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Interesting article in the guardian.
Does not paint a rosey picture for Russia's economy or for its society as a whole
Do you know for a fact that he was not already living in the west before the war?
There are so many drones knocking about now that in any particular instance it’s really hard to figure out whether there’s a Russian component to it unless at least one is downed or otherwise obtained.
James Ker Lindsey asks if Russia would attack NATO.
He says Ireland is "incredibly important" because the subsea cables that connect America with Europe are in Ireland.
My feeling is that it is questionable if Trump would defend the Baltic states.
If Don Jr. was making those ridiculous claims here he’d be fact-checked and laughed off the site. It’s all projection - he’s talking about his own crime family. For the Trumps we peasants exist to be scammed by our betters.
If Russia managed to take all of Ukraine, I suspect its security problems would change but not disappear. The insurgency would go underground, quite possibly fragment and aim for all sorts of new targets. You could easily see St. Basil’s cathedral going up.
And that's with Eritrea splitting off from Ethiopia.
Elsewhere, Russian population in 1985 147M, now under 146M.
Thanks for the details. Our criminal delinquency on defence, already morally reprehensible, is becoming a significant vulnerability for Europe. I hope somebody at EU level (maybe in tandem with our discreet friends in Britain) gives our leaders a harsh talking to ASAP.
Echoes of Soviet "punishment by deprivation" in occupied Ukraine with water shortages.
The Centre for National Resistance - In a bizarre campaign labelled “anti-illegal water connections,” the occupation authorities launched mass raids across the region, ostensibly to sniff out unauthorised taps and temporary hoses.
The Center for National Resistance (CNR) reports that over 14,000 apartments, 5,000 private homes, and 1,000 commercial properties were subjected to inspections.Officials apparently had quotas to meet for “detected violations,” turning a desperate attempt to survive days without running water into a criminal enterprise.Temporary hoses, improvised backup connections and pipes rigged to survive multi-day outages were all logged, photographed and in many cases disconnected.Even empty or “ownerless” homes were punished as if absentee residents were plotting rebellion.Upper floors of apartment blocks that had not seen a drop of water for weeks were not spared. Families simply trying to secure a minimum of household water were targeted.CNR analysts point out that these raids are a grotesque spectacle of the Russian occupation administration’s managerial incompetence.Rather than repair crumbling infrastructure, the occupiers opt for intimidation, turning a basic necessity into a weapon of control.
The Center for National Resistance (CNR) reports that over 14,000 apartments, 5,000 private homes, and 1,000 commercial properties were subjected to inspections.
Officials apparently had quotas to meet for “detected violations,” turning a desperate attempt to survive days without running water into a criminal enterprise.
Temporary hoses, improvised backup connections and pipes rigged to survive multi-day outages were all logged, photographed and in many cases disconnected.
Even empty or “ownerless” homes were punished as if absentee residents were plotting rebellion.
Upper floors of apartment blocks that had not seen a drop of water for weeks were not spared. Families simply trying to secure a minimum of household water were targeted.
CNR analysts point out that these raids are a grotesque spectacle of the Russian occupation administration’s managerial incompetence.
Rather than repair crumbling infrastructure, the occupiers opt for intimidation, turning a basic necessity into a weapon of control.
In the USSR, The nomenklatura and politically reliable groups had access to:
This created a hierarchy of access tied to political obedience. Dissidents or politically suspect individuals could be:
Population of Ethiopia in 1985 40m - now 135
Population of UK in 1985 56/57m - now 70m
When he says Russia was far less corrupt than Ukraine, that is ridiculous.
The only thing I agree with Don Jr on is about Spain only spending 2.2% on defence. That is a mistake.
As for it going bankrupt "not going to happen" it happened twice in the 20th century. I think Belgiums current obstruction is a disgrace. If the Ukrainian economy collapses, we will have another large refugee crisis, and the Russian pattern of attrocities we have already seen in Bucha and the East will spread across the country, if not the continent.
The Trumps have a very troubling foreign policy, reminscent of the isolationists pre-Pearl Harbour. I think Europe is going to have to realise that Trump means it. We need to invest in defence.
Also, there is a problem that most of what weapons Europe produces are exported, about half to the Middle East. NATO is running out of TNT because so much of it went to Israel to destroy Gaza.
Anthony Beevor the WW2 historian says on Sky News that Putin is "playing" Trump. He also says Russia sees "conspicuous cruelty" as a necessary part of war.
Czech President Petr Pavel warning that a Russian victory would be like the Munich Agreement 1938.
Here's an idea for change Denys. Draft dodgers like you go back and help your country. Huge numbers are needed and the majority will be nowhere near the front.
I would like to think that the crew of a military ship would be reliable enough that if there was a sighting of multiple drones with running lights orbiting the ship, it would have been confirmed and verified by additional personnel simply because that’s the way the military do things, let alone have military-trained people suffer from “hysteria”
Yes, and whatever money we send should be earmarked for contraception and abortion.
Africa's population was quite stable until relatively recently. It's about double since the year 2000. There were more children born in Nigeria alone this year then the entire continent of Europe.
The West's constant "plans" the last 50 years using our money has resulted in population growth out of control. The past is the past but more European countries should do what Sweden did recently especially with money to help Ukraine becoming harder to get. Redirect billions in Africa money to the Ukrainian war effort .
And Don Jnr is getting in on the act. If there is anyone worse than Don Snr, it's Don Jnr.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/07/us-may-end-support-for-ukraine-war-effort-says-donald-trump-jr
Russia and US officially getting closer, Europe is now the outcast:
I believe those drones in Irish air space will in time be shown as British ones, tracking what's going on and acting as security for Ireland. Ok, I can't prove this, same as everyone else. Will it be denied? Ha ha, course it will but I've no doubt about it unless someone can prove otherwise. I doubt very much that anyone can.
I think EU and USA are delighted to see Russia slowly killing itself.
It may not go bankrupt but its' sovereign wealth fund will be used up in a couple of years.
If we targeted their "shadow fleet", they'd use it up faster.
Putin has ruined his own country for an unwinnable war.
The EU will be free of Russian oil and gas by 2027.
There is a difference between "is lost" and under control by russians, I don't believe the russian gains will be reversed to any great extent any time soon, but it also seems their control is questionable. They will throw more human lives at it until they actually have control.
So, no Odessa for russia at the end of all this? That's a huge failure on their part and leaves Transnistria exposed and likely abandoned when putin pops his clogs.
Nigerian fathers try to have loads of children. It's a kind of thing with them. Studies show that the world can support 2bn 'comfortably'. We are now heading for 8bn. So…
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree (though he does make one valid point: the EU policy is basically "let's wait for Russia to go bankrupt" and that isn't going to happen)
The Germans got one near an airport, arrested the operator. Was apparently a hobbyist.
Apparent footage above Brussels airport
Some of them can also be misreported, police, officials, witnesses thinking they are seeing a drone but it being something else
Also a lot of this seems to happen at night which means footage is more difficult. Relatively easy to anyone with a decent drone to buzz an airport and get away with it.
It's a scam though. There was never not enough food in Africa to feed Africans. Even the feed the world live aid concert. That famine was caused by war not a lack of food. Africa has a population crisis and this planet could do without a ballooning population. Aid to Africa takes away responsibility from African leaders and provides a rich environment for natives to just pump out endless babies. The model doesn't work not to mention the amount of nations who don't support European causes like the fight against Russia.
Just look at African population charts over hundreds of years and see how it's exploded exponentially in the last 50. Madagascar is a great example and the nature on that Island is fast being eroded as a result.
Redirecting all these funds to Ukraine will give a much better return.
I'd be suspicious of the 'mass hysteria' theory. Have you heard of this? Ghost rockets - Wikipedia
On the basis of this post… hearing THAT poster was banned is the reason I re signed up as a paid member. Has he/will he sprout up again. Of course, and I do have sympathy for the mods on here, but my conscience allowed me to become a paid member again.
Ukraine sending an early Christmas present to Russia
We have been and arguably still are asleep at the wheel on our security. In the 1990s we had 11,000 in the army, and then our population was 40% less than it is now.
There is a tendency for states to assume that what worked before e.g. France in WW2, or Irish neutrality in WW2, will work again.
Many European countries were neutral in WW2 but they were invaded by Nazi Germany. We had distance on our side. Also we were practically a Third World country lacking in natural resources.
The situation is now very different. We are one of the wealthiest economies in Europe. Much American data is stored here. That makes us a potentially tempting target. Also the subsea cables, and the use of Shannon by the US. We also have the 10th largest zinc deposits in the world.
Large zinc resources give Ireland:
Report of a power cut in Belgorod due to putin's terrorists dropping a bomb on their own territory again. Just a reminder to everyone why being part of putin's terrorist state is not a good idea.
Also for the benefit of those that insist putin is now in control of the ruins and piles of rubble that was the town of Pokrovsk here is a screenshot from a video claimed to be recorded there yesterday.
A population of 60,000 before the all out invasion of Ukraine in 2022 have now been made mostly homeless for the cost to putin's terrorists of how many dead and injured?
It's all very odd
Sand, if indeed it is the same poster, used to be right wing in the past. He supported the second Iraq war and was a defender of American meddling in South America
