Rascal Posted March 10, 2022 Report Share Posted March 10, 2022 6 minutes ago, Callum Gilhooley said: Just 10 days too late , just enough time to shift some of his not inconsiderable fortune . Convenient eh ? I tend to agree… late….should have been done earlier as he is so high profile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianmac Posted March 10, 2022 Report Share Posted March 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Rascal said: I tend to agree… late….should have been done earlier as he is so high profile. Needed time to get the Tory Party donation sorted out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastlandssaint Posted March 10, 2022 Report Share Posted March 10, 2022 Putin warned of direct NATO action in Ukraine if Russia uses 'despicable' chemical weapon | Politics | News | Express.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastlandssaint Posted March 10, 2022 Report Share Posted March 10, 2022 Voices: We’re nuclear weapons experts – this is the reality of Putin’s threat (msn.com) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted March 10, 2022 Report Share Posted March 10, 2022 26 minutes ago, eastlandssaint said: Voices: We’re nuclear weapons experts – this is the reality of Putin’s threat (msn.com) Excellent article with conclusions that I find myself in agreement with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renfrew156 Posted March 10, 2022 Report Share Posted March 10, 2022 Seeing 70 civillian bodies dumped in a mass grave in Mariupol in bodybags is horrifying. is this heading to genocide? This Z symbol russians are using is this their swastika? Would this precipitate Mutually Assured Destruction if the west intervened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted March 10, 2022 Report Share Posted March 10, 2022 29 minutes ago, renfrew156 said: Seeing 70 civillian bodies dumped in a mass grave in Mariupol in bodybags is horrifying. is this heading to genocide? This Z symbol russians are using is this their swastika? Would this precipitate Mutually Assured Destruction if the west intervened? Valid questions. Genocidal- yes. Z symbol - various theories put forward but none confirmed. MAD …Have to hope not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted March 11, 2022 Report Share Posted March 11, 2022 Watching the BBC news this morning really has been very thought provoking and sad. They talked to a reporter who had been in Russia in December who said that the notion of invading Ukraine was dismissed and nothing more than Putin flexing his muscles, no one thought it was a possibility, never mind a realistic proposition. No easy answers as far as I can see, the sanctions are almost at the maximum and Putin, simply, does not give one feck. The brave Ukrainians will continue to fight and the country, and it's infrastructure, is slowly getting dismantled day by day. After the last two years, when many people have suffered loss and incredible changes to day to day life, this situation is the last thing the world needs. Impossible for any of us to imagine what the Ukrainian people are going through but the response from the majority of countries in the world certainly shows they have support. Tragic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted March 11, 2022 Report Share Posted March 11, 2022 8 minutes ago, faraway saint said: Watching the BBC news this morning really has been very thought provoking and sad. They talked to a reporter who had been in Russia in December who said that the notion of invading Ukraine was dismissed and nothing more than Putin flexing his muscles, no one thought it was a possibility, never mind a realistic proposition. No easy answers as far as I can see, the sanctions are almost at the maximum and Putin, simply, does not give one feck. The brave Ukrainians will continue to fight and the country, and it's infrastructure, is slowly getting dismantled day by day. After the last two years, when many people have suffered loss and incredible changes to day to day life, this situation is the last thing the world needs. Impossible for any of us to imagine what the Ukrainian people are going through but the response from the majority of countries in the world certainly shows they have support. Tragic. Your closest yet to an accurate and sensible post. I have worked in Russia several times. In Moscow and St Petersburg. Young people are very western orientated. Not surprisingly some of the older age groups yearned For Russia as per the Soviet Period. I have also worked in Ukraine a number of times. Kiev, Dnipro and Z the city with the largest nuclear plant in Europe. Very similar characteristics amongst the different age groups with splits between young and old in attitudes. Russian is spoken by most Ukrainians in the same way as most Scots speak English. One of the first things that colonial conquerors do is to insist that their language and culture is insisted upon. I still keep in touch with people in the cities I visited through social media. They have been conspicuous by their absence. As FS says, I paraphrase, no easy answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastlandssaint Posted March 13, 2022 Report Share Posted March 13, 2022 Ukraine Russia war LIVE: At least 35 killed in airstrike as Putin branded 'crazy' - Mirror Online Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted March 13, 2022 Report Share Posted March 13, 2022 (edited) https://www.reuters.com/world/ramaphosa-says-south-africa-has-been-asked-mediate-russia-ukraine-2022-03-10/ South Africa are a member of BRICS along with Russia, Brazil, India and China and South Africa. A powerful economic and political Block Edited March 13, 2022 by Rascal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doakes Posted March 13, 2022 Report Share Posted March 13, 2022 On 3/10/2022 at 9:54 PM, Rascal said: Valid questions. Genocidal- yes. Z symbol - various theories put forward but none confirmed. MAD …Have to hope not. A lot of the pre-conditions necessary for a genocide are in place. It's very worrying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renfrew156 Posted March 13, 2022 Report Share Posted March 13, 2022 Heart-breaking, Really Heart-breaking . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted March 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 Jings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 Always the ordinary people who suffer. Also too the ordinary people show the greatest bravery and resilience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastlandssaint Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 Peace talks can stop a nuclear war in Ukraine, says former Kremlin minister | World | News | Express.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrin Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 Hopefully, if any sort of 'peace can be fudged, that will be enough for Putin to save face after being such a tadger, allow him to back off and stop thousands more young soldiers and civvies from facing unwanted, unjustifiable death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 If true, hilarious, well done Mr Zelensky. Zelenskyy jokes that Russian troops are supplying arms to Ukraine because so much of their equipment has been captured or abandoned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted March 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 First of many, I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastlandssaint Posted March 16, 2022 Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 UK ‘totally unprepared’ to warn citizens of imminent nuclear threat (msn.com) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted March 16, 2022 Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 3 minutes ago, eastlandssaint said: UK ‘totally unprepared’ to warn citizens of imminent nuclear threat (msn.com) Not quite sure if any country could really prepare for a nuclear attack. Nothing to see here, although I didn't think Russia would actually attack/invade Ukraine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted March 16, 2022 Report Share Posted March 16, 2022 45 minutes ago, eastlandssaint said: UK ‘totally unprepared’ to warn citizens of imminent nuclear threat (msn.com) I can recall some limited civil defence drills back in the late 50’s or early 60’s. Insufficient doesn’t come close to describing it. Meanwhile, in Ukraine the plight of people is just plain terrible in a conventional war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rascal Posted March 17, 2022 Report Share Posted March 17, 2022 A resolution or maybe just a glimmer of hope that this will be over soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exiledfan Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 Watching question time last night was uncomfortable. Ukraine MP who was returning to her country today asking why we couldn't help more with no fly zone and further action and constant answer was your so brave but we can't risk WW3. The fear factor of nukes surely shows it's time for the world to disarm them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faraway saint Posted March 18, 2022 Report Share Posted March 18, 2022 15 minutes ago, exiledfan said: Watching question time last night was uncomfortable. Ukraine MP who was returning to her country today asking why we couldn't help more with no fly zone and further action and constant answer was your so brave but we can't risk WW3. The fear factor of nukes surely shows it's time for the world to disarm them. If there were no nuclear weapons would that encourage more wars using non nuclear weapons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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