Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24
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Yossarian
Get thee behind me, Santa
Does that desperate Tory twat actually think a lot of people are going to fall for that line of reasoning? "If you strike you must hate Christmas and love Putin."
"It's unfair, in my view, for the unions to really damage and disrupt people's lives and livelihoods at Christmas," Mr Zahawi told Laura Kuenssberg.
"They should rethink and reflect on this because that is exactly what Putin wants to see. Let's not divide, let's come together."
"It's unfair, in my view, for the unions to really damage and disrupt people's lives and livelihoods at Christmas," Mr Zahawi told Laura Kuenssberg.
"They should rethink and reflect on this because that is exactly what Putin wants to see. Let's not divide, let's come together."
Strikes unfair at Christmas, Tory chairman Nadhim Zahawi says
Nadhim Zahawi says President Putin "wants to see" strikes, as he outlines plans to avoid disruption.
www.bbc.com
not-bono-ever
meh
Scum
I'm happy to come together with the nurses and ambulance crew and transport workers and mail workers etc.Does that desperate Tory twat actually think a lot of people are going to fall for that line of reasoning? "If you strike you must hate Christmas and love Putin."
"It's unfair, in my view, for the unions to really damage and disrupt people's lives and livelihoods at Christmas," Mr Zahawi told Laura Kuenssberg.
"They should rethink and reflect on this because that is exactly what Putin wants to see. Let's not divide, let's come together."
Strikes unfair at Christmas, Tory chairman Nadhim Zahawi says
Nadhim Zahawi says President Putin "wants to see" strikes, as he outlines plans to avoid disruption.www.bbc.com
not-bono-ever
meh
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
And the current inflation crisis is not just about energy prices. But all the other causes are, more or less, the tories' fault so they keep schtum about those.
cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
Energy prices were sky-rocketing before the war, the price cap was first introduced in Jan 2019.
That first massive price cap increase at the end of March 2022 was based on wholesale prices for the six month period before the war had started.
Supine
Newt Member
That was based on the market seeing what was about to happen wasn’t it? The military buildup had been known about for some time.
Inflation is a different matter. It started rocketing from Q1 2020. Let’s not mention the B word though.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
Bovid?
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
I believe they're currently trying to
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Bollocks
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
This really is utter bollocks
Consumer price inflation, UK - Office for National Statistics
Price indices, percentage changes and weights for the different measures of consumer price inflation.
www.ons.gov.uk
Supine
Newt Member
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Not directly, but they're still very much clinging to the Thatcherite idea that the main cause of inflation is greedy workers.
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
"Our mission is crucial because the destruction of archives can be seen as part of cultural genocide" - Anatolii Khromov, head of Ukrainian State Archives. Russia has been systematically attacking Ukraine's cultural institutions, already having destroyed 300 state and university libraries since the start of the war.
A fascinating and disturbing article about the efforts to resist that cultural genocide:
www.theguardian.com
A fascinating and disturbing article about the efforts to resist that cultural genocide:
‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine
When Russia invaded Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic libraries in order to eradicate the Ukrainians’ sense of identity. But Putin hadn’t counted on the unbreakable spirit of the country’s librarians
not-bono-ever
meh
A Ukrainian official offered a cryptic appraisal of Monday’s explosions. “The Earth is round – discovery made by Galileo. Astronomy was not studied in Kremlin, giving preference to court astrologers. If it was, they would know: if something is launched into other countries’ airspace, sooner or later unknown flying objects will return to departure point,” wrote Mykhailo Podolyak, a presidential advisor.
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gosub
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Brinting money?
ska invita
back on the other side
Of course - that's because the Russians are basically successfully occupying the annexed territory.
There are only two options:
-1. ceasefire with a defacto "recognition" (however not really officially recognised, as is already the case with Crimea or Palestinian occupied territories), or
-2. endless war with the aim to push Russian troops out of all occupied territories
If #2 isn't militarily possible then what?
What are the things you expect Russia to "negotiate about in the first place"?
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Why don't you think its possible? It seems that the level if tech being provided to the Ukrainians continues to increase and their moral is good.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Despite the arse-kicking they're getting, the fundamental arrogance of the Russian high command doesn't seem to change. They act as if the Russian border is some magic barrier which nothing can cross. If those pictures in the Beeb story are really from a week ago they show the planes lined up on the runway like an airshow not like a country that's at war (no matter what they call it)
But they're not successfully occupying those provinces they only fully control one and from 30-70% of the remaining three and are steadily if slowly losing ground. Recognising Russia's annexation of them would enable Putin to end the war with more than he started with and more than he has now. It would probably enable him to secure his position and cling onto power and no-one bar Putin himself wants that.
It's clear that no-one even remotely expected the Ukrainians to be the absolute badasses they have turned out to be. Why should they accept what would be a humilating climbdown to end a war which they still have a realistic shot at winning even if it takes them a while?
But they're not successfully occupying those provinces they only fully control one and from 30-70% of the remaining three and are steadily if slowly losing ground. Recognising Russia's annexation of them would enable Putin to end the war with more than he started with and more than he has now. It would probably enable him to secure his position and cling onto power and no-one bar Putin himself wants that.
It's clear that no-one even remotely expected the Ukrainians to be the absolute badasses they have turned out to be. Why should they accept what would be a humilating climbdown to end a war which they still have a realistic shot at winning even if it takes them a while?
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ska invita
back on the other side
because the 'Ukraine is winning' narrative is deceptive
because i look at the occupied map and see its being broadly held
roughly equal casualties
ukrainian citizens are under horrendous unsustainable conditions
heres june 2022
now map
the tactical retreat to the river border in the west has created a strong Russian defence line - seems to be agreed by western analysts
why the fighting is now in the east
I cant see how looking from that anyone can foresee a total Russian rout.
Ĝasper
Well-Known Member
I can't answer for existentialist, but i feel as he does in his OP.
There's various reasons why the war in Ukraine affects people more. Personal connections to the culture and related cultures while growing up, for example.
Other people already knew the terror of war, or are no more or less affected by this war than previous wars. Fine. There is a related attitude I'd like to mention. Although I'm not saying it's your attitude.
Gilbert Achar the academic debates SWP type people who sit on their high horse and claim to have always been concerned with wars. So the outbreak of war in Ukraine is nothing special to them. In fact they undermine it.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
Firstly, I don't expect Russia to negotiate in good faith about anything. Anything at all.
Secondly, there's always more than two options, even if they're not immediately obvious at the moment.
And thirdly, ... erm...
Anyway, a lot of people never expected Russia to invade in the first place. A lot of people thought Kyiv would fall really quickly, the Ukrainian leadership scarper with loads of dosh under their arms, etc etc. Plenty thought there was no chance of any Ukrainian gains in the east.
Anything could happen.
I would add that the occupation is questionably successful. Does that mean the occupied population have enthusiastically rallied to the Russian flag? Is the economy thriving in those areas? Or have huge numbers of people either fled or been deported?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
If they agrees to let Moscow have the annexed areas, what then? It’s very clear that Putin won’t stop until he has all of Ukraine, so the threat will remain as long as he and his regime does.
ska invita
back on the other side
Of course not but there's a long history of military conquering and occupation in the world, including this particular piece of land.
I expect generations of resistance to any occupation.
And not Anything Can Happen. Military planning is all about cold hard reality and I don't think we get a good representation of that in our media, including smiling dog memes
ska invita
back on the other side
What he wants and what he can achieve are two different things.
A reluctant agreement on the border would likely lead to a highly militarised iron curtain arrangement
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