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That doesn't seem to stop them doing so. Before the Kharkiv offensive, they announced they want a 'sanitary zone' between them and Ukraine, and that the Ukraine regime is toxic. Not a hint of irony or self-awareness. None. They seem to have a very high opinion of themselves which the rest of...

More threats from Russia then. Don't they have anything else in their toolbox? It's all they seem able to do these days. There's no new, innovative economic leverage from the new technocrat Belousov. Just the same old gangster power plays. Their thinking is on tram lines.

@raymondo, you mentioned Atesh earlier, in relation to the attack on the coal train in the Amur region in the far east of Russia. I googled Atesh, and it returned a link to this BBC article from 6 Jan, which I don't remember any of us posting on here...

Not entirely sure of the timeline, but if the sequence of events works out, then Ukraine didn't waste any time (y)

No I didn't, but I have done down now! Thanks for the heads up.

And another one. Things seem to be moving fast now.

I forgot about that. Putin has just reshuffled his pack of murderers as well. All good signs.

I sense things are hotting up in the war. With more western nations voicing the view that Ukraine should be allowed to hit targets in Russia, the pressure will be mounting on Putin. But before he can issue another threat, there are fires in Moscow! The brass neck of these Ukrainians.

Russia is now nuclear sabre-rattling on a near daily basis: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/30/ukraine-russia-war-live-nato-has-just-5-of-air-defences-to/ https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-russia-putin-kharkiv-sky-news-live-blog-12541713

Two good articles from the Guardian, which detail the Kremlin reshuffle and the reasons behind it. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/27/putin-patience-snapped-insiders-marvel-at-russia-military-purge...

Yes, I read that (or at least the headline) about Sweden. The thing about the west (=30+ democracies) is that it takes time for us all to sing in concert. Then, after some deliberation, one of us makes a move, and then the others get in line. It was UK who first sent long range missiles to...

I agree about the faltering west. That was certainly the case at the back end of 2023 and into 2024, until Congress approved the Ukraine aid package on April 21. But is it still true? We are a month on, and I assume the weaponry will be beginning to arrive and put into use on the front lines...

Russia has a history of sowing fear by making threats, veiled and unveiled, as well as setting any number of red lines, the crossing of which usually results in no action. They have been very good at this, influencing western behaviour. But they are not so good at it these days. We don't know...

Recent history suggests a sequence of events. Americans and Europeans have dragged their feet on the provision of weaponry, conditions on the use of that weaponry, and 'boots on the ground". Then something happens, usually in the form of some new atrocity or escalation by Russia (e.g. the...

A bit of context. US economy vs. Russian economy. Or to be more precise, Nvidia vs. Russian economy.

Sorry @raymondo, I can't find it. It was about a week ago, possibly a Tendar or Nexta tweet of a Russian Telegram message.

No I don't. It would have been the Russian description of the same thing though. The gist of it was that it was unsafe for Russian troops to gather in any numbers, anywhere in the pre-war definition of Ukraine, including Crimea. The caveat is that it might have been the (Ukrainian/western)...

That reminds me of something. You know how an ATACMS missile can be landed on a dinner table? And its range is 190 miles or 300km? A few days ago, I was reading somewhere (but didn't post it), about a message via Telegram to all Russian troops anywhere in Ukraine, to not gather in large...

Up to 200 people innocent people could have been inside. Russians have no regard for the sanctity of human life. This is why Putin's bogus call for peace will fail. Nobody believes it will end there. Putin must be defeated heavily. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg33y9eedz7o