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Post by stu77 on Mar 6, 2022 22:07:25 GMT
Watching some of Putin's speeches I think he sees the west as decadent.
Maybe he thinks this will give people a kick up the arse.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 7, 2022 10:23:55 GMT
INteresting how much international reaction has changed since even the first days of the war 12 days ago
A week ago, American media had pretty much accepted the imminent defeat of Ukraine. All the talk was of the coming underground insurgency that would be mounted by Ukraine's surviving troops
Now the world has woken up to the possibility that Ukraine may, with enough support, be able to hold off Russia indefinitely
Sadly that's not gonna avert humanitarian catastrophes that the West cannot prevent as Russia now seem less interested in a war and more intent on murdering civilians and destroying military and industrial infrastructure
It now feels more like a series of terrorists operation than a war
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Post by andyloneshark on Mar 7, 2022 11:01:47 GMT
There was a really good interview with Admiral Tony Radakin on the Sunday Show over the weekend, who very clearly answered all the important questions put to him, without dodging any issues like our Politicians sometimes like to.
Looks like there maybe a deal with Poland and the U.S. whereby Poland gives it's fighter planes to Ukraine as their Pilots already know how to fly them and America then replaces Poland's planes.
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Post by stu77 on Mar 7, 2022 12:29:24 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Mar 7, 2022 13:24:36 GMT
A former foreign office minister has said the UK risks falling into “dystopian economic collapse” should it move to sanction Russian gas. It comes as Britain may move this week to ratchet up sanctions on Russia’s oil and gas industries – as reported by The Independent last week – as part of efforts to isolate Putin’s regime globally. Sir Alan Duncan told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “There is this auction of indignation, which all of us totally understand, against anything to do with Russia. “So they ban this, ban that and ban everything, but in the end, we’re going to end up banning our own supplies. “Now, we of course, want to disadvantage Russia as an essential tool of war. But we don’t want to disadvantage ourselves so that we fall into some kind of dystopian economic collapse. We are on the edge of that. “Now, for instance, there are subsidiary companies of Gazprom, which are not sanctioned, which are not incorporated in Russia, which are incorporated in one case in the UK, which are essential to the smooth flowing of gas.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-latest-news-putin-ukraine-refugees-b2029888.html |
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Post by andyloneshark on Mar 7, 2022 13:51:09 GMT
...i don't really understand that, as it has been widely reported that the UK only relies on around 5% of it's gas supply from Russia.
"Almost half of the gas piped into the UK comes from the North Sea, and a third from Norway"
The EU on the other hand is around 40% and Germany upto 60%
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 7, 2022 14:28:26 GMT
Either way, the sooner we invest properly in renewables and become energy self sufficient the better
Forget the North Sea and fracking which are yesterday's tech - and contribute to the climate crisis
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Post by stu77 on Mar 7, 2022 18:49:32 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Mar 7, 2022 22:27:57 GMT
This is interesting.
And you get an eyeful of a load of air hostesses too.
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Post by stu77 on Mar 10, 2022 18:27:18 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 14, 2022 10:28:41 GMT
The attack by the unstable and unpredictable as Vladimir Putin on Yavoriv is a concerning development
The military base in Yavoriv, western Ukraine, is less than 15 miles from the Polish border, and therefore to the border of the EU and Nato
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Post by doug61 on Mar 14, 2022 11:24:10 GMT
Either way, the sooner we invest properly in renewables and become energy self sufficient the better Forget the North Sea and fracking which are yesterday's tech - and contribute to the climate crisis The problem is that we are not even sure what works and what doesn't with regards to a lot of renewables. There has to be a mix of the old and the new as far as I can see and new battery and grid technologies. there are an awful lot of conmen jumping on the renewables bandwagon to get government subsidies thrown at them by politicians desperate to show their green credentials without much or even any evidence that they can work in any real way (Swansea bay tidal lagoon anybody?) We all want "green", just nowhere near sure it can supply anywhere near what we need in the foreseeable future. |
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Post by doug61 on Mar 14, 2022 11:26:16 GMT
There seems agreement on both sides that they are getting closer in the talks but can't see how unless Ukraine gives up at least the "disputed" territories and surely all that will do is delay another nibble in a decade's time. Wonder if the sanctions will remain in place if that happens.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Mar 16, 2022 13:03:51 GMT
Ukranian leaders keep asking for a no-fly zone
Is this so important when the shelling is coming from ground based artillery?
The BBC's take is that Zelensky knows NATO can't/won't do this, but asking for it allows him to express disappointment with NATO and then say it's not worth joining, which means he can offer not joining NATO at the negotiating table without losing face.
I have no idea if that's how these things really work but thought it was interesting
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2022 22:04:09 GMT
Arnold Schwarzenegger, a calm and passionate address.
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