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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
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Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
Brighton getting pieced up here
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
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- Views: 2376872
Re: War in Ukraine...
Bad news emerging from the frontlines. The Russians appear to have established a salient, roughly 5-10km deep, west of Avdiivka reaching to the village of Ocheretyne. The Russians are claiming a small breakthrough - that seems unlikely, but certainly the reports are they were able to burst into the ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
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This could be the first move in a post-election bloodletting among the siloviki . It's an open secret that Patrushev is trying to manoeuvre his son into a position to succeed Putin. Patrushev's son has reportedly fallen out of favour since his Agriculture department's mismanagement of the egg and d...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
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- Views: 2376872
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A rare hit among the Russian elite. Shoigu's #2 has been arrested on charges of bribery. Notable that this is the guy whose main portfolio has included the reconstruction of occupied Mariupol. Federal investigators have arrested Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov on felony bribery charges. Ivanov ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:09 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
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- Views: 2376872
Re: War in Ukraine...
Unpopular opinion, but I don't believe anyone in the West should be cheering for Chechnya to become headline news again
Without the Russian thumb sitting on top of it, it's far likelier to become the next aspiring Islamic caliphate than a peaceful beacon of Western-style democracy
Without the Russian thumb sitting on top of it, it's far likelier to become the next aspiring Islamic caliphate than a peaceful beacon of Western-style democracy
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:06 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
- Replies: 45679
- Views: 3012198
Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
Tuchel looks like he might be lined up for the Man United job.
Imagine the amount of abuse he's going to unload on the current bunch of wasters. Hope they bring back Sancho just for the inevitable blowup
Imagine the amount of abuse he's going to unload on the current bunch of wasters. Hope they bring back Sancho just for the inevitable blowup
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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Mark Galleoti, the Russian political observer who writes for the Spectator, did a good breakdown of what might happen if Kadyrov dies the last time there was a major health scare reported - Kadyrov would likely insist on his 18-year-old son Akhmat being named as successor, in order to keep the famil...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
Re: War in Ukraine...
More news about Kadyrov's health issues. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has been living with a diagnosis of pancreatic necrosis for more than five years, the independent news website Novaya Gazeta Europe reported Monday, citing anonymous sources at the Moscow presidential hospital where he was allege...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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The use of English is an interesting one that I've seen elsewhere. Recently was in Tbilisi - sat at a restaurant, next to a Russian-speaking couple, having a conversation in Russian. The restaurant staff also clearly spoke Russian since the menu was printed in Georgian, English and Russian, but the ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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I was listening to a podcast the other day with The Telegraphs former Moscow bureau chief, Julius Strauss, who recently visited Kharkiv. He said that there is still about 1m people living in and around the city, which is incredible really, but the major difference he found this time compared to whe...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:38 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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So torturing and slaughtering may make them fonder of Russia? Or do you mean sue for peace. I don't mean either of those things. Just that Ukrainian history post-independence is a little more complex than you're making it out. The three defining events since 1991 - the Orange Revolution, Euromaidan...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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In 1991 there was a free and fair election held in which 93% percent of the population voted in favour of independence. Every single region voted in favour of it. I'm pro-Ukraine and I still find using the 1991 election as an indicator of people's views in 2024 to be a flawed argument. A lot of tim...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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Speaking of elections in Ukraine - Zelensky is now 18 points behind Zaluzhnyi in the polls Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would lose to the commander-in-chief he fired if an election were to be held now, according to a poll. Zelensky removed Valerii Zaluzhny from his post in February followi...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:46 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
Re: War in Ukraine...
In 1991 there was a free and fair election held in which 93% percent of the population voted in favour of independence. Every single region voted in favour of it. I'm pro-Ukraine and I still find using the 1991 election as an indicator of people's views in 2024 to be a flawed argument. A lot of tim...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
Re: War in Ukraine...
You'd have to assume Russia will have to ramp up funding for the war even more to try and keep up - it already accounts for one-third of their entire state budget
$60bn is a massive number... the entire Russian defence budget for 2024 is $110bn
$60bn is a massive number... the entire Russian defence budget for 2024 is $110bn
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
Re: War in Ukraine...
David Sacks predictably going into meltdown @DavidSacks It’s not “just” $61 billion. Ukraine will need massive annual cash infusions to stave off total defeat. So it’s $61 billion as the baseline for an annual appropriation in a new forever war. @DavidSacks It’s no coincidence that the Uniparty is s...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
Re: War in Ukraine...
Russian reactions to today's votes in US Congress: ◾️Peskov: - on seizing Russian assets: "If it's really about confiscating our assets, the USA will answer for that. Moscow will take measures in accordance with our interests, no time limits." - on aid to Ukraine: "the decision will make the USA ev...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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Donald Trump has said the survival of Ukraine is important to the US, in what Reuters describes as a shift in tone days before Republicans are due to vote on a $61bn aid package in the US House of Representatives. “As everyone agrees, Ukrainian Survival and Strength should be much more important to...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 9:30 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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Perhaps a sad indicator of the times we live in - there are already playable video games based on the war in Ukraine, produced by each side Death from Above is the Ukrainian offering - you play as a drone operator behind the frontlines taking out Russian tanks Best in Hell is the Russian offering - ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
Re: War in Ukraine...
Total US aid for Ukraine between 2022-2024 thus far has been $74bn
Difficult to understate how massive another $60bn would be, if approved
Hopefully this is the impetus for Ukraine to get its act together on mobilization
Difficult to understate how massive another $60bn would be, if approved
Hopefully this is the impetus for Ukraine to get its act together on mobilization
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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Luna: Furthermore, remember, Ukraine chose to not join NATO. Berman: It was NATO and the US and others who didn't want Ukraine to enter Luna: I’m going to have to respectfully push back on that because I disagree https://x.com/Acyn/status/1780951793322574145 On that evidence they need to pass a bil...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:43 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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Germany's going through one of its "we support Ukraine" phases again Germany has written to dozens of countries including Gulf Arab states to plead for more air defence systems for Ukraine, saying Kyiv needed urgent help to protect its cities, troops and critical infrastructure from the “murderous o...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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The question is more what he'll table at this point I think. If the Dems will be prepared to swallow a loan type aid deal and if there's any unacceptable riders on it. Content has been published: The content of the Ukraine aid bill has been published on the House of Representatives website. Similar...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:33 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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The BBC's independent verification of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine, through sources like funeral postings, newspapers, social media and graveyard satellite photos, has now climbed above 50,000 confirmed killed
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68819853
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-68819853
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:17 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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Yes, and the money the Ukrainians "pay" would go towards restocking. It's effectively a subsidy for American weapons manufacturers
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:56 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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Russian "peacekeepers" officially withdrawing from Karabakh - that's around 2,000 troops. Full control of the territory now with Azerbaijan Russia has begun withdrawing its "peacekeeping" contingent from Nagorno-Karabakh, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed on April 17, according to Russian...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
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- Views: 2376872
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He's likely signed his own political death warrant by finally moving ahead with a vote on this bill, but it's long overdueCanNZ2000 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:31 pm Saturday could be a very good day for Ukraine, support wise, fingers crossed.
https://twitter.com/foxreports/status/1 ... SFNmRh_ECg
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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Last night's strike on Dzhankoy in Crimea looks more and more curious Early indications that the Ukrainians used ATACMS missiles ($1m each) to strike the base. Russian milbloggers claiming it was as many as 11 missiles, likely a massive exaggeration but certainly multiple were used as more than one ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:52 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Banning smoking - does it make sense?
- Replies: 102
- Views: 2586
Re: Banning smoking - does it make sense?
The UK already has one of the lowest smoking rates in the developed world, under 15% of people smoke, down from around 35% in 2000. That's considerably below the 20-40% range across most of the EU. The anti-smoking legislation passed during that time clearly had some effect. I would've preferred hav...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
- Replies: 45679
- Views: 3012198
Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
Completely forget there was Champions League on tonight
These scores
These scores
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:36 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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So it looks like the US house vote on Ukraine aid will be voted on, potentially as early as this Friday - but not as part of a combined bill with Israel + Taiwan + border funding, but instead as a standalone funding bill for Ukraine Would be keen to know whether that improves or harms its chances of...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:41 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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Reports emerging that morale among Russian troops is so low that many are now committing ritual seppuku instead of running head-first into the next meat wave assault source: trust me bro LOL. Keep swallowing whatt America, the UK, Western MSM, Facebook and youtube allow. You're being completely not...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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Reports emerging that morale among Russian troops is so low that many are now committing ritual seppuku instead of running head-first into the next meat wave assault
source: trust me bro
source: trust me bro
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
- Replies: 45679
- Views: 3012198
Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
According to The Standard, the FA recently released data on the Chelsea stars as part of their annual agent payments report last week. The data suggests that the Blues have extended the contracts of Fernandez and Mudryk until 2032 and 2031 respectively. If both the players stay at Stamford Bridge u...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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Suggestions that they've exhausted the combat capabilities over several areas of the frontline at this point based on the expenditure of men and materiel over their winter offensive(s). Surely it'll take them a good while to reconstitute and resupply before they can throw people into the grinder ag...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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While all the focus is on Israel: Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Head Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov stated that Ukrainian forces are preparing to repel a future Russian major offensive expected in late May or the beginning of June but noted that this will be “catastrophi...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:05 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
- Replies: 45679
- Views: 3012198
Re: The OFFICIAL English and European Football (soccer) thread
If you believe it’s over, explain how? The City run-in is how. Hard to make a case for them getting anything other than the full 18 points available. Spurs away is the only fixture you could conceivably see them dropping points at, which looks less and less likely with their form in the last few ga...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 12:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
- Replies: 9372
- Views: 309115
Re: Israel declares state of war
300 drones and missiles fired, only 7 actually hit anything. No casualties, no major damage Great Iranian success :thumbup: If you want to appear like a tough guy who lashes out indiscriminately at the first provocation, ie Israel, it isn't, but if what you're doing is playing a longer game, it is....
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:22 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Israel declares state of war
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- Views: 309115
Re: Israel declares state of war
300 drones and missiles fired, only 7 actually hit anything. No casualties, no major damage
Great Iranian success
Great Iranian success
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 11:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: War in Ukraine...
- Replies: 53746
- Views: 2376872
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The latest Battlegrounds episode is worth a listen. The section with journalist Julius Strauss on his field visit to Kharkiv and Eastern Ukraine, interactions with soldiers and locals, the reactions he gets when speaking in Russian now vs 1 year ago. Insightful https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Cbiw...