Current Affairs Ukraine

[Charro]

Facebook Announces ‘Narrow Exception’ for Previously Censored Neo-Nazi ‘Azov Battalion’.

thenationalpulse.com

For Facebook the ends justifies the means. But for the Azov battalion, most of them are probably already dead, and the rest are experiencing a little of what it must of been like for the Germans at Stalingrad.

Interesting source mate.

Are you aware of it's editor in chief Raheem Kassam?

Former contributor to breitbart, advisor to Nigel Farage and author of a book called "Enoch was right"

Just thought you should know. Wouldn't want you taking alt-right media at face value now.

 

[bcblue1878]

No they wouldn't.

Soviet military doctrine is based on attritional capacity "we have so many more troops than you we can afford to keep losing them - you'll run out before we do." Look at practically every Soviet military operation from Stalingrad onwards. Look at post-Soviet Russian operations in Afghanistan, Chechnya, take your pick.

Ukraine has a total population of 45m - at least it did before Putin started murdering them - and Russia has 25m men of military service-eligible age... Plus conscription.

Russia wants the gas and oil, and deployed troops it is perfectly happy to sacrifice in order to take control of the gas and oil. If Putin loses 100,000 troops to kill 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers, he'll have destroyed 50% of the UKR military for the cost of maybe 10% of his own. But his pool of potential conscripts is far larger and his crushing control of state media means he can draw drops from various parts of Russia and no-one inside the country would ever see the bigger picture.

He's not withdrawing in the face of 10,000 or 20,000 Russian casualties. Not a chance.

Very sad but I fear you’re right!

 

[Tree13]

I'll just stick to the two facts you stated. The rest is pile.
'NATO has no interest in invading Russian' - they don't need to, they have the markets to do that.
'Russia invaded Ukraine- yes

It is a fact that by invading an annexing Ukraine - as is clearly the intention, in order to steal the oil and gas - Russia's new border with NATO countries will be longer, and include more NATO countries.

That's not "pile". Don't take my word for it, look at a map of eastern Europe.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

I'll just stick to the two facts you stated. The rest is pile.
'NATO has no interest in invading Russian' - they don't need to, they have the markets to do that.
'Russia invaded Ukraine- yes

Repeat this like a mantra until it sinks in, then reflect upon it and the lives being lost as a result of this action.

 

[BlueTX]

Can we get shirts like with squad numbers?

I wore #17 in my sporting days. Been holding my powder for just this reason.

 

[Tree13]

This scene from Archer immediately comes to mind

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Bloody LOVE that show.

 

[bluebud]

Can we get shirts like with squad numbers?

@Bungle director of football, squad list please.

@Zatara manager formation, please.

 

[Tree13]

So as it stands its 100,000 Russian troops dead

2 million Ukrainian citizens dead

4 Ukrainian troops wounded but they sucked the bullets out and spat them at the Russians.

All from TellMeWhatIWannaHear.com

Pass us some that glue.

Pretty childish, don't you think?

 

[Tree13]

@Bungle director of football, squad list please.

@Zatara manager formation please.

@Zatara can't have a position of authority - he'll immediately sell anyone in the squad who is older than an embryo.

 

[Blue Roo]

That is quite a lot of hot air, mate.

maybe my hot air could help with the gas crisis, got plenty more where that came from ?
All the same, what do you dispute? I'm genuinely interested.

 

[larrygobfiend]

Apart from a few nutters, it’s kinda nice to be unified on something considering we’ve all been at each other’s throats for years.

 

[Blue Roo]

It is a fact that by invading an annexing Ukraine - as is clearly the intention, in order to steal the oil and gas - Russia's new border with NATO countries will be longer, and include more NATO countries.

That's not "pile". Don't take my word for it, look at a map of eastern Europe.

How long have you been looking at that map for

 

[bcblue1878]

@Bungle director of football, squad list please.

@Zatara manager formation, please.

@Kev The Rat - shirt sponsor?

 

[Blue Roo]

Sergei with the wind in his sails.
It's sickening people dismissing what has led to this horror.
No lessons learnt from the lives lost.
Honour the dead on both sides with the only thing many of us can do right now - talk, think, feel with nuance and umderstanding.
This is deeply distressing, as all war is.
The irony and contradiction of dismissing the history and political economy that has lead to - what will be a legacy of trauma through the generations, you know the type, where you see a man's life in devastation, a family ruined and we put it down to alcoholism when it started when his grandfather shot an enemy soldier...who had shot his mate.
To simply wrap this up and put it down to the workings of a madman and his evil and outdated regime before moving onto the next Netflix series would betray the concerns we all feel.
I for one won't be barricking the West on this one.
Thank god we've got the Blues for that - something worthy of cheering on.

@Spadge Vernacular

 

[Tree13]

Abramovich confirmed his plans to sell in a statement on Wednesday evening and said net proceeds from the sale would be donated to a charitable foundation which would be “for the benefit of all victims of the war in Ukraine”. He said he would not be asking for the money he has loaned Chelsea since buying the club in 2003 to be repaid.

Wow.

That's a huge gesture, presuming he follows through on it. I doubt he's going to get any more birthday cards from Putin, unless they contain novichok.