Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Blue Maverick]

Why have Russia not turned off the gas to Europe? They can’t be getting paid for it as all assets etc are frozen, surely this would harm countries in the EU in particular Germany .

 

[nmc]

FIA are corrupt b*stards allowing Mazepin to drive in the new season (under neutral flag).

Oh well, at least we can watch the clown finish each race.

Are you surprised F1 is a joke.

 

[nmc]

Surprised they haven’t tried to bomb that convoy to slow it down

Needs missile strikes at the front and back. They could then pick off the rest

 

[JASR]

Reports that some vehicles have broken down, seems unlikely that such a convoy would be stopped by a a few breakdowns.

I remember from WW2 books the maxim used to be that a column is only as fast as the slowest vehicle.

 

[marco]

Needs missile strikes at the front and back. They could then pick off the rest

maybe there easyer pickings once in the city,the Ukraines must be armed to the teeth with RPGs etc by now

 

[Chippy_boy]

You must have skipped some 20 odd pages.

Can't be asked searching back, the thread is cynical, it'll come up again.

I think you may be mistaken (but I agree, no need to go searching - no biggie). But when there's some documentary on TV called "Inside the mind of a serial killer" (or whatever), it doesn't mean the program makers are sympathetic to serial killers.

The posts I have seen don't seek to justify or dignify Putin's thinking, merely to explain it. Anyway, that's my take on it.

 

[cleavers]

Reports that some vehicles have broken down, seems unlikely that such a convoy would be stopped by a a few breakdowns.

The pictures are now 48 hours old, but the media keeping telling us it's "advancing", it's beginning to annoy me now. It might be "breakdowns", it might be that the front of it has been attacked, it might be that they're struggling to resupply it wit/them with fuel/food, the key word is "might", the media don't know, so stop repeating the same message.

 

[Coatigan]

I think you may be mistaken (but I agree, no need to go searching - no biggie). But when there's some documentary on TV called "Inside the mind of a serial killer" (or whatever), it doesn't mean the program makers are sympathetic to serial killers.

The posts I have seen don't seek to justify or dignify Putin's thinking, merely to explain it. Anyway, that's my take on it.

Ok, I'll go with you are right and I am wrong. Because I'd prefer that to be honest.

 

[cleavers]

Why have Russia not turned off the gas to Europe? They can’t be getting paid for it as all assets etc are frozen, surely this would harm countries in the EU in particular Germany .

They've left enough ways to pay the russians open, and while europe continues to buy and pay russia will take the money, europe can't afford not to take the gas at this stage, so it will continue to supply it, no doubt increasing the price to boot.

 

[GH64]

No, why would I. What an ugly bit of lazy, offensive whataboutery.

This isn’t about Iraq. And whatever mistakes were made in those conflicts, the British and American forces went there to try and rid those counties of evil despotic warlords who were murdering their own people and harbouring terrorists.

If you’re drawing a parallel between that and what Russia are doing to Ukraine now you’re sick in the fucking head.

The nearest comparison to Putin is Hitler.

I'm no fan of Putin and what the Russians are doing, but people seem to have forgotten quite how bad Hitler was. I doubt the Ukrainians would make that comparison yet.
Ukrainian losses in WW2 were c 2.5m military and 4.5m civilians.
An order was given to kill 100 civilians for every German soldier killed.