Mitaman Every little helps I guess, Jesus . Russia will no longer be allowed to compete in this year’s Eurovision song contest, with organisers saying its inclusion could “bring the competition into disrepute”.
space Reggie_Perrin Euro Ncap 9175 . Volvo +50 They're going to do some business with that. Ford Bronco sales rocketed after OJ.
space Anchor The vid space mentioned. It’s jaw dropping but the fucker gets out! I'd be careful. In the threads showing it there are shots from other angles of why the rocket launcher was being driven so fast. It's all a bit graphic. I really didn't want to link to war porn but there's a lot of it about. I won't do it again.
space The way Putin has gone on TV asking the Ukrainian troops to surrender is not exactly the show of strength he thinks it is.
space I have to say... having been following the Russian propoganda networks for about 6 years now, I was expecting Russia to be really heavily winning the online propoganda war but it's all Ukraine on English speaking social media. There is an occassional easily spotted bot account posting pro-Putin stuff but they're so obvious it hurts. Where are the troll farms? Are they all on Ukrainian social media? The UK and US have been deserted and all of a sudden everything has swung to the left. Even the pro GOP stuff has mostly disappeared.
Reggie_Perrin space how do you characterise "left" in this scenario and how do you measure "pro GOP" if there is no actual GOP position other than "fuck lets shred the receipts and delete the emails".
king_of_the_slums Two days in and a lot of analysts are saying he's fucked it up, or Ukraine are playing a blinder. His front end attack troops need massive amounts of backup in terms of logistics. These are the 40 to 60 year old ex military driving the back up trucks. Ukraine appear to have let the tanks through and now battle with these bin-men and rag-tags in HGVs and trucks. By all accounts the Ukrainians have mullered this second wave. The front-end attack now have no back up as their Roadies have been caught or killed, meaning it'll go to a street fight without another wave. But I guess they'll be another wave soon enough. Would appear they screwed up taking all of the planes out as well so are getting picked off by Ukrainian MiGs.
king_of_the_slums You know you're in for a good fight, when the leader of LibDems posts this on twitter...
Mitaman These people are hard as fuckin nails, just watch Winter on Fire on Netflix. There is going to be a lot of urban warfare, Guerilla tactics. The Russians will pay a heavy price for the madness of their leader. Both sides will suffer greatly.
Travis_Bickle king_of_the_slums '....now listen, you Putins are nothing see, nothing...you called me out Vlad, ya baldy bastard, you called me out and I swear, anywhere you want, see, anywhere you want, fair go, I'll see you....ya badly bastard...'
king_of_the_slums Makes you wonder what would happen if they get to Putin first? I imagine they have a shed load of double agents on both sides, but what if they nipped into Moscow and got a cheeky tap-in from 6 yards out and blew his swede clean off in front of his boys. Would make for interesting viewing that..
Mitaman king_of_the_slums I can’t believe thats not on the cards. I live reasonably close to the Russian Embassy and keep thinking about going over there, but I think I might end up doing something I don’t regret, and getting 21 days for it.
space Unverified as yet but reports of 100 armoured vehicles in column pushing into Kyiv. I wonder how many of those missile thingies we gave them?
Foxy_Dread space Do you mean we gave them stuff or sold them stuff? If giving them stuff when was it and what did we expect in return?
Mega_Armageddon_Chickens SardineTree We've tactically gone for a translation of the Ukrainian rather than the Russian apparently. Sunday Mail journo writes endlessly on the subject. Peking. Endlessly.
