Russian invasion of Ukraine

[wayne71]

If NATO cold war doctrine is followed we'd drop a nuke in the Barents Sea or similar.

Why would anyone risk firing a nuke towards Russia? I realise they can track trajectory but surely not where its going to land?

 

[KS55]

This putin chap, he really is a silly sausage isn't he.

Yes, he never got over that incident with Gorbachov minor in the remove.

 

[mackenzie]

Marco Rubio on Twitter I cant embed tweets so copied: Growing signs #Putin has ordered a medieval siege of #Kyiv Cut a city of millions off from food, fuel, power, communications & supplies & then bomb & starve the govt into submission We need to start thinking about what we can & are willing to do to prevent such a barbaric crime

A lot of talk that Putin had priced in sanctions before the invasion but I don't think he banked on the sanctions being as ferocious as they are. Shell have just announced they are selling their stakes in Russian ventures, I don't Vlad anticipated that at all.

Problem is, the harder we hit, the more he starts lashing out which is why I just can't see a positive endgame without the Russians themselves over throwing him.

I honestly can't see them overthrowing him. It's been over a hundred years since they did the same with the last Tsar, and God knows they've been through some horrific regimes since that.
Yet...the power of interconnection with the rest of the world is the difference now, and we are living through something unprecedented.

 

[Northblue]

Minister of defence for Ukraine offering amnesty and a cash reward to Russian soldiers for giving themselves up and not following orders.

5 million rubles per soldier? I know the ruble is in the dumps but that seems a lot..

 

[Don Karleone]

we are living through something unprecedented.

Again. A few years of normality would be bloody lovely

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Good job BAe at Chadderton is no longer there. But if Failsworth was nuked, how would we know?

House prices would go up.

 

[meltonblue]

5 million rubles per soldier? I know the ruble is in the dumps but that seems a lot..

The soldiers probably won’t know how much it’s tanked back home

 

[mackenzie]

Again. A few years of normality would be bloody lovely

Absolutely.
Only a couple of weeks ago I was discussing with my lad my plans for visiting them this June for the first time in 3 years.
Then this shit happens :-(

 

[Ghandi's Flip Flops]

Jesus. When you've got young women doing drive by molotov attacks, then you know the russians are in trouble

 

[Blue Mist]

Disappointing, but not surprising. As a country we loathe the idea of people coming here. We’ve even put up barriers to stop school trips from Europe.

Bollocks. I voted to leave, I vote tory but if I could take just one Ukrainian family never mind 4 I would.