Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

No he isn’t, he has nuclear weapons.

I mean yes if he uses them he doesn’t win, no one does. But don’t push him into a position where he may consider that option.

Don’t play chicken with someone that cause the end of civilisation. Especially when they’re not dealing with a full deck.

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

Then where/when does it stop?

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

No one is pushing him anywhere, he's done it all by himself by miscalculating what the respons of the Ukranians and the west would be.

He thought the Ukrainian army would just surrender and lay down their arms, that didn't work out well. They allowed the advance and then stopped the logistic supply of those troops. Not that Russian paratroops are actual frontline fighting units anyway, certainly not in the way ours or the US ones are, they are more glorified policemen.

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

I’ve repeated it several times in just the last few hours……..(and several days ago I might add)

He is either replaced (unlikely)

Or there is a negotiated settlement between Ukraine and Russia, along the lines of the terms (unknown if that is fake or not) recently posted or something resembling them.

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Him not coming out of this looking like he has won…….is pushing him.

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

We've also seen a pro-Russia demonstration in Serbia, a Russian gymnast with a letter Z on his clothing and children with terminal illnesses in Russia form a letter Z. Although I acknowledge the last one may have been staged, the above events are doubtless what would be in and on official Russian media.

Hard to tell how representative such actions are without any independent polling.

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

Maybe Ukraine don't want him to come out of this llooking like a winner, maybe they want him to come out of this looking like a loser. And would you blame them? I wouldn't.

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

The logical conclusion of this approach is to hand over the keys of No.10 and the White House to Putin.

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

From Bloomberg.com:

So has hacking effectively been legalised (as long as it's against Russia)? Sounds fair enough to me considering some of the nasty things that they've done.

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Exactly. If he succeeded in gaining back former Russian countries, I think it's inevitable that the invading will continue.

It gets me so mad when people have said to me that it's not our problem and we should keep out of it. Even our Government with it's Russian 'donations' realises this.

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Re: Claim that Russia is to disconnect itself from the internet. I've been given this information:

'Just search ‘Russia Internet Disconnect’ on Twitter. However the information minister denied it today (which probably means it will happen!).

Russia has been planning RuNet for some time.'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runet

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

Well, the Ukrainians are not going to back down as this speech shows.

Pres. Zelenskyy's March 7, 2022 evening address.(with subtitles)

https://twitter.com/JPaulKirby/statu...75803529637890

They are in for the long haul.

Richard, Twitter is not the font of true information all the time, perhaps have a read of this.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/07/russi...h-11-16230918/

There is also this to consider, admittedly only an opinion piece but I think it deserves merit.

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

I do wonder if he will give the UK a bit of dressing down over its lower number of sanctions and visas for Ukranians?
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-w...nough-12559880

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...6&d=1646730888

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

That very nice graph can be read an alternative way . . .

Notice it says "far fewer new sanctions" . . which may indicate the UK did most of the sanctions available to start with, whereas other countries held back and introduced them slowly.

Still, it's a nice graph to knock the UK Government with again Andrew, well done ;)

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

Nah, he'll be thanking us for the NLAW rocket launchers and other military aid we've provided.

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

Always putting our country down. Sure more humanitarian efforts are needed, but let’s not forget about geographical locations too.

Zelenskyy will not give the UK a dressing down. The UK has done more in the beginning, started giving weapons to Ukraine. Which country in the EU dragged its feet banning Russia from Swift?

Which country can’t stop receiving gas from Russia?

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

Latest UK Intel:

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1646734135

Re: Russia has invaded Ukraine
 

I absolutely agree with you on Germany and they need to wean themselves off Russian energy resources asap.

In my post, I'm simply pointing out what Zelensky might say to Parliament. Quite rightly, you acknowledge that the UK should take in more refugees from Ukraine and I don't call that putting our country down.