I would ask what are these countries doing to help their citizens who are stranded there? Usually in times of crisis dipomatic missions do what they can to get their people out.
He's not a lunatic. Sociopath for sure but he has nothing like the impulsive nature of someone like trump.Impossible to state that as a fact. While the risk may be low you can never predict what will happen under such circumstances we face today in particular with a lunatic being backed into a corner.
I think their domestic cards will work?No-one in russia is searching for restaurants at the moment, their cards wont work for payment.
Does anyone know the actual process? Like I believe that there are all sorts of protocols to follow, most of which would certainly trigger warnings across the world that a nuke may be getting prepared for launch. I really, really hope that its not just a button with some casing over it, that someone can just open and push.
Think I screwed up the URL. I wouldn't say he's your average Brit but this guy is heading over to fight for Ukraine.Article seems to be gone. Without going into whether its even right to be “allowed” to go and fight - could this be cover to send in special ops? Ironically very similar to Wagner Group soldiers, just need to call them volunteers and send them over the Polish border.
He's not a lunatic. Sociopath for sure but he has nothing like the impulsive nature of someone like trump.
This group is being asked to stay where they are at the time of the video, unless you have a translation of what's being said? Framing this as Ukraine refusing the key Africans leave the country is propaganda likely of Russian origin, don't you think?
@spectatorindex: BREAKING: Moscow says countries sending military equipment to Ukraine will be responsible if they are used against Russian forces.
Wow:Think I screwed up the URL. I wouldn't say he's your average Brit but this guy is heading over to fight for Ukraine.
Ukraine invasion: Britons 'willing to die' to defeat Putin's army as volunteers prepare to travel to fight Russian invasion | UK News | Sky News
"Certainly some of the messages on that group are: 'I'm alone, I'm single, I'm 45 years old, I don't have military experience, I'm happy to go over there and fight, it doesn't matter that much if I don't come back.' It's shocking really.
"It's crazy for me to see people are willing to give their lives potentially."
Same applies Zelenskyy when he decided to stay in Ukraine. Nationalism can do crazy things to people.
The feck is an ‘orc?’have you guys seen the video of the father and son executed on the side of the road , these orcs deserve a special place in hell
Well obviously@spectatorindex: BREAKING: Moscow says countries sending military equipment to Ukraine will be responsible if they are used against Russian forces.
@spectatorindex: BREAKING: Moscow says countries sending military equipment to Ukraine will be responsible if they are used against Russian forces.
ugly creature from lord of the ringsThe feck is an ‘orc?’
The feck is an ‘orc?’
No-one in russia is searching for restaurants at the moment, their cards wont work for payment.
There is no face saving option for Putin at this point. He's far too overcommitted and nearing a point where EU and NATO are beginning to see cracks in his hold on power. In his own mind, his only out in all of this will be to take Ukraine by going ultra-violent. Anything else will be considered a weak capitulation involving him ruining the Russian economy while returning from Ukraine empty handed. Also, now that the international community has him in a weakened position, they aren't likely to remove the sanctions until he pays for the damage and destruction in Ukraine and signs an agreement to fund its reconstruction. He of course, isn't going to agree to any of these things and is incentivized to double down on taking Ukraine.
It was already used you little botox bitch@spectatorindex: BREAKING: Moscow says countries sending military equipment to Ukraine will be responsible if they are used against Russian forces.
There’s only France in the EU with a nuclear deterrent. That’s why NATO is where the strength is (adds UK and the US).
The EU as a separate entity isn’t that powerful in a military sense.
So what's the way out then?
If you really believe Putin will never back down with any variation of a face-saving option (even a minor one that he just spins internally), how does this end? I know it's the desire of everyone for Putin to just get overthrown internally and then the new leaders of Russia would work out a deal but from everything @harms and others have posted that seems like a bit of overly-optimistic wishful thinking.
I have only seen it in this context used to describe a MuslimThe feck is an ‘orc?’
There’s little doubt in my mind we have special ops going on in Ukraine.
They're signing up the "Foreign Legion", guessing if were going to send in the hit squad it would be under this guise.I was thinking the same thing but not necessarily to fight Russian regulars, but precisely these 'assasin squads' hunting Zelenskiy in Kyiv.
Absolutely no clue what that passage means, none.From Wiki:
"Orcs were the primary foot soldiers of the Dark Lord's armies and sometimes the weakest (but most numerous) of their servants. They were created by the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, before the First Age and served him and later his successor in their quest to dominate Middle-earth. Before Oromë first found the Elves at Cuiviénen, Melkor kidnapped some of them and cruelly deformed them, twisting them into the first Orcs."
Oh dear.I have only seen it in this context used to describe a Muslim
I'm not sure we are at that point yet. The longer this goes on the weaker Putin gets. He needs a bit more rope.Putin's a cornered and wounded animal, with nukes for teeth and thermobaric missiles for claws.
He's in flight or fight mode. We need to back off a bit and give him an escape route. Because he's never going to back down from his snarling rhetoric otherwise.
Never played warcraft?The feck is an ‘orc?’
The ones I know are all horrified and want Putin gone. They are all people who have spent time in Western Europe though, so their views might not reflect those who have stayed in Russia their whole liveswould love to know the view of the average Russian right now.
I refuse to believe that there are people not knowing what orcs areAbsolutely no clue what that passage means, none.
would love to know the view of the average Russian right now.
I agree, I am not saying it's just pure racism or something. It needs to be explained from all ends - I've not heard (unless missed and easily could have as they may be drowned out) much from those countries where the citizens are impacted
Either way, if it's meant as a humanitarian crisis/escape, it shouldn't really matter too much who it is especially if some places are supposedly saying they don't care about paperwork and it's just getting people out
@spectatorindex: BREAKING: Moscow says countries sending military equipment to Ukraine will be responsible if they are used against Russian forces.
