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Ukraine and the Russian invasion, 2022-24

Narcissistic prick.
Yeh. But he's far from being a stupid narcissistic prick. He may have a poor hand but he's played it bloody well, playing a significant part in polarising domestic politics in the United States and with the wherewithal to make things difficult again there this year. Debts have been mentioned on this thread and should djt win again he's already signalled he'll pay his.
 
No you are not. When people support a particular state or organisation, they are not necessarily actively supporting evertyhing that that state or organisation does.
But when that country is also committing war crimes pretty much daily as part of an illegal invasion, and snatching children, bombing hospitals and homes and killing civilians in their thousands, it should make it morally impossible for anyone to support them.
 
But when that country is also committing war crimes pretty much daily as part of an illegal invasion, and snatching children, bombing hospitals and homes and killing civilians in their thousands, it should make it morally impossible for anyone to support them.

A lot of that would also apply to the USA in recent years. Even the child snatching - done at the border. I'm not pro-Russia - it just struck me that you could apply it all to the US.
 
But when that country is also committing war crimes pretty much daily as part of an illegal invasion, and snatching children, bombing hospitals and homes and killing civilians in their thousands, it should make it morally impossible for anyone to support them.
There has to be some positives about the state. Perhaps the trains run on time.
 
I’ve always thought that the threat of Arriva Trains Northern getting a contract in Russia is why they don’t like the West
If they're worried about that, then they will have bought a majority shareholding using a global web of financial deception.
 
No you are not. When people support a particular state or organisation, they are not necessarily actively supporting evertyhing that that state or organisation does.

Of course. But if that regime does 1,000,000,000,000 reprehensible things and their whole thrust is repressive and aggressive, supporting them does sorta say something.
 
Last night [21/22] the russians fired 150+ drones & missiles into Ukraine.

Targets seem to be largely civilian / energy infrastructures.
UKR shot down 92 items ...

Previous attack on 21st was 31 missiles fired at Kyiv - UKR shot all of those down.
 
There are 8000 legionnaires in total. Even Napoleon took loads more than that to attack Russia. His little jaunt cost over 250,000 French troops dead plus about the same wounded or taken prisoner.
In the words of pushkin, as quoted by medvedev,

“Then send your numbers without number,

Your maddened sons, your goaded slaves,

In Russia’s plains there’s room to slumber,

And well they’ll know their brethren’s graves!"
 

US urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries​


“Nothing terrifies a sitting American president more than a surge in pump prices during an election year,” said Bob McNally, president of consultancy Rapidan Energy and a former White House energy adviser.

you'd have thought that the prospect of the collapse of civilisation due to climate change might
 
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