Missile hit on the A-50
Two more??
It's been a week since Russia took Avdiivka, so far their massive breakthrough after that has been quite absent.
I read that, it's such a shame. You would swear that France, Cyprus & Greece were world leaders in shell production and their factories were lined up to fulfill a contract of equal size etc...
Interesting...
france greece and cyprus voted last saturday to veto the purchace of any munitions from outside the eu
Because sanctions are a two way street..blocking certain good / services nto Russia, means hitting the producers of these goods and services. So you hit Russia with the most damaging sanctions first, then gradually ramp them up, and thats what's been happening. For the "the sanctions don't work" brigade, it should be noted that top of the list of all Putin's "demands for talks" is removal of all sanctions before such talks can even take place. Just look at the Russian aircraft industry at the moment and see what effect the sanctions are having. Would you like to take a flight from Vnukovo to Mineralnya Vody? Nyet, Spassibo!!!😎
Nope .. China :D
and transnistria/ moldova looks like it is next for annexation
Russian rep at UN is on now and has been on for last 20 25 mins+ .. longest by long shot so far. A whole load of emptiness I have no doubt, muted for me anyway, couldnt be bother listening to him droning on with lies and more lies.
China just on now
East Timor maybe?
And there were some fairly brutal occupations of Irish territory under compromise rules...
Wait. Who had Australia occupied since 1960? I'd never have thought of them as anywhere near a belligerent force in geopolitics. Or does it include coalition forces of which Australia would have been part?
Meanwhile in the utopia that is russia......
I agree
"#Russia is not an "acute threat" as our received wisdom would have it--it is a chronic threat, and it will remain so until its imperial drive is broken. Today there is only one task for our leaders: Stop talking about "as long as it takes" and re-learn the basics of warfare."
LIVE: UN Security Council meeting on Russia-Ukraine war
David Cameron just on, I thought he was very good, excellent speech and hard hitting.
Expensive day out.
Europe is at war and not paying for Ukrainian arms means we pay here.
The hostiles don't really care if we see ourselves as at war with them. They see it that way.
We are very unfortunate with the political leadership today, we live in societies where long term is viewed as several years and less and less think further than that.
Occasionally Thinking in terms of decades is vital to a happy and fulfilling life, for a country and society it is a basic need.
What can we take from the footage?
It looks like the plane knew a threat was incoming and was deploying Chaff as a countermeasure which didn't work.
There does look like there was another plane hit too that barely started on the Chaff when it was hit.
Putting all this together. It looks like extra terrestrials have declared war on Russian aircraft. Thanks ET. 😎
The US president is not yet a King but he has the power to do this since the early 60s, far as I remember Kennedy era support for South Vietnam was behind the codification of it. This is not the only flexibility, above Congress, that the President has with regards war and Defense.
The idea that a paltry 61bn dollars being held up is what is going to cost Ukraine the war is wrong and needs to be called out.
Partner countries under the excess Defense articles act can also pay so Western European States could pony up.
Where there is a will options open up at every turn.
Just enough to hold the line has been the mantra for most Western States since the beginning, bar the tans and some Eastern Europeans, to their credit.
That was all fine until Russia learnt from mistakes and showed a willingness to become a snowy Pakistan type shi7hole economy to take a fifth of Ukraine.
For Ukraine to push Russia out will take multiples of the aid, financial and especially militarily given to date. The Red army is going to have to be blown out of every bunker and village.
Ukraine is currently at war, Israel are currently at war, both of them are fighting forces that see all of Europe as their mortal enemy, this needs to be treated like the cold war and wide and rapid European rearmament and back Ukraine et al to the hilt because they are on the front line against our enemies.
Extreme right wing, no, not at all. Just not left in the modern upper middle class way it has become.
You could say I'm de last of de real socialists, infacta.
And if Putin gets away with taking Ukraine, aside from the refugee crisis that will cause, it will trigger even more invasionitis in Putin. And then my Friends, we can be prepared to pay out not only mega bucks, but rivers of blood too.
@Strumms
there is a limit and we are probably at the point where we have to say 🤷♂️
The thing is that if funding to Ukraine is cancelled and European backlash to immigration continues, then Ukrainians will end up without a country and without a refuge. I'm not sure there'll be enough Netflix to effectively distract us from the brutal ethnic cleansing that will follow.
And aid to Ukraine is not a happy-clappy altruistic gesture. There's a point to be proved about how far the West is willing to go to defend its interests. If that answer to its enemies is, 'not as far as you', then we're really into a new phase of modern history. Just throw meat into the grinder until western nations start complaining about the cost of ammo.
Confirmed that it was indeed an A-50,same area as the previous one apparently.
Quite impressive from the Ukrainians,slightly fearful for what the retaliation will be,more residential areas to be targeted no doubt.
Azerbaijan just signed a big deal to buy fighter jets from Pakistan (JF-17s). It's bad times for Armenia once they found out the 'Russian NATO' wasn't really much of a military alliance.
This gets more interesting
In fairness the EU and it’s citizens has bankrolled Ukraine and it’s citizens to the tune on billions of euros of EU taxpayers money… which we’ll never see again…
27.3 billion was the last figure I saw.
the US has given over double that….
there is no sign of any peaceful solution. Putin isn’t a reasonable or well man… ex- MI6 boss Sir Richard Dearlove was interviewed and he believes through credible information and intelligence that Putin has Parkinsons disease….
Apart from the physical symptoms of that the psychological ones of general cognitive impairment, irritability, depression, anxiety, hallucinations etc….. not the symptoms you want to add to someone already a bit mental and with an arsenal of nuclear warheads at his disposal…
It’s a pity Russia itself can’t do away with him ffs…
Apparently last moments
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