Russian invasion of Ukraine

[west didsblue]

I sincerely hope they don't sink any lower and use those types of weapons.

If they do, I hope NATO rethinks its strategy of support

Putin has got away with using chemical weapons in Syria and biological weapons in the UK. It is implausible to think that he would hesitate to use them in Ukraine once he has invented his pretext. Hope I'm wrong.

 

[mosssideblue]

Putin has got away with using chemical weapons in Syria and biological weapons in the UK. It is implausible to think that he would hesitate to use them in Ukraine once he has invented his pretext. Hope I'm wrong.

I don't doubt he would use them, it's what NATO does or doesn't do concerns me

 

[Blue Mist]

They've also said they've discovered the Ukrainians were making chemical weapons for the US.

It sounds alarmingly like they're laying the ground work for an chemical attack they'll blame on Ukraine.

That was what I had thought as well. Hopefully the satellites can identify where can rockets are fired from but can they use chemical weapons from ground launchers i.e. inside Ukraine?

 

[roubaixtuesday]

We'd be sending Ukraine non lethal bicycles.

Corbyn's defence policy and on the other side Russian funding and support for Brexit and the Conservative are surely for the politics thread.

Perhaps everyone on all sides agrees that

(1) we've as a whole country royally fucked up our relationship with Russia

and

(2) That doesn't make it anyone in the uk's responsibility (not corbyn, not Johnson) that Russia has enacted a brutal, fascist motivated invasion of Ukraine.

I would like us to sort out sanctions on oligarchs (hopefully will get moving soon) and allowing refugees here (looks like nothing much doing alas)

 

[west didsblue]

That was what I had thought as well. Hopefully the satellites can identify where can rockets are fired from but can they use chemical weapons from ground launchers i.e. inside Ukraine?

Yes, and that's far more likely than them using long range ballistic missiles to deliver a chemical warhead.

 

[hello]

They've also said they've discovered the Ukrainians were making chemical weapons for the US.

It sounds alarmingly like they're laying the ground work for an chemical attack they'll blame on Ukraine.

The bakery they blew up was obviously dabbling with yeast usage as part of a sinister plot to cause a thrush outbreak throughout Russia.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Looks like the Chinese are going to help break some sanctions by launching union pay to replace visa/Mastercard in Russia. I hope the rest of the world remembers this

 

[Corky]

Corbyn's defence policy and on the other side Russian funding and support for Brexit and the Conservative are surely for the politics thread.

Perhaps everyone on all sides agrees that

(1) we've as a whole country royally fucked up our relationship with Russia

and

(2) That doesn't make it anyone in the uk's responsibility (not corbyn, not Johnson) that Russia has enacted a brutal, fascist motivated invasion of Ukraine.

I would like us to sort out sanctions on oligarchs (hopefully will get moving soon) and allowing refugees here (looks like nothing much doing alas)

Wars are political too. This is the most political thread on the forum.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Man a lot of these conspiracy types are really 'reaching' with some of these idiotic claims.

Ukraine invasion: False claims the war is a hoax go viral

False claims have been spreading that the Ukraine war is a hoax and that actors have been involved in staging events.

www.bbc.co.uk

Nothing new for conspiracy theorists I once had discussions with a guy who thought American school shootings involved crisis actors who kept popping up in different places (it was just people who looked similar).

A lot of this will be directed by the Russian troll farms, either making it themselves or planting the seed.

Very easy to disprove this nonsense, e.g. Steven Seagal has been in countless movies based on military combat, so it is logical to assume that the images could be from one and try to disprove that assumption.

Google lens revealed that the images come from a movie called The Cartels.

But people in the conspiracy theorists hive-mind want to believe in this nonsense, and will just take it at face value because it is much easier to be stupid and uninformed.

 

[Blue Mist]

Yes, and that's far more likely than them using long range ballistic missiles to deliver a chemical warhead.

I'm not sure what to type. I don't want WW3 but if he murders and maims civilians with chemical weapons ..... can we just stand back and let them die?