Ukraine

[Cody]

Posted by: @pinback
... and in the light of Putin, Peter the Great comments. 

Yeah, worrying is that.

[Pinback]

Posted by: @cody Posted by: @pinback
... and in the light of Putin, Peter the Great comments. 

Yeah, worrying is that.

You know I think he just says this stuff because he's knows it will generate lot's of publicity in the western media.

[sscadmin]

We are definitely going to see in the next few months as winter gets closer and closer .... from what I have read most of europe gets Natural Gas from Russia directly via pipeline and until europe either has alternative methods or the war calms Russia technically has europe by the balls when it comes to energy in some fashion.... is europe crippled no but the financial impact on the citizens will be huge if this isn't resolved soon.
Like in the states paying $600 for 100gal of heating oil hurts a little especially last year I was paying $245 for the same amount.... and our govt just doesn't care they could let the oil companies pump oil but they don't let them go crazy... 
Sometimes I think our govts are purposely causing this pain on the populous just to get us to break and agree with any policies they have just to make the financial pain stop. Until I did some reading I didn't have much insight as to what Ukraine and Russia provide to the world.... with our govts knowing what they provide to the world... why aren't they better planned for the situation I mean this is why we vote for them for them to have our best interests in mind right?
Then we have Lithuania holding their ground against Russia and not allowing them to use their country or airspace to get to Kaliningrad... going to be a interesting summer... but like I mentioned I hope this ends soon because the winter months will be brutal for millions of people if this supplychain and energy resources are not addressed soon.

[Cody]

Posted by: @sscadmin
from what I have read most of europe gets Natural Gas from Russia directly via pipeline

Something about "don't put all your eggs in one basket" comes to mind - very shortsighted!

[Pinback]

Yup the Germans and the rest of them were told not to relay on a flaky Russian pipe line but they took no notice, Merkel seem to think she had the measure of Putin.
Not much the Russians can do about Kaliningrad, most of the noise coming from them about it seems to be directed at their domestic audience.

[sscadmin]

I laughed when I read this... the only thing this general has been ordering around is the waiters at the all your can eat buffet table.... President Putin must not like him because he is a big target for the Ukrainian Snipers hahaha 
[url]https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/obese-russian-general-67-called-27326346[/url]
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[Pinback]

Posted by: @sscadmin
I laughed when I read this... the only thing this general has been ordering around is the waiters at the all your can eat buffet table.... President Putin must not like him because he is a big target for the Ukrainian Snipers hahaha 
[url]https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/obese-russian-general-67-called-27326346[/url]
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Not so much the bottom of the barrel as he is the barrel, maybe he one of Putin's wonder weapons.

[Cody]

Looks like NATO is gearing up. Can't help but wonder what would be happening if Trump was still POTUS.

[sscadmin]

Posted by: @cody
Looks like NATO is gearing up. Can't help but wonder what would be happening if Trump was still POTUS.

I don't think Putin would have went into Ukraine if Trump was in office now, like I mentioned before Trump is not predictable .... Putin knew full well that Biden doesn't have the fortitude for this. China, Russia and NK all were not really an issue during 4yrs of Trump.... Do I think Trump will get elected again... not sure...? the FL governor if he runs he will be a strong candidate and the press has beating Trump up in the news a lot lately.
But I have read that there is now over 100k troops in Europe, which personally is more than enough to handle a war with Russia (that don't involve Nukes) after what I have read and observed in the news there is no way Russia could fight NATO alone. This is all politics.... I doubt highly we will go to war... not when the govts can use this event to reset our economic system that is failing and strip all the wealth from the people  

[Pinback]

NATO have gone from 40,000 to 300,000 troops on their response force, it will give the Russian a real problem as their will have to keep a similar size force on their western border.

[Cody]

Posted by: @sscadmin
I don't think Putin would have went into Ukraine if Trump was in office now,

I ain't so sure about that. When Trump was POTUS, I got the impression he was in favour of withdrawing from NATO/Europe.

[sscadmin]

Posted by: @cody
I got the impression he was in favour of withdrawing from NATO/Europe.

Oh there is some truth to that because USA was paying the majority for NATOs upkeep and Trump wanted all the countries in NATO to contribute more, whether its money or equipment/troops. And if you look at this ranking you can see why Trump put up a stink about NATO funding from the other countries compared to the USA
Here are the 10 countries with the most NATO spending (number in millions):

United States ($811,140)
United Kingdom ($72,765)
Germany ($64,785)
France ($58,729)
Italy ($29,763)
Canada ($26,523)
Spain ($14,875)
Netherlands ($14,378)
Poland ($13,369)
Turkey ($13,057)

[Cody]

Do the numbers by % of GDP and the disparity is not so marked as with actual dollars spent.

[Pinback]

So the Russians claim to have left Snake island, in as they say it a "gesture of goodwill".
And our defence minister here in Britain said yesterday that "Putin suffered from small man syndrome".

[sscadmin]

Posted by: @pinback
And our defence minister here in Britain said yesterday that "Putin suffered from small man syndrome".

Hahaha
Russia claims they have total control over Luhansk Prov.. [url]https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-donetsk-c65edd033ee98362f031327ff748e31d[/url]
I know why we destroy all the infrastructure in war, but with Russia actually wanting to utilize Ukraine for its land and resources they are destroying everything that would allow them to prosper in their victory if that comes. But since China might ask Russia for pipelines for NG/Oil they may have the money to rebuild everything... guess we will see how the months go.... analysists predict that the war will not end in 2022.... if that is the gas this is going to be an expensive winter for everyone

[Cody]

The US has just flipped the finger at China, in no uncertain terms. This could turn nasty!

[sscadmin]

China would never attack the USA, but they could attack Taiwan... but I don't think they would do that right away. But if they are going to attack they will do it before Biden leaves office because he is weak anyway. Plus China knows they are overmatched when it comes to military hardware and just plain experience in fighting.
I think if I was China and wanted to hurt the USA. I would just stop exporting everything to the USA for a few months. Shit China makes like what 70%+ of all the medicines and drugs on the market. Yeah the western countries may design and create the drugs but China is the majority manufacturer for the whole world basically and that is its strongest weapon against all the western countries.
Kinda like what Russia may do to Germany, with the whole cutting off the fuel to the country.... if they do it. Germany will be in some major trouble.
ALL of the western countries screwed up, we outsourced our own demise and its going to come back to hurt us eventually.
Its plain and simple, we cannot let China take Taiwan at all. If they do they will acquire like 70-90% of the semi-conductor chip manufacturing in the world then everyone will be in a world of hurt.
We have to start building and manufacturing in our countries again so other countries cant have their way with us. We did this for profit/money, when we should have thought about national security. If we go to war over Taiwan its not about the people, its about what they provide the world that is important. It would be like a country having 80-90% of the fresh water on the planet... eventually countries will want it regardless of the risk.
We will see what the next few weeks bring.

[Pinback]

Looks like Ukraine is on a roll and the Russians are running around like headless chickens.
No doubt the Kremlin will be blaming Ivan the smoker again for the setbacks as he already got blamed for the sinking of the Moskva and blowing up of the air base in Crimea.

[sscadmin]

Yeah I have been seeing all sorts of news on Ukraine's progress in taking back occupied areas and winning all sorts of engagements. Of course there is causalities on both sides but looks like Ukrainians are taking back their country slowly and the war should slow down soon because the winter is coming too.
I guess all the help from the NATO countries have helped greatly and I am sure Mr Putin is pissed about that because its making his job so much harder. And I seen all the protests in Russia as well so I am sure morale is low.

[spaceship-buran]

It's not a truth what our people's morale is low. Such troubles can't break morale at this difficult world situation. The only thing I can say is that you should not underestimate the opponent. the future is not static.