ICTChris Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 8 hours ago, Genuine Hibs Fan said: Also quite funny given they're (I think anyway) one of the biggest arms sellers in the world all their customers have been watching their gear break down, underperform or look obsolete, albeit again while doing horrible things so funny probably not the right word Sadly I bet some prospective buyers are looking at the levelling of Kharkiv and thinking they want some of that action. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genuine Hibs Fan Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) 2 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Sadly I bet some prospective buyers are looking at the levelling of Kharkiv and thinking they want some of that action. That's true, and I imagine they're looking at those broken down tanks thinking if we just grease those treads once we'll be fine. I read a fairly decent thread by an ex US servicemen the other day saying breakdowns are always pretty common in these situations, but that a sign of an army that's well trained/has decent morale is an ability to improvise or fix things on the go, which could be telling or could be nonsense. Doesn't solve what to do when there's no petrol either Edited March 8, 2022 by Genuine Hibs Fan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charger29 Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Daft crazy ww3 provoking idea I know. But. Could a country like Poland declare its withdrawal from nato then declare war on Russia? Or reform as a new country unbound by past treaties. Sevpo.Article 13 of the North Atlantic Treaty says any country wanting to leave must give a 1 year warning.Presumably to stop rash unilateral decisions in a time of war like the one you mentioned. It would take time to get NATO troops and equipment out of Poland. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genuine Hibs Fan Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 according to some of the responses there burning books based on their contents is good now actually! -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 8 hours ago, Lofarl said: Daft crazy ww3 provoking idea I know. But. Could a country like Poland declare its withdrawal from nato then declare war on Russia? Or reform as a new country unbound by past treaties. Sevpo. That would leave the three Baltic states stranded so doubt there's much appetite for that. Russia appears to have bitten off more than it can easily chew militarily so Poland's role will no doubt be to provide the airbases to keep resupplying the Ukrainians much like Pakistan during the Afghan war. The international fighters that appear to be arriving now no doubt provide a way in with plausible deniability for various western intelligence agencies. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 7 hours ago, Welly boy said: If your looking for daft crazy ideas get Switzerland to declare war on Russia as they are not part of the European Union or NATO , saying that i'm not even sure if Switzerland even have an Army... Army training is pretty much mandatory, though you can opt to do community service instead. Vast majority of the over 18s here would be conscripted and already fully trained. Only the Swiss ones though, so not me… 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandcowden Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 9 hours ago, Lofarl said: Daft crazy ww3 provoking idea I know. But. Could a country like Poland declare its withdrawal from nato then declare war on Russia? Or reform as a new country unbound by past treaties. Sevpo. Why would they do something as completely insane as that,considering they have a huge border with Russia&it's one ally in the region 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandcowden Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 4 minutes ago, Day of the Lords said: There's a post a few pages back where some russian analyst says he's been spending years trying to inform his own public their own military aren't all 7foot tall.he says he now has to assure them they aren't all 4 ft tall either.lets not underestimate this lot 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O'Kelly Isley III Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 9 hours ago, sophia said: There's a terrific piece on the BBC news juxtaposing Johnson saying he is being as generous as he can be to refugees and the extent of the task force at Calais which amounts to and I quote "three officials, a box of ready salted crisps and some KitKats" The tolies are doing some heavy duty lying. Warren Buffet coined the saying about seeing the bodies on the beach when the tide goes out. It's everyone's misfortune at this time that we have dog-whistle incompetents like Johnson, Truss and Patel on that beach. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2022/03/06/have-flat-tires-and-ukraines-mud-season-stalled-the-russian-convoy-outside-kyiv/?sh=234305f461e2 I always remember my old grandad telling me a war story about them fixing punctures by stuffing the tyres with grass to get them moving and not being a sitting duck...he survived so hopefully nae Russian P&B spies are reading this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 I’d wager that the majority of Tory voters are supportive of Patel’s position on Ukrainian refugees. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 2 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said: You could do a sponsored dog drowning, Slippery. As said before sponsor money or not I'll be doing it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 it’s not just the Ukrainians getting rid of Soviet era slogans 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 51 minutes ago, Genuine Hibs Fan said: according to some of the responses there burning books based on their contents is good now actually! These people supporting this are so Liberal that they've accidentally outed themselves as fascist. 'I don't support book burning, but...' is the exact same energy as 'I'm no a racist, but...' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 The deputy chief of the Russian 41st Army has been killed near Kharkiv. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 These people supporting this are so Liberal that they've accidentally outed themselves as fascist. 'I don't support book burning, but...' is the exact same energy as 'I'm no a racist, but...'We live in the era of wild, contradictory snap judgements and reaction being shat out into the world in real time via smartphones. A world where people don't even take a nanosecond to think through the things they say. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Not now Korea, FFS 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 5 minutes ago, ICTChris said: The deputy chief of the Russian 41st Army has been killed near Kharkiv. Read that and first thought was why was someone so high ranking so far forward ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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