Ross. Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Early chat in work is all Russian banks banned from Swift, and all Russian clients banned from trading on European exchanges. Already seen one work around for the first part of that, and I expect there will be no shortage of solutions to the second part either. Need to come up with better than that… 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 2 minutes ago, Highlandmagyar Tier 3 said: Mike Jacskon. Who seemingly just told the Russians to get off his airstrip "I won't start World War 3 for you" Raised some fairly awkward questions about chain of command and the right of commanders of different nationalities to go over their superior to their own governments. The UK government backed up Jackson and got the US to talk Clark down. Jackson got a promotion in the UK, Clark got prematurely retired. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaspianChris Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 (edited) 32 minutes ago, Highlandmagyar Tier 3 said: Dad's Army? Well that's Sergeant Wilson going into hiding incase call up draft paper come through his letter box then. Edited February 24, 2022 by CaspianChris 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 1 minute ago, KingRocketman II said: the border is over 1000 miles in length between Russia and Ukraine. If the reporter was 30 miles from the Donbass/Russia border then there would be quite a lot of activity going on there and doubt kids will be going to school as normal. Re your part in bold - maybe your news sources are a little limited. We know significantly more than that. Sky News - No we didn't know anything more than that when I made the post. It was the reporters own words, "things are going on as normal, kids are going to school". In bold - I don't live a cave m8, I also have the internet same as you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 L 2 minutes ago, Ross. said: Post Ukraine, what else is he after? Rebuilding the USSR and perhaps creating a new Yugoslavia? Think he'll stop at Ukraine but if he's seriously gone insane a landbridge to Kaliningrad, ie Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 (edited) May as well take this opportunity to advertise my services as a Scottish cave and mine consultant, which would be somewhat useful to posters in the event of nuclear war. - £200 p/hr consultancy fee - 15% early bird February discount offer - Further 5% discount for P&B members (posters must have registered before Feb '22) Edited February 24, 2022 by Hedgecutter 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Glad I stocked up on bog roll yesterday. Always the first to go when the panic buying starts. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welldaft Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 12 minutes ago, Stellaboz said: It's all fucking happening now I see. Will we see any large scale forces being deployed to Ukraine to help them out? I'm not normally a grief merchant type, but I honestly feel for the Ukrainians getting killed and caught up in this fucking knob Putins shit here. Get this c**t fucking binned. We all know Putin is in effect a dictator. The Q is - is he that strong that he cannot be taken out from within Russia. I believe he has miscalculated the opinion from within Russia for a war v Ukraine and alienating Russia v ROW. And once the most extreme sanctions take effect he will be under pressure from all businesses and individuals. Will he care . We all know what happened to Hitler, Saddam and Ghaddafi. It never ends well. In the end they are taken out eventually. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 1 hour ago, Aladdin said: First war to be fought through memes? Analysis of historical comics in standard grade history is flooding back. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Noubissie Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 I'm sure I read on here that this wasn't going to happen? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 5 minutes ago, Ross. said: Early chat in work is all Russian banks banned from Swift, and all Russian clients banned from trading on European exchanges. Already seen one work around for the first part of that, and I expect there will be no shortage of solutions to the second part either. Need to come up with better than that… Banning Russian banks from Swift has been trailed extensively for a couple of months, assume that has given the potentially affected parties time to plan. Apparently there are a number of EU countires (Italy and Belgium) who are pushing back against extensive EU sanctions. Belgium worried about the diamond market and Italy about luxury goods. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagar Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 9 minutes ago, CaspianChris said: Well that's Sergeant Wilson going into hiding incase call up draft paper come through his letter box then. But we still have Jones , ' they don't like it up em' 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highlandmagar Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Just now, AlbionSaint said: Why not go out and fight as a mercenary? I have seen reports of Britons out there - mostly Rambo types who want to experience battle. But firstly, by directly involving ourselves in this conflict we risk escalating it to a nuclear conflict and secondly, I cannot see the UK is threatened by this. If the US/UK hadn't lied about NATO expansion, hadn't inspired colour revolutions and had been willing to negotiate with Putin, this wouldn't be happening. This is another fucking mess created as a result of the USA's desire to remain the only superpower and our imbecilic/hawkish foreign policy. No chance USA would be a lone super power. Not with China hanging about. What will China do in this mess to use to their advantage? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 5 minutes ago, ICTChris said: Banning Russian banks from Swift has been trailed extensively for a couple of months, assume that has given the potentially affected parties time to plan. Apparently there are a number of EU countires (Italy and Belgium) who are pushing back against extensive EU sanctions. Belgium worried about the diamond market and Italy about luxury goods. The stuff I seen this morning was basically the financial services version of the old “Nasa spent hundreds of millions developing a pen that works in space, Russia took some pencils” story. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 This is a totally unnecessary and unprovoked war, nobody is threatening Russia. The only reason Russia's neighbours have been arming themselves is because Putin keeps threatening them, and he's just proven them right. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 38 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said: I'm 31 and obese so am not suitable. Could always fire me out of a cannon though. Positions available with British Army and Billy Smarts Circus for you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross. Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 3 minutes ago, Highlandmagyar Tier 3 said: No chance USA would be a lone super power. Not with China hanging about. What will China do in this mess to use to their advantage? China want significant upgrades to the rail system in Russia to enable them to export to Western Europe significantly faster than they can using sea and air freight. They will be working out how they can get the first without fucking up the second. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 I wondered how long it would take the alt right clique on here to start echoing the latest Gabbard/Pilger/Greenwald contrarian tweets. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Parr Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 6 minutes ago, Savage Henry said: I wondered how long it would take the alt right clique on here to start echoing the latest Gabbard/Pilger/Greenwald contrarian tweets. Aye, not terribly fucking long it would seem. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welldaft Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 10 minutes ago, AlbionSaint said: Why not go out and fight as a mercenary? I have seen reports of Britons out there - mostly Rambo types who want to experience battle. But firstly, by directly involving ourselves in this conflict we risk escalating it to a nuclear conflict and secondly, I cannot see the UK is threatened by this. If the US/UK hadn't lied about NATO expansion, hadn't inspired colour revolutions and had been willing to negotiate with Putin, this wouldn't be happening. This is another fucking mess created as a result of the USA's desire to remain the only superpower and our imbecilic/hawkish foreign policy. George Galloway found… No western countries will get directly involved in Ukraine. If he decides to go after any NATO countries that deal is off. If Putin thinks by invading Ukraine the West will now negotiate he is even madder than anyone thought. If anything he has played right into the hands of the US by proving what they said all along. He is an unhinged dictator who cannot be trusted. He has his reasons and some of them may be legitimate but he has seriously fucked up here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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