Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Russia look to be losing?

You can't compare boat loads of 20 year old men landing in Italy and camping in France because they want to get in to the UK with women and children. Women and children that are leaving their husband's behind and any I've seen are crying. Most are content with going to the nearest point of safety. Not where they want to. Most without question want to go home..economic migrant is a different debate which I'm not entering but they're not the same

Latest UK MoD observations. Makes increasingly poor reading for Russia.

Not on their own but all about squeezing them more and more and any further pressure on Putin is a good thing. Zelenskiy's statement that they may not join NATO is a more useful signal to negotiations. Given how things are going militarily for Russia there may be more interest now in squirming a way out of this.

I’d say Poland can see the frontline is in Ukraine and is stalled there. The best way to defend your country is to fortify the front line when it is in a neighbouring country.

If the French and British had got Belgian/Dutch permission to enter Benelux countries and station large numbers of troops there prior to May 1940 they could have stalled the German invasion much further back and perhaps repeated the stalemate of world war 1 and avoided the collapse of France.

Putin better stop this war. Don't think the Russian winter will stop the Germans this time round.

Does this mean Germany are now the worlds second or third largest army?

Pinch of salt required with all such announcements but interesting nonetheless.

Looked at two of Natasha’s utubes. The Russia she presents looks so peaceful, attractive very earthy , etc, etc, etc, etc. comes across as a. Idyllic place to live in - especially if you have a little hideaway to go to at weekends, the summer breaks, etc. I saw another tube where a man was driving thru lovely countryside and along a good looking country road. He was goin to sow potatoes for his father , married sister or whoever. The sun was shining. Family members were shown making the drills, spreading ash on the drills , positioning the potatoe seeds and covering them up. Good local food was served for mealtime . Children were happy looking with parents, relatives , friends doting on them. It all looked so seamless, peaceful, earthy, high social /community content, etc, etc. in other words a lovely country to live in

I was just wondering if this kind of presentation SUPPORTED by government to show that the regime in Russia is the right one to live under as against under a democracy with criminals , drugs, strikes poverty, homelessness, etc, etc.

I wonder if there are any utubes available from other Russians highlighting the not so nice side of life in Russia? Maybe such a side does not exist in Russia

I have never really considered the cold war to be over, just that the west were badly fooled and never seemed to catch on to them using slightly different tactics. Two nasty leopards that didn't change their spots, they just put on business suits.

The head of Interpol is currently headed by a Chinese, which is just incomprehensible to my old cold war sensibilities.

Quite few of the recent videos of Russian forces in Ukraine seem to now be better equipped and clothed. This seems to support the suggestion that Putin sent in more poorly equipped conscripts at the start of the invasion.

The west always projects their morals & values onto others. "They're just like us"..."They want freedom like we do" - that's always been complete bullshit. We made China what it is today with our stupid policies. And we're repeating the same mistake now with Iran.

I get on well with my Chinese neighbour. He told me he can't believe that his younger generation are quite happy with the CCP. People he knows who used to protest, now seem content. The economic wealth WE gave China, has made a dictatorial regime into a monster.