Ukraine Watch...

[Catweazle]

... which is why I have been collecting 100s of films on DVD.

All my family and friends who are now 100% cloud based will regret their life choices when The End arrives ... or they run out of money.

Mrs Weazle, who is the brains of the outfit, started doing this years ago - her reasoning was that post-crash a film showing could be a good community event. I merely have to ensure power and working equipment is available

[Vortex2]

post-crash a film showing could be a good community event. I merely have to ensure power and working equipment is available

Remember that final scene in Threads?

[mr brightside]

The troll is back!! Dos vidanya tovarisch!!

He's not a russian troll, he's a very naughty boy!

[automaticearth2]

Reports in the Torygraph that Germany is bracing for gas supply cuts now the Gerhard Schroder has left Rosneft. In addition, Russia looking to cut Finland's gas supply to zero....not much of an issue as Finland does not rely too much on Russian gas - they have plenty of wood, so I can imagine their stoves will be going full throttle this coming autumn and winter. ....

[PS_RalphW]

News has gone fairly quiet on the war front, just lots of vague reports of heavy shelling in areas of Donbas. In all probability no news is bad news, and Russia is making small but steady gains by blasting the defended villages until there is nothing left to defend. Putin would rather win uninhabitable rubble than let it remain Ukranian

[kenneal - lagger]

Russia has lost its 42nd colonel in Ukraine at the failed river crossing while supervising the installation of one of the pontoons. It would seem that a colonel in the Russian army does the job that a sergeant does in a western army, chivvy the troops along. Promotion prospects in the Russian army are very good but would any one want the jobs?

[PS_RalphW]

Lithuania is proposing that non Nato warships form escort convoys to break the Russian blockade of Odessa and the black sea to enable Ukraine to export its grain harvest.

[kenneal - lagger]

A 20 year career Russian diplomat has resigned in Geneva stating he is ashamed at his country's attack on Ukraine and Lavrov's nuclear threats. Will others have the courage to follow him?

[adam2]

A 20 year career Russian diplomat has resigned in Geneva stating he is ashamed at his country's attack on Ukraine and Lavrov's nuclear threats. Will others have the courage to follow him?

His courage is admirable, but I do not expect him to live for long. ricin tipped umbrellas, polonium flavoured tea, nerve agent on door handles, or good old fashioned shooting by foreign gangsters seem to be significant risks. He would be well advised to obtain a new identity, and to go armed for the rest of his life.

[kenneal - lagger]

He said that he was intending to stay in Geneva. He must have money then!!

[Vortex2]

Norway, western Europe’s largest oil and gas producer, should share the huge profits it has made from oil and gas exports since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland’s prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki said this weekend.

“They should share these excess profits. It’s not normal, it’s unjust. This is an indirect preying on the war started by Putin,” Morawiecki said during a meeting with a youth group on Sunday, as quoted by Bloomberg.

“But should we be paying Norway gigantic money for gas — four or five times more than we paid a year ago? This is sick,” Morawiecki said.

“Write to your young friends in Norway…They should share it, not necessarily with Poland [but] for Ukraine, for those most affected by this war. Isn’t that normal?” the Polish prime minister added

How would Poland or Ukraine respond if the situation was reversed?

The whole world has been messed up by this war, so why should Poland jump the queue?

As for Ukraine, they now have enough money and weaponry I would think.

[mr brightside]

I can't help but notice how embedded this worldwide chain of dependency is. Any problem with anything, anywhere screws it all up for everyone and nobody seems to have a counter strategy. It seems very odd to me.

[kenneal - lagger]

That's the joys of globalism, Mr B, and just in time everything. We're all in everything together, like it or not. You would have thought that we would have got the idea after the recent Suez closure.

[automaticearth2]

That's the joys of globalism, Mr B, and just in time everything. We're all in everything together, like it or not. You would have thought that we would have got the idea after the recent Suez closure.

This could all be coming to an end if Mr Soros is proved correct:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... orge-soros

[kenneal - lagger]

That would sort out global warming very rapidly and over population. Humanity always has the answer to its problems!!