Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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I don't think it will escalate outside of Ukraine and I personally don't fear nuclear war breaking out. No nation has talked about sending troops in, just sanctions, so I see no real threat of escalation unless Putin tests NATO at the Polish border, for example. Also as a pre millennial and post boomer I am of course sage from conscription, though I have played DCS so reckon I'd be ace in a Eurofighter.
 
ltron said:
Some people think this crisis means we should become more dependent on fossil fuels when in fact it means the opposite. If they hadn't been such climate crisis deniers we'd have got there much faster and be in a much better position right now.
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/Tin foil hat

Climate change has just been a ploy to make the west depend less on the east.

/Tin foil hat end.

One thing that has become very apparent is that if we did go to war we have become so relliant on imports in the west I would hedge my bets on Russian winning a conventional war. Even though a conventional war will never happen.

China would obviously support and when the dust settles would emerge as the biggest nation on earth.
 
steve_c said:
I can't imagine there will be much at all. I should think the "conventional" invasion will be all but over by tomorrow lunchtime.
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Yes, now I think this will be a storm in a teacup in comparison to a global war since there won't be any military resistance from the West.

Putin will take Ukraine and it will all be over by Sunday.
 
Slam62 said:
What are the rest for context, I thought they'd shut all their nuclear power stations
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Raikiri said:
  • Nuclear: 60.9 TW⋅h (12.6%)
  • Brown coal: 81.94 TW⋅h (16.9%) 55% of which is 9.295%
  • Hard coal: 35.56 TW⋅h (7.4%) 55% is 4.07%
  • Natural gas: 59.08 TW⋅h (12.2%) 6.1%
  • Wind: 131.69 TW⋅h (27.2%)
  • Solar: 50.7 TW⋅h (10.5%)
  • Biomass: 45.45 TW⋅h (9.4%)
  • Hydro: 18.27 TW⋅h (3.8%)
From what I can find.




Absolutely, solar, nuclear, wind etc. should all be pushed vs. fossil fuels.
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Three active nuclear power plants, all scheduled to close end of this year. (Were scheduled:D)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_reactors#Germany

Side note: Great work by the French.
 
Housey said:
I don't think it will escalate outside of Ukraine and I personally don't fear nuclear war breaking out. No nation has talked about sending troops in, just sanctions, so I see no real threat of escalation unless Putin tests NATO at the Polish border, for example. Also as a pre millennial and post boomer I am of course sage from conscription, though I have played DCS so reckon I'd be ace in a Eurofighter.
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Putin takes Ukraine with nothing but a scratch. The west did nothing but words...you bet he's going to feel embolden to go further.

Like christ he's already threatened nukes. He's clearly not messing about.
 
413x said:
But he still wants them.
I don't think (I hope) they aren't worth as much to go to nuclear war over. But that's up to him.
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No he does not still want them and certainly not enough to force the hand of NATO to be obligated to come to the defence of another NATO country. (which is NATO's raison d'etre)

You have to understand that history of Ukraine and Russia is very different from that of the Baltic states and Russia. For one Latvians, Estonians and Lithuanians are not Slavs. My missus is Latvian so I well know the enmity that exists between them.

Ukraine historically has much closer ties to Russia even though the percentage of the population that identifies as ethnic Russian is less than that of the percentage in Latvia. Plus Ukraine is a much larger country and population and unfortunately for them was not yet a member of NATO.
 
Raikiri said:
  • Nuclear: 60.9 TW⋅h (12.6%)
  • Brown coal: 81.94 TW⋅h (16.9%) 55% of which is 9.295%
  • Hard coal: 35.56 TW⋅h (7.4%) 55% is 4.07%
  • Natural gas: 59.08 TW⋅h (12.2%) 6.1%
  • Wind: 131.69 TW⋅h (27.2%)
  • Solar: 50.7 TW⋅h (10.5%)
  • Biomass: 45.45 TW⋅h (9.4%)
  • Hydro: 18.27 TW⋅h (3.8%)
From what I can find.




Absolutely, solar, nuclear, wind etc. should all be pushed vs. fossil fuels.
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Tbf I'm surprised at that, a lot of wind energy. Hopefully they will stop buying from Russia.
 
Firestar_3x said:
I don't know, to push so far so fast, are they totally over extended?

Having some troops etc in one parts of a country is one thing, holding onto it is quite something else.
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It appears they either
1. didnt believe an invasion will take place thus never prepared for one,
2. they have no armed forces to stage a fight
 
chrismscotland said:
Rumours that the only variant of the largest aircraft in the world, the Antonov AN-255 Mriya has been destroyed in the attack on Antonov International Airport near Kyiv
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It left the airport this morning. I saw it on flightradar but I can't remember exactly where it was heading.
 
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