OT: Current Affairs and Politics

[hindy111]

If it’s got Russian vodka in it you f**king will !

It has to be 100% alcohol or won't explode. Flip

 

[hindy111]

They sound very dangerous. What if the jam jar explodes.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

I have been googling how to make a Molotov cocktail. Can I get in trouble for this? I might try one on the weekend. With a jam jar.

Just don't drive after a couple.

 

[Gronk]

It has to be 100% alcohol or won't explode. Flip

Sounds a lot like a Flaming Homer to me.

 

[strider]

They sound very dangerous. What if the jam jar explodes.

You will end up covered in jam

 

[hindy111]

You will end up covered in jam

I make it. You light it and throw.

 

[the phantom menace]

 

[Gronk]

This lady knows her shit. Quick history lesson. Quick cos she talks so f**king fast ! Anyway, nice summary.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

We got banned from discussing war and politics at wt forum, so I landed here.

Raging at Putin hasn’t worked, we need a face saving honourable truce.

Give him a win somehow so far as his population is concerned.

The reality can be different.

Al Jazeera is doing a good job.

Many soldiers don’t like being filmed or defence stuff spoken about.

I’ve seen obvious checkpoints on highway roads by ukkies, very dangerous. They should camouflage these things as much as possible from Ruskie chopper and jet sorties. Like the sas, creep out from the shrubs. And move the checkpoints too.

Journalists have been giving away positions, not on purpose to effect the outcome, but they forget.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

I’m enjoying your absolute predictions and commentary.

Did you work for the ADF ? You seem to have your finger on the pulse.

Biden agreed with him, he’s going ok.

As for a long insurgency, that’s an interesting concept.

Maybe it’s like us invading New Zealand. It’s a beautiful country, rich in resources, but in that case, I’m sure they’d defend their islands to the last. It would be very difficult.

The hand to hand fighting would be extreme.

 

[Suitman]

This lady knows her shit. Quick history lesson. Quick cos she talks so f**king fast ! Anyway, nice summary.

Yes, fascinating history lesson there.
It's quite clear that the Ukraine's are a proud race of people and distinctly do not consider themselves Russians or indeed Soviets.

I was fortunate enough to have travelled through Russia and Belarus in 1991 when the world was as peaceful as it had been for the previous 80 years. It was 2 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the people of the Eastern Block countries had just overthrown their govts. It was incredibly fascinating. I visited St Petersburg, Moscow, Minsk and Smolensk. The whole former Soviet region was fascinatingly locked into the 1950's in lifestyle and infrastructure. Shops still used abacuses as cash registers for instance. St Petersburg was an amazingly beautiful city architecturally with its canals and palaces, public squares, wide boulevards and museums. Moscow not so much, but I still managed a tour inside the Kremlin of all places, and a visit of Red Square, St Basil's Cathedral and Lenin's Tomb. I actually saw the bloke in tomb - that is if it isn't a wax dummy. Who'd know?
Still to this day, I cannot believe that I have been inside the Kremlin. It still seems as surreal even all these years later as it did then.
The only thing modern I saw in Russia was it's Metro's. Unbelievable train system and every station is an architectural museum piece. Here's a few examples.....

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I consider myself very fortunate to have travelled and seen this part of the world when I did and those memories will never leave me.
Having said that, I can understand why Ukraine are anti Russia and are determined to remain independent. They are their own people and have their own historical culture and refuse to be bullied by the big, more powerful Russians, of which they are not.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Yes, fascinating history lesson there.
It's quite clear that the Ukraine's are a proud race of people and distinctly do not consider themselves Russians or indeed Soviets.

I was fortunate enough to have travelled through Russia and Belarus in 1991 when the world was as peaceful as it had been for the previous 80 years. It was 2 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the people of the Eastern Block countries had just overthrown their govts. It was incredibly fascinating. I visited St Petersburg, Moscow, Minsk and Smolensk. The whole former Soviet region was fascinatingly locked into the 1950's in lifestyle and infrastructure. Shops still used abacuses as cash registers for instance. St Petersburg was an amazingly beautiful city architecturally with its canals and palaces, public squares, wide boulevards and museums. Moscow not so much, but I still managed a tour inside the Kremlin of all places, and a visit of Red Square, St Basil's Cathedral and Lenin's Tomb. I actually saw the bloke in tomb - that is if it isn't a wax dummy. Who'd know?
Still to this day, I cannot believe that I have been inside the Kremlin. It still seems as surreal even all these years later as it did then.
The only thing modern I saw in Russia was it's Metro's. Unbelievable train system and every station is an architectural museum piece. Here's a few examples.....
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I consider myself very fortunate to have travelled and seen this part of the world when I did and those memories will never leave me.
Having said that, I can understand why Ukraine are anti Russia and are determined to remain independent. They are their own people and have their own historical culture and refuse to be bullied by the big, more powerful Russians, of which they are not.

Exquisite.

Russia is a military superpower, at the end of the day, they’ve barely started their campaign, the brave ukkies don’t stand much of a chance.

So I don’t see much point in them dying unnecessarily.

This acute era of horror will eventually pass and I want to see as many of them survive to see the day.

If the west was into it, they’d have a chance, along with ww3.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Real?

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Real?

Yep,

Well what he says is generally regarded as true by many academics.

But he mixes it with falsehoods.

A bit like Randy Andy.

 

[Suitman]

Real?

Who'd know, but I'm sceptical. I've never heard the bloke speak a word of English, let alone type it.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Who'd know, but I'm sceptical. I've never heard the bloke speak a word of English, let alone type it.

Google translate and then a few professionals to check I guess.

 

[Suitman]

Google translate and then a few professionals to check I guess.

Yes, possibly.

 

[The Silverdale Phantom]

Putin puts his nuclear force on the high alert.

Played that card pretty early I think. NATO now has to do the same.

That’s the problem with the weapons of mass destruction. All too late once someone loses it

At least the ukkies are meeting them. They still talk tough, but I can’t imagine the stress.

Ukkie foreign minister live now. Wow. Weight of the world.

 

[Gronk]

Are we witnessing extreme weather events because of climate change ?

How climate change worsens heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods

Floods and other extreme weather events are happening more often because of climate change.

www.bbc.com

The water cycle is intensifying as the climate warms, IPCC report warns – that means more intense storms and flooding

Water-related hazards are exceptionally destructive, and the impact of climate change on extreme water-related events is increasingly evident, a lead author of the new report warns.

theconversation.com

Extreme Makeover: Human Activities Are Making Some Extreme Events More Frequent or Intense - NASA Science

It’s not your imagination: Certain extreme events, like heat waves, are happening more often and becoming more intense. But what role are humans playing in

climate.nasa.gov

 

[Gronk]