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

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At this rate we wont need to send bullets anymore:


6000 more missiles from the UK (including starstreak, RIP Russian planes).
5000 more from Sweden
2000 more from Germany
 
Zelensky coming out strong with the feisty NATO rhetoric!

The latest: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the NATO summit via video link, telling the alliance: "Never, please, never tell us again that our army does not meet NATO standards. We have shown what our standards are capable of. And how much we can give to the common security in Europe and the world."

Zelensky criticized NATO for declining to establish a no-fly zone or provide Ukraine with fighter jets or tanks, saying the lack of a "clear answer" is leading to mass death and the destruction of Ukrainian cities.

"Yes, we are not in the alliance, and I do not make these claims. but Ukrainians never thought that the alliance and the alliances were different. That in matters of life and death you can be a force separately, but together, no. That NATO may be afraid of Russia's actions," Zelensky said, pleading for more weapons.
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Grain/dust explosions are very much a thing so could be an explanation for the ship getting wrecked.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_explosion#Notable_incidents
 
dowie said:
Grain/dust explosions are very much a thing so could be an explanation for the ship getting wrecked.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_explosion#Notable_incidents
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Although normally quite a few precautions are taken against it happening by the people handling the grain, assuming they're trained in it and know what they're doing as opposed to potentially being pressganged into it.

Of course if you know how to prevent it happening, you also know very well how to make it happen, and it may not take much for say one person who doesn't agree with what is going on to do something that either increases the chances of it happening "naturally" (disabling a safety feature), or actively working to make it happen (as I understand it it, a simple spark can be enough, let alone a naked flame).
 
Werewolf said:
Although normally quite a few precautions are taken against it happening by the people handling the grain, assuming they're trained in it and know what they're doing as opposed to potentially being pressganged into it.

Of course if you know how to prevent it happening, you also know very well how to make it happen, and it may not take much for say one person who doesn't agree with what is going on to do something that either increases the chances of it happening "naturally" (disabling a safety feature), or actively working to make it happen (as I understand it it, a simple spark can be enough, let alone a naked flame).
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Hope putin likes popcorn..
 
A short piece on Russia moving to roubles for gas and oil sales. It suggests that the sanctions have had the effect of undermining Western reserve currency status. I wonder what other peoples thoughts are? I'm not an economist but I've read a few opinion pieces on this subject they have a certain plausibility. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
 
PlacidCasual said:
A short piece on Russia moving to roubles for gas and oil sales. It suggests that the sanctions have had the effect of undermining Western reserve currency status. I wonder what other peoples thoughts are? I'm not an economist but I've read a few opinion pieces on this subject they have a certain plausibility. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
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Here is where I stopped reading:

"The Russians will do this because our sanctions have convinced them that euros are not worth holding."

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Another video, that's one ship gone and one of those leaving clearly on fire.

edit: Thats a lot of explosions on that ship, something else catches fire on the docks as well.
 
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@dLockers Why would that stop you? Surely the point being made is they are not worth holding not because of their value but rather the risk that is attached with regards to sanctions. Or am I missing something?
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Because it is simply an article that 1) is no better than an unqualified forum post, 2) puts weight to easily influenced people that Russia is winning on some kind of contorted version of reality.

Demanding payment in Roubles is simply a way to mitigate against the economic carnage Russia is suffering - it means roubles have value.

His strawman about foreign held reserves are now questionable because they've been sanctioned is such tripe. It is a bit like the World Bank conspiracy theories. Yes - the US federal reserve could 'steel' gold but why would they?
 
He wants rubles because it's another way to prop up the failing currency.

If he forces countries to pay with rubles then it pumps hundreds of millions. if not billions of rubles back into the country,

pretty clever actually as the ruble rises and it's us (well who ever is buying the gas and oil) that is doing it.
 
bris said:
He wants rubles because it's another way to prop up the failing currency.

If he forces countries to pay with rubles then it pumps hundreds of millions. if not billions of rubles back into the country,

pretty clever actually as the ruble rises and it's us (well who ever is buying the gas and oil) that is doing it.
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And much like other closed currencies, it won't be an open and free market. It will say 1 rouble = X dollars.
 
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