Makes me fecking livid reading that. People never fecking change when it all boils down to it
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Makes me fecking livid reading that. People never fecking change when it all boils down to it
It's incredible to think a nuclear warhead and mutual destruction are a potential reality. The mentality of nationalism/exceptionalism being so great that it's literally worth annihilating billions of lives (human and animal) is utter insanity.
I'd like to know as well, some mod must have changed something because all I can see are posts that say you can't call him Putin and must instead call him Putin..
Company names would have been acceptable imho, personal names not. Though I suppose it might be too hard to separate one from the other in legal firms
Surely some of the Russian soldiers must be thinking like this by now:
In principle they deserve protection. In reality, they are not standing for justice but simply using the justice system to enrich themselves and have the system favour the wealthy and corrupt. So I deplore it in principle and in reality they can go feck themselves.
The amount of human tragedy that has already happened, and will only get worse. I dread to think what will happen before this stops, and I can imagine it will only get worse from here. Now, it feels awful to do this, but my head turns to strategy when I see this.
Maybe someone of military background can enlighten me, but we keep on reading about Russia having logistical problems with vehicles running out of fuel, why are they bombing the fuel depots rather than commandeering them? Is it as senseless as the bombing of schools and hospitals, or do they have reasons for it? Do they expect the fuel to be damaged/ruined before they can take control of the site? Is the strategy as bad as it seems, or is there a rationale to this?
It also makes me concerned they have no intention of getting vehicles/manpower into position to take the cities,, and that we will maybe see a lot more bombs and missiles fired into the cities, given they don't seem too bothered about the resources.
Oh damn, them germans were really serious about it, good for them. Massive shift in the energy market, might be time to invest in nuclear sectors (just kidding, I hate the idea of taking advantage of a war to make money).
Times of war are when we need strong democratic foundations the most, it's what differentiates us from barbarians.
Everyone in Groningen better move. I sense a lot of earthquakes in their future.
Any chance we can get all Russian oligarchs deported along with any politician taking their donations. and bring in more Ukrainian refugees instead. And by deported I mean randomly dropped somewhere in the Atlantic.
Some were calling him Pu*tler. Tydligen får man inte längre göra det.
This is scary, when a regime goes further in the censorship, you fear what they are about to do.
Is there a border in the world that doesn’t prioritise people based on passport and what checks need to be made? People who have no visa-free access to the EU are going to be processed differently.
Obviously with the humanitarian and wartime situation, further distinction will be made between women, children, the elderly and others. If you are an overseas student or worker between the age of 18-40 who ordinarily has no visa access to the EU, you aren’t going to be a priority for processing and you are going to be asked to join a separate, far slower queue, subject to more checks. Now if the border guards are discriminating within that group based on race or skin colour, then that is wrong.
It astounds me that people expect that everyone reaching the border will be in one long line, first come first serve, treated the same regardless of their passport. The world doesn’t work like that – and I say that as someone who thinks the elimination of borders and the Schengen Zone is one of the great European success stories.
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This episode has been a massive geo-political inflection point for Germany, with respect to its defense and energy policies in particular.
Aren't the baddy lawyers also good lawyers in a way because they make sure their client is represented properly so there can't be a "my lawyer was incompetent so is a mistrial" type thing?
Some people spit their dummy because some of us were using names of Putin combined with his German counterpart from WW2.
So much for freedom of speech when others on here love going on about how both sides are at fault and that's fine
They were warned by the government to leave weeks ago, apparently. If they didn't, the government is going to prioritize their own citizens over everyone else. That's normal. It would happen everywhere. There are lots of Indian students that should have left when the warnings started but didn't or probably couldn't, and it sucks. But it's normal procedure. I'm sure a black Ukrainian national was probably prioritized over a white international student
Chance is a fine thing, I can’t see anyone overhauling Putin apart from his own death.
I have family there …nice town
Maybe, but it seems to be the option that would make the best outcome possible. Get rid of Putin, blame everything on him and get out of Ukraine, reduce the sanctions (and therefore allow the oligarchs to earn money and actually spend it where they like - in the west).
It does look pretty bad doesn't it. There are frankly no excuses for it.
But vulnerable to mini-earthquakes due to natural gas production which might be increased now (to give some context, I guess not many understand what @KirkDuyt refers to)
Thanks, I was wondering why Groningen should expect to be bombed
It is, also the name of the province, which as @stefan92 said has a lot of natural gas and as a result of drilling fornit have experienced a lot of earthquakes. I imagine with this shiteshow we will need more of it.
That's not really how I think. It's my deep belief that a conviction is only deserved when the defendant had the best representation possible. This way you know the judicial system works.I've represented very bad people in my practice (when I say bad i mean childen killer bad). And I always did the best job I could.It was a huge relief when they got convicted but at least I knew they deserved it and that the system worked (it's not always the case).
Now I'm a business lawyer, and I use laws I don't like every day to defend my clients. I even vote for representatives who intend to change these very laws, but it is what it is, I'm a lawyer and not a lawmaker. As I said, unless they commited malpractice, change the law, don't blame the lawyers.
feck me that nurse bloke is one attention seeking sod who loves to pretend he’s an expert in everything. I find him nauseating.
Misplaced nukes meant for East Frisia - Germany's strategic reserve storage for oil and gas (also a lot of commercial gas storage) is located there, just on the other side of the Dutch/German border.Thanks, I was wondering why Groningen should expect to be bombed
I don't know why I expect better but really, what's your problem with the guy?
It's absolutely disgusting. A friend of mine tried to cross the Polish border on the 25th and was stopped about 2 km before the border, near a rest stop. He and a group that he was with weren't allowed to proceed to the border. They waited in the same position for 3 hours and then went back, walking.
Some of these stories are much worse than what he went through. But it's the same type of sickening behaviour.
The border crossing thing is bizarre. I get transportation but why do they care whether someone goes into Poland? Is that a Polish or an Ukrainian decision?
And surely most of these people have enough money to get home, so let them.
And surely most of these people have enough money to get home, so let them.
Assuming for the sake of argument that this segregation reports are true: why would the Ukrainians be against all those people leaving their country, especially once they have already made it to the border? Is it possible that Poland/EU told them they only take Ukrainians and EU nationals?
About 140 of them, according to BBC.
This would be my guess but still weird.
Thanks …hadn’t realised about the natural gas production
Keeping them back makes it easier for their own people to cross the border quickly I guess? But still a bit weird.
I was about to ask the same thing. Surely it is a good thing to get innocents out of the country quickly?
Would it be that weird? Refugees are a loaded topic in the EU, it wouldn't surprise me if the Poles, or really everyone, told Ukraine that they will take their people, but asked them to keep the rest away for their own governments to organize their evacuation.
Another explanation, especially in the case of Indians, could be that they want to keep them as sort of hostages to change their neutral stance.
Didn't the EU grant certain rights of refuge to ukranian citizens .... But not necessarily everybody leaving Ukraine
Not to justify the way non EU / ukranians are being treated but may explain why they are separating them / processing them differently
No excuse for treating peopl badly and Poland / Hungary are not exactly countries known for their inclusive race relations so hard to know beyond what has been published .... Which does not look good.