Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Yes Danzy, we all know by now you dislike ze Germans. You said they would do absolutely nothing and carry on business as usual during a Ukraine invasion/annexation by Russia. That has been proven to be incorrect but there's never admission of that, nope. Just some more bile + calling action they take now "pretending".

Germany may have a lot of companies who make guns and weapons, but I don't think it itself has loads of such weapons on hand, given it has been running down its own military since end of Cold war (you were attacking them over that too afair). Think I recall reading (for example) that in terms of numbers of tanks Poland is now better "armed" than Germany.

It's not "a bit late". They made a mistake about Russia, basically similar to one UK made as it has its own problems with connections to Russia to sort out. (edit Next) best time to change tack is today if you are are brave enough and flexible of mind enough to own up to your mistakes.

Also how have Poland been "getting it in the neck" from "many" in the EU over this? Have seen nothing but support for what they are doing, which is separate from the many other issues the EU has with their govt.

Russian column entering the East of Kyiv got hit hard

Apparently this is the translation of the Russian comms:

- Hello, "Nitro", it's "Udar", listening to you

- Udar, it's Nitro. Almost lost the 6-th regiment

- What??

- 6-th regiment. Can't report right now. Still gathering info. A lot of losses. They waited for us. Ambushed. Commander of the regiment is killed. Checking about the other.

- As soon as you get the information, gather everything, report to me. Understood?

- They strike with artillery, tanks, UAV... As to my understanding, "Bayraktars". Checking on the other losses.

It’s very difficult to resist the urge to smash my tv listening to Lavrov's propaganda on this “press conference”.

Was just watching Lavrov (Russia's FM) speaking, he said Russia didn't attack Ukraine. They live in an alternative dimension. The only way to get anywhere near the truth is to apply the opposite to everything that's said.

Curious to see what his reasoning is for why they are in the rest of the country

Specialization was purely about survival. Subsides were purely about compensation for a cheap food policy, Agriculture has been put on a wind down in Europe for 20 years now.

Your approach, through a disconnect from farming, Now the norm, especially in politics, is why farmers across Europe are ahi77ing themselves about food security and supply.

Instead of increasing to meet the massive shortfall, production across all sectors will significantly drop this year.

The meeting at cabinet level for increasing tillage and forage is at the end of March.

That says how serious they are. If they were serious, ground would already be broken and it would be a race against time even then.

People might not understand, people might not care about it but they must eat.

The Tories will tell anyone who listens how they are leading the way here, but you would have to be very naive or very gullible to believe them.

Have you seen the details of the Economic Crime Bill they have dished up?..more (Loop)holes than a block of Swiss cheese. In general they've been very slow/shite with sanctions, I wonder why?

Have you seen the knots they have tied themselves in trying to avoid taking in refugees?...a Calais visa centre, that's actually in Lille and isn't actually open yet;a Home Office clearly aiming to obfuscate and frustrate refugees from their borders.

As Wibbs put it earlier, the weapons are a "political sop" to deter folk from looking too closely at misdeeds elsewhere.

Looks like the stall is set for the continuation of war. Russia need a victory and so far Ukraine are unwilling to accept the demands (understandably so). The cities will be flattened.