Current Affairs Ukraine

[Rita_Poon]

Was proud of Wimbledon for that, not been happier with em since the 88 cup final.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

I've always thought it to be counter productive for Ukraine to demand no Russian athletes at all play in any sport. They missed a big trick with this and could have curried favour in the west by identifying with the culture of individualism that the hand wringing liberals covet.

Also, it makes headaches for western sports events: as with Wimbledon, who caved in after being demoted by the WTA and ATP a couple of years back.

They can let all the athletes they want back as far as I am concerned, the nation as a whole will not be welcomed anywhere other than North Korea for many years. You can spin it however you want, the whole thing has been a disaster entirely of their own making.

 

[Kev The Rat]

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

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Do you not like the good ‘ol USA Kev?

 

[davek]

Reuters:

Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out the routine autumn conscription campaign, calling up 130,000 citizens for statutory military service, a document posted on the government website showed on Friday.

Reuters reports:

All men in Russia are required to do a year-long military service between the ages of 18 and 27, or equivalent training while in higher education.
Putin’s move comes as Russia’s armed forces press on with their “special military operation” in Ukraine, now in its 20th month.
The president, who signed an order in March calling up 147,000 people for the spring campaign, said this month he was bracing for a long war in Ukraine.
In July, Russia’s lower house of parliament voted to raise the maximum age at which men can be conscripted to 30 from 27. The new legislation comes into effect on 1 January 2024. Last year, Russia announced a plan to boost its professional and conscripted combat personnel by more than 30% to 1.5 million, an ambitious task made harder by its heavy but undisclosed casualties in Ukraine.

 

[Charro]

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Do you see anybody denying that on here?

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

 

[Kev The Rat]

Reuters:

Russia has basically taken the opportunity while the Ukros have killed themselves to rebuild their army which is now a massive reserve ready to repel any possible attempt to initiate a diversionary war in the Caucasus, the Belarus and Kalingrad regions, the Baltic or Far East.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Spoiler: similar from nazi germany

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Russia has basically taken the opportunity while the Ukros have killed themselves to rebuild their army which is now a massive reserve ready to repel any possible attempt to initiate a diversionary war in the Caucasus, the Belarus and Kalingrad regions, the Baltic or Far East.

Pity they’ve got no one left to train them or any decent tanks for them to ride about in.

 

[Kev The Rat]

Pity they’ve got no one left to train them or any decent tanks for them to ride about in.

That’s right they ran out of missiles I’m week 4 and tanks I’m week 8 am I right ?

 

[Kev The Rat]

Do you see anybody denying that on here?

Nope. And this is just another in a long line of those interventions

 

[COYBL25]

Reuters:

Cue a mass exodus of any man in that age range.

 

[roydo]

That’s right they ran out of missiles I’m week 4 and tanks I’m week 8 am I right ?

Not entirely sure what the question is.

 

[Kev The Rat]

Not entirely sure what the question is.

Mario nut case was claiming the Russians have run out of errr … everything