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More bad news for Russia on the economic front.

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 China's state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia, sources told Reuters, heeding a government call for caution as sanctions mount over the invasion of Ukraine.

The move by Asia's biggest oil refiner to hit the brakes on a potentially half-billion-dollar investment in a gas chemical plant and a venture to market Russian gas in China highlights the risks, even to Russia's most important diplomatic partner, of unexpectedly heavy Western-led sanctions.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-chinas-sinopec-pauses-russia-projects-beijing-wary-sanctions-sources-2022-03-25/

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9 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

 

The Americans think the Russians will try to surround the Ukrainian forces on the Eastern Front, cutting them off from support and supplies, and then offer them up as a bargaining chip.

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I'm sure that the Russians would have loved to waltz into Kiev uncontested early doors, but if you don't take the latest American 'analysis' with a similarly large shovel of salt as the Russians' military fucking press conference in the middle of a war then you're not engaging your brain either. 

The West so far has just thrown 7 totally different 'Russian war plans' into the public domain, each sussed out by their top notch defence intelligence. With the aim of taking the credit if even one of them ends up close to the mark; as all those utterly bogus "30 mile armoured convoy - imminent assault on Kiev!!!" warnings bear witness to already. 

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They clearly spread their forces too thin and didn't expect such fierce resistance. Going for a quick decapitation in Kiev is logical, but they've made a rip roaring c**t of it.

Had they concentrated their forces in the south and east, they'd probably be strolling it by now with a fraction of the losses.

We're all 5 star generals with the benefit of hindsight though.

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25 minutes ago, Detective Jimmy McNulty said:

They clearly spread their forces too thin and didn't expect such fierce resistance. Going for a quick decapitation in Kiev is logical, but they've made a rip roaring c**t of it.

Had they concentrated their forces in the south and east, they'd probably be strolling it by now with a fraction of the losses.

We're all 5 star generals with the benefit of hindsight though.

Not fully convinced by this; the fixation on the 'threat to Kiev' and Belarus' intervention (both of which have been promised about 17 times by Western intelligence so far) will likely have tied down significant forces far away from the southern and eastern fronts where they could stem the tide. 

While there's no doubt the Russian military has made a fair c**t of it (par for the course, incidentally, in their history of early stages of warfare), digging in around Kiev rather than lolloping straight into the city centre as pundits were breathlessly predicting a few weeks is not a terrible move. 

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1 hour ago, Newbornbairn said:

What, the death's head badge is Nazi?

 

Tell that to the Royal Lancers

THE QUEEN'S ROYAL LANCERS HISTORY - The Royal Lancers

The particular deaths head in detourments post is,without doubt,a Nazi symbol-it was the collar insignia of the 3rd ss division totenkopf&was also I believe the collar insignia worn by concentration camp guards(from whom the 3rd ss wete originally from).quite why detourement thinks this makes the BBC Nazis isnt apparant to me

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