Current Affairs Ukraine

[davek]

Stop with the propaganda Dave, Putin Died a few weeks ago... He's being kept in a freezer in his house, Beside the Christmas turkey. They'll thaw him out and bury him once his double announces that he's not running in the next election and is retiering to a remote unnamed village.

Oh yeah, I read that in Spadge Pravda.

 

[mightymoyes]

had a look back over last few pages, can't see any mention of the news, as suspected all along, it was Ukrainian intelligence (with US assistance in all probability) that blew up the nord stream pipeline

 

[COYBL25]

Yeah, finally had to do that myself. First time I've used the ignore function, but it has made this thread a lot better. Otherwise it's like listening to these two dubbed by Kremlin propagandists:

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I’ve stuck the Vlad bot on ignore, but I just can’t do it with Dave.

You’d be missing out gems like him riding around on his bike, as a self appointed covid marshal, spinning turbine blades over Bramley Moore, the pointing on the wall of the new ground, his Jihad on Keir Starmer and Nathan Patterson and his switch to the Green Party, even though he can‘t name a single MP.

 

[ramacca]

Oh yeah, I read that in Spadge Pravda.

Yeah, straight from the UK Ministry of Propaganda and Institute of Gobbledygook.

 

[Goat]

had a look back over last few pages, can't see any mention of the news, as suspected all along, it was Ukrainian intelligence (with US assistance in all probability) that blew up the nord stream pipeline

That will be due to it not being news mate.

Its just a made up story in a newspaper.

 

[verreauxi]

I’ve stuck the Vlad bot on ignore, but I just can’t do it with Dave.

You’d be missing out gems like him riding around on his bike, as a self appointed covid marshal, spinning turbine blades over Bramley Moore, the pointing on the wall of the new ground, his Jihad on Keir Starmer and Nathan Patterson and his switch to the Green Party, even though he can‘t name a single MP.

You make a strong case for comedy gold. I'll give my ignore a trial run and revisit in a week or two. I just can't do the constant octogenerian, stick-to-your-guns at all costs, dogmatism. It is tiresome.

 

[davek]

Yeah, straight from the UK Ministry of Propaganda and Institute of Gobbledygook.

The feller trawls the blogs of War Games nerds all day and then spews it up on here.

 

[Goat]

Yeah, straight from the UK Ministry of Propaganda and Institute of Gobbledygook.

The feller trawls the blogs of War Games nerds all day and then spews it up on here.

 

[ramacca]

Update from the front line.

 

[ramacca]

The US Empire is passing the baton to Europe. 'You finance our proxy war with Russia, because we're not interested anymore. We've bigger fish to fry in the middle east'.

 

[davek]

This podcast is decent in conveying the front line reality Ukraine face. It's by Luke Harding a real western stooge who fitted up Assange and who was spying in Russia for Washington, but if you can get past the BS spin about this conflict it's worth a listen - especially the impact of drone warfare.

Has Putin got the upper hand in Ukraine? – podcast

With attention on the Middle East, Ukraine seems to be at a stalemate – which may sound like good news for Russia, but is not so straightforward

www.theguardian.com

 

[ramacca]

More from the front line.

 

[ramacca]

Today could well be D-Day for Zelensky.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Today could well be D-Day for Zelensky.

I will take this one on. The NGO with a sterling reputation is the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which was originally attached to Georgetown University. It's unabashedly pro-American. They do good work, but one does have to account for the bias.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies in London has built a good reputation. Its long-time director (thirty years) is John Chipman, KCMG, whose degrees (in order of attainment) are from Harvard, LSE and Oxford. I wouldn't consider him a noted scholar, but he's no one's fool.

As far as I can tell, Elena Panina is a long-serving member of the Russian Duma (1997-2021). She has zero affiliation with the IISS, that I can see.

 

[davek]

Today could well be D-Day for Zelensky.

He'll hold our for a billion dollars for him and his missus...each.