HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 45 minutes ago, Billy Jean King said: 1 hour ago, Todd_is_God said: The question isn't really the point I was making mind. It's just such an odd thing for people to applaud and for her to then smile about. You just need to mention resettling Trident to somewhere like Barrow or Plymouth to see the same performing seals moan like hell about the prospect of WMDs being on their own doorstep. Absolutely bizarre behaviour but not in the least surprising. Serios question but does it really matter if things go tits up? What's the choices, melted in a nuclear cloud or falling to bits over the next few weeks as the country go's Mad Max? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 4 hours ago, jagfox said: There will probably be another decree going into how the numbers will be achieved shortly haha Not a general mobilisation so probably a mix of recruitment and maybe extending period of national service? The difficulty is that if they conscript more guys then they need to train them and then equipment and personnel who would do that training aren’t available because they are in Ukraine and in many cases have been taken out in the war. They also need to ensure that there are officers to lead these units and they’ve taken heavy losses among officers. Recruiting contractors reduces the need for training - a lot of contractors are recruited from the conscripts or from people who have previously served in the military. Currently Russia is recruiting guys to go and fight by paying pretty good salaries, some contingent on deploying to Ukraine. You then have guys who are probably more combat ready and don’t need shown which end of a gun goes bang. The problem with this is that these guys are professionals, they can simply resign. This has happened in a number of units and there isn’t much that the Russian command can do about it. Some places have put a ‘wall of shame’ outside barracks with photographs of soldiers who have quit, although I’d take the scorn of babuskas over being blown up in Ukraine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 It's also completely unworkable. Who is going to regulate a price cap on the likes of Saudi or Iranian LNG into Europe? It's sure as hell not going to be the likes of Germany, and the US aren't going to put their foot down and call for a price cap as it would impact their own exports. Russia will, ultimately, not profit in the long run from spiralling prices as European countries source their gas from elsewhere.Separating electricity from gas for wholesale pricing is probably the best possible route. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strichener Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 (edited) 18 hours ago, Todd_is_God said: They may have frozen consumer prices, but by fully nationalising EDF the French Government will be absorbing all of the astromical losses this entails. This will need to be repaid at some point. The same losses that will need to be absorbed and later repaid if / when the price cap is frozen here. The solution to this is to unpeg electricity costs from the price of gas, instead charging end users for electricity at the cost to produce it depending on energy source. This is both possible and miles away from implementing a global price cap on the wholesale gas market. I also believe this will happen at some point next year. What "astronomical costs". The price to produce nuclear power is not rising, it is the wholesale market price. EDF are not suffering astronomical losses, they just aren't making astronomical profits*. Except in countries where they are, like the UK. Edited August 26, 2022 by strichener 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 9 minutes ago, strichener said: What "astronomical costs". The price to produce nuclear power is not rising, it is the wholesale market price. EDF are not suffering astronomical losses, they just aren't making astronomical profits*. A fair point RE: France. It doesn't change my point about here, though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted August 26, 2022 Share Posted August 26, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Ukrainian Resistance targeting collaborators 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 A Russian mercenary carrying out a performance using the skull of a dead Ukrainian soldier. [\spoiler] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 The guy with the skull is called Igor Mangushev. He founded a PMC during the initial invasion of the Donbas. It was closely linked to the FSB and became involved in organised crime, carrying out extortion and theft until they clearly picked on the wrong person and were prosecuted. Mangushev wasn’t prosecuted and is clearly still involved in the war. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 (edited) The slow Russian advance of the past few months finally seems to have ground to a standstill in the Donbas. Despite all the recent propaganda claims the Ukrainians apparently do still hold part of Pisky. The EU has taken the economically painful steps needed to make it through the winter if Putin turns off the gas which he likely wouldn't be able to sustain because he needs that revenue to keep his state apparatus afloat. There are reasons why the Ukrainians are sounding bullish about their future prospects because the $40 billion worth of lend lease weaponry hasn't even started arriving yet. Edited August 28, 2022 by LongTimeLurker 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 Unlike Ukranians who respawn. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 (edited) There was some chat about Kazakhstan on here a while back, I saw this thread about Kazakh-Russian relations. Edited August 28, 2022 by ICTChris 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/world-putin-wants-fiona-hill-angela-stent 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 Ukrainians weaponising animals as part of the hybrid war. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Newbornbairn said: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-federation/world-putin-wants-fiona-hill-angela-stent The mistake of this analysis is to treat that world view of being a Eurasian power on a par with any other as specifically or primarily Putin's. It isn't. It's (for the most part) a run of the mill Russian belief that will inform the majority of Putin's successors even if the autocratic regime collapsed and the liberal fringe movements somehow gained power instead. Quote He has also usurped Ukraine’s history and appropriated some of its most prominent figures. In November 2016, for example, right outside the Kremlin gates, Putin erected a statue of Vladimir the Great, the tenth-century grand prince of the principality of Kyiv. In Putin’s version of history, Grand Prince Vladimir converted to Christianity on behalf of all of ancient Rus in 988, making him the holy saint of Orthodox Christianity and a Russian, not a Ukrainian, Figure. The conversion means that there is no Ukrainian nation separate from Russia. The grand prince belongs to Moscow, not to Kyiv. This is a stack of nonsense, because it is not a case of Putin revising some established fact. The Russian Orthodox Church has claimed St Vladimir as a Russian patron for literally a thousand years. It's no different to Scotland claiming Columba or Ninian as patron saints for its entire conversion to Christianity, or Cuthbert for the English. None of them were actually national figures because the current ideas of nationhood are the product of modern society, not the medieval world in which they lived. The figure of Vladimir is central to the foundation myths of both Russia and Ukraine, and has been contested long before Putin was in a position of power. Of course, Vladimir was neither Russian nor Ukrainian in any meaningful sense of the terms today (and he literally couldn't have identified himself as 'Ukrainian'). That Putin promotes the Muscovite view over Kiev's is not some innovation, nor is it revisionism of History. It is just an entirely predictable stance that almost any Russian statesman in the President's office would support as well. Edited August 29, 2022 by vikingTON 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 57 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Ukrainians weaponising animals as part of the hybrid war. Been using animals for a while - Quote A goat has wounded multiple Russian soldiers after it set off a boobytrap of grenades. The animal triggered tripwires set up by Vladimir Putin's forces setting off a series of explosions which injured the invading soldiers. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/goat-wounds-russian-soldiers-after-27310103 There's also video doing the rounds of a Russian Aberdeen fan shagging a sheep. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 Will be interesting to see what this amount to: given how long it has been hyped up as being imminent for. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 Apparently HIMARs strikes are now being used on the front lines in Kherson, which is different to how they’ve been deployed so far. We’ve heard stuff like this before. A large scale counter offensive will be very difficult for Ukraine to succeed at and will require them to do things they haven’t had to do as yet in the conflict. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted August 29, 2022 Share Posted August 29, 2022 (edited) Kherson collaborator killed. Edited August 29, 2022 by ICTChris 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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