Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Given other recent news of leading Russian figures' health that ended up being, well, not quite true, we'll have to put this one in the 'hmmm...' pile for now.

But, oh, how it would serve him right.

My immediate thoughts were would there be a sequel in it.

Not so funny that some of the comments take it seriously and it plays into their Trump take on Climate Change.

Very true.

Unfortunately the Express is somehow worse than The Spectator, which is worse than the Daily Mail.

Probably not true :(

I see that the local Feis contestants have gotten more aggressive since the Irish dancing judging scandal last year

That's actually a pretty fair analysis how it all happened, America didnt have much choice but to go in at the beginning, defeat Taliban and get Osama

But they should have walked away then, even though the world was saying you took over this country, now you need to look after them

Afghanistan is like you say tribal, it was never going to work in the long term

There mistake was trying to fix a country that some of the population didn't want fixing

The majority i think did and the progress was great, but in the end the few that didnt want progress and just the old way won over

The guys with the guns

Very sad for the country, especially if you compare it to photos of Afghanistan in the 1960s, now they are set back 500 years compared to that

That all would sound great if you ignore the fact that the US left too early leaving their Afghan brothers, who they trained and broke bread with for years, far too early and at the mercy of the Taliban.

How long did you want the US to stay in Afghanistan? Out of the 20 year time line, for the first 15 years, the US financed and trained Afghans in managing their own Country, and for at least 5 years before the US pulled out, Afghans were running Afghanistan. The US left on the understanding and signed agreements with the Taliban that they would share the governing of Afghanistan with Hamid Karzai's government, and it would not be a return to the ways of the "old" Taliban. But the real reason is that even had they remained a further 20 years, there was no guarantee that there would be a different outcome. Pakistan, the creator and supporter of the Taliban would make sure of that. A strong and independent Afghanistan is the last thing they want.

The Google translate version.

(from Moscow and the Moscow region and other regions We are contacting you to understand the actions of our command upon arrival in the DPR, we were assigned to the 200th motorized rifle brigade to carry out storm tasks, our detachment suffered losses, the personnel of the fiber equipment we were sent and are sent to carry out tasks without reliable ones without a communications post, despite this personnel replenished all the assigned tasks; it is impossible to lose personnel to all the advisory proposals of the personnel of the brigade leadership and military unit 31 985, the commander himself of the 4th Kantemirovskaya Tank Division, HF 31 985, does not react, sets impossible tasks Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich)

Note how they think they'd get more traction stating they're from the Moscow area. Didn't posters here say Putin and the military would be afraid picking conscripts from the Moscow region? Well they are picking them now. Look at that how you may.

It will

The public has largely lost interest because let's face it these awful events are just another form of distraction and entertainment for many people, look at the frenzy on the Israel Hamas thread right now, in a few weeks it'll fade too and the thread will go quiet again when some other story takes over. Ukraine doesn't have the novelty factor anymore.

But the wars go on and the misery goes on for those involved. What matters for Ukraine is getting the military and logistical support more than how many people are discussing it over pints in the pub. It needs big shifts to become news and there's little sign of that happening.