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    There's nothing unusual of an Etonian retard ascending to Premiership.

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    Michael Sheen would be a great prime minister.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I always assumed it was just a giant money laundry, but who knows.
    Supposedly the ones who deliberately raise their profiles here are doing so on purpose to avoid the polonium mochaccino.

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    Usyk flying into Ukraine when he was in London the other day to fight isn’t half bad ass. What a bloke

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    Was at the rally in London today and let me tell you, superb tings on show.

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    My dear children, dear mom and dad,
    I am going to war to defend our land.
    Do not weep for me if I die in the field,
    I will give everything for my mother Ukraine!

    Let us unite, brethren, in this evil hour,
    Let the enemy know - we are for Ukraine.
    We will give our only soul to God,
    For our land Holy Ukraine.

    We will give our only soul to God,
    For our land Holy Ukraine!

    We are for these steppes, for forests and mountains,
    For wide lands, for the Black Sea.
    For the Heavenly Hundred, for Taras the brother,
    We fought for our freedom! We have fought the hangman!

    Holy Faith is with us, God and truth are with us,
    And we are against brother going against brother.
    And if war - then feel,
    Nothing will stop us! Glory to Ukraine!
    And if war - then feel,
    Nothing will stop us! Glory to Ukraine!

    Do not weep for me if I die in the field,
    I will give everything for my mother Ukraine!
    Don't cry for me if I die in the field,
    I will give everything for my dear mother Ukraine!

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    On his way to bang Stifler's mom.

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    Anonymous have took down a load of Russian government websites and hacked state tv channels to play Ukrainian songs.

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    Thermobaric artillery en route to Kiev.

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    So this is what it took for German re-armament to happen. They were at 1.5% last year, so that's quite a step up.

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    Liz Truss saying she supports British people going over and fighting has taken the idiocy another notch. Think about it for five seconds love.

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    Lots of chatter that Putin has ordered a takeover of Kyiv by tomorrow morning at the latest, by any means necessary.

    If the Ukrainians hold out one more night then it could turn. If the markets open tomorrow and Kyiv is still Ukrainian, Russia will be fucked.

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    You can't take over a country when the people fucking hate you. It just doesn't stay in your hands.

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    All of the 'chatter' being one-sided strikes me as an issue. It's all a bit le epic resistance, aimed solely at Western freaks. If Syria is anything to go by then the videos of random burned out vehicles is as good as it has actually got.

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    The Russians will obviously 'win' militarily if they need to (although they might now need to commit serious atrocities against civilians to make it happen), but they have already made fatal errors in thinking it would be over or as good as over by now. They needed to be in Kiev and resuming some kind of civilian life before the Ukrainians had the chance to gain a new militaristic consciousness, before the Germans had a chance to completely reverse their economic and defence policy against Moscow, and before the west had the chance to reduce their currency to ruins. Putin might 'not care' about such things but they will all hurt Russia and keep hurting it. Whatever happens from here, it's a strategic defeat for Putin/Russian dreams of hegemony in eastern Europe.
    Last edited by Jimmy Floyd; 27-02-2022 at 11:47 AM.

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    I would be very surprised if the Russians thought they would have it done within days against zero resistance. We are looking at it all through our perspectives. Because we wouldn't go to war against anybody who can fight back, or accept any casualties, they must not have reckoned on it either. Because we wouldn't go to war for limited strategic goals, he can only be doing it to occupy the full country and/or rebuild the Soviet Union. If Ukraine agreed not to join NATO he would pack up and go home, and probably sell the separatists out along the way.

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    I’m with Lewis. None of us have any idea how long Putin expected this to last or whether it’s on schedule or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    I would be very surprised if the Russians thought they would have it done within days against zero resistance. We are looking at it all through our perspectives. Because we wouldn't go to war against anybody who can fight back, or accept any casualties, they must not have reckoned on it either. Because we wouldn't go to war for limited strategic goals, he can only be doing it to occupy the full country and/or rebuild the Soviet Union. If Ukraine agreed not to join NATO he would pack up and go home, and probably sell the separatists out along the way.
    Why would he be marching on Kiev if he didn't want to remove its government and install a puppet one, maintaining which will require years/decades of occupation against a large and belligerent population?

    If it was all about limited goals re Lugansk and Donestk then he could just occupy those, like he did in Crimea.

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    He wants a sympathetic government in Kiev, something like he has with Belarus. If they nibble off a bit of Eastern Ukraine in the bargain then that's a bonus but re-establishing the iron curtain is the real goal here.

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    He’s dying and the bloke wants to be buried with the Soviet flag.

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    Has he thought about looking on eBay?

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    They're not delivering to him now.

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    He's going nuclear lads.

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    Perhaps the 'full tonto' mob weren't so wide of the mark.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Why would he be marching on Kiev if he didn't want to remove its government and install a puppet one, maintaining which will require years/decades of occupation against a large and belligerent population?

    If it was all about limited goals re Lugansk and Donestk then he could just occupy those, like he did in Crimea.
    He needs some sort of permanent recognition of his objectives, which merely bolstering the separatists was never going to do. Squatting in the capital (and smashing half of it to bits if necessary) makes that more likely.

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    What's the deterrence against, exactly? The Ukrainian nukes went back to Russia as part of the independence.

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    NATO. It’s a power move, obviously knowing NATO would never fire a nuke first.

    Also: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/com...tm_name=iossmf

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    He needs some sort of permanent recognition of his objectives, which merely bolstering the separatists was never going to do. Squatting in the capital (and smashing half of it to bits if necessary) makes that more likely.
    He's literally gone on TV going off on one about drug addicts and neo-Nazis running Ukraine.

    Internal problems coming for Mad Vlad I think.

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    And they don't get much more internal than Stage 4 colon cancer.

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    If they haven’t got Kyiv by morning, the Russian markets will collapse and the oligarchs will oust him.

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    Absolute scenes when he gets Litvinenkoed.

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    I see he's talking about nukes now. We need to take him out.

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    Anonymous have taken down the Moscow Stock Exchange site now, and it looks like runs have started on the banks because the max withdrawal is now ~$20. Massive protests in St. Petersburg.

    I think the manlet has manufactured his own downfall here. It’s just a case of seeing the level of fire he’s willing to go down with.

    Also notable how only Belarus are siding with Russia. China have backed off (purely as self preservation obviously), Kazakhstan have told Putin to fuck off and Azerbaijan are actively supplying Ukraine.
    Last edited by Ben; 27-02-2022 at 04:47 PM.

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    Where's Bond when you need him?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ben View Post
    Anonymous have taken down the Moscow Stock Exchange site now, and it looks like runs have started on the banks because the max withdrawal is now ~$20. Massive protests in St. Petersburg.

    I think the manlet has manufactured his own downfall here. It’s just a case of seeing the level of fire he’s willing to go down with.

    Also notable how only Belarus are siding with Russia. China have backed off (purely as self preservation obviously), Kazakhstan have told Putin to fuck off and Azerbaijan are actively supplying Ukraine.
    Even if the best happened, do we have any idea who his likely successor would be? Are they any better?

    What happened to that bloke they tried to off with Novichok? Is he still about?

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    In jail.

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    They could give it to Steve Bruce.

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    Even if someone 'as bad as' Putin succeeded him, you'd never see anyone with his totalitarian grip on power.

    The photo of him recording that order to his defence ministers is batshit, I reckon he might genuinely be a heads have gone Covid casualty. Maybe Deepti's in his lair with him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
    They could give it to Steve Bruce.
    Don’t be so stupid.

    He’s at West Brom.

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    So BP is exiting its 20% stake in Rosneft, RT & Sputnik are getting banned in the EU, and their central bank has to issue a statement on a Sunday that everything is fine.

    Vlad really is doing some genius moves here.

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    https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/...most-1m-a76194

    Yeah, funny you should mention covid. Maybe he's trying to use a war to cover that.

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    Whatever replaced him, whether it was better or worse for Russians, would follow pretty much the same foreign policies. People not realising that is literally how we ended up here.

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    Sorry we caused the war Lou. Won't do it again.

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    Putin is sacking his Generals now lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ben View Post
    Putin is sacking his Generals now lol.
    Source?

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    I don't think that's true.

    What is true is that the rouble is going to halve in value when it opens tomorrow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    Source?
    Bill Neely reported it but he's backtracked for now.

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