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Russia invading Ukraine (NEWS/UPDATES)

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box2box said:
Putin doesn’t seem to have said much in last day or so
Given his threat to any other nation getting involved in the ukraine invasion I wonder if at sone point all the ammunition, military hardware etc being given by the west will be deemed ‘getting involved’ , what happens then ?
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Nothing at all, he’s stretched now he has his special forces and elite soldiers for back up.

If he stretches the front he will weaken like the Germans did.

He also won’t fire a nuke at a nato country as he will get powerful shots back wiping out his own people
Which he won’t do.

In reality this is looking like it could be no one coming out better. Putin will still have strong Russian support.

Remember tue media will Show you what they want you to see nothing more nothing else.
 
Hammertime4 said:
Aye I thought that, although IIRC the US did let us use their satellites for imaging and although French made Exocets were used successfully against us (HMS Sheffield & The SS Atlantic Conveyer both sank) I believe France came to our aid by allowing us to train our Harriers against Mirage & Super-Etendard jets - both utilised by the Argentine Air Force at the time although I believe the Etendard only had about half a dozen Exocets and the French (grudgingly) gave us info on how to tamper with them and preventing them being able to detonate. We bought the rest on the open market aswell by outbidding Argentina and everyone else. By contrast however and if memory serves me correctly although their Defense Secretary Weinberger I think supported the UK the State Dept was dominated by dagos and President Reagan pushed hard for a negotiated settlement from the start (maybe his brain was missing).

Anyhow that's my recollection of the Falklands War and I knew nothing whatsoever about Article 5 then but as has been said it is/was/would be moot re: The Falklands because of geography and it was indeed 40 years ago, 40 ferking years man..!!
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it was rumoured that the US were prepared to offer us the loan of a USMC carrier should anything have happened to one of ours

NATO forces also picked up our commitments in the North Atlantic (and elsewhere) which enabled us to use more ships in the taskforce
 
box2box said:
Putin doesn’t seem to have said much in last day or so
Given his threat to any other nation getting involved in the ukraine invasion I wonder if at sone point all the ammunition, military hardware etc being given by the west will be deemed ‘getting involved’ , what happens then ?
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Getting involved is troops on ground. Air cover, etc. Direct military intervention. During Cold War US and Soviets would routinely supply support or hardware to 'their' side e.g. Soviets in Vietnam. US in Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
 
Wrenthorpe Mackem said:
David Davis on LBC saying we should provide air cover over Ukraine. A route to a dangerous escalation and world war in my view.
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We could circle international airspace and NATO’s air narrowing the way the Russians can fly in.

Sadly I think we are already in a world war as well the world is involved
 
Concordsafc said:
We could circle international airspace and NATO’s air narrowing the way the Russians can fly in.

Sadly I think we are already in a world war as well the world is involved
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It does seem like no one is in a position to mediate -or no willingness to do so sadly.
 
Concordsafc said:
We could circle international airspace and NATO’s air narrowing the way the Russians can fly in.

Sadly I think we are already in a world war as well the world is involved
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It's the start but maybe becomes Second Cold War after Ukraine. Certainly looks like a second Iron Curtain will be established.
 
look out piano said:
I'm a left right left leaning Jeremy Corbyn fan, I voted Brexit too for my sins. The thing is that within war I stand with all my people, whatever persuasion they are and we all have the same goal - to drive out / neutralise the invader.
Fuck the snidey shit, we all do what's right and we will do if the invader ever rocks up here on our shores.
I support every person defending Ukraine and it's people, fuck Putin to hell !!!!
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That gave me goosebumps...one species, no sides, just good and evil...the borders and barriers are in our heads.
👍
 
citybythesea said:
at what point does putin realise the entire world is against his invasion?
plenty of Russian are protesting against it
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That’s not true though. There’s countries like Belarus openly backing it and there’ll be even more secretly. There’s huge support for Russian in the US

Then look at the number of apologists on here. We’ve got one poster whose entire contribution to the tread is that Ukraine deserve it because of some racism that he imagines had tad taken place (conveniently ignoring the fact he’s siding with fuxking Russia of all places)

Sadly there’s a baffling significant swell of support for Russia, just like there is for Israel
 
Yer da claims JSA said:
That’s not true though. There’s countries like Belarus openly backing it and there’ll be even more secretly. There’s huge support for Russian in the US

Then look at the number of apologists on here. We’ve got one poster whose entire contribution to the tread is that Ukraine deserve it because of some racism that he imagines had tad taken place (conveniently ignoring the fact he’s siding with fuxking Russia of all places)

Sadly there’s a baffling significant swell of support for Russia, just like there is for Israel
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Loads of support for Russia in USA are you saying?
 
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