WW3 -All Russia / Ukraine stuff here please-

Swango1980 said:
Yeah, and likely true as verified by a Nobel prize-winning paper Novoya Gazeta. It makes you wonder, do the Russian police have a heart? Surely they do not actually have the same mindset as Putin, or at least a lot of them. So, I wonder if many of them are thinking "why the hell am I locking up children, what has my life become!?"
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Also, strangely, reported in the Siberian Times.
 
GB72 said:
Nto sure if it is a worry or a relief, could work either way, but the view seems to be at the moment that the Russian ground forces and non nuclear forces in general do not appear to be the massive threat to Western Europe that they were assumed to be. Did I read that somthing like 60% of Russia's ground troops were on the borders for this invasion. OK the nuclear side remains very scary for someone like me who lived through cold war one and the concern is that this is where they will go if this ever escalates but the ground capabilities do not seem as frightening as I always thought.
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Russian forces under the old USSR where never considered a major threat in a conventional war. While I was in,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_the_British_Army_at_the_end_of_the_Cold_War shows how the strategic reviews carried out by successive governments have crippled the military.
We were fairly confident with the NATO forces we had even if others might not have been.
 
drdel said:
I would not put your shirt on it - there's not much logic going on at the moment and plenty of his cronies are pushing him for a harder line.
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And you know this how?
Seems to me your taking a propoganda approach with few, if any, substantive facts!
 
Liverpoolphil said:
How far back do you want to go in life ?‍♂️ - what is the relevance of what GB have done in the past centuries ?
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Romans in 55BC; Norse in later centuries; French in 1066!
All irrelevant to UK's (now) natural affinity to use exploration and trade to increase wealth!
 
Unconfirmed reports from captured Tank crews is that they were on an extension to the previous main exercise in Belarus. They were told to drive down “that road” for 80kms and then come back.
Many Russian combat vehicles do not have communication and nor did this lot have maps.
 
Fade and Die said:
Interesting indeed, India and South Africa especially!
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Plus Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
There must be something about the subcontinent countries that means they don't want to upset Putin. Just a guess, but maybe they get pretty much all of their oil and gas from Russia?
 
cliveb said:
Plus Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
There must be something about the subcontinent countries that means they don't want to upset Putin. Just a guess, but maybe they get pretty much all of their oil and gas from Russia?
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Pakistan have just signed a massive gas deal with Russia. African countries normally adopt a “where keeping out of this” on security issues at the UN.
Time to start wondering, outside of the aid agency, what a very expensive organisation the UN is and what is it’s purpose.
 
cliveb said:
Plus Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
There must be something about the subcontinent countries that means they don't want to upset Putin. Just a guess, but maybe they get pretty much all of their oil and gas from Russia?
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Think that slime ball Imran Khan just did a deal with Russia to buy grain and oil so I’m not surprised by them. The bengalis will just follow Pakistan, don’t know about Sri Lanka, will have to do a bit of digging.
 
Fade and Die said:
Think that slime ball Imran Khan just did a deal with Russia to buy grain and oil so I’m not surprised by them. The bengalis will just follow Pakistan, don’t know about Sri Lanka, will have to do a bit of digging.
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India seemed to get the vast majority of their oil from the Middle East. Russia were only 14th on their list of import countries.
 
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