Russian invasion of Ukraine

[True_Blue69]

Haven’t seen this posted, but the fact that a European leader is in contact with Putin and he is seemingly willing to cooperate seems like a positive.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

The Russian soldiers being killed are just as much victims as the Ukrainians in putin's mad plan.
They won't want want to be there and will know it's wrong.

If that’s the case, I have even less sympathy with the twats.

It’s one thing fighting for a cause you actually believe in, even if that cause is abhorrent. It makes you an evil ****.

It’s another thing fighting for a cause you know is wrong, but doing it anyway. That makes you an evil ****, and a coward.

I hope they all fucking burn. I’m saving my sympathy for the actual victims.

 

[splinter]

5 minutes of news and the TV is off..I'd like the covid thread back. So sad

 

[twosips]

If that’s the case, I have even less sympathy with the twats.

It’s one thing fighting for a cause you actually believe in, even if that cause is abhorrent. It makes you an evil ****.

It’s another thing fighting for a cause you know is wrong, but doing it anyway. That makes you an evil ****, and a coward.

I hope they all fucking burn. I’m saving my sympathy for the actual victims.

Doing their jobs, probably confused and scared that their will be immense repercussions for their own families if they refuse. It doesn't make them evil. Just utterly fucked tbh.

 

[shemnel]

Again, you can't believe all the quotes and who knows what will really transpire, but this article claims the rouble may stabilise for a little while as the central bank in Russia forces gazprom and the like to sell off currency.

I wonder who the mysterious other backers of the rouble are? Oligarch back channels?

Russia hikes rates, introduces capital controls as sanctions bite

Russia's central bank more than doubled its key policy rate on Monday and introduced some capital controls as the country faced deepening economic isolation, but its governor said sanctions had stopped it selling foreign currency to prop up the rouble.

www.reuters.com

the article last night seemed to call it well, the rouble has bounced back some today - 30% down on the dollar to 20% down this morning - after a combination of raised interest rates by the Russian central bank (9.5% to 20%, to curb inflation worries) and hopes on negotiations.

the thing is now, is the article going to be right that oligarch and gazprom sales will stabilise the Russian currency for a couple of weeks, in which time the war will have progressed a lot. I think if this is true, coupled with huge military increases in Ukraine, we could now be seeing a bad turn. I hope not.

Euro falls to lowest since June 2020 as Russia's invasion of Ukraine picks up

The euro hit its lowest level against the U.S. dollar since June 2020 on Tuesday and the Russian rouble was down in volatile trading as Russia's invasion into Ukraine intensified and oil prices surged.

www.reuters.com

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Doing their jobs, probably confused and scared that their will be immense repercussions for their own families if they refuse. It doesn't make them evil. Just utterly fucked tbh.

So off they go to murder other people’s families instead.

Like I said. Evil cowards. Fuck them. Same bracket as the monsters who join ISIS, they want gutting.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is turning into a "much more perilous misadventure" than the Russian president imagined, the deputy prime minister has said.

Dominic Raab said action taken by the UK so far, including sanctions, is having an impact.

He stressed the government would be doing "everything we can to degrade Putin's war machine" and repeated Boris Johnson's assertion that the Russian president's invasion of Ukraine "must fail".

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is turning into a "much more perilous misadventure" than the Russian president imagined, the deputy prime minister has said.

Dominic Raab said action taken by the UK so far, including sanctions, is having an impact.

He stressed the government would be doing "everything we can to degrade Putin's war machine" and repeated Boris Johnson's assertion that the Russian president's invasion of Ukraine "must fail".

It amazes me that politicians have a unique ability to waffle on so long while saying absolutely fuck all.

 

[SWP's back]

That missile strike on Freedom Square, Kharkiv really does bring this home.

Fucking appalling.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

This footage from that Russian missile strike on Freedom Square a short while ago sums up what the Ukrainians and in reality we are all fighting against and need to protect -

Where’s the military target there?