Ukraine

[Animalmother]

Remember it was because Trump wouldn't help Ukraine that he first got impeached. It was obvious even back then he was following Putin's orders.

[eny]

Russia has its fingers in a lot of pies....Brexit being the closest to home.

[Achtung Englander]

well - lets see. Putin has annexed again. Lets see what the response is under Biden / Johnson / EU

So far - its been pretty weak.

[Wrathbone]

So far - its been pretty weak.

It's stern tutting - enough to claim we've done something (in the flimsiest possible terms), not enough to provoke any real retaliation from Putin.

Also note that the Russian banks having sanctions imposed on them doesn't include Sberbank, where Mogg has his investments.

[Achtung Englander]

[Raid]

Has Yes (Prime) Minister ever stopped being relevant?

Also note that the Russian banks having sanctions imposed on them doesn't include Sberbank, where Mogg has his investments.

Seemingly the investment company sold their shares in the bank at the end of January. I suppose you could call that prudent given this situation has obviously been brewing for a while, but as it's Rees Mogg I can't help but assume something dodgy is going on.

[eny]

Not really a great surprise as Zhirik, "The Jester", telegraphed it in December:


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ ... g-ukraine/


And it harks back even further:

Ominously, it's almost like in a 1941 song that everyone in Russia knows:
"Двадцать второго июня,
Ровно в четыре часа,
Киев бомбили, нам объявили,
Что началася война."
Which means:
"On the 22nd of June,
Exactly at 4AM,
Kyiv was bombed, we were told
That the war has begun."

[Animalmother]

They really don't care that everyone knows it's all bullshit do they? Videos of alleged Ukrainian car bombs and attacks have been proven to have been films months or years ago. I saw somewhere that the Belarusian military were very unimpressed by the Russian conscripts there, either drunk or trying to sell equipment so they could get drunk.

[eny]

Biden walks out at 2:22pm on twosday the 22nd of the second month of 2022... and cuts off a tranche of financial dealings with Russia, its sovereign debt and its oligarchs and families.

[eny]

The delicious Layla Moran uses parliamentary privilege to name 35 "key enablers" that need to be sanctioned, starting with Abramovich...nice to see someone has some balls in that place.

[eny]

Oh God! The Ukrainians are shelling a Russian journalist, SO BARBARIC! /Russian propaganda






Fucking amateurs...

[Solitaire]

Fun & games are over. There's military action by Russia, in Ukraine. imgur is awash in short videos from various areas of the country, including the capitol of Kyiv. Goddam it all

[Raid]

Yup. Ukraine have announced they've shot down 6 Russian aircraft and there've been explosions in Kyiv.

[Achtung Englander]

The Russian government has lost all credibility. They have become a cliche of themselves and have become everything the West said they are.

Putin has just opened the door to Russians with 30 years of Ukraian nationalistic terrorism

The social media companies in Russia should shut down their operations

The UK govt should confiscate all Russian oligrachy London properties. That will make them pissed.

[Mantis]

When WW3 does finally break out one day, we're going to get to watch it live from a thousand different phone livestreams like some grim car crash unfolding in front of us that we can't help but watch. The amount of footage already out there of missiles being fired at helicopter squads and bombs falling on airbases is crazy.

People on social media and all over the Internet are so disconnected and salivating at all the war porn but the fact of the matter is that we are witnessing something truly horrifying happening in real time right now.