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

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robfosters said:
So if they sever the Internet cables, does the whole world lose all internet or can we still access UK based stuff?
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Minusorange said:
I doubt it's coincedence giving Russia cutting itself from the internet, what sort of impact would severing cables have ?
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If you look at an underwater cable map you'll see that there are many cables running from most countries. So cutting one wouldn't disconnect the UK for example. It might cause some balancing and speed issues though. Either way they are pretty well guarded by the UK Navy.
 
200sols said:
That isnt what the shell statement says unfortunately.
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Lets put it this way, if Shell was being a bunch of money grabbers and trying to profit from the situation they would have stayed in Russia and not left.

The difference in "profit" between the discounted and none discounted Russian oil is insignificant, the problem is one of supply, they are donating money to help Ukraine, i see no problem.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Cut funding to the Russian war machine which means less weapons, which means less potential to kill people.
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Interesting fact: this is 100% correct, and also 30 years old. The reason the Russian war machine is in such a terrible state right now is because of the sanctions that were placed on the Soviet economy in the 80's which (in addition to collapsing the Soviet union) caused the development and acquisition of their military units to stall resulting in 15 years of almost no development/acquisition of military units.

I.E most of Russia's current tanks are either old ex-Soviet units like the T-72B, or budget tanks based on ex-Soviet designs like the T-72B3 and the T-90.

The old sanctions have saved thousands of lives in the last week alone, and these new sanctions if applied long enough will have the same choking effect on their war machine. Development will have to be combined and reduced, acquisition numbers will have to be cut, etc.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Well, I’ll never use shell again.
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The oil the clickbait is referring to was ordered in advance before the war started, it was already factored into Shells production plans so if they backed out then they would fall short of their production targets. They won't be placing new orders but if all the fuel companies cut ties with Russia right this second then the result would be widespread fuel shortages in the UK and silly price hikes.
 
ubersonic said:
Interesting fact: this is 100% correct, and also 30 years old. The reason the Russian war machine is in such a terrible state right now is because of the sanctions that were placed on the Soviet economy in the 80's which (in addition to collapsing the Soviet union) caused the development and acquisition of their military units to stall resulting in 15 years of almost no development/acquisition of military units.

I.E most of Russia's current tanks are either old ex-Soviet units like the T-72B, or budget tanks based on ex-Soviet designs like the T-72B3 and the T-90.

The old sanctions have saved thousands of lives in the last week alone, and these new sanctions if applied long enough will have the same choking effect on their war machine. Development will have to be combined and reduced, acquisition numbers will have to be cut, etc.
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Ahhh I get it now. A bit like when Liverpool managed to kick all of the English teams out of Europe during the 80s or whenever it was because of that crap in that stadium. put the whole of English footy behind many years.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
He won’t touch any nato country. If the countries in between don’t now want to join then that’s on them.
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This makes no sense. Why would he not touch a NATO country if all he has to do is threaten nuclear war and NATO capitulates? (As NATO is is demonstrating in the Ukraine)

Is Putin afraid of NATO or not?
 
Twinz said:
This makes no sense. Why would he not touch a NATO country if all he has to do is threaten nuclear war and NATO capitulates? (As NATO is is demonstrating in the Ukraine)

Is Putin afraid of NATO or not?
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If he invades NATO it would be a conventional war, at least to start with, on that basis he would get rolled, hard.
 
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ubersonic said:
Interesting fact: this is 100% correct, and also 30 years old. The reason the Russian war machine is in such a terrible state right now is because of the sanctions that were placed on the Soviet economy in the 80's which (in addition to collapsing the Soviet union) caused the development and acquisition of their military units to stall resulting in 15 years of almost no development/acquisition of military units.

I.E most of Russia's current tanks are either old ex-Soviet units like the T-72B, or budget tanks based on ex-Soviet designs like the T-72B3 and the T-90.

The old sanctions have saved thousands of lives in the last week alone, and these new sanctions if applied long enough will have the same choking effect on their war machine. Development will have to be combined and reduced, acquisition numbers will have to be cut, etc.
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I’ve no doubt these sanctions will stall Russia’s development for the next decade at least if not longer.
 
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