War. In These Days

Who controlls the CIA? Apply to them.

Good wide range of views there. Should be deployed to stop the tsunami of misinformation that is hitting us all.

All's well that ends well, an old Pommy once wrote. Well this shits gonna end in a fuckling flood of tears

@Frosty Yep. And the Ruskies and Ukies wont be the only ones crying.

Putin can't lose! Check this out:

"European oil receipts boosting Putin’s war chest by $285m a day, study finds
Arthur Neslen Arthur Neslen

Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is being bolstered by $285m (£217m) in oil payments made every day by European countries, new analysis by the Transport & Environment (T&E) thinktank has found.

Russia received $104bn from its crude, petrol and diesel exports to Europe last year, more than twice the $43bn it took from gas shipments, the study estimated.

The analysis by the European clean-transport NGO was published shortly before the US and UK moved to ban Russian oil imports, and as Shell announced plans to shut down its Russian petrol stations and oil spot purchases.

“Gas is understandably a worry, but it is oil that is funding Putin’s war,” said William Todts, T&E’s director. “Relying on it leaves Europeans dangerously exposed to rising prices in an increasingly uncertain world.”

Europe’s dependence on Russia for about a quarter of its crude oil imports has helped to spur US pressure for an import ban, even as Brent crude prices have surged as high as $139 a barrel.

Russia’s deputy prime minister, Alexander Novak, said on Monday that any rejection of Russian oil would have “catastrophic consequences” and could send prices as high as $300 a barrel.

Europe imported more than 200m tonnes of oil from Russia each year between 2004 and 2017, even increasing its purchases in the two years after Russia seized Crimea in 2014."

What is it, about 3 weeks now? Doesn't seem to be much of an invasion. Seems all Putin has done is gone and got the natives upset. Hard to see him winning anything out of this.

I still think once Putin had consolidated control of the Black Sea coast that is where he will stop. Ukraine will be a smaller, land-locked country and the rest of the world - for all its sanctimony and outrage - will move on. It always does. And if Putin is a "war criminal", what does that make George W Bush who lives in idle freedom while Afghanistan and Iraq remain in bloody turmoil? Putin will have to do a lot more harm than he currently is to be able to beat that record.

@Hyman Roth Nonsense. He has been crushed! Humiliated! The Ukrainians have led a magnificent defense of their homeland and will soon be rolling back Putin's demoralised hordes all the way to Moscow.

Mark my words, Putin will be gone by the Solstice!

Things we have learned from the Ukraine situation:

"Let him who is without sin cast the first stone" = Whataboutism

Hillsong tain't too smart. 

Let them's who's gooberment keep all thar guns 'n ammo from 'em bend o'er 'n start collect'n speed'n boolits with their assholes.