I live in Ukraine.
Seen the price of fuel recently?
This is going to impact all of us I am afraid, it doesn't mean we are going to have tanks rolling down our streets - but more holistic impacts.
I believe Russia has 900k active military personnel.
Good grief.If only this guy was still around...View attachment 37862
I would have expected someone who lives in Ukraine to know that Russia's invasion force of 180-200,000 is significantly less than Ukraine's 215,000 active army + 200,000 called up trained reserves. We won't mention the 60,000 new territorial guards as they're not much more than a last resort although they are freeing up trained soldiers to go elsewhere.
I believe Russia has 900k active military personnel.
Same old bullshit from him.He's claiming that sanctions are an act of war.
I don't live in Ukraine, I was posting something from a friend who a friend of a friend who lives in Ukraine.
Hence the quotes.
If that's the case they are going to need all of them plus more to attack, subdue and conquer a force of 215k regular army plus 200k reservistI believe Russia has 900k active military personnel.
So a friend of a friend of a friend.I don't live in Ukraine, I was posting something from a friend who a friend of a friend who lives in Ukraine.
Hence the quotes.
Plus 40 million reluctant residents.If that's the case they are going to need all of them plus more to attack, subdue and conquer a force of 215k regular army plus 200k reservist
No, we get a confused, patchy sense of what is happening on the ground. I may be cautiously optimistic, but this conflict is by no means over, hence the caution.
But you cannot take a country the size of Ukraine, with a population of 45 million with 200k troops. Especially as they are facing a well equipped modern force of comparable size in the conflict area. The Russians can capture a city here and there, but is that city under their control and subdued? How many troops do they need to station per city? What is the overall strategic plan here? Is eventually levelling every city one by one going to secure any thing other than eternal enmity? Can Russia sustain the current level of losses even accounting for Ukraine over estimating them?
And that’s not even taking into account sanctions starting to bite.
He’s said that we don’t know the real figures as both sides are manipulating the truth. Especially understandable from the Ukrainian side as they need to keep morale up.They've CHOSEN to disconnect from the world. They're even shutting down Twitter and Facebook or any other source of independent media from their own citizens to 'protect' them from 'misinformation' and reprimanding their own civilians for calling the war a war, rather than an 'operation'.
Your instance that we should all see things from the poor Russians point of view is what's "fucking retarded", to use your phrasing.
On Page 1160 you say you live in Ukraine.One of us is getting confused.I don't live in Ukraine, I was posting something from a friend who a friend of a friend who lives in Ukraine.
Hence the quotes.
He's claiming that sanctions are an act of war.
In theory Russian trade can continue forever. Economies existed before stock markets, and the majority of economic activity doesn’t require the stock market to function.Question to all the financial bods out there; with the Russian Stock Market closed, how long can the country effectively run before they face financial collapse if they're not trading?
Is this going to come down to a waiting game?
Question to all the financial bods out there; with the Russian Stock Market closed, how long can the country effectively run before they face financial collapse if they're not trading?
Is this going to come down to a waiting game?
And that’s going down well, isn’t it?Ukraine could have been positioned as a useful trading bridge between the EU and Russia. (A bit like NI between the EU and UK.)
I doubt Putin would have welcomed it.
I think.
Economies existed before the stock market.
Economies also existed, and continue to exist in some parts of the world, where a fair trade could be for example a turnip in exchange for a shag of the family goat.
This is looking more and more likely where Russia will end up.
We do for Yeman, Gambia, Syria, libya, Gaza etc unless we are directly attacked we won't do anything that could cause a global war
On Page 1160 you say you live in Ukraine.One of us is getting confused.
Remember to pack plenty of turnips!Well I know where my next holiday is then.