Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Corky]

I think this is very likely entirely true.

It may also be true that the war, even whilst being lost on the ground, is helping Putin. Polling seems to show unprecedentedly good ratings for him, his entire leadership publicly pledged loyalty to him and his war, and he's able to use it to further repress free speech and opposition. A long and bloody conflict to hold on to Donbas and perhaps the Azov coast land bridge to Crimea might be winnable for Russia through sheer force of arms, and from a perspective of reinforcing Putin's hold on power, be a triumph. Even if (maybe even especially if) it impoverishes the rest of Russia. There are plenty of examples (Saddam post Iraq war I, North Korea, Iran etc).

I will be making no predictions how this turns out. I've no idea.

The war with Japan didn't do Nick 2 and favours.

 

[argyle]

Let's hope they hold out further and Russia has a very embarrassing retreat.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

It's not progressing properly. We've got two refugees waiting to fly from Prague, are all ready for them, have done all the paperwork last week and now the whole thing is just stuck and nobody knows why or who is responsible. And they are only allowed in their hotel until the end of the month apparently, giving the matter some urgency.

I think the Home Office is run very poorly. I have a colleague who’s an asylum seeker and her son hasn’t been processed to be able to go to uni this year and has had to defer for a year. She said they were told they’re still struggling from Covid to catch up to things from the midst of the pandemic, like the Afghan refugees, so this new issue of processing Ukrainians will be somewhere down their long list.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

I think the Home Office is run very poorly. I have a colleague who’s an asylum seeker and her son hasn’t been processed to be able to go to uni this year and has had to defer for a year. She said they were told they’re still struggling from Covid to catch up to things from the midst of the pandemic, like the Afghan refugees, so this new issue of processing Ukrainians will be somewhere down their long list.

Cut to the bear bones, some so fed up that they can’t be arsed going back to work, the system is broke and is even worse with all the hoops the refugees have to jump through.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Looks like Germany may be preparing to cave in to Russia over gas payments, if Russia can be believed of course:

Kremlin says Russia and Germany to hold talks on rouble payment - TASS

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had agreed in a call that experts from their countries would d…

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No response from Germany yet.

 

[Ribble73]

Cut to the bear bones, some so fed up that they can’t be arsed going back to work, the system is broke and is even worse with all the hoops the refugees have to jump through.

I work for HM Govt as well and suspect their IT system is as utterly useless as ours -on top of that you have unprecedented numbers of people literally invading this Country via boats from across the Channel to a degree not seen since 1066 on top of all those applying to Legally enter -No wonder they are overwhelmed.

 

[cleavers]

Looks like Germany may be preparing to cave in to Russia over gas payments, if Russia can be believed of course:

Kremlin says Russia and Germany to hold talks on rouble payment - TASS

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had agreed in a call that experts from their countries would d…

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No response from Germany yet.

Looks like putin has "caved in" (for now) if the bbc are to be believed, payments will continue in eoros.

 

[cookster]

You only have to look at the oryxspionkop website to see the huge amounts of Russian armour and vehicles that are being captured or abandoned every day, it outweighs that being destroyed.

Which would imply the soldiers are not up for the fight and are deserting or that they cant supply the front line with food, fuel and ammunition etc?

Supply Chains win wars.

 

[lee_wsm]

Russian jets rumoured to be carrying nukes according to the sun intercepted by sweeden

 

[journolud]

I work for HM Govt as well and suspect their IT system is as utterly useless as ours -on top of that you have unprecedented numbers of people literally invading this Country via boats from across the Channel to a degree not seen since 1066 on top of all those applying to Legally enter -No wonder they are overwhelmed.

Invading... Christ...