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majorshrapnel

Date Posted：2022-03-30 07:40:45

The longer this goes on, the more I see Ukraine as being just another cold war ball for each side to kick around. The initial attack on the Russian economy by the west has just about run its course and now the Rouble has recovered, China, India and most of the rich middle eastern states still back Russia and Putin and he has never been so popular with his own people. I see talk of him being ousted as a matter of course but I'm beginning to doubt that very much, as he has an iron grip on all of the Russian institutions of state and security. Any war of attrition, which this is turning into, will always favour Russia, with its massive resources and with the west declining to go any further than it has, I can't see it going but one way. The west might close its Moscow McDonalds and a few other tokenisms but the fact is, Russia has Europe by the goolies, as we have been idiotic enough to become dependent of Russian energy, which will always be our Achilles heel. We are stuck on the Russian tit. Here in Europe a few years ago the ruling classes in Brussels issued a diktat stating that diesel engines were cleaner than petrol ones, a blatant pile of crap if ever there was one. Any person with an inkling of knowledge of engines knew this was a blatant lie and who benefitted most from it? The German car industry. Here in Britain, following our decades long policy of getting everything produced abroad, we gave up refining our own fuels on a huge scale and guess who refines all of our Diesel? Yep, Russia. There is now talk of Diesel rationing later in the year and if that happens where will our shops get their goods from? Russia holds all the cards, as far as I can see. Gas and electricity are now set to rise by up to 400% in Britain in the next two years and our political class have only added to the crisis by pampering to the ridiculous green lobby. Naturally they're having to quietly backtrack now as their own political futures are in jeopardy. Do you know that 25% of all we pay over here for energy is a green tax? If the war has any benefit for us, it will be the dawning of an energy reality in the corridors of power.

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Date Posted：2022-03-30 05:40:31

The only good to come out of this is that the mighty Russian war machine appears to be falling somewhat short. They've got the manpower for sure, but equipment and expertise seems badly lacking. Also their soldiers are badly treated, lied to about where they were going and why. They'll defend Russia of course, but I doubt after this that Putin will even consider attacking anyone else given the problems he's got when stepping over the border.

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Date Posted：2022-03-30 06:59:40

The only good to come out of this is that the mighty Russian war machine appears to be falling somewhat short. They've got the manpower for sure, but equipment and expertise seems badly lacking. Also their soldiers are badly treated, lied to about where they were going and why. They'll defend Russia of course, but I doubt after this that Putin will even consider attacking anyone else given the problems he's got when stepping over the border.

Yet another example which shows up the communist system. Communism is all smoke and mirrors. The whole system is plagued by back covering, blame accounting, figure manipulating and back scratching. They need new tanks, only to find that those in reserve have had parts stolen off them to keep others going in the past. Get the wall and the firing squad ready. Russia doesn't have a volunteer army, which is another inbuilt problem, as most just don't want to be soldiers. Add to that the general backwardness of whole swathes of Russian society and it's just a recipe for disaster.

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Date Posted：2022-03-30 10:29:24

Prices are rising fast here in the colonies. Biden has already warned of food shortages and even higher prices. I wonder if Ukraine will be Russia's Vietnam.

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Date Posted：2022-03-31 07:23:07

The head of Britain's GCHQ, which is the government dept here which listens in on the world, has revealed the mess the Russians are making in Ukraine, he called it chaos. His revelations include soldiers refusing to carry out orders and sabotage of equipment to avoid combat. They have also shot down their own aircraft. Putin's advisers are afraid to tell him the truth, what's going on and the extent of these misjudgments must be crystal clear to the regime. He's revealed a catalogue of low morale, logistical failures and high Russian casualty numbers, with their command and control in chaos. He added, Putin is lying to his own people in an attempt to hide their military incompetence.

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Date Posted：2022-03-31 05:39:32

The more powerful a leader becomes the more they become detached from reality. His "advisors" are nothing of the sort, they simply tell him what he wants to hear.

Reminds me of the famous comment over the death of Stalin, when his cronies were told he was dead someone said "yes, but who's going to tell him".

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Date Posted：2022-03-31 09:57:34

Nigel Farage was on Tucker Carlson last night. I missed most of the segment but I gather he disapproves of the way the war in Ukraine is being handled.

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Date Posted：2022-04-01 07:17:11

I haven't seen or heard anything from him either, but Farage disapproves of most things.

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Date Posted：2022-04-01 11:24:00

Good to hear that Putin regards Boris Johnson as his main adversary in leading the call for action and stronger sanctions.

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Date Posted：2022-04-02 04:07:02

Meanwhile in the Colonies, we're told Joe Biden is the most powerful person in the world and Putin's greatest fear.

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Date Posted：2022-04-02 06:46:50

Meanwhile in the Colonies, we're told Joe Biden is the most powerful person in the world and Putin's greatest fear.

He's my greatest fear too, the senile old tosser. It's like he's got tourettes at times

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Date Posted：2022-04-02 06:56:19

I haven't seen or heard anything from him either, but Farage disapproves of most things.

Well, most things the looney left get up to. The left can't win with Farage, he never ever ducks a question, he never gets flustered, he's got a logical and reasonable answer to everything. He talks like the ordinary man in the street, with the same concerns that just don't reach the rarified atmosphere the EU gangsters and our professional political classes in Parliament. He interviews people on tele in a segment called talking pints, where he sits down with a politician or such like, over a pint of beer and he questions them. How many could get away with that stunt? A gimmick? Yes, but one only he could pull off and people love him for it. For me, probably the finest Prime Minister we'll never get.

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Date Posted：2022-04-03 02:30:49

The only thing scarier right now than Biden's gaffes ("we'll respond in kind") is who will replace him if he is declared incompetent. I very much doubt that will happen, though. Sometimes I think it's just a diversion.

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Date Posted：2022-04-04 07:17:50

Russian ineptitude has now created a catalogue of war crimes. Rape, torture, murder, it's horrendous what the Russians are doing now and they are indefinable from the Nazis. The whole world now has to condemn these atrocities and back them up with action. I thought this would become a cold war football but the Russian atrocities have changed all that and any nation with an ounce of civilised compassion surely has to condemn Russia and if at all possible, back it up in anyway possible. Following this barbarity, can the west ever go back to a business as usual policy with a war crime state? Europe has learned a harsh lesson from this and that lesson is, you can never ever trust the Russians and you can't economically sponsor their murderous spree Now? Europe has to wake up and realise they just can't allow Russia to have them by the short and curlies anymore and that's a lesson a lot of dead Ukrainian women and children has taught them. For too long we've been forcibly guided by the lunatics of the Russian worshipping left and the lefty, eco mafia, no more, they have to be now confronted equally. They want trouble, then oblige them. They are causing chaos right this minute in Britain and it has to be stopped, they need jailing for a long time to encourage the rest of them to be civilised. If I knowingly caused the damage they do, to property and the economy, I'd be crucified, but put the word eco infront of your vandalism and somehow it's legalised and frightens the police and politicians shitless. Why don't the press find out who these people are and do a little investigative journalism? Because I'll guarantee you 100%, not 99% that you'll be confronting the greatest con artists and hypocrites in the country, lefty's of course, they're all alike.

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Date Posted：2022-04-04 08:36:18

Russia has fallen back on its only defence - fake news.

The Russians have been carrying out these kinds of atrocities in Chechnya and Syria for years, but with those victims not being quite as European as the Ukrainians we've turned a blind eye.

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Date Posted：2022-04-05 02:16:37

The silence coming from Bernie Sanders is deafening.

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Date Posted：2022-04-06 07:28:49

The silence coming from Bernie Sanders is deafening.

All western communists have their favourite mass murders. Turdope is a China worshipper, Sanders and Corbyn are Russian worshippers.

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Date Posted：2022-04-06 04:03:19

Our various governments control what's on the news because politicians are always called on for their take on a situation, whether foreign or domestic. We probably had news snippets about Syria and other places but it was never blown to the proportion Ukraine has. When NATO gets involved, I get confused. Was NATO involved in the other Russian invasions?

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Date Posted：2022-04-06 05:42:44

No. NATO stayed out of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and the brief war with Georgia (remember that?) in 2008. It can get involved in conflicts way outside its borders, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were NATO operations despite being in the middle of Asia.

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Date Posted：2022-04-06 05:52:34

I forgot about Georgia, yes. The recent situation is probably going to morph into something I won't like.

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Date Posted：2022-04-11 07:44:48

Of course, in a more oppressive communist state like Putin has created, failure is a death sentence, whether it be on the front line or the Kremlin and if he starts to fail militarily or politically, then mass murder and oppression of his own population will be his answer. Did you know that Georgia wanted to join NATO? Guess what happened, yes the Russians invaded and we never learned the lesson. It's not hard to understand why the Russians are being so brutal in Ukraine, they're traditionally a brutal, backward country. Tell me a war they were ever in where mass murder, rape, torture and all the other odious practices of oppression were absent. Putin is the face of that society, a dictator who thinks what's good for him is good for the nation and when the opposition began to creep up on him in recent years, he chose war as a political weapon, it's working too, as two thirds of Russians support the war, not that they know anything about it of course, just what they are programmed to know. Communist states always remind me of a chicken coup. Ever watched chickens? They have a strict hierarchy with everyone waiting to take a step up. The top one walks about handing out lessons but the minute that top chicken shows weakness, it's pounced upon by the rest and could be killed and everyone below takes a step up the ladder. .

majorshrapnel
	Date Posted：2022-03-30 07:40:45 The longer this goes on, the more I see Ukraine as being just another cold war ball for each side to kick around. The initial attack on the Russian economy by the west has just about run its course and now the Rouble has recovered, China, India and most of the rich middle eastern states still back Russia and Putin and he has never been so popular with his own people. I see talk of him being ousted as a matter of course but I'm beginning to doubt that very much, as he has an iron grip on all of the Russian institutions of state and security. Any war of attrition, which this is turning into, will always favour Russia, with its massive resources and with the west declining to go any further than it has, I can't see it going but one way. The west might close its Moscow McDonalds and a few other tokenisms but the fact is, Russia has Europe by the goolies, as we have been idiotic enough to become dependent of Russian energy, which will always be our Achilles heel. We are stuck on the Russian tit. Here in Europe a few years ago the ruling classes in Brussels issued a diktat stating that diesel engines were cleaner than petrol ones, a blatant pile of crap if ever there was one. Any person with an inkling of knowledge of engines knew this was a blatant lie and who benefitted most from it? The German car industry. Here in Britain, following our decades long policy of getting everything produced abroad, we gave up refining our own fuels on a huge scale and guess who refines all of our Diesel? Yep, Russia. There is now talk of Diesel rationing later in the year and if that happens where will our shops get their goods from? Russia holds all the cards, as far as I can see. Gas and electricity are now set to rise by up to 400% in Britain in the next two years and our political class have only added to the crisis by pampering to the ridiculous green lobby. Naturally they're having to quietly backtrack now as their own political futures are in jeopardy. Do you know that 25% of all we pay over here for energy is a green tax? If the war has any benefit for us, it will be the dawning of an energy reality in the corridors of power.
MarkUK	#1
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-03-30 05:40:31 The only good to come out of this is that the mighty Russian war machine appears to be falling somewhat short. They've got the manpower for sure, but equipment and expertise seems badly lacking. Also their soldiers are badly treated, lied to about where they were going and why. They'll defend Russia of course, but I doubt after this that Putin will even consider attacking anyone else given the problems he's got when stepping over the border.
majorshrapnel	#2
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-03-30 06:59:40 The only good to come out of this is that the mighty Russian war machine appears to be falling somewhat short. They've got the manpower for sure, but equipment and expertise seems badly lacking. Also their soldiers are badly treated, lied to about where they were going and why. They'll defend Russia of course, but I doubt after this that Putin will even consider attacking anyone else given the problems he's got when stepping over the border. Yet another example which shows up the communist system. Communism is all smoke and mirrors. The whole system is plagued by back covering, blame accounting, figure manipulating and back scratching. They need new tanks, only to find that those in reserve have had parts stolen off them to keep others going in the past. Get the wall and the firing squad ready. Russia doesn't have a volunteer army, which is another inbuilt problem, as most just don't want to be soldiers. Add to that the general backwardness of whole swathes of Russian society and it's just a recipe for disaster.
shula	#3
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-03-30 10:29:24 Prices are rising fast here in the colonies. Biden has already warned of food shortages and even higher prices. I wonder if Ukraine will be Russia's Vietnam.
majorshrapnel	#4
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-03-31 07:23:07 The head of Britain's GCHQ, which is the government dept here which listens in on the world, has revealed the mess the Russians are making in Ukraine, he called it chaos. His revelations include soldiers refusing to carry out orders and sabotage of equipment to avoid combat. They have also shot down their own aircraft. Putin's advisers are afraid to tell him the truth, what's going on and the extent of these misjudgments must be crystal clear to the regime. He's revealed a catalogue of low morale, logistical failures and high Russian casualty numbers, with their command and control in chaos. He added, Putin is lying to his own people in an attempt to hide their military incompetence.
MarkUK	#5
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-03-31 05:39:32 The more powerful a leader becomes the more they become detached from reality. His "advisors" are nothing of the sort, they simply tell him what he wants to hear. Reminds me of the famous comment over the death of Stalin, when his cronies were told he was dead someone said "yes, but who's going to tell him".
shula	#6
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-03-31 09:57:34 Nigel Farage was on Tucker Carlson last night. I missed most of the segment but I gather he disapproves of the way the war in Ukraine is being handled.
MarkUK	#7
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-01 07:17:11 I haven't seen or heard anything from him either, but Farage disapproves of most things.
MarkUK	#8
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-01 11:24:00 Good to hear that Putin regards Boris Johnson as his main adversary in leading the call for action and stronger sanctions.
shula	#9
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-02 04:07:02 Meanwhile in the Colonies, we're told Joe Biden is the most powerful person in the world and Putin's greatest fear.
majorshrapnel	#10
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-02 06:46:50 Meanwhile in the Colonies, we're told Joe Biden is the most powerful person in the world and Putin's greatest fear. He's my greatest fear too, the senile old tosser. It's like he's got tourettes at times
majorshrapnel	#11
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-02 06:56:19 I haven't seen or heard anything from him either, but Farage disapproves of most things. Well, most things the looney left get up to. The left can't win with Farage, he never ever ducks a question, he never gets flustered, he's got a logical and reasonable answer to everything. He talks like the ordinary man in the street, with the same concerns that just don't reach the rarified atmosphere the EU gangsters and our professional political classes in Parliament. He interviews people on tele in a segment called talking pints, where he sits down with a politician or such like, over a pint of beer and he questions them. How many could get away with that stunt? A gimmick? Yes, but one only he could pull off and people love him for it. For me, probably the finest Prime Minister we'll never get.
shula	#12
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-03 02:30:49 The only thing scarier right now than Biden's gaffes ("we'll respond in kind") is who will replace him if he is declared incompetent. I very much doubt that will happen, though. Sometimes I think it's just a diversion.
majorshrapnel	#13
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-04 07:17:50 Russian ineptitude has now created a catalogue of war crimes. Rape, torture, murder, it's horrendous what the Russians are doing now and they are indefinable from the Nazis. The whole world now has to condemn these atrocities and back them up with action. I thought this would become a cold war football but the Russian atrocities have changed all that and any nation with an ounce of civilised compassion surely has to condemn Russia and if at all possible, back it up in anyway possible. Following this barbarity, can the west ever go back to a business as usual policy with a war crime state? Europe has learned a harsh lesson from this and that lesson is, you can never ever trust the Russians and you can't economically sponsor their murderous spree Now? Europe has to wake up and realise they just can't allow Russia to have them by the short and curlies anymore and that's a lesson a lot of dead Ukrainian women and children has taught them. For too long we've been forcibly guided by the lunatics of the Russian worshipping left and the lefty, eco mafia, no more, they have to be now confronted equally. They want trouble, then oblige them. They are causing chaos right this minute in Britain and it has to be stopped, they need jailing for a long time to encourage the rest of them to be civilised. If I knowingly caused the damage they do, to property and the economy, I'd be crucified, but put the word eco infront of your vandalism and somehow it's legalised and frightens the police and politicians shitless. Why don't the press find out who these people are and do a little investigative journalism? Because I'll guarantee you 100%, not 99% that you'll be confronting the greatest con artists and hypocrites in the country, lefty's of course, they're all alike.
MarkUK	#14
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-04 08:36:18 Russia has fallen back on its only defence - fake news. The Russians have been carrying out these kinds of atrocities in Chechnya and Syria for years, but with those victims not being quite as European as the Ukrainians we've turned a blind eye.
shula	#15
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-05 02:16:37 The silence coming from Bernie Sanders is deafening.
majorshrapnel	#16
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-06 07:28:49 The silence coming from Bernie Sanders is deafening. All western communists have their favourite mass murders. Turdope is a China worshipper, Sanders and Corbyn are Russian worshippers.
shula	#17
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-06 04:03:19 Our various governments control what's on the news because politicians are always called on for their take on a situation, whether foreign or domestic. We probably had news snippets about Syria and other places but it was never blown to the proportion Ukraine has. When NATO gets involved, I get confused. Was NATO involved in the other Russian invasions?
MarkUK	#18
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-06 05:42:44 No. NATO stayed out of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and the brief war with Georgia (remember that?) in 2008. It can get involved in conflicts way outside its borders, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were NATO operations despite being in the middle of Asia.
shula	#19
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-06 05:52:34 I forgot about Georgia, yes. The recent situation is probably going to morph into something I won't like.
majorshrapnel	#20
	Re：Reply Topic Date Posted：2022-04-11 07:44:48 Of course, in a more oppressive communist state like Putin has created, failure is a death sentence, whether it be on the front line or the Kremlin and if he starts to fail militarily or politically, then mass murder and oppression of his own population will be his answer. Did you know that Georgia wanted to join NATO? Guess what happened, yes the Russians invaded and we never learned the lesson. It's not hard to understand why the Russians are being so brutal in Ukraine, they're traditionally a brutal, backward country. Tell me a war they were ever in where mass murder, rape, torture and all the other odious practices of oppression were absent. Putin is the face of that society, a dictator who thinks what's good for him is good for the nation and when the opposition began to creep up on him in recent years, he chose war as a political weapon, it's working too, as two thirds of Russians support the war, not that they know anything about it of course, just what they are programmed to know. Communist states always remind me of a chicken coup. Ever watched chickens? They have a strict hierarchy with everyone waiting to take a step up. The top one walks about handing out lessons but the minute that top chicken shows weakness, it's pounced upon by the rest and could be killed and everyone below takes a step up the ladder. .