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Liz Truss is a twat.The opposite really. People are dying in an unjust war. That's the reality you choose to avoid.
Elaborate please. I'm open to reassurance.
I'm not really sure what you're getting at here? Nuclear weapons didn't exist at the outbreak of WW2. Had they done the war wouldn't have made it past 1939.
If Germany today bombed Kaliningrad they would cease to exist as a country within about an hour.
Its a funny series of convos the past four-five days. Both of us are accusing each other of being suckers to our respective propaganda! My previous experience of this are with Trumpists.
Eventually, you give up and not bother having any discussions other than asking the time or matters of such trivialities. At some point the world will grind to a halt.
So you ought to be sh!t scared that your aircrafts flown by Ukranian soldiers could be used against the agressor, who, in case of victory, will be sitting next to your door, with nukes right next to him?
There's an open discussion about thermobaric weapons now.
Some liberators these guys. But let's stay realistic.
Some liberators these guys. But let's stay realistic.
With all this unfamiliar US UK equipment being given to the Ukraine, there obviously must be technical advisors arriving with it.
Boris press conference just now was pretty good and very moving when the Ukrainian reporter pleaded for help and a no fly zone.
Boris said there was no way they could send in any planes as it would mean shooting down Russian planes.
Sanctions and defensive support is the only way to defeat Putin
Boris said there was no way they could send in any planes as it would mean shooting down Russian planes.
Sanctions and defensive support is the only way to defeat Putin
Ukraine have claimed that thermobaric weapons have already been used against them, right?
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I am not sure why the Americans cant send in the F-22 with their tiny radar cross-section, almost undetectable by the Russians and shoot off a few missiles onto the convoys from over the horizon.
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Is something happening in Kyiv or are we all just waiting for the Russians to finish having their smokes?
They may also try to 'starve' the residents of Kviv by stopping any lorries from getting into the city.
That could result in a real humanitarian crisis forcing food and aid to be supplied by helicopters.
You cant go to a new plane let alone a completely different platform in a year and you are talking about days. Its unfeasible. I dont think the Poles are giving their Migs either.
No wonder you had similar experiences with Trumpists. The source is all the same - Russian propaganda to dumb and/or disillusioned people.
NATO are/will increase the number of fighter jets from member countries to ensure you have sufficient jets to maintain your strength.
They did yesterday but today it's on BBC and much bigger audience.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian journalist is ripping Boris a new one
Surely the West lost its survival instinct while becoming flooded with idiotic frivolities and division… yet it seems it is not too late to wake up, regroup and treat life a bit more seriously. People calling Putin a boomer really live in a pampered bubble, though. He’s just an enemy, at large, with whom we needed to co-exist and now contain. It will not be pretty, for many in our shores.
Yeah I'm sure the EU and NATO will discuss replacements for any planes used, if any.
But I think the only way we go in without being attacked is if there is a unprecedented humanitarian disaster or the UN security council allows us to intervene.
But I think the only way we go in without being attacked is if there is a unprecedented humanitarian disaster or the UN security council allows us to intervene.
The big question I guess is - who's getting paid off to do this in the UK government?
If they do give them those fighters it will be an open declaration of war from NATO/EU.
Sactions/bleeding the Russian economy dry are better measures than corner Putin to retaliate to an extend that he can possibly use nukes..
The F35 and EF Typhoon carry out different roles. Typhoon is far better at air to air.
While the F35 is nothing like as good at that, it is better at ground attack.
What kind of frivolities and division are you thinking of?
Putin is definitely a boomer.
The guy has no idea about the modern world, no different to a typical 70-year-old grandpa. His world view and mindset are consistent with this way of life. But that's also what makes him dangerous.
Xi, on the other hand, is a much more sophisticated enemy but that's for another day.
It seems we are not sending planes and definitely not allowing them to be operated out of Poland facilities.
They have given them lethal weapons. Those weapons are killing Russian soldiers. They are not used on Russian territory, but they are killing Russian soldiers. Sanctions/bleeding Russian economy will not happen as soon as Putin installs his puppet ruler in Ukraine. It will be a Ukraine under a new ruler, and believe it or not, there will be even elections held and the puppet will win.
No sign of spring for the foreseeable future either - if anything temperatures set to fall further.
Presumably you've thought this through so how many millions dead is acceptable in WW3 to defend Ukraine? 30? 50? 100?
We didn't jump straight into WW2 when Japan invaded China or when Germany took Austria. It took further expansion and the camps.
Russia aren't stupid enough to take on a NATO country. If they did it would inevitably end up with them losing or nuclear annihilation.
I think what much of Kasparov has been writing over the last decade is correct. You can keep delaying and delaying the ultimate confrontation with Putin, but each time you do and back down, the greater pain and cost you will bear next time he reaches outside of Russia. I don't see how this can conclude. How does the West possibly accept Russia back with Putin remaining as a peacetime leader again? The EU and individual European countries have ripped up their decades-long policy to combat this threat. Germany is now taking their armament and defence policy seriously again. Orban's Hungary are turning their backs on Russia and championing Ukraine's EU integration. Finland, Sweden and Switzerland are giving up pretences of neutrality bit by bit.
Yes, I choose to avoid the increasing likelihood that we could cease to exist as a country. Is that really a risk worth taking when it seems likely that Putin will be removed because very few countries in the world now want to deal with Russia in any capacity and he will be seen as responsible for that, and for the collapse of the rouble
You've already seen Syria. Now Ukraine. What are you going to appease next?
I honestly don’t see how we can without war being declared.
Which is also borderline sensitive subject already.. Besides giving them planes that they don't know how to operate won't help much.
Putin will be removed? News to me.
That's is exactly why WW II lasted so long. And if not for USSR and allies who joined in and 30-40 million people dying there would be a very different Europe now.
I have no doubt that if Ukraine are not helped significantly, we will see a new Ukraine pretty soon. A ruler of this country will be the Botox face's puppet. That time around you will have a much more real threat. Moreoever, you will be fully dependent on Russia's gas and wheat. Sanctions would be gradually lifted too, cause make no mistake, when people in Russia start to starve the botox face will use the nuke card again.
He is a tsar, in his bubble, and does give a feck about most of what we find relevant here. It is the same for 3/4 of the inhabited planet, though, whose main worries is to survive: first world problems, they say, about most we spend our days upon… and that’s where we are now, with a cold, cold wolf preying a sheep at our borders (which is not a racist way to say that Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen are less important, just a deluded way to deny our long lasting stupidity). I mean, we can hope that our collective intelligence (and solidarity, at crucial times), in spite of too many blunders from single leaders here and there (often funded directly and indirectly by Russia, to be fair), is enough to stay united and keep going.
If Putin wins the war and is not removed and we go "Meh, back to normal life", we are fecked. It allows China and North Korea to see that what Russia is doing is possible, that the 'West' is weak, afraid of hardship, and will conform to their will in time to come.
Boris wasn't joking when he said Putin must fail. He must or it is an existential threat to our governments.
Boris wasn't joking when he said Putin must fail. He must or it is an existential threat to our governments.