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    The EU cowards and traitors (Germany and Italy, in this instance), blocking the US/UK wish to remove Russia from SWIFT, need their own set of sanctions. The sausage pasta I was going to have for dinner is now off the menu.

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    Why are they blocking that?

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    Germany made a rod for their own back by collectively shitting the bed on nuclear, so they need Russian natural gas.

    Italy are just mental so it's par.

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    Because they are unbelievably dependent on Russia in various ways, whereas the anglo-frogs and others aren't so much.

    From the quick skim I've just done, sounds like the Italian economy would sink to the bottom of the Med without their Russian energy fix.

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    Nuclear waste containers broken in the fighting, too. Enjoy the cancer, conscripts.

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    Pasta on an evening? Mental.

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    I've just phoned Pierluigi Collina and his decision is that pasta can in fact be eaten at any time of day. Sorry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc View Post
    Pasta on an evening? Mental.

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    When the fuck else would you eat pasta? Breakfast?

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    Probably those meal deal cold pasta things.

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    I topped my petrol tank up this afternoon.

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    Stop panicking Lewis you fanny.

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    I'm beating the panicking fannies. Also, the lad I can't stand at work put his name down for one of those emergency response tea-making/paper-shuffling roles, so he might be out the office for a few months. I'm winning this war, and I'm winning it easily. I'm United losing their Aeroflot deal away from proclaiming Mission Accomplished.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I've just phoned Pierluigi Collina and his decision is that pasta can in fact be eaten at any time of day. Sorry.
    VAR check complete. Tutto regolare, Beppe.

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    I went to get some petrol this morning (because the tank was empty) to find the petrol station closed off with cone barricades, which made me think that the Sri Lankan petrol station owners of the south east have some kind of hotline to the Kremlin. Fortunately it was open on the way home, so I went, only to burst a tyre 10 minutes later as I dived out the way of a police car that was coming up my arse at 100mph. I'm definitely not winning this war.

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    America pt. II.

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    The Serbian trolls out in unreal force on Twitter.

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    головы ушли

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    Long Covid? Didn't know he was a female teacher.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    The EU cowards and traitors (Germany and Italy, in this instance), blocking the US/UK wish to remove Russia from SWIFT, need their own set of sanctions. The sausage pasta I was going to have for dinner is now off the menu.
    The whole thread is worth a read but:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    Long Covid? Didn't know he was a female teacher.
    He is a manlet like Taz though.

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    What a strategy

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    Also, Joe's sanctions will hit harder


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    "I'm sorry, mate. I can't add you to the Binance thread. Registrations are closed and I don't even know how you got this number." <orders sushi at Zizi's>

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    It's ok, Russians can just use Bitcoin.

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    The most mesmerising thing today has been watching the Corbyn club and Farage all tweet out pretty much word for word the same opinions. As well as Farage, Owen Jones for example should now be seen as a traitor and national pariah.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    It's ok, Russians can just use Bitcoin.

    Going off the market today they've been buying it by the cuntload.

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    Oh damn. Just realised the guy who I buy cheap Xbox games from is Ukrainian. This is affecting me now.
    I'm a twit

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    All these nutters saying we can kick Russians out of the country. We can't even deport nonces and murderers. The idea that rich Ivans aren't going to run legal rings around the Home Office is almost as mad as a no-fly zone.

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    I walked past VTB Capital at lunchtime and I guess the sanctions hadn't hit yet as there was no Lehman Brothers style cardboard box effort in full effect at that time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    All these nutters saying we can kick Russians out of the country. We can't even deport nonces and murderers. The idea that rich Ivans aren't going to run legal rings around the Home Office is almost as mad as a no-fly zone.
    A proper British government would know that the way to do it is incredibly small and petty discrminatory sanctions that will piss them off. Start with a ban from the royal enclosure at Ascot, and go from there.

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    Russian day 1 death toll of some 350 is a bit mad. That's nearly 20 years worth of our follies in the Middle East in dead body terms.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Russian day 1 death toll of some 350 is a bit mad. That's nearly 20 years worth of our follies in the Middle East in dead body terms.
    Rookie numbers for them, they'll have lost that many just deploying.

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    That's probably all happened in one coach crash.

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    Gen. Patraeus (he of the surge fame?) giving a withering assessment of Russian efforts so far. Hopefully this plays out so badly it ends up with Ukraine invading Russia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Gen. Patraeus (he of the surge fame?) giving a withering assessment of Russian efforts so far. Hopefully this plays out so badly it ends up with Ukraine invading Russia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Gen. Patraeus (he of the surge fame?) giving a withering assessment of Russian efforts so far. Hopefully this plays out so badly it ends up with Ukraine invading Russia.

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    The Ghost of Kiev is surreal apparently he shot down 6 migs.

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    Be grand lads, all sorted out this time next month.



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    "Gianni, didn't they invade Ukraine and kill a load of people?"
    "But that was ages ago. "

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    Apparently each battalion has a mobile crematorium that follows them?

    Reminds me of the bogey car in Top Gear challenges.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Gen. Patraeus (he of the surge fame?) giving a withering assessment of Russian efforts so far. Hopefully this plays out so badly it ends up with Ukraine invading Russia.
    https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...vasion/622893/
    The challenge, of course, is that Ukraine’s most senior policy makers are trying to achieve two objectives that are somewhat mutually exclusive: first, trying to avoid being both overly alarmist to their own population and needlessly provocative to the Russians; and second, trying to allow their forces to prepare to defend the country. Achievement of the former objective precludes many of the actions that military leaders would take to achieve the latter objective—for example, placing significant obstacles on major high-speed avenues of approach, such as major highways, in order to force Russian attackers into fields where ambushes and defenses can be more effective, some of which will be reinforced by anti-tank mines, tank ditches, wire obstacles, etc., and also preparing built-up areas such as towns and cities to be defended by fortifying them, creating sniper positions, and, again, establishing various obstacles. Of course, the Ukrainian president’s declaration in the past 24 hours of a state of emergency and call-up of the reserve military forces has presumably reduced some of the constraints on the establishment of defensive obstacles, fortifications, and so on. However, there still likely will be some restrictions.
    I find that quite interesting. Like.... trying to defend yourself against a bully long enough for them to get bored and decide it's not worth it but not so much that they go "No actually fuck you" and go all out to squash you. But with invasion and death.

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    Having spent hours last night and this morning reading takes on this, I actually cannot believe how pathetic and stupid our commentariat class is. 'I can't believe it... in 2022...'

    Why does it matter what year it is, you stupid fucks? Humans didn't become passive sedentary consumers at the end of the Cold War, you know. Every commentator appearing on British TV and radio seems SHOCKED that Putin is in fact a bastard.

    These simps who were brought up in the 80s and 90s in the West, and only know one direction of travel, are incredible in
    their ignorance. I'm finally starting to see why Brexit melted their brains. Maybe it will take war to make them more robustly defend the democratic/Christian values that are the basis of all we enjoy in life? Doubt it.

    I don't understand why we aren't employing a massive cultural squeeze on rich Russians over here. Got to make them suffer, as they are what keeps Putin alive. Easy to go 'ooh Tory money' but I'm sure the Tories can find other money, like they always have. The hard power is with the Americans but we have so much soft power.

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    Christian values. Oh yeah, we definitely need more appreciation of those.

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    Nobody will understand the same way nobody understood the Balkans. People are just so incapable of empathy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Christian values. Oh yeah, we definitely need more appreciation of those.
    It's what the west is, whether we like it or not. Love thy neighbour, as opposed to shelling him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Having spent hours last night and this morning reading takes on this, I actually cannot believe how pathetic and stupid our commentariat class is. 'I can't believe it... in 2022...'

    Why does it matter what year it is, you stupid fucks? Humans didn't become passive sedentary consumers at the end of the Cold War, you know. Every commentator appearing on British TV and radio seems SHOCKED that Putin is in fact a bastard.

    These simps who were brought up in the 80s and 90s in the West, and only know one direction of travel, are incredible in
    their ignorance. I'm finally starting to see why Brexit melted their brains. Maybe it will take war to make them more robustly defend the democratic/Christian values that are the basis of all we enjoy in life? Doubt it.

    I don't understand why we aren't employing a massive cultural squeeze on rich Russians over here. Got to make them suffer, as they are what keeps Putin alive. Easy to go 'ooh Tory money' but I'm sure the Tories can find other money, like they always have. The hard power is with the Americans but we have so much soft power.
    There's this belief that I reckon humans have always had, that the humans alive today are peak humans. They've learnt from history, they know everything as a result and therefore not only do they know what to do today, they know what will happen tomorrow too.

    Which is of course absolute horseshit, but that's why minds get broken when things like this and Brexit happen as it doesn't fit that line of thinking at all.

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