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

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Ayahuasca said:
As much of a clown as people think Boris may be, he's been super careful with his words during all of this and, dare I say it, came across very well.
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He matured probably due to the amount of crap going on.

However it still doesn't stop him from being held accountable for the Tory mess - however that's a separate thread in Speakers' Corner.
 
CapitalOne said:
Well done Liz.
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Link? (actually found a few reports now, but useful to include links when quoting).

Tbh... I'm a bit wary of playing into this Russian stuff, they're deliberately trying to undermine her just as they did in Moscow with some gotcha questions + a load of buster/insults from their Foreign Minister. They know that got a reaction in the UK press and undermined her a bit so throwing in stuff like this is using any excuse too.

She perhaps should have been better but I suspect they were trying to grab at anything they could here I don't believe for a second that Putin is genuinely worried because the UK foreign secretary is gaff prone.
 
VincentHanna said:
When Nukes are on the table, which they were the minute Putin said about "consequences never seen in history”, you have to be careful what is said as any miscalculation can lead to escalation.

What she initially said (before rolling back her comments slightly) was a miscalculation we didn't need.
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Fair enough, maybe it's more than what I read but really it's like "I'm going to nuke you because she said this" :).
Seems Putin has to go one way or another now so this is a risk going forward and no doubt the nuclear threat will be reissued whenever Russia pleases
 
Ayahuasca said:
As much of a clown as people think Boris may be, he's been super careful with his words during all of this and, dare I say it, came across very well.
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Boris has never been a clown, he's always been very good at acting like one. In reality he's a shrewd, intelligent, and utterly ruthless politician. The clown image is just camouflage to disarm people.
 
DarrenM343 said:
Fair enough, maybe it's more than what I read but really it's like "I'm going to nuke you because she said this" :).
Seems Putin has to go one way or another now so this is a risk going forward and no doubt the nuclear threat will be reissued whenever Russia pleases
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They more times they threaten it without doing it, the less effect those threats will have.
 
Sankari said:
Boris has never been a clown, he's always been very good at acting like one. In reality he's a shrewd, intelligent, and utterly ruthless politician. The clown image is just camouflage to disarm people.
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People used to think that, now we just think he's a clown pretending to not be a clown by pretending to be a clown.
 
The news out of Ukraine seems to have really slowed down today. Yesterday it was relentless.
Wondering whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.
 
https://www.ft.com/content/c0c9fe20-e219-45d4-b029-2cfbaf86a755

Interesting that 30% of China's livestock food comes from Ukraine. So that represents a serious stability issue for them.

There is significant agricultural trade between countries on the continent and Russia and Ukraine. African countries imported agricultural products worth US$4 billion from Russia in 2020. About 90% of this was wheat, and 6% was sunflower oil. Major importing countries were Egypt, which accounted for nearly half of the imports, followed by Sudan, Nigeria, Tanzania, Algeria, Kenya and South Africa.

Similarly, Ukraine exported US$2.9 billion worth of agricultural products to the African continent in 2020. About 48% of this was wheat, 31% maize, and the rest included sunflower oil, barley, and soybeans.
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Source: https://theconversation.com/how-russia-ukraine-conflict-could-influence-africas-food-supplies-177843

So with Russia closed, Ukraine out of action this will apply pressure to Africa.

So basically it sounds like Putin is attempting to engineer a humanitarian crisis to push the world to allow him todo what he wants.
 
Rilot said:
The news out of Ukraine seems to have really slowed down today. Yesterday it was relentless.
Wondering whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.
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Probably bad. I wonder how much communication infrastructure is left in the capital.
 
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