Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Europe still importing 14 billion worth of Russian raw materials and other products ,

Which is mental when you think about it

Rattling that saber again. Since they are withdrawing from the test ban treaty, they will probably conduct a small test to try frighten the west

with a bit of luck they'll blow themselves up by accident

That’s assuming they even find a working warhead.

Half expect them to accidentally obliterate a launch facility in a “test” and then have to frantically cover up their incredible screw up.

Although he’a only mentioning launch drill again now?

What red-lines are even left now?

• Weapons sent to Ukraine
• Tanks sent to Ukraine
• HIMARS sent to Ukraine
• Ukraine retakes “Russian” Kherson.
• Finland joins NATO
• ATACMS sent to Ukraine
• F16s sent to Ukraine

I guess it’s the F16s, which will be sent and the Russians will do Sweet Feck All.

Hell Ukraine even directly attacked Russia proper, and they still didn’t fire a nuke.

You can see what Russia are actually trying to achieve with the latest pushes around avdiivka and elsewhere they are trying to close a pocket entrapping the Ukrainian forces ,it seem the 500-1500lb glide bombs are doing some damage to Ukrainian forces on the ground

They could be testing the ICBM...

So, he's basically a cnut?

A rumour in the last day or so that Putin collapsed or had some seizure. Must be under some pressure..

However, in recent times, he has taken a skeptical stance toward aid for Ukraine. He voted against two different appropriations bills that provided aid to Ukraine in 2022 and just last month.

“American taxpayers have sent over $100 billion in aid to Ukraine in the last year,” Johnson said in an X post in February. “They deserve to know if the Ukrainian government is being entirely forthcoming and transparent about the use of this massive sum of taxpayer resources.”

I would strongly advise against getting into a slogging match over this subject with certain posters. You'll only end up with heartburn.

The vote will be called unless he wants to go against the wall and Israel.

Just a btw to other posters who find the Ignore functionality on the new vanilla boards a bit lacking. I know myself I'm sometimes tempted to click on the blocked element and read posts from posters who i think scutter the thread.

If you use uBlock Origin for ad blocking I wrote a simple selector which completely hides Ignored posters. Just pop this into your "My Filters" section.

I haven't tested it extensively yet but it seems to work well so far. Doesn't block quoted posts though. 🤔

View of Putin by recent defector..confirms what most people think already.

'An officer with the Kremlin's bodyguard agency who defected last year over his opposition to the Ukraine invasion provided intimate details about Russian President Vladimir Putin to a London-based investigative group, describing him as "paranoid" and calling him a "war criminal."

The defector, Gleb Karakulov, was a captain in the Federal Protection Service (FSO) at the time of his defection in October. He told the Dossier Center group that he was able to defect on October 14 after a business trip to Kazakhstan on which his wife and daughter accompanied him. On the last day of the trip, the trio flew to Istanbul with no intention of ever returning to Russia.

The Dossier Center, which is funded by Russian opposition figure and Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, shared more than 10 hours of recordings and transcripts of several interviews it had conducted with Karakulov since his defection with media outlets and for the first time published details on April 4 revealing his comments.

“Our president has become a war criminal,” he said. “It’s time to end this war and stop being silent.”

Karakulov worked as an engineer in the department that provided secret communications for Putin and was responsible for setting up secure communications for the Russian president wherever he went.'

He goes on to state..

'In the interviews, he compared the Putin he observed in 2009 with the current president of Russia as "two different people," comments that tally with what others have said.

“Now he is very closed. He has protected himself from the whole world with all sorts of barriers, the same quarantine, the lack of information. His perception of reality has been distorted,” One of the details he provided was that the Russian president does not use a mobile phone or the Internet.'

"All the information he receives is only from people who are directly close. He lives in a kind of information vacuum," said Karakulov.'

Sounsa a lot like Hitler towards the end.

It's never made a trendy hashtag