Salt n Vinegar Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 23 minutes ago, Stellaboz said: 25 minutes ago, Eednud said: No more watching The Big Lebowski? As long as I can still get to watch The Hunt for the Red October, comrade. .... and "Hunter Killer" ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 3 minutes ago, Clown Job said: An unlikely casualty of war Cutting right to the heart of the important issues. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highland Capital Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 3 minutes ago, Clown Job said: An unlikely casualty of war Always knew there was something about this kit I didn't like. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 7 minutes ago, Clown Job said: An unlikely casualty of war Disgusting to have the Russian Navy flag there, but look at her top. Clearly the Ukrainian colours. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 I'd love to be in the room when they agree this. I'm fairly sure that nobody really thinks that Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish Government are sending support to the Russian Navy, who are no doubt glued to her briefings. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Brazil Forever Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 10 hours ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said: No free delivery? The true face of capitalism. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 I'd love to be in the room when they agree this. I'm fairly sure that nobody really thinks that Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish Government are sending support to the Russian Navy, who are no doubt glued to her briefings. It does sound like something that would be a comment piece in the Scotsman or the Daily Mail to be fair. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 Was there not some weird piece recently about the shade of blue of the saltire flying outside holyrood? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin_Nevis Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 41 minutes ago, Clown Job said: An unlikely casualty of war Kieran Andrews 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, welshbairn said: Bad news for Putin today at the UN I think. Only Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea and Syria voted with Russia. More significantly his new big pal China abstained. That's really not significant at all, because benevolent neutrality is all the support that China would either give or be required to give by Russia. Until there is Chinese cooperation with sanctions and/or pressure put on Moscow to dial down international tensions, then their value to Putin hasn't changed. Edited March 3, 2022 by vikingTON 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 12 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said: Was there not some weird piece recently about the shade of blue of the saltire flying outside holyrood? Big problems if we ever have a dispute with Tenerife. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 9 hours ago, welshbairn said: Just watching Storyville on BBC4 where a Moscow TV channel asked the same question for a discussion programme, should Leningrad just have surrendered to save 300 thousand lives? I don't think they're going to last very long. Given that the Soviets were militarily and economically superior to the invading force, obviously not. That's really not the case for Ukraine v Russia, despite the latter clearly haven fallen behind in its schedule. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munter Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 I’m really warming to Ukrainian farmers. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 That's Anastasia gone now too lads. Shit is getting very real. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 30 minutes ago, virginton said: That's really not significant at all, because benevolent neutrality is all the support that China would either give or be required to give by Russia. Until there is Chinese cooperation with sanctions and/or pressure put on. Moscow to dial down international tensions, then their value to Putin hasn't changed. Yep, and there is chat that Russia and China spoke and agreed to hold off the invasion until after the Winter Olympics - but how true that is, who knows? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 An assessment from a Russian foreign policy analyst, writing for the Russian Council. Pretty sobering. https://russiancouncil.ru/analytics-and-comments/analytics/pochemu-eksperty-ne-verili-v-veroyatnost-vooruzhennogo-konflikta-s-ukrainoy/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 15 minutes ago, Leith Green said: Yep, and there is chat that Russia and China spoke and agreed to hold off the invasion until after the Winter Olympics - but how true that is, who knows? Could be, they invaded Georgia on the opening day of the Beijing Summer Olympics so doing it again might not have gone down too well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 2 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Could be, they invaded Georgia on the opening day of the Beijing Summer Olympics so doing it again might not have gone down too well. So Russia feels obliged to invade another country whenever China hosts the Olympics. Not sure why but just as a precaution I suggest China does not host the Olympics again. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 1 minute ago, welshbairn said: Could be, they invaded Georgia on the opening day of the Beijing Summer Olympics so doing it again might not have gone down too well. The Russians didn't have as much control over the start of that conflict than this one - it came after fighting between Georgians and Ossetians. While the Russians were well integrated with the Ossetian forces, they intervened after Georgia launched a full attack. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 3, 2022 Share Posted March 3, 2022 (edited) 4 minutes ago, ICTChris said: The Russians didn't have as much control over the start of that conflict than this one - it came after fighting between Georgians and Ossetians. While the Russians were well integrated with the Ossetian forces, they intervened after Georgia launched a full attack. It wasn't Georgia's fault, they were goaded. Saakashvili was an idiot, I honestly think he thought the Americans would come in and save them. After the ceasefire border was established the Russians used to sneak in at night to move the fence a few yards just to wind them up. Edited March 3, 2022 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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