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When’s Trump going to condemn Putin? – politicalbetting.com
When’s Trump going to condemn Putin? – politicalbetting.com
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https://twitter.com/thatfoxxybloke/status/1499798096498376708
One for the Site’s Official Wanker, @Scott_xP
Course, if he does backpedal he'll just deny he ever said it.
https://twitter.com/JackDetsch/status/1499770470849294352
https://twitter.com/mari_nikuradze/status/1499795993537224712?s=21
I think they have made their choice. They are fighting to the last. One can only salute them
Qtwtaiy
Qtwtain
Suppose, however, something like a chemical weapons attack on a "non-Russian" city like Lviv. Or the brutal and very public execution of Zelenskyy. I think it's possible Putin faces down the west with something like that.
What then? Full naval blockade of British territorial waters? A limited nfz over western Ukraine?
Chelyabinsk said: Scott_xP said:What do my Brexiteer friends and former colleagues think of the fact that the EU has proven itself to be far more muscular and effective than the U.K. government led by Boris Johnson? Across the board: delivering weapons, increasing defence budgets and enforcing sanctions.
https://twitter.com/NickBoles/status/1499789959137484806
What do the Ukrainians think?
Telephone poll of 1,040 adults in Ukraine, 1-3 March 2022, weighted to be nationally representative. "Do you think each of the following are doing enough or not enough to help Ukraine?"
NATO: 23% enough, 65% not enough, net -42
The EU: 46% enough, 45% not enough, net +1
The United States: 44% enough, 49% not enough, net -5
The United Kingdom: 53% enough, 35% not enough, net +18
He loves a fascist strongman. Wants to be one. Just the thought thrills him.
And he's dumb as a post.
I love this concept that the EU have been much more muscular with military side of things.....the UK has been sending support for years, in particular past several months basically everything went via UK, and the training e.g. the SAS trained the SoF (who apparently have been doing extremely well against Russian VDV).
The Germans for instance thought sending some helmets until a couple of days ago was good enough and even yesterday sent them soviet era piece of shit weapons that have been stuck in a warehouse in Eastern Germany for the past 30 odd years. They are more likely to blow up the Ukrainians trying to use them.
But on the other hand that makes this event more remarkable. An entirely foreign country. Fervent
I have never made a noticeable moral stand on this site, but I am happy to nominate myself as PPS to the Official Wanker. I don't see what is anti UK or anti Brexit about being mildly displeased by our having the most corrupt and incompetent leader in the first world. you really think there is nothing remotely iffy about our kid glove handling of oligarchs? Pig Dog is bought and sold.
This comment makes me think this could be why NATO have not enforced no fly zones yet
EU score presumably due to the range of responses that includes. Pretty level headed scores on the whole - they know NATO could theoretically do a lot more than anyone, as a group, and that the USA could do a lot more than the UK.
Someone from work was lamenting that the SWIFT sanctions are as useful as chocolate teapot because the EU insisted on exempting too many banks and all of the payment activity has simply moved to the unsanctioned institutions like Sberbank. On the flip side the UK and US governments have locked almost all of the Russian financial industry out of London and NYC.
I think people are falling for the spin on sanctions coming out of Europe and see big shiny boats being impounded but don't realise that Russian industry and banking is on its knees because they simply can't pay their workers and people can't withdraw money due to sanctions implemented by the UK and US.
FWIW, I think that none of us has done as much as we could. It's great that we've helped, but we can do more. We can order the production of tens of thousands more MLAWs, so that we can ship them to Ukraine if they need them for a start.
Russian commanders moving further forward to get more control and impetus behind operations which have, in some cases, badly stalled. Those commanders are trying to impose their own personality on the battlefield but this in turn, is placing them at greater risk, w. officials say
Fragilities in systems,combined with remarkable Ukrainian resistance,has shocked Russian commanders, western officials say, and is having a psychological impact on Russian troops because of ferocity of the fight. But for all the problems, they are likely to adapt,say w. officials
https://twitter.com/gordoncorera/status/1499784845601521665
The Germans for instance thought sending some helmets until a couple of days ago was good enough and even yesterday sent them soviet era piece of shit weapons that have been stuck in a warehouse in Eastern Germany for the past 30 odd years. They are more likely to blow up the Ukrainians trying to use them.
It’s a crazy thought but if Ukraine miraculously wins they might just feel that seven years of training their army and early mass provision of weapons was more helpful to them than seizing two yachts.
The Germans for instance thought sending some helmets until a couple of days ago was good enough and even yesterday sent them soviet era piece of shit weapons that have been stuck in a warehouse in Eastern Germany for the past 30 odd years. They are more likely to blow up the Ukrainians trying to use them.
I don't think the Germans missiles will actually blow up, I think they will simply make a "pssss.... klum..." noise, and fail to fire.
That and it being totally insane.
But of course it is between him and his mods whether he chooses to do that.
That is oil from the wheel hubs leaking onto those tires from the hub to the ground.
The seals on those wheel hubs have failed due to dry rot.
One or more of those Pantsir-S1 wheel assemblies have seized from a lack of lubrication because of leaks through the dry rotted seals.
It takes about a year of not moving a vehicle for that to happen.
Those poor Russian conscripts are so screwed.
2/2
https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1499763286392385541
There were reports last night the EU are playing silly buggers with SWIFT and actually they only want bans on a limited number of Russian institutions.
Is Rotterdam still open to Russian shipping?
Felixstowe isn't.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/india-abstains-in-unhrc-vote-on-establishing-independent-commission-of-inquiry-on-russia-ukraine-crisis/article65190155.ece?homepage=true
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QlpTlz073k&
When he thinks it will benefit him to do so.
On paper, the Russians have modern fighter aircraft, modern missiles, ground based radars, and a few airborne radars. They also have, again on paper, an array of SAM systems that should be able to shoot down aircraft from Russia most of the way to Poland.
- Are they saving their fight for a battle with NATO?
- Are they so low on ammo/maintenance they can't do much?
- ?
One interesting analysis (from last week, I only got to read it this morning) suggested that the US and UK should deploy special forces in Ukraine to defend nuclear power stations from any Russian attacks due to the risk of catastrophic outcomes. I feel as though that junior researcher deserves a raise.
There are two sports which dominate Russia. Football and (ice) hockey.
The football. teams have been expelled from Europe. Their foreign players are leaving and contracts paid in Euros. Huge travel by plane.
The league can't continue for long with owners sanctioned.
Hockey. This is the KHL. They face all the same issues, as well as their Latvian and Finnish teams pulled out already.
This is the kind of thing which can't go unnoticed by your average Russian.
Whatever the propaganda.
He also said he thinks though that they are now getting it together.
https://lordashcroftpolls.com/2022/03/ukrainians-want-to-stay-and-fight-but-dont-see-russian-people-as-the-enemy-a-remarkable-poll-from-kyiv/
In fact, a few days back, people were explaining that Germany was being very sensible in asking UK military flights delivering weapons not to fly over Germany.
30 year solid fuel rocket motors are hate speech on the *recipient*.
A government the Tories have been keen to big up their close connections to.
One snippet:
“Indeed, 67% of Ukrainians said they would be willing to take up arms to defend the country against Russian troops, with a further 7% saying they were already doing so. 85% of men and 63% of women said they had already taken up arms or were willing to do so.”
Even allowing for bravado those are incredibly high numbers. Putin has roused an entire nation of 44m people and he’s got 30 million potential soldiers taking on his army
They will fight street by street. The only way Russia can win is by unthinkable savagery. Carpet bombing, chemical bombing, tactical nukes
https://ratinggroup.ua/en/research/ukraine/obschenacionalnyy_opros_ukraina_v_usloviyah_voyny_1_marta_2022.html
which was posted the other day.
Ecstatic and ardent support for Ukraine
Good to see a lot of England fans waving the flags as well. The power of the Premier League really is an asset
https://twitter.com/mari_nikuradze/status/1499800817011994624?s=21
They might be a game of good-cop bad-cop going on amongst the other mess. These guys have money, and many have power and influence, some even within the regime. Banging full sanctions immediately on all of them makes it rather difficult for us to talk to them and use their power and influence.
It might be that some are being targeted in different ways, to different degrees, in order to divide and separate, and to show them there is potentially a way out for them. But that is dependent on their cooperation.
Not in all cases, but I can imagine it is true for some.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9916429/Moment-Donald-Trump-BOOED-Alabama-rally-encouraging-supporters-vaccine.html
The other one that surprised me was their view of COVID and how the blue states and CDC have completely fucked it by politicising vaccines and mask wearing. I mean it's a self selecting cohort because they're in Mexico where the only reason to wear a mask is to avoid a 1000 peso "fine" from a corrupt police officer, still I was pretty shocked when they said most of their friends are pretty unhappy with the continuing COVID bullshit in CA and WA.
All in all a real learning experience for me, really surprised me that these basically left wing Dem voters were so fed up of liberal policies on crime/drugs but also on COVID they agreed with the consensus UK view that it's time to get off the train and call it.
(only joking, sorry).
“It’s time to bust the myth: Most Trump voters were not working class.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/05/its-time-to-bust-the-myth-most-trump-voters-were-not-working-class/
That he didn't get more says more about the political reality that the elected Republicans leadership in Congress remained VERY sceptical of Putin's Russia (Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and others made it pretty clear), and the efforts of Trump's babysitters and nappy-changers over four dismal years.
At some point in the near future, it will switch from a territorial war, to a war of resistance; which Russia is very ill equipped to fight.
Yeah, right.....
Or is Modi just sitting on the fence until he gets splinters in his arse?
Does Sainsbury’s banning Stolichnaya count as a sanction? If four supermarket chains do it is that four sanctions? If they do it to 50 brands of Russian vodka is that 200 sanctions on 50 entities, and what about the blinis?
What a ridiculous pile of statistical drivel
@FGoria
HUNGARY TO BAN ALL GRAIN EXPORTS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, RTL TELEVISION CITES HUNGARY MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE - RTRS
https://twitter.com/fgoria/status/1499810310286454787
I'm with Guy.
@guyverhofstadt
Putin will prevail unless we, Europeans, are willing to accept costs.
Our addiction to his fossil fuels funds Putin's war machine.
We need the political leadership to end ALL imports of Russian gas and oil NOW.
https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1499779049572507651
Not good
In fact to extend this further there is an optimal sanction, that is the one that pushes a powerful person to bring down Putin and end the war. I will happily sing the praises of whichever country figures that one out. Even France.
Heavy bombardment doesn't cause cities to fall.
It only makes defence and guerrilla activity easier.
If Putin wants to take cities he'll have to do more than bomb them. At some stage troops need to enter.
Stalingrad.
Though Wiki tells me Moscow claimed him as a patron saint.
Speaking more generally of intelligence services, what do we all make of the reports that repeated attempts on the life of President Zelenskyy have been thwarted, in part, by leaks from within the FSB? It has also been suggested that much of the Western security services' very detailed knowledge of the Russian invasion operation has come from FSB sources, i.e. that the organisation is leaking like a sieve. One therefore wonders how much opposition to Putin exists within the organs of the Russian state itself?