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

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dave28 said:
Poland giving 4 MIG-29`s to Ukraine and others to follow after servicing them. Or so say Sky.
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Based. We need more of this, and from other NATO members as well.

dave28 said:
This could spiral out of control now with NATO supplied jets VS Russian jets.
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Nah. Putin will whine and bitch on national TV, but he doesn't dare to tangle with NATO.
 
Hotwired said:
Ben and Jerry sold out to Unilever over 20 years ago.
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Actually I think the Israeli firm Avi Zinger own the brand name now as Ben and Jerry got precious about its ice cream being sold in the West Bank.

EDIT, just checked my memory out, Unilever wanted to sell the brand name to the Israeli company Avi Zingler, but Ben and Jerry tried to stop the sale as they had an objection to the product being sold under their name in the west bank. They failed to stop the sale and Avi Zingler now own the brand name and flog it in the occupied area nevertheless.
 
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Seems kind of pointless to me but looks like the US doing a "show of force" around Kaliningrad and the Baltics with B-52s and fighter escort.

Wonder if they are going to do a close approach and turn on St. Petersburg.
 
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Chris Wilson said:
Actually I think the Israeli firm Avi Zinger own the brand name now as Ben and Jerry got precious about its ice cream being sold in the West Bank.

EDIT, just checked my memory out, Unilever wanted to sell the brand name to the Israeli company Avi Zingler, but Ben and Jerry tried to stop the sale as they had an objection to the product being sold under their name in the west bank. They failed to stop the sale and Avi Zingler now own the brand name and flog it in the occupied area nevertheless.
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Zinger is a franchisee, and purchased the right to sell Ben & Jerry's products in Israel independently of the American branch. He has exclusive rights to the Ben & Jerry’s logo in Hebrew and Arabic, but doesn't actually own the brand name, which remains the property of Unilever.

Personally, I've never seen the attraction of B&J's. It's always struck me as overpriced junk marketed to adults who want to pretend they're still children.
 
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Rroff said:
Seems kind of pointless to me but looks like the US doing a "show of force" around Kaliningrad and the Baltics with B-52s and fighter escort.

Wonder if they are going to do a close approach and turn on St. Petersburg.
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They wouldn't go up unarmed would they, logically and strategically in event of a hot conflict they ought to be running a full complement?
 
StriderX said:
Hopefully means a vote on uniting with Romania is coming sooner rather than never.
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Are you sure that's likely? Over the past few decades we've mostly seen countries fracture into multiple smaller countries. I can't think of any that have volunteered to be absorbed by another country (If I'm missing any obvious one somebody please tell).

That would also seriously inflame the Transnistria issue, the whole reason the Transnistrian ASR seceded from the Moldavian SSR in the first place was because they suspected the Moldavian SSR was going to attempt to leave the USSR (and they were right) and they wanted none of that. I'm sure the idea of the country that lays claims to their territory becoming part of Romania wouldn't be too appealing for them. Though having said that what would it even do to Moldova's claim, would Romania inherit it or would it just be unsustainable at that point.
 
ubersonic said:
Are you sure that's likely? Over the past few decades we've mostly seen countries fracture into multiple smaller countries. I can't think of any that have volunteered to be absorbed by another country (If I'm missing any obvious one somebody please tell).
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Malta under Don Mintoff asked to Britain to annex it back in the 50's and if it went through it would have held the same position as Northern Ireland does as part of the UK instead of colony of the Empire. Everyone was in favour it, the UK government wanted Malta for it's strategic position in the Mediterranean, the Maltese government wanted to be British as they needed the money and welcomed the security and a referendum that was held came back with a 70% majority in favour of joining the UK. The whole plan fell apart when the Maltese were told to reign in their spending and there were people in the government who thought if they let Malta in they would have extend voting rights to other territories.
 
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Harlequin said:
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Heard about that. Happy to hear! The Archer was in the running for the Mobile Fires Platform project. I feel this will seal the deal on that project. I'm under the impression that we will get these initial batch as the Swedish variant on a Volvo 6x6 chassis.
If the archer was to win the Mobile Fires Platform project (i feel this is likely), I think the intention is to fit it to the MAN HX2 platform. Basically mounted on the modernised version of the MAN SV 8x8 15t chassis that we already have signed up for.
 
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