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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,469
    When you list out the stuff Russia has done in the last decade and they still got the FIFA World Cup and the Winter Olympics. It really does take your breath away that collectively we all just shook our heads and sucked our teeth. Even now the sanctions appear to be somewhat porous.

    A thought provoking thread from someone who works for Navalny.

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  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,095
    Not sure that's an entirely realistic thread.

    Does make me wonder if the west should impose sanctions, publicise a way out if they cooperate with the west, then remove sanctions regardless and then sit back and wait for Putin to assassinate them for apparently cooperating with the west.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
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    rjsterry said:

    When you list out the stuff Russia has done in the last decade and they still got the FIFA World Cup and the Winter Olympics. It really does take your breath away that collectively we all just shook our heads and sucked our teeth. Even now the sanctions appear to be somewhat porous.

    A thought provoking thread from someone who works for Navalny.

    tl:dr

    anyone got a bullet point breakdown?
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,645
    edited November 2022
    MattFalle said:

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    rjsterry said:

    When you list out the stuff Russia has done in the last decade and they still got the FIFA World Cup and the Winter Olympics. It really does take your breath away that collectively we all just shook our heads and sucked our teeth. Even now the sanctions appear to be somewhat porous.

    A thought provoking thread from someone who works for Navalny.

    tl:dr

    anyone got a bullet point breakdown?
    • Sanction 6000 people they believe to be essential to Putin.
    • Sanction another 1000 every week.
    • Give them all a clear way out of sanctions like "A public statement, a massive donation to Ukraine, maybe a public confession about Putin’s crimes. Maybe some of them can get political prisoners out. Or negotiate something else. Or hire a hitman"
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  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    pangolin said:

    MattFalle said:

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    rjsterry said:

    When you list out the stuff Russia has done in the last decade and they still got the FIFA World Cup and the Winter Olympics. It really does take your breath away that collectively we all just shook our heads and sucked our teeth. Even now the sanctions appear to be somewhat porous.

    A thought provoking thread from someone who works for Navalny.

    tl:dr

    anyone got a bullet point breakdown?
    • Sanction 6000 people they believe to be essential to Putin.
    • Sanction another 1000 every week.
    • Give them all a clear way out of sanctions like "A public statement, a massive donation to Ukraine, maybe a public confession about Putin’s crimes. Maybe some of them can get political prisoners out. Or negotiate something else. Or hire a hitman"
    gotcha - grazie!
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,691
    This is...quite something

    https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFukg5QH/

    ...and I feel like it's a little more than fox news.
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    ddraver said:

    This is...quite something

    https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFukg5QH/

    ...and I feel like it's a little more than fox news.

    Frightening nut jobs.

  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    They’ve lost more than 8k vehicles, aircraft and other bits of heavy equipment now. 1500 tanks have either been destroyed or captured. 1500 is 40% of the entire operational Russian tank stock, however that total stock is to be taken with a pinch of salt.

    https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html?m=1
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,257
    May Day parade will be interesting. They have a choice of.....
    "Why don't we have much equipment?" or "Why aren't we using this equipment?".
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    pblakeney said:

    May Day parade will be interesting. They have a choice of.....
    "Why don't we have much equipment?" or "Why aren't we using this equipment?".

    half of it was either knackered or just mocked up anyway so there will be no change to the standard running there.....
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,257
    MattFalle said:

    pblakeney said:

    May Day parade will be interesting. They have a choice of.....
    "Why don't we have much equipment?" or "Why aren't we using this equipment?".

    half of it was either knackered or just mocked up anyway so there will be no change to the standard running there.....
    ....except the stuff that is no longer available to make up numbers. 😉
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    pblakeney said:

    MattFalle said:

    pblakeney said:

    May Day parade will be interesting. They have a choice of.....
    "Why don't we have much equipment?" or "Why aren't we using this equipment?".

    half of it was either knackered or just mocked up anyway so there will be no change to the standard running there.....
    ....except the stuff that is no longer available to make up numbers. 😉

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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,257
    🤣🤣🤣
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,460
    If they ask nicely maybe they can borrow the plywood targets from Aberporth and stick them on carnival floats.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,286
    This made me smile:
    https://telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/12/23/calls-putin-punished-calling-special-operation-war/
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,460
    Can’t read the article but is this relation to his comments following Zelensky’s visit to the US? If so I did think it was a bit of a slip up.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,286
    Pross said:

    Can’t read the article but is this relation to his comments following Zelensky’s visit to the US? If so I did think it was a bit of a slip up.

    Sorry, that must have been payepwalled. Here's a quote:
    Vladimir Putin should be punished for breaking his own law by calling his invasion of Ukraine a “war”, a St Petersburg lawmaker has said.

    The Russian president on Thursday referred to the invasion of Ukraine as a “war” for the first time since he ordered Russian troops across the border in February.

    Mr Putin insisted Russia’s goal in Ukraine was not “to keep stoking the conflict but, on the contrary, to stop this war”.

    Nikita Yuferev, a councilman from St Petersburg, on Friday sent an official complaint to the Prosecutor General’s Office, asking it to investigate Mr Putin’s remarks to assess if he had violated his own war censorship laws.

    “Putin called the war a war… Several thousand people have been convicted for saying these same words,” Mr Yuferev said.

    “I have sent a request to law enforcement officials to seek punishment for Putin for disseminating fake news about the army.”
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    bet you a fiver nothing hsppens to him
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,222
    Pross said:

    Can’t read the article but is this relation to his comments following Zelensky’s visit to the US? If so I did think it was a bit of a slip up.


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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,222
    MattFalle said:

    bet you a fiver nothing hsppens to him


    Bet you a fiver that the person making the complaint has something happen to him.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,286
    briantrumpet said:

    MattFalle said:

    bet you a fiver nothing hsppens to him


    Bet you a fiver that the person making the complaint has something happen to him.
    That's the more likely scenario. I bet he has a very badly built balcony.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    briantrumpet said:

    MattFalle said:

    bet you a fiver nothing hsppens to him


    Bet you a fiver that the person making the complaint has something happen to him.
    cheque is in the post as we speak.
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644
    Stevo_666 said:

    briantrumpet said:

    MattFalle said:

    bet you a fiver nothing hsppens to him


    Bet you a fiver that the person making the complaint has something happen to him.
    That's the more likely scenario. I bet he has a very badly built balcony.
    a very, very badly built balcony. it throws people off it. design fault.

    #badbalcony
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Window-itis is spreading

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64101437
  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,540
    Another error of judgement from Blair:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64116796
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,222
    Dorset_Boy said:

    Another error of judgement from Blair:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64116796


    Along with Merkel.

    You can see the logic: if the reward of access to western European & American wealth had nudged Putin into taming his empire-building ambitions, it would have been a good gamble on several fronts. Alas, it wasn't, as we've discovered.
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    How many oligarchs did Blair insert into the House of 'Lords'?
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,087
    Dorset_Boy said:

    Another error of judgement from Blair:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64116796


    On the other hand things haven't exactly worked out great by ignoring Blair's advice.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,222
    orraloon said:

    How many oligarchs did Blair insert into the House of 'Lords'?


    To be fair, Peter Mandelson has a questionable taste in friends, even if he wasn't getting his mate Tony to shoehorn them into the Lords.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,286
    Ukraine off to a good start in the New Year:
    https://telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/01/02/hundreds-killed-ukrainian-himars-flatten-russian-barracks-one/
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]

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