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

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India is only doing what the rest will do after this is all over go running back to Russia like nothing ever happened.
 
Hagar said:
The cold war vision sold to us in the last century was columns of soviet armour sweeping into western Europe across the open countryside. Maybe that was stolen from the Soviet war plans of the day and it has not been altered for this century.
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Pretty sure Putin's army is not a patch on the old Red Army that swept through eastern europe and into Berlin at the end of WW2. Pretty sure Putin's realising it too which may lead to him deciding to rearm and ramp up his military spending, russia is looking more and more like 1930's Germany by the day his recent patriotic rally at a stadium looked like an echo of Nuremburg

peterwalkley said:
Whenever this bridge gets mentioned my mind keeps going back to the sequence in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly where Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach rig a bridge with dynamite and then blow it up. There must be a couple of crazy enough ukraines to do the same :D
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"I've never seen so many good men wasted so badly" always struck me as an poignant and very apt comment on the sheer pointlessness of war generals and politicians send the troops and they die in their droves all to satiate someone or others vanity. Just get the obstacle out of the way as quickly and simply as possible and they can all be sent to die somewhere else. Or who knows maybe someone will come to their senses and they get to live afterall. God I love that film.

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*Russia Suspends Gas Flows to Germany Through the Yamal-Europe Pipeline — Gascade

So they have turned the gas off to Germany?

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I thought russia said its been pushed back to April 15th to change its payment method? Ah yes call my bluff eh, I'll have to move the deadline back a bit.
 
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*China’s President Xi: China Is Deeply Regrettable Concerning the Ukraine Situation.
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Minusorange said:
Part of me is suprised it happened if it was Ukraine, so much for their air defence capability

The other part of me is not suprised at all given how Russia has performed this war

It's a dangerous move though given Russia's threats on nuclear weapon use if their existance of state is threatened, does attacks on Russia soil count in that or does it mean full on invasion, hard to tell given how they are supreme trolls
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That is pretty much what I was saying to my father earlier, either the Ukranians have managed to get past the Russian border evading air defences* which says very bad things about Russian air defence on the border, it was a deliberate attack by their own forces to give an excuse for the war, or their own pilots got lost and attacked the wrong place.
Given how the Russian forces have performed so far, it's really hard to tell which is more likely.


*I lolled when apparently the head of the region said he was putting his forces on high alert due to it, as I said to father "the russians have invaded a neighbouring country, and they're only just putting their border security at high alert!".
 
@Nate75 @Blackjack Davy On the Yamal-Europe pipeline, the gas flows already resumed a few hours back, they were temporarily flowing in reverse. Not the first time this has happened either.

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https://www.reuters.com/business/en...sume-eastwards-other-flows-steady-2022-04-01/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/terminal/R9NLIIDWRGG1
 
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China - you buy more ****.

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EU reply - sort your **** out first.

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Well I suspect there's going to be a big proxy war between Saudis and Iran..

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We'll leave that to people to decide if it was Ukraine or Russia.. if Ukraine say anything to confirm it then Russia will use it..

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So basically they're going full facist lockdown and only those with high Putin-points get to leave the house.

*US Senior Administration Official: Russian Forces Have Set Up a Deployment Zone at a Church North West of Kyiv.
*US Senior Administration Official: The United States Believes the Russian Military Is Using a Church As a Staging Area for Its Assault on Kyiv.
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So that's basically using a religious building to false flag it as a jihad..
 
G J said:
India is only doing what the rest will do after this is all over go running back to Russia like nothing ever happened.
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Do you think so? Some will but long term sanctions until Putin gone. It's clear more should have been done years ago. Ignore this and what next.
I can understand India's stance given their neighbours, although this might not be their only reason, but I dunno, seems rather weak tbh (personal opinion).
 
Werewolf said:
*I lolled when apparently the head of the region said he was putting his forces on high alert due to it, as I said to father "the russians have invaded a neighbouring country, and they're only just putting their border security at high alert!".
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I mean it's possible they weren't on any alert as they didn't see Ukraine as any threat having believed their own BS that they're vastly superior and Ukraine is inferior so they're basically no threat at all
 
DarrenM343 said:
Do you think so? Some will but long term sanctions until Putin gone. It's clear more should have been done years ago. Ignore this and what next.
I can understand India's stance given their neighbours, although this might not be their only reason, but I dunno, seems rather weak tbh (personal opinion).
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Yeah, it would be foolish to drop the sanctions so soon, it would send a terrible message to the World and we would once again be funding Putin's war machine.
 
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Minusorange said:
I mean it's possible they weren't on any alert as they didn't see Ukraine as any threat having believed their own BS that they're vastly superior and Ukraine is inferior so they're basically no threat at all
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That was about the only reason I could see for it as well, but pretty much whichever way you look at it, if the attack happened it doesn't show the russian forces to be in a good light.
 
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Russia demands natural gas payments in roubles.

Are the Russians attempting to set up a Petro Rouble like Nixon did with Saudi 1974?

Wouldn't this mean more inflation for western currencies?
 
A withdrawal whilst in combat is still war targets - and can be viewed as a retreat to regoup when organised or a rout when simply running away. All still legitimate targets of war
 
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