Current Affairs Ukraine

[SteveSC]

Haha hilarious!

Just for anyone who's thinking that do they even sell computers.

That's not what they are pulling. Most of what they do is services and support. Essentially run your IT and supply the equipment.

 

[Yarrgh]

I know I'll get thread banned for giving Putin the secrets of the forum... but maybe stick the convoy in rice?

 

[peteblue]

mail….

”In an astonishing display of sabre-rattling, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned London: 'Russia will not forget Britain's desire to co-operate with ultra-nationalist forces in Ukraine and the supply of British weapons to the Kiev regime'.

She added: 'The sanctions hysteria in which London plays one of the leading, if not the main, roles, leaves us no choice but to take proportionately tough retaliatory measures. London has made a final choice of open confrontation with Russia.

'Such a development convinces us once more that Russophobia and the aim to undermine the Russian state are integral elements of Britain's foreign policy.”…..


Good. I hope she also remembers that Britain supplied Russia with the tools to defeat that other tyrant Hitler……

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[everton fan number one]

This guy's now like one of the three people's I've followed on Twitter, cheers

 

[Tree13]

Bennett travelling on Shabbat is highly unusual so must be serious.

Strangely, first media to break the news was Amad media, a small Palestinian news site seen as close to breakaway Fatah member Mohammad Dahlan, who is based in the UAE.

I'm not up to speed with the peculiarities of media outlets in Israel, Palestine or anywhere in that region; what's the significance of Amad media breaking this story?

 

[PhilM]

This guy's now like one of the three people's I've followed on Twitter, cheers

The Twitter he's quoting has some pretty graphic videos from both sides.

 

[Gabagool]

”In an astonishing display of sabre-rattling, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned London: 'Russia will not forget Britain's desire to co-operate with ultra-nationalist forces in Ukraine and the supply of British weapons to the Kiev regime'.

She added: 'The sanctions hysteria in which London plays one of the leading, if not the main, roles, leaves us no choice but to take proportionately tough retaliatory measures. London has made a final choice of open confrontation with Russia.

'Such a development convinces us once more that Russophobia and the aim to undermine the Russian state are integral elements of Britain's foreign policy.”…..

Could this be them going on the offensive in order to put the UK on the back foot, to reduce the chances of them actually addressing Russian money within the political sphere used to gain influence, as well as the obscene amount of money sat in the laundry basket that is the City of London?

 

[ste d' indica]

I can't talk about military strategy, or financial implications or even geopolitics with much more than a newsreader's understanding, but this is actually somewhat in my wheelhouse.

One of the ramifications of this is in cyber warfare. Russia's forays into it are well known as a proactive disrupter, but its now got to contend with large parts of Russia PLC, government, and perhaps even lower tier military becoming increasingly vulnerable to attack as PCs, servers, routers, firewalls etc stop receiving updates. Not to mention cloud security solutions, SOCs, consultancy, application management etc. Anonymous will be limbering up....

 

[peteblue]

Could this be them going on the offensive in order to put the UK on the back foot, to reduce the chances of them actually addressing Russian money within the political sphere used to gain influence, as well as the obscene amount of money sat in the laundry basket that is the City of London?

I wouldn’t possibly comment…..

 

[Tin-Tin]

This is exactly what Putin wants and Lavrov espouses. We do what we want, if you try to stop us it’s WW3. But realistically even Putin knows that the end result would obviously be hundreds of millions dead but the complete destruction and removal of Russia from the planet…it’s the words of a bully that’s been allowed to get away with it…..

Putin is quite unpredictable. There is no way he will want to fail in Ukraine, or be seen as weak and a failure. Plus he's 70 years old this year. There is every chance he could say screw it and just fire off a nuclear weapon.

 

[peteblue]

I can't talk about military strategy, or financial implications or even geopolitics with much more than a newsreader's understanding, but this is actually somewhat in my wheelhouse.

One of the ramifications of this is in cyber warfare. Russia's forays into it are well known as a proactive disrupter, but its now got to contend with large parts of Russia PLC, government, and perhaps even lower tier military becoming increasingly vulnerable to attack as PCs, servers, routers, firewalls etc stop receiving updates. Anonymous will be limbering up....

Russia has bought up the Worlds total reserves of ZX81’s……..

 

[Gabagool]

Interesting article in WP



link w/o paywall: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www...ecurity/2022/03/05/ukraine-military-strategy/

 

[peteblue]

Putin is quite unpredictable. There is no way he will want to fail in Ukraine, or be seen as weak and a failure. Plus he's 70 years old this year. There is every chance he could say screw it and just fire off a nuclear weapon.

He can’t fire it. Someone else has to actually do that. I appreciate that he has nothing like the checks and balances of the USA President nor the U.K. PM, but he cannot just do it on his own……

 

[Tin-Tin]

Both hilarious and terrifying