Russian invasion of Ukraine

[welshbairn]

3 hours ago, ICTChris said:

Whoops! 

 

 

Blaming the dumb volunteer taking selfies rather than the brain who decided that placing hundreds of conscripts in beds above an ammo store in the basement is very Russki.

[Todd_is_God]

1 hour ago, welshbairn said:

Presumably there will be a cost on replacing piped gas from Russia to shipped LPG from Qatar and the US, but that won't affect the UK much directly.

Why would that not affect the UK directly?

[welshbairn]

23 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

Why would that not affect the UK directly?

There doesn't seem to be a global price anymore, it's fragmented, and we were never very reliant on Russia anyway.

[Todd_is_God]

4 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

There doesn't seem to be a global price anymore, it's fragmented, and we were never very reliant on Russia anyway.

There is so much wrong in this

[highlandcowden]

8 hours ago, moses1924 said:

 If the price of gas is so low, why are bills not coming down, is it because power companies buy in advance? Presumably this means heating homes etc will be cheaper next year?

Aye,so they will......

[Sergeant Wilson]

8 hours ago, welshbairn said:

This year you'd hope, no idea how it works. Presumably there will be a cost on replacing piped gas from Russia to shipped LPG from Qatar and the US, but that won't affect the UK much directly.

An expert will be along soon to explain it to you.

[Boo Khaki]

21 hours ago, welshbairn said:

Looks like something Eva Braun might have organised in Berlin during the final days of WW2.

That would be some going, since she'd have been dead for months by that point 

[Cairn Terrier]

1 hour ago, Boo Khaki said:

That would be some going, since she'd have been dead for months by that point 

Er, she died in the bunker with Hitler about a week before VE day.

[Todd_is_God]

3 minutes ago, Cairn Terrier said:

Er, she died in the bunker with Hitler about a week before VE day.

WW2 did not end on VE day, though.

Pedantry, im sure, hence the emoji lol

[Cairn Terrier]

4 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

WW2 did not end on VE day, though.

Pedantry, im sure, hence the emoji lol

Yeah, good point.

[welshbairn]

 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

 

 

[LongTimeLurker]

Wheels rather than tracks so not a tank but an interesting development nonetheless:

 

 

 

[ICTChris]

@Sergeant Wilson some good tank or no tank discussion on this.

[Sergeant Wilson]

22 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

@Sergeant Wilson some good tank or no tank discussion on this.

From what I've learned on here, that's not a tank, even if the French say it is.

I like it though, it seems independent of a battalion of squaddies protecting it. I also think it would be easier to park.

[Shandon Par]

It’s like when folk call a hoover a hoover when it’s not really a hoover. See also tannoy.

[madmitch]

54 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

@Sergeant Wilson some good tank or no tank discussion on this.

Not a tank but definitely bigger in the trouser department than any Russian APC I can think of.

[Leith Green]

Really good documentary earlier on BBC2, guy called OIly Lambert spent a few weeks filming with some of the volunteer army on the front lines.

Well worth a watch, it will be on iPlayer - Ukraine: The Peoples Fight

[LongTimeLurker]

Macron sends something that may or may not be a tank, Putin fails to go thermonuclear or attack the Suwalki gap over it, so the next step now is something that is unambiguously a main battle tank with the onus very much on Germany who recently said they wouldn't do it unilaterally:

Looks very much like Ukraine can win the whole shebang at this point if NATO countries give them the necessary hardware, but maybe NATO leaders prefer to draw things out until Russia starts to implode of its own accord and/or want to give Vlad the chance to do another major goodwill gesture back to the 2014 lines.

 

[jagfox]