WWIII Return of the Ruskie

[The Nomad]

Foreign aid is an easy target, why not just make it 0% now would be the question in 6 months.
It’s an easy target, once that is 0%, where do go? Is 3% enough for defence? Cut then into social welfare? Education? Honestly, if Russia hadn’t started this war then would we be even asking for an increase in defense. Putin and his mate Trump have created self fullfilling cycle. It’s madness.

Yes it's an easy target, but there's a lot of aid that needs to be ripped up.

I actually think back in 2022 4% would have been enough. But now Trumps back in power it needs to be 5%.

But we'll never get there for the reasons you say now..the country will suffer too much.

 

[Atlas]

I plugged it before but Rory Stewart talking about his role as International Development for the Govt is seriously eye opening.
Like everything else it becomes a retarded Left V Right, Blue V Red debate, some aid probably needs to go and we likely save a lot of money AND be more effective/efficient but it won't happen and we'll continue to see the blame game develop

 

[rubans]

US and Trump’s first direct culpability in the people who died in the bombing in Ukraine today?

 

[darkstarexodus]

I thought it was illegal to win territory through war since WW2? Not that there's much power to really stop it.

I think it's been illegal to win territory through war since the Congress of Europe in 1815. Let me know how things went after that.

 

[Gerry_A_Trick]

I think it's been illegal to win territory through war since the Congress of Europe in 1815. Let me know how things went after that.

Ha!

 

[The Nomad]

Lots of chatter already that it was Russia who have struck Heathrow. But like most Russian sabotage, it'll be swept under the rug.

According to twitter twatter and reddit, Heathrow supposedly has a back up connection which has also been cut at the same time.

 

[mark1975]

Hopefully someone makes Putin a cup of tea then.

 

[doctor_mac]

Putin offers the tea, he doesn't drink it. Just like he invites people to see the amazing view from this windooooooooooooooooow............

 

[rurikbird]

Russia lost 1/3 of its stratetic miltary aviation today.

 

[Woland]

War porn. Link please

 

[Woland]

View: https://x.com/yarko/status/1929162094282211755

Wow. 7 billion quid

 

[Woland]

View: https://x.com/newsnoteworthy/status/1929211312711549215

 

[Woland]

7 billion quid. If you find that hard to visualise, it's the same amount that Sir Jim Brexit of Manchester United fame has lost this year.

 

[MomoWASright]

View: https://x.com/newsnoteworthy/status/1929211312711549215

I’ve been fingering myself to the TikTok’s about this all afternoon

 

[Judge Jules]

This would have been amazing enough if they'd fired the drones from Ukraine but one of Sky News' analysts was saying that, to reach the furthest airfield(s), they had to set up a firing base inside Russia itself. Unbelievable.

Remind me never, ever to get on the wrong side of any Ukrainian.

 

[rurikbird]

The lovely thing is that all these strategic bombers are not possible to replace for Russia - they don’t make them anymore and even their closest allies like North Korea will never contemplate giving Russia any strategic weapons. So these losses are irreplaceable - basically in one day Russia lost 34% of its nuclear weapon delivery capability, forever.

 

[Woland]

Now they can only blow up the planet 6,666 times instead of 10,000

 

[rurikbird]

This would have been amazing enough if they'd fired the drones from Ukraine but one of Sky News' analysts was saying that, to reach the furthest airfield(s), they had to set up a firing base inside Russia itself. Unbelievable.

Remind me never, ever to get on the wrong side of any Ukrainian.

Yes, they packed drones into wooden crates, somehow smuggled them into Russia and loaded them onto lorries. Hired Russian drivers to deliver the load to a “pick-up point,” to their horror while the lorries were parked near the military objects the crates opened and drones started flying out of them in swarms. It’s the Trojan Horse tactic updated for the 21st century.

 

[Woland]

Wonder what the response will look like. It's hard to guess between 'they've already showed their hand and it was shit' or 'they're finally gonna do something massive and stupid '

 

[MomoWASright]

The best bit is it’s all recorded so the Russians can’t deny it

 

[MomoWASright]

Apart from the blowing shit up part anyway.

 

[Judge Jules]

Wonder what the response will look like. It's hard to guess between 'they've already showed their hand and it was shit' or 'they're finally gonna do something massive and stupid '

That is a worry, but not a new one. The risk's been there ever since the early days when it became clear that Ukraine was going to fight all the way.

 

[rurikbird]

That is a worry, but not a new one. The risk's been there ever since the early days when it became clear that Ukraine was going to fight all the way.

Let’s see, but the usual response from the Russians to their most painful military defeats, such as the sinking of the Moskva flagship, is to deny anything ever happened. To this day, the official line is that all Russian ships sunk by Ukraine had “malfunctions” or “breaches of fire safety regulations.”

Also bear in mind that the reason all these strategic bombers were standing in close proximity to one another is because yet another massive rocket attack on Ukraine has been imminent and now it has been prevented/preempted.

 

[Athens]

Yes, they packed drones into wooden crates, somehow smuggled them into Russia and loaded them onto lorries. Hired Russian drivers to deliver the load to a “pick-up point,” to their horror while the lorries were parked near the military objects the crates opened and drones started flying out of them in swarms. It’s the Trojan Horse tactic updated for the 21st century.

Trojan horses, eh?

As the old saying goes: beware of Greeks.

 

[Athens]

Orban must be doing this to annoy the EU

Orbán: “Ukraine is not NATO member and I intend to keep it that way”

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has stated that NATO has no business in Ukraine, as it is not a member of the Alliance, and that his task is to ensure that it remains that way.

www.pravda.com.ua

 

[Athens]

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,017,720 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

The number includes 1,000 casualties that Russian forces suffered just over the past day.

kyivindependent.com