Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

[belboid]

I checked with the journos on twitter. They called it a COBR meeting.

Now that they don’t usually meet in room A of the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms any more means they’ve largely dumped that bit of the acronym

 

[Dystopiary]

Ursula von der Leyen on twitter says the EU "and its partners" (what - trade partners? What exactly does this mean?) will react with unity. Don't see how with their very different interests here.

The recognition of the two separatist territories in #Ukraine is a blatant violation of international law, the territorial integrity of Ukraine and the #Minsk agreements. The EU and its partners will react with unity, firmness and with determination in solidarity with Ukraine.

 

[donkyboy]

It will be interesting to see what sanctions this government applies. the last time the Russians did something naughty (like practically use chemical weapon on British soil), they got a slap on the wrist from their Tory friends.

 

[Spymaster]

My word. Pure theatre.

The kind of thing you'd more expect from that North Korean bellend.

 

[friedaweed]

I checked with the journos on twitter. They called it a COBR meeting.

Yeah Boris can't make it apparently which means just like there's 'no I in Team' (unless it's in the A-hole) then there's no A in COBR for this meeting.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Suspending their access to SWIFT would make things tricky for the wider petrodollar flows, but their new best mates China will take everything they are offered assuming logistics allow and ultimately supply most of Russia’s imports anyway Putin should have put measures in place to circumvent even more sanctions most likely. It a frightful situation that Vlad has put us into

 

[Ming]

Now that they don’t usually meet in room A of the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms any more means they’ve largely dumped that bit of the acronym

Shame that. Great acronym.

 

[friedaweed]

My word. Pure theatre.

The kind of thing you'd more expect from that North Korean bellend.

To be fair he's playing the chumps Boris and Joe a blinder really.

"When will we be able to stay up and watch Shock and Awe again daddy?"
"George please stop talking to that picture of Joe, he's not your daddy".

 

[friedaweed]

Now that they don’t usually meet in room A of the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms any more means they’ve largely dumped that bit of the acronym

That's a shame for SGE too now they don't need any scientific advisors to deal with covid.

 

[Spymaster]

To be fair he's playing the chumps Boris and Joe a blinder really.

"When will we be able to stay up and watch Shock and Awe again daddy?"
"George please stop talking to that picture of Joe, he's not your daddy".

I disagree he's playing anyone.

I think the bloke's off his fucking head and we're in an extremely dangerous situation.

 

[Humberto]

I disagree he's playing anyone.

I think the bloke's off his fucking head and we're in an extremely dangerous situation.

That's a reckon, mine is that he is looking for a domestic boost.

 

[Humberto]

But yeah fuck these guys for treating others so cheaply I must add.

 

[RileyOBlimey]

Looking at the territory Putin is half inching, it indicates he’s bottled it. His big show today was a likely an effort to make him look all powerful and dangerous when he’s mostly backed down.

 

[friedaweed]

I disagree he's playing anyone.

I think the bloke's off his fucking head and we're in an extremely dangerous situation.

He's playing the game all the way? We have him down as a naked horse riding sociopath but then we get all meh! when he plays a curveball like this in the form of a naked horse riding sociopath.

I thinks he's played his first move quite well here. Putin has always had a pokerface and is a long game player.

Boris and Joe on the other hand have shown their cards before the croupier has joined the table.

Now they're waiting for old freedom fries to sort it out

 

[friedaweed]

he’s mostly backed down.

By gaining half the buffet table without firing a bullet?

 

[Aladdin]

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[RileyOBlimey]

By gaining half the buffet table without firing a bullet?

A tiny fraction of Ukraine is not half the buffet table.

 

[friedaweed]

Ukraine: Putin orders troops into Donetsk and Luhansk on ‘peacekeeping duties’​

Putin orders troops into eastern Ukraine on ‘peacekeeping duties’

Russian deployment follows decision to recognise territories in south-east will be viewed in Ukraine and by other western allies as an occupation

www.theguardian.com

 

[ohmyliver]

The US have moved their diplomatic staff to Poland. Which suggests that they think that Russia is going invade the whole of Ukraine.

 

[CyberRose]

A tiny fraction of Ukraine is not half the buffet table.

I suppose it depends which side of the table the food is on. Here's the average salary map of Ukraine (from 2009, so obviously could have changed a lot since then)...

 

[friedaweed]

A tiny fraction of Ukraine is not half the buffet table.

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Well they have the Vol-au-Vents covered, what makes you think they wont want the chicken legs next?

I am joking but you have to give Vlad his due, he is turning up with a Partridge sized plate now when only yesterday people chinned he'd be tail between his legs.

 

[friedaweed]

I suppose it depends which side of the table the food is on. Here's the average salary map of Ukraine (from 2009, so obviously could have changed a lot since then)...
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Looks like a lot of the pastries are beyond the reach of Auric but the chicken satay skewers are clearly there for the taking.

 

[Shechemite]

just read some bits translated of the speech that Putin just gave on russian tv and am now appropriately terrified. I had no idea he was like this. he says Ukraine was never a proper country, but not just Ukraine, he says that it was 'madness' that national republics were ever given the right to leave the Russian Empire.

He’s been on about it for years.

 

[JimW]

He’s been on about it for years.

He wrote a long essay last summer that garnered a fair amount of comment/mockery: Article by Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“

 

[gosub]

Ursula von der Leyen on twitter says the EU "and its partners" (what - trade partners? What exactly does this mean?) will react with unity. Don't see how with their very different interests here.

On the plus side. That's Scotland dealt with

 

[Aladdin]

He’s been on about it for years.

He's got the mother Rus on the brain and of course Ukraine was considered the motherland of the Rus.

 

[gosub]

UNSC meeting 9pm EST

 

[moochedit]

UNSC meeting 9pm EST

Whats the point? Russia has a veto.

 

[Raheem]

Whats the point? Russia has a veto.

Which means there will be no resolution.

But various countries will get to have their say, and China will have to state some sort of position.

 

[Dogsauce]

Putin has said that Ukraine are planning to create a nuclear weapon you couldn't make it up could you ?

I wonder where he got that idea as a pretext to invasion from?