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

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hurfdurf said:
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1502673952572854278?s=21

Interesting sourced thread on why the Russian army is doing so poorly, both in terms of experience and also how low the army is thought of, with State Security murdering any officer that gets too popular and the Mafia stealing from the army, including forcing soldiers into gay sex for pay.
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This is just one of the many reasons why I laugh when hardcore ring wing nutters try to tell me that Russia is a bastion of conservative values, upholding a superior moral code that Western civilisation has long abandoned.
 
bris said:
Tbh I don't think China would provide it anyway, main reason being Ukrain is a friend of China, they are close trading partners and China are very much against this war.

If they do help then Ukrain would very much hold that against them and ruin and future goodwill going forward. I would like to think they will stay neutral.
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China is very closely linked to Russia as far as trade goes too.
China has also refused to speak out against Russia.

China wouldn't give a toss about Ukraine goodwill toward China. (or at least Xi Jinping) wouldn't.

I don't agree that "China are very much against this war."
In fact I think it serves them very well as it gives them an opportunity to directly observe and analyse the reaction of the West in the face of aggression.
Sure Taiwan is a different situation to Ukraine BUT many of the same lessons will apply.

And the lesson so far seems to be - if the aggressor is a nuclear power, the rest of the world will not intervene directly.
 
Let me rephrase - the world will not intervene militarily.

Also it would be much more difficult for countries to sanction / disengage with China, given the huge reliance of sourcing critical things from China - microchips, mobile phones, manufactured goods of all sorts... VERY different to the Russian situation in that regard.
 
*Russian Billionaire Melnichenko: Events in Ukraine Are Truly Tragic: ‘We Urgently Need Peace’
*Russian Billionaire Melnichenko: Agriculture and Food Will Suffer Due to the War in Ukraine
*Russian Billionaire Melnichenko: There Will Be Even Higher Food Inflation in Europe Due to War in Ukraine
*Russian Billionaire Melnichenko: Food Shortages Likely in the World’s Poorest Countries Due to War in Ukraine
https://twitter.com/GuyReuters/status/1503238968866914306
https://twitter.com/GuyReuters/status/1503238996792688647
https://twitter.com/GuyReuters/status/1503239042225348613
https://twitter.com/GuyReuters/status/1503239069001736194

~ His £443Mln superyacht was seized this week. https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...igarch-melnichenkos-sailing-yacht-2022-03-12/
 
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steve45 said:
Seems a bit tenuous, I mean if I look look far enough back I could probably find a link to William Wallace, dosnt mean I'm going to start an uprising and send raiding parties to ransack Northern England...
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Off course you aren't..


Sounding like putin and his I'm not going to invade speech, we best prepare Northern England asap.
 
NickK said:
Not necessarily.

If landlords could get a fair rate from a government scheme they would prefer the lower risk option and kick out renting voters onto the streets. The closer the rate is to the rental market the faster this would occur.

As it stands this covers the "inconvenience" of renting out a room and sharing the facilities. The government is focusing on the temporary nature of this event and knowing that people will be transitory. The government don't want people getting addicted to the handouts too. It also places an emphasis on the home owner to interact (through shared cooking spaces, lounge etc) to integrate better. Only that idea gets shot down as landlords will stack and rack Ukrainian families purely to get the payout.

So with this in mind - this is more of "rent out your rooms" than rent a full property. Great for those rich people that have more rooms to throw a stick at (especially after the trend to home working now means any 'idle' rooms are consumed "hybrid working" without being reimbursed by employers).

This smells of Patel being dragged face down by the foot with vampire nails and teeth scratching the cement, hissing all the way..
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Fair point, I agree if it was at market rates, landlords would be tempted to kick out existing tenants, although the scheme is advertised as been short term only.
 
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*Russian Billionaire Melnichenko: Events in Ukraine Are Truly Tragic: ‘We Urgently Need Peace’
*Russian Billionaire Melnichenko: Agriculture and Food Will Suffer Due to the War in Ukraine
*Russian Billionaire Melnichenko: There Will Be Even Higher Food Inflation in Europe Due to War in Ukraine
*Russian Billionaire Melnichenko: Food Shortages Likely in the World’s Poorest Countries Due to War in Ukraine
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*A global food crisis looms unless the war in Ukraine is stopped because fertiliser prices are soaring so fast that many farmers can no longer afford soil nutrients, Russia's coal and fertiliser king Andrei Melnichenko said on Monday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/exclu...russias-fertiliser-coal-king-says-2022-03-14/
 
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News from the past 1hr~

*Ukraine-Russia Talks via Video Conference to Start at 10:30 Kyiv Time – Ukrainian Official
*Russia Sees No Reason for UN Peacekeepers to Be Sent to Ukraine – Ria Cites Foreign Ministry
*Further Progress in Controlling the Situation in Ukraine Would Be Reliant on Kyiv’s Readiness to Reach a Settlement – Ria Citing Russia’s Foreign Ministry
*Russian Diplomat: Agreement on Russia-Ukraine Settlement May Require Approval by UNSC Resolution. – Twitter Source
*Germany to Buy Up to 35 F-35 Fighter Jets – Government Source
*France Has Enough Natural Gas to Get Manage the Winter. – Minister
*France Needs to Reduce Dependence on Russian Natural Gas – Minister
*Gazprom: Continuing to Send Gas to Europe via Ukraine, With Monday’s Amount Remaining Relatively Steady at 109.5 MCM Per Day.
https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1503252033964498944
https://twitter.com/TRTWorldNow/status/1503264916949590020
https://twitter.com/TRTWorldNow/status/1503261467142938628
https://twitter.com/cgtnafrica/status/1503261295986061316
https://twitter.com/TRTWorldNow/status/1503264581010997253
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https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1503267306767626241
 
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