Current Affairs Ukraine

[Noisy noise annoys]

Imagine going to war lead by a Prime Minister who has told the British public he needs to wait for Sue Gray and now Cressida [Poor language removed], to tell him whether he attended the party in his own flat on 13 November 2020.

lol

 

[Jebus_lives]

Imagine what Putin will do to this Prime Minister if cake can ambush him.

 

[tommytowne]

Skies above me over the past few days full of both UK and USA jet fighters on training manoeuvres. Both day and night the roar from the engined when they switch on their afterburners.

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

Seize the property, sell it to the highest bidder, stick the proceeds in the government's coffers and tell Moscow to come get it if they want it back.

Excellent idea, but who then will donate to & bribe our conservative MP's??? Who will drive up the cost of housing???

I suggest we show Moscow some communist intervention/repartition of property. Who gets Chelsea FC?

 

[Martin Alvito]

Excellent idea, but who then will donate to & bribe our conservative MP's??? Who will drive up the cost of housing???

I suggest we show Moscow some communist intervention/repartition of property. Who gets Chelsea FC?

Hypothetically, if Labour were in power they could run an investigation, make the relevant findings, cripple the Tories and make their base insanely happy by pulling housing prices back.

They'd probably then put Chelsea into a trust overseen by Sir Tony, which would undo all the good work they'd done with respect to increasing their popularity.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

 

[Martin Alvito]

Putin today saying that the West has not given:

"adequate consideration of our three key demands regarding NATO expansion, the renunciation of the deployment of strike weapons systems near Russian borders, and the return of the [NATO] bloc's military infrastructure in Europe to the state of 1997, when the Russia-NATO founding act was signed."

I'll give him #2. I'll throw in the Obama administration's insistence on developing hyper-accurate MIRV targeting, producing silo-busters. I'd be edgy about those things, if I were him.

Not budging on #1 is a problem, because it's a non-starter. The universe where the US gives Putin veto power over the political outputs of Article I and II does not exist. If he wants special status for Ukraine, he can probably get it. He'd probably have to cough up Crimea, which isn't happening.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Now seeing large number of Russian troop movements to link up with pre-positioned equipment.

The next phase will be the forward deployment of air assault units. Once this happens I think then it’ll kick off.

 

[Martin Alvito]

The Ukraine Crisis Is Not Going Well for Putin

The Russian president wanted to drive a wedge between NATO’s allies. His plan is backfiring spectacularly.

slate.com

This is just a weird take. Putin clearly splinters Germany, and the whole thing is backfiring? Not sure we're inhabiting the same reality, boyo.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

But then crooks all over the world wouldn't want to launder their money in the UK. Back to the drawing board pal, no one in power wants to lose that revenue stream.

Cant see that happening self interest is key here... Its all well and good others speaking about other people countries and what they should be doing. The UK needs to look itself and address the flow of monies out of Russia and into the UK..

As Moscow muscles in on Ukraine, Russian money still poisons our shores

It is on the borders that you see the threads coming apart. In Ukraine and Bosnia the danger unravelling in Europe feels urgent as agreements that have kept us safe and peaceful are being challenged. With 100,000 Russian troops massed on the border it’s easy to focus on them, but it’s not just...

www.cityam.com

Would not be at all surprised that Boris has had right ticking off from Biden about Russian dirty money as suggested here, hence why his personal appearance and interventions

US issues warning over Russian 'dirty money' in the UK

US authorities are concerned Britain's threats to levy sanctions against Putin are empty after years of allowing Russian elites to funnel billions of pounds into 'Londongrad' to buy influence.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Further credence to the Russian dirty money.

Dirty money from Russia is damaging to Britain

For too long this government has allowed dirty money from Russia to flood into the City of London. This not only undermines our efforts to confront Vladimir Put

www.thetimes.co.uk

 

[peteblue]

Skies above me over the past few days full of both UK and USA jet fighters on training manoeuvres. Both day and night the roar from the engined when they switch on their afterburners.

Where is this ?…..

 

[tommytowne]

Where is this ?…..

Right above me as I type this. North Sea off East Yorkshire coast. In full flow again, has been for last four weeks.

 

[tommye]

Lads.
Ukraine needs our help.


Let's do what we can GOTters


Godspeed ?

 

[spectateur]

Skies above me over the past few days full of both UK and USA jet fighters on training manoeuvres. Both day and night the roar from the engined when they switch on their afterburners.

A lot of French Air Force activity over central France last 48h., particularly at night.

 

[tommytowne]

A lot of French Air Force activity over central France last 48h., particularly at night.

Yes 24 hrs here as well. No escaping it at present a bit more lower level activity going on. I'm thinking they're using the Humber Bridge as a target for their bombing practice runs.
Anyway, loose lips and all that. Vladimir will be monitoring all this free info so I'll knock it in the head for now and crack on with my nuclear bomb fallout shelter I'm building under the stairs