Like in this film - The Death of Stalin - Wikipedia (well worth seeing if you haven't)
Great film
No surprise. The bad camerawork distance filming constant movement all indicated a set up.
Yeah I can understand. It's an extremely long time. Probably why they won't offer it might be afraid even if only was 200 or 300 who left they would be experienced people as have done 18 months service.
Yeah pretty much, when you think about it 5 /6weeks seems the average training new recruits are getting before getting sent to the front lines, it's a fine Balancing act ,but the questions have been to be asked where are all of the supposed couple of hundred thousand soldiers and volunteers if some forces are spending 18 months on the front lines,there has to be troop rotations if not questions have to be asked
My concern about the long haul will the support from other countries hold up We don't really know the outcome of the various elections that will happen and even the recent ones the winners seem a little cooler about helping Ukraine with much .I think the bad guys in the Putin corner appear likely to stay with him.Its only natural fatigue sets in and that has to be a worry .
Yeah that's the thing. I think it's more they are probably afraid of loosing the experience of having people with 18 months experience and that's the issue.
(Someone beat to it)
Successful Mission then!!
So Is it common place to let soliders leave after 18 months service? Is that common to western countries during war? Or just family's looking to have their loved ones leave the armed forced earlier?
6 months ago these very same people were ok with 18 months service but now..... They want it shortened?
Something seems off with the reporting.
Bed bugs?
Resistance is .........
Never mind.
Carry on.
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BRUSSELS — EU leaders endorsed unprecedented plans to use profits generated by frozen Russian state assets for Ukraine reconstruction, and called on the European Commission to make legal proposals to that effect, according to European Council summit conclusions.
"Decisive progress is needed, in coordination with partners, on how any extraordinary revenues held by private entities stemming directly from Russia’s immobilized assets could be directed to support Ukraine and its recovery and reconstruction, consistent with applicable contractual obligations, and in accordance with EU and international law. The European Council calls on the High Representative and the Commission to accelerate work with a view to submitting proposals," they wrote.
Of around $300 billion of Russian foreign reserves frozen by countries participating in sanctions at the onset of Moscow's war on Ukraine, the majority — more than €200 billion — sit in the EU.
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So go ahead given to tap into the 200 billion euro stash and also make use of the 3 billion a year in interest this is earning
Oh to be a microwave on a wall in Kremlin about now to see Putin’s reaction
Soon 12th sanctions package
Also Us sends more military aid
And Russian interest rate up to15% while rouble continues to slide
The above one is interesting as imports are getting ever more expensive for Russia, be it tooling, medicine or even drones and shells from their allies who sure as hell don’t want roubles
The high inflation and ever devaluing rouble also makes a mockery of the Russians who joined the war for money, they are literally losing their lives for ever worthless pieces of paper that is rapidly inflating away and can’t be converted to stable currencies
It's called rotation, you move troops from the front and give them a break and let them return home to their families and replace them with fresh troops,and months later they get rotated out themselves
That's likely what Russia hopes for - to destabilise the EU. And it may come to pass when the current crisis passes. In time of war & difficulty you find out who your friends are and when matters have settled move to distance yourself from others.
You can't be ejected from the EU.
The mood music will change once the EU grants are being doled out.
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Support from countries will hold up so long as there is a strategic interest and the economic resources to do so.
Watching Obama talk about bringing troops home in 2008, and ending the military missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite those not ending for another decade+, tells us that what politicians are promising the public does not necessarily translate to hard policy. This is the history of politics in a nutshell, you could say.
Again, people going, "Ohhhh, how can the US support Ukraine with this Israel thing kicking off?" are forgetting that the US was able to support the above (rather expensive) military situations without collapsing as a country.
And that's a country that is nowhere near Russia with a potential interest in knocking them out as a competitor for world resources. Flip over to somewhere like Poland that would be ('would be'? or 'is'?) right on the front line of a newly aggressive Russia, and ask what their interest is.
That wouldn't have been the same troops out in Iraq and Afghanistan for the duration and the US had more than enough people to rotate them round. When it comes to defending your actual country from invasion though it's more a case of getting everyone you can who is able into action, but that doesn't leave you with many people left to rotate with.
We know from previous statements the Ukrainians had close to 1 million strong army and reserves, the idea of not having troops to rotate after 18 months on the front lines doesn't bode well ,if they can't rotate those forces can they replace large losses
Interesting read!!
That's what I don't get. Seems to be an issue there if this is happening.
That’s right, ww2 equipment
Obviously that's a sign of desperation if they are having to dig that deeply into their stocks - but at the same time, that is some achievement by whoever built and maintained WWII era equipment that still works.
Firing weapons their great-grandfathers might've used. This one looks like a resurrected museum piece. Perhaps from the DPRK?
What doesn’t make sense?
That Ukraine are not using same meatwall wave attacks and seem to value their soldiers lives and are content in turning a thousand Russians a day into paste
Define 'making ground', including timelines, and why you think they're not making ground.
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