Sergeant Wilson Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Theroadlesstravelled said: "Who do you think you are kidding Mr Putin?" Solicitor from my hearing you'll be. Rearrange these words into a well known saying. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkirkthebigclub Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 You'll be he, a solicitor, from my ring? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Just now, badgerthewitness said: You'll be he, a solicitor, from my ring? It's a freemasonry thing I assume. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkirkthebigclub Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 4 minutes ago, welshbairn said: It's a freemasonry thing I assume. Wouldn't know. Since when were they free? I always thought they had to pay a membership. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 49 minutes ago, Kejan said: Anyone ken what time Putin is meant to be talking tonight? He's apparently going to address the nation On now 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 2 hours ago, renton said: This seems like it was a fun conversation. Russia already recognises other breakaway republics like South Ossetia (very few others have joined them). It doesn't mean a war unless Ukraine responds by trying to occupy those regions and dissolve their putative governments. Which would be a rather unwise thing to do IMHO. What it signals is that the Minsk protocol that both sides reluctantly tolerates has finally broken down; which will no doubt be to the great delight of the braying Anglo powers that have tried to sabotage it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fife Saint Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Simon Ostrovsky is a good follow - held prisoner himself in Donetsk by the DPR back in 2014/2015. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagar Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 No doubt that when Russia recognises these regions of Ukraine they will be swallowed up into Russia. Then where next for Putin? Most likely the Baltic states. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Just now, Highlandmagyar Tier 3 said: No doubt that when Russia recognises these regions of Ukraine they will be swallowed up into Russia. Then where next for Putin? Most likely the Baltic states. Baltic republics are in NATO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Just now, Highlandmagyar Tier 3 said: No doubt that when Russia recognises these regions of Ukraine they will be swallowed up into Russia. Oh really? When were South Ossetia and Abkhazia swallowed up into Russia after their recognition? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagar Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Just now, renton said: Baltic republics are in NATO. That won't stop him sabre rattling over them. He is and will push NATO to the edge wherever and whenever he can. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagar Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 1 minute ago, virginton said: Oh really? When were South Ossetia and Abkhazia swallowed up into Russia after their recognition? Have they any strategic value? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Just now, Highlandmagyar Tier 3 said: Have they any strategic value? Their strategic value is the exact same as either a part of Russia or a client state. Which is why they have not in fact been inevitably joined to Russia, after recognition was granted. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 36 minutes ago, badgerthewitness said: You'll be he, a solicitor, from my ring? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Hope the Russian soldiers in Donbas can remember where they stored their proper uniforms, could be awkward at parade. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 13 minutes ago, Highlandmagyar Tier 3 said: No doubt that when Russia recognises these regions of Ukraine they will be swallowed up into Russia... Recognition only up to the contact line and the Crimea scenario thereafter is the easy way out of this crisis to some sort of stability but he probably still hopes more breakaway republics emerge in an arc from Kharkov to Odessa so that's no sure thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Think he's getting into racial memory now, after lambasting Lenin for giving Ukraine a false identity. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 5 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: Aye if you ignore the horrific human rights records, the genocide, imposing non democratic rule on the people of hong kong, lack of free speech and locking up political opposition then China’s doing just swell. The vast majority of people in China would almost certainly trade political rights for not living in a backward, carved up and warlord-riddled mess that China was for fully 100 years before 1949. Billions of people in the world today would do likewise to no longer have to scratch a living, shit in a open trench or have access to more than a few hours dodgy electricity supply today. And a larger minority than you think in the free world would also abandon many of their rights, if they thought it would stave off merely relative decline - as the US quite clearly shows. You don't have to like that reality or support authoritarianism personally to recognise that political and civil rights are not the only possible merits of a political system. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kejan Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Check out his podcast every Monday, History with Vlad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Stalin remains undefeated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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