Russia-Ukraine War

The Economist does excellent, fact based reporting on the war, here an interesting one on how Russia is relatively easily getting around EU sanctions (basically, by getting their pals like Kazakhstan to import the goods then export them to Russia), first few minutes of this podcast explains it clearly and why sanctions are never going to do the job sufficiently:

The sneering contempt towards any kind of concern towards the environment is depressing, always recalls right wing populists and bitter old men: Trump, Bolsonaro, Farage, Putin, etc

Perhaps is people are worried about the environment (more than the people being genocided) perhaps contact your EU representative

There are 300 billion ways of helping this war end faster that are sitting in Brussels of seized Ryssian state assets that EU doesn’t want to send to Ukrainians even if bulk of this will probably endup being spent in Europe

German arms companies are supplying 30-40% of bombs being dropped on Gaza, they could be getting paid with Russian money to get it dropped on Russia instead, talk about a win win win all around

Look at all those needless CO2 emissions

Came here to post that same link. The Russians are doing everything possible not to pull troops from Donbas to shore up Kursk. They've already move troops from Kaliningrad. Now this.

It'll be interesting to see if Burkino Faso further destabilises as a result of this. The people there welcome the Russians with open arms. Of course the Russians would abandon them whenever it became expedient to do so.

Increasing doubts about the Kursk gamble in Ukrainian circles, and complaints that Ukrainian leadership is downplaying the gravity of the situation in the east. Fair or harsh?

What?????

I wonder is it to do with the F16 and that it was shot down by friendly fire.

Busy evening

Just because you are fighting terrorists doesn't mean you need to sink to their level.

The Americans need to authorise a mass strike on military targets…. and take out that **** bridge too….. the war can be ended. Biden needs to step up but is suspect he is thinking about his legacy.

No defo not.

God forgive me, but think next time I want to hear of Chay Bowes is to read a news story that he has annoyed the wrong oligarch (or Putin), and is howling for Irish and EU consular assistance!

I'm not surprised Russia appears to be doing well, they're effectively at full employment, their industrial productivity has gone through the roof ,

GDP (minus the refined oil and natural gas exports ,) is likely way up , if the tank that used to cost 4 million now costs 6 because of black market increases ,ect - GDP goes up,

And if that tank gets blown up , the scrap collection adds to GDP too.

The word "flourishing" is definitely over the top, headlines are often designed to attract attention, and Russia's economy supposedly growing by 4 percent can be taken with a pinch of salt. But did you actually listen to the report? The main focus is on how they are getting around sanctions and it's backed up by a lot of statistics: huge leap in goods exported from Europe to Kazakhstan, Turkey, and other countries since 2022, alongside huge leap in those countries' exports to Russia, and they are precisely the kind of goods Europe may no longer export to Russia.

For those of us who don't speak french could you explain exactly what happened here and has the video been verified? Looks pretty dramatic

Edit: so apparently it's a passenger car that got hit, 5 killed?

Unless Donbas is part of some master plan I cannot think of, it's going to fall to the Russians within weeks. Reports are not good at all down South.

ASAP Rocky shot his new music video in Ukraine

What's spam about his post? It's video footage of a Ukrainian attack on Belgorod.

As for others including myself posting twitter links. Certain twitter accounts have proven themselves to be reliable sources of info 99% of the time. Why not post them?

In the early days of the Kursk invasion there were a lot of bold predictions in the thread. Anyone who said "let's give this time and see where it all leads/what the knock-on effect is" was attacked as "contrarians", "pessimists" etc, which was bang out of order and just an attempt to stifle proper exchange. Maybe those aggressive posters, who've gone very quiet, can enlighten us now?

As we have seen in the past if Russia try to rapidly advance they will do so by driving large slow moving convoys up the road. They will get absolutely shredded from the distance.