Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Kremlin says UK's Johnson is "most active anti-Russian leader"

I suppose the Russia people are tough and hardy, right up until the face the prospect of no more strawberry-flavoured dreamy sweety night night baby formula.

If Putin can only be toppled internally, then the Russian people should feel pain up to the point where they are forced to move upon him and get this war ended. If they are allowed to live comfortably, they can continue doing what they currently are, which is sticking their heads in the sand.

Not being particularly up with current affairs in Ukraine prior to this war , the only thing that's in my head with the actor/comedian president of Ukraine is ' the mouse that roared '. The Peter Sellers film. :)

It is fooking scary to think what would have happened if Trump was still in charge.

He would probably have demaned Nato bomb Ukraine and be mouthing off that Zelensky was fascist along with the Bidens.

And fook Nestle.

They have fooking form in this where they were trying to flood Africa with baby formula a number of years back.

And don't ever forget they are a Swiss company and those fookers would and have done deals with the most despicable entities to have walked the planet.

Probably all of them should be booted out apart from the top man/woman (in each country) and his/her gophers/assistants or whatever (to keep some lines of communication open). afair govt. here have said they will wait for collective EU action. Maybe this is being argued over by some countries, how far it should go etc., perhaps we'll hear something after next summit meeting is over. Some of the more hawkish and angry countries (e.g. Poland I think) have started booting Russian diplomats anyway now.

Doesn't matter what they put on the claims forms, Llyods nor anyone else are going to pay out.

I don't want Nestle to provide baby food to Russians, when 126 Ukrainian children have been murdered and 158 wounded, and that's not even touching on that 1.5 million have been made refugees outside Ukraine with a slightly lower number within.

Sanctions are supposed to hurt, and that's what most people should want.

Good analysis, but even such a ceasefire would leave the regime as a pariah state. There's no way the sanctions, flight bans and sporting bans would be lifted in that scenario (as the regime has absolutely zero right to have a single Russian soldier in Mariupol, a Ukrainian city). I guess though it will remain a total pariah state as long as Putin is alive, no matter what the outcome.

According to this....

Russia lost half of its combat-ready pilots in Ukraine.

A well-known Ukrainian political scientist and presenter Taras Berezovets writes about this in his blog on Telegram

On March 22, the Ukrainian army reached an important record in the confrontation with the Russian army - the 100th aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces was shot down, which bombed the civilian population. As of today, March 23, losses in the equipment of the Russian Aerospace Forces are estimated at 101 aircraft and 124 helicopters. And this is just for a month of war with Ukraine.

He noted that the training of one high-class pilot in Russia takes about 7 years and requires $8 million. Thus, the losses of the Russian Federation in Ukraine in aviation alone exceeded $800 million. And this is without taking into account the cost of destroyed fighters, attack aircraft and bombers.

American and British tanks keep their ammo stored behind blast doors. If the tank gets struck, there's a better chance of the ammo not getting struck as well. Russian tanks leave their ammo stacked on the floor of the tank, so far more like to catch damage and explode.

That would be my assessment as well. For the internal audience he could claim the Ukrainian Nazis have been dealt with and then package the withdrawal via the compliant media in Russia.

That's providing we're dealing with a coherent and logical Putin. He could continue on with this disasterus venture still.

Personally I think the West should be doing far more to end this illegal invasion now.

It just demonstrates the contempt that the Russian hierarchy hold for their frontline troops to send them into harm's way in those deathtraps.

No it isn't. They're highly rational technocrats who know full well that nobody in the West has a notion of doing anything like that. They understand full well that full-scale war between NATO and Russia if it ever came to that (assuming it was confined to 'conventional' weapons) would be fought mainly in the air with American warplanes blowing Russia's military infrastructure to smithereens to ensure the country was effectively defeated before any NATO tanks got anywhere near the steppes.