The Russians are on their way...why am I not shocked.

[Damocles]

The Ukraine Defence Council has just announced full mobilization of all troops. There's a session on right now at the UN whereby the NATO countries are beginning to be a bit sterner with Russia over its plans; the US has announced it will suspend the pre-meetings of the forthcoming G8 conference

This is starting to lose its humorous aspect somewhat

 

[dazdon]

I'm just hoping the posh bastards who run us don't send any of our men to die there.

 

[RandomJ]

I'm just hoping the posh bastards who run us don't send any of our men to die there.

Be more worried about us all dying if this really boils over.

 

[dazdon]

I'm just hoping the posh bastards who run us don't send any of our men to die there.

Be more worried about us all dying if this really boils over.

I'm going to line my ginnel with tin foil and get some fullers earth from the garden center.

 

[Balti]

I'm just hoping the posh bastards who run us don't send any of our men to die there.

Be more worried about us all dying if this really boils over.

I'm going to line my ginnel with tin foil and get some fullers earth from the garden center.

don't forget to sellotape up the windows and make your fall-out room under the kitchen table

be safe Blue

 

[RandomJ]

I'm just hoping the posh bastards who run us don't send any of our men to die there.

Be more worried about us all dying if this really boils over.

I'm going to line my ginnel with tin foil and get some fullers earth from the garden center.

I'm all sorted. Bring it on I say I'll outlast you all!

 

[dazdon]

I'm all sorted. Bring it on I say I'll outlast you all!

You stole my idea....you haven't got an en suite in there have you?

 

[RandomJ]

I'm all sorted. Bring it on I say I'll outlast you all!

You stole my idea....you haven't got an en suite in there have you?

Got a fucking Olympic size swimming pool mate. Bringing in the end of the world in style.

 

[Damocles]

I'm just hoping the posh bastards who run us don't send any of our men to die there.

Be more worried about us all dying if this really boils over.

This.

The problem is that NATO members have previously guaranteed the territorial borders of the Ukraine as part of the Budapest Memorandum and nobody knows what effect this will have. Russia has lost the Ukraine politically and the new Government are going to be more West oriented which Russia fears will lead to some massive subsides from the US in exchange for them putting a missile defence network right next to Russia.

This "Russian interests and citizens" talk is just complete nonsense and straight out of the Hitler playbook (almost word for word in fact). They don't give a shit about ethnic Russians in Crimea.

Russia also have the other problem that every country in the former Soviet bloc will almost instantly turn against them if they get into a war with a country that they guaranteed territory to, which might lead to a different pro-Western government in place.

Everything is on a knife-edge at the moment. Putin is trying to get control of the Ukraine territories back without provoking NATO members, and the NATO members are wondering whether to be all Chamberlain about it which with a US election coming in a couple of years is almost certainly not going to happen.

If Russia trips NATO up or vice-versa, we won't have chance to send people to fight on a battlefield as most of the world will be dead before we knew there was a war.

 

[dazdon]

don't forget to sellotape up the windows and make your fall-out room under the kitchen table

be safe Blue

I've just got to convince my family i'm not mad.

And of course get a bigger box and more sellotape just in case it has to last a few years.<br /><br />-- Sun Mar 02, 2014 12:48 am --<br /><br />

If Russia trips NATO up or vice-versa, we won't have chance to send people to fight on a battlefield as most of the world will be dead before we knew there was a war.

Do you carry a placard around Manchester most weekdays?

There isn't a Cat in hells chance anyone will be throwing nukes at each other because that is completely futile.

I expect a spot of light dancing followed by a spot of tiffin before everyone agrees that Russia can and will do whatever it wants to do and we'll just pontificate.

(Oh ..and is it safe to put the Cat out tonight?)

TIA