faking a typus epidemic
Nope, as I said previously it was my bad
I assumed the first tweet referred to 2A4s rather than all classes of Leopard 2s, and then the 2nd would have double that number in A6s, when the reality is the 300 figure is combined Leopard 2* total. Already corrected original post and posted a follow up explaining the discrepancy.
So many people I admired have turned out to be grade A cockwobbles since the war started
Nice one. Pity it doesn't have one round of ammo left in it to fire at the embassy
Berlins response to retarded Wagner cult for sending sledgehammer?
100% correct, the ruskies were pre warned of Bidens arrival.
The ruskies may be thick, but not so thick that theyd risk targeting the US president at a time hes in a proxy war with them, if that happened, the gloves are off.
Putin did however I believe try and run a test of his famous Saramat 2 ICBM which I also believe was a failure and stopped Putin from being able to announce its successful test duirng one of his recent long drawn out annual speeches
Good point. The strength of their domestic markets is intrinsically linked to the success of their export markets, you can't de-couple them.
He has a nose like a shoehorn
Oil they import most of the stuff from Arabia. If they start playing silly buggers the USA will blockade their imports and they go bankrupt overnight
Wagner claimed control of Berkhivka last night
Reports of attacks on AFU positions on Hryorivka and Orikhovo-Vasylivka. They may be trying to advance all the way to the Donbas canal.
Ukrainians are fortifying Bohdanivka, as it protects the last safe road in/out of Bakhmut
the ground is thawing from today on and the Ukraians hold all the high ground there. It will be a massacre for the Russians here
Most of the wagner assaults are based on waves of infantry (cannon fodder mostly) and heavy artillery barrages. Muddy ground will only limit the movement of artillery pieces and self-propelled guns. If they can get anywhere in range using available roads they can still play a role.
Substantial part of the Chinese economy is/ was built on a building boom. The Chinese middle classes with savings to invest and pathetic returns in state banks, decided investing in property was a good idea. Substantial imports of raw materials from Australia in particular to construct new cities filled with apartment blocks to satisfy the investor tigers.
Now why does this sound familiar and what happens?? Where we had ghost estates, they have ghost cities.
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I see the I.T, has another letter signed by a crowd of far leftists and useless idiots. It's the usual "on the one hand" nonsense.
Surprised to see Tom Clonan keeping such bad company. One defence "expert" I'll never trust again.
I posted a video an hour ago about that area it explains the mess they got themselves into
That really awkward moment when the far left and the far right realise they're on the same page, the "give Putin whatever he wants and stop resisting him club"
It is quite amusing isn't it. Just goes to show how the two extremes are (1) mirror images of each other and (2), stupid enough to swallow Russian disinformation hook, line and sinker.
Of course some of them are being paid.
But the majority are just easily-manipulated fools with a grievance.
Mick Wallace is likely both.
Politicians are just like celebrities endorsing crap they don't understand
Riga is going to follow Berlin's example.
Not sure if this was posted already but there was a good article in yesterday's FT which doesn't appeared paywalled. It details the staggering incompetence and Soviet practices that have not gone away.
How Putin blundered into Ukraine — then doubled down
Here's Clonan back in 2008 around the time of the Georgian war and I quote:
"If Russian military development continues on its present trajectory, it will in the short to medium term have a global military reach - and flushed with its success in Georgia will feel ready to take on the world."
Hasn't turned out like that me thinks......
Ukraine needs whatever it's been asking for. It does my head in that many in the west treat them as intersting infants having a small scrap in a school yard who don't realise what they really wan't, need or can handle.
Ukraine can manage the maintainance of Abraams and fighter jets. They wouldn't be asking for them otherwise. They have very experienced military people telling Zelensky what's needed and what they can master and what is within their capabilities to utilise. When Zelensky is asking for things, he's not cracking jokes or making it up, he's speaking for an entire military that have put thought into it and informed him of their needs, so he asks for that.
All in on Leopard 2s? A large chunk of those morphed into Leopard 1's. It shouldn't be about intellectualising fine niceties of what would be the perfect solution and giveng them that, The perfect solution is as many tanks as possible, irrespective of brand name.
It should be about what they are asking for. There is no 'this western tank might be slightly better than that one', it really is a matter of just numbers, so it's as many tanks as possible, challengers, Leopards, Abraams, the lot.
Yesterday I watched a western reporter on TV with an active Ukrainian artillery unit. One guy was saying it's been a year and they have not seen anything from all the western assistance he's been reading about. Their Grad dated to 1972, their artillery piece to the 1950's. And this was an active unit, mid sentence a target came in on the radio and they stoppoed talking and jumped to it and started firing.
They simply need a lot more than the west has been giving, of everything, even down to blankets.
If Australia were to send those sitting doing nothing Abramms, they would of course send all the spares and diagnostic tools and everything they have and use to support them, that goes without saying.
They also have somewhere around 46 F-18s, sitting around doing nothing which would be far better and more useful than F-16s. As Australia was hoping to sell those, I think Ukraine should offer to buy them, which might be more realistic than asking for a multi billion gift. They are being gifted billions from the G7, Japan and Norway, so those very capable planes should be well affordable, like the two blackhawks they bought.
Where the hell would you plonk it though? Orwell Road seems like a bit of a tight squeeze. Interestingly Google Maps have updated their Streetview of that area. This is from September 2022. They managed to capture the protest across from the embassy.
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