Russian invasion of Ukraine

[metalblue]

Unfortunately the perfect bloke to play him has already passed away.

Hopefully so will Putin before too long so might be perfect yet still

 

[mosssideblue]

Anti aircraft missiles are generally fired at aircraft who are attacking within your own border, a fighter bomber could be sent to attack people outside your border, hence escalating the conflict, though I doubt they would, Ukraine could take retaliatory action against a russian city.

Appreciate that there are rocket launchers within Russian territory, which I don't believe Ukraine would target ( but would fully understand if they did). But there are many heavy artillery units currently in Ukraine.

 

[Blue Mist]

One is defensive the other is offensive , big difference

One is designed to kill the other ergh is designed to kill, no difference.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

It’s been plundered on fancy yachts, not much chance of that up against the Uss Carl Vinson. They have one 5th generation fighter that they don’t seem to want to let lose in this conflict.

If they used a squadron of B2 Spirits on some of those tank columns they Russians wouldn’t have a clue what had happened. I suppose the fragments of bomb would be a give away though.

Even the Vinson wouldn't see a hypersonic missile coming, sadly.

They have invested heavily in these new generation missiles which move five times the speed of sound and can take out a carrier without a blip on the radar.

The US are about 18 months behind on hypersonics.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Inch by inch, the world moves closer to World War 3

From somewhere the world needs a person who will bring some sanity to the situation, because if it does not happen, Russia has over 2,500 nuclear weapons. MAD becomes reality.

Very worrying times.

We had this situation during the cold War for decades, in essense MAD works.

I guess you weren't born or possibly a child during these times so didn't realise the situation then.

In addition, Putin is scared stupid over covid , no chance would such a person start a nuclear war and destroy himself.

 

[kaz7]

One is designed to kill the other ergh is designed to kill, no difference.

Come on musty , you know the difference in this war

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Always come in threes ..pandemic, war, natural disaster next ?..maybe a huge CME will wipe us out..

Mahrez being flogged to Liverpool

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Ashamed by our country's refugee policy. Impossible to justify.

 

[cleavers]

Appreciate that there are rocket launchers within Russian territory, which I don't believe Ukraine would target ( but would fully understand if they did). But there are many heavy artillery units currently in Ukraine.

Yes, but anti aircraft doesn't shell civilians, but an aircraft could bomb civilians, as I said I very much doubt they would in these circumstances, but russia could claim they have.

I don't know why they didn't just repaint the jets in Ukraine livery, and just fly them into Ukraine one by one (assuming they have the pilots), without announcing it all to the world, yes the russians would have an idea where they came from, but they could fly in from several directions so it wouldn't be easy for them to prove where they came from.

 

[Citizen Mike]

The government here faces a dilemma with the refugee crisis from Ukraine. Brexit proved that we have a lot of our electorate from both the traditional left and the right are Nationalistic. The general view is that people didn't like the free movement of people or people seeking refugee status here. Now that we are living with the 24 hour coverage of the horrific war in Ukraine ,the general feeling is that we should be taking a lot more Ukrainian refugees but I bet they don't feel the same about other refugees of different nationalities. If the government takes a different approach to Ukrainian refugees ,will they be accused of prejudice?
I know brexit was a lot more than the movement of people but I want this post to stick to the topic