BoldonLad
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Food shortages, empty shelves in shops, queues for fuel, looks like little has changed from when I was there 30 years ago.
War with Russia
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Food shortages, empty shelves in shops, queues for fuel, looks like little has changed from when I was there 30 years ago.
Pinno718
Legendary Member
Yeah, post Perestroika Russia. Only, the cars are a bit smarter. This is an unexpected bonus: unlike Trabant's and Lada's - heated rear screens to keep your hands warm when pushing them.
matticus
Legendary Member
The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk › news › world › europe › russia-poland-attack-nato-ukraine-b3008157.html
Russia plotting attack on Poland to test Nato's resolve, US ...
6 hours ago ... The US has warned Warsaw that Russia is planning an armed “provocation” against Poland to test Nato's resolve, according to reports
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https://www.independent.co.uk › news › world › europe › russia-poland-attack-nato-ukraine-b3008157.html
Russia plotting attack on Poland to test Nato's resolve, US ...
6 hours ago ... The US has warned Warsaw that Russia is planning an armed “provocation” against Poland to test Nato's resolve, according to reports
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Discuss!
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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Being allegedly “on the ropes” with the Ukrainians, does not seem like a good time to open up another front?
Perhaps it is for “internal” consumption, ie poke NATO without telling population, but, then report NATO/Polish response as “picking on poor Russia”.
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Pblakeney
Squire
Most likely to be a minor incident to see if NATO are as weak as they think.
Then claim "accident".
An article with something along those lines seems to be a yearly thing, Would be very unwise tough, not only isNato no longer sleeping, Poland is leading the Baltic countries for years now and has a very capable army. Any dispute they might have with the Ukrainians will be quickly set aside the crush Putin if he dares to play their hand.
Beebo
Legendary Member
Russian Students being recruited on false promises. Then ending up in the front line. Tragic.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8lnnr080go
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8lnnr080go
Pinno718
Legendary Member
Yep, they'll do anything and if you get the call, you cannot decline on the phone - you have to turn up in person and when you get there, you'll be forced to sign a contract with threats if you don't.
The thing is, the current situation in Russia is unsustainable on so many fronts and with no reliable supplies of fuel in the immediate, the whole country will crumble. If they hang on until winter, it's going to be absolutely dire for them. You cannot wait in a fuel queue for 2 to 3 days in the middle of winter.
Where will the power come for heating systems? How do you keep an army mobilised with fuel shortages? How do you maintain on the ground satellite and drone tracking when you have no fuel for the generator that powers/charges equipment and phones etc?
This is significant because those poor souls will be thrown into the meat grinder where the daily casualties are 1500+ and rising and they have diminishing defences. The ground troops are simply there to absorb drone cost. It's vile. Putin is vile. It's effing horrific when you think about it.
From the end of the very abbreviated training period and deployment, life expectancy is 2 to 3 weeks.
briantrumpet
Timewaster
Not a good night last night for Ukraine, even given it's war and ugly. Kyiv took a pounding.
Pblakeney
Squire
What makes this even sadder is that it is not new news.
The rest of the world can no longer rely on the US as an ally and they better wake up to that fact ASAP.
Pinno718
Legendary Member
I think the US is actually running out of them due to the Iran conflict.
Anyway, we'll wish the Ukrainians luck. They won't give up no matter what and they head for the underground just like in WW2 London.
For some lighter news: the Russian launched a fuel app where they indicate which Petrol stations have fuel. Ukrainian hackers have infiltrated the app, reversing where there is fuel available and where there isn't causing Russians to drive all over Moscow aimlessley.
Ukrainian cyber warfare units and crowdsourced hackers have launched multiple major operations disrupting Russian fuel apps, payment systems, and fuel cards to exacerbate domestic gasoline shortages. These digital offensives explicitly target the infrastructure used by Russian logistics, military forces, and civilians.
The biggest oil refinery in Russia and indeed one of the biggest in the world - Omsk, some 2500km's from Ukraine was hit. Omsk refines 8% of Russian oil.
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