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Poland refusing to play their WCC against Russia, calling on Sweden and Czech Republic to basically do the same.

It’s tragic in reality. Like others have pointed out a large number of those will be conscripted and all of them will be someone’s son, brother, father etc. If the numbers are true I doubt that they’re being reported in Russia so it could take a while for the realisation of that loss to resonate...

Saw it on C4 news last night. Not sure if other networks covered that specific point or not.

Absolutely nothing. The world is currently relying on the outcome of the Ukraine crisis to stop expansion of (I know the thread title is supposed to be tongue in cheek but…) the USSR.

I was talking with someone from Moldova last night who was explaining the situation there and why it’s worrying personally for him and Moldova. I didn’t realise that Russia has troops in Moldova along its border with Ukraine and has done for years, uninvited. There’s a river that run through...

This. The nuclear deterrent is only working for one person at the moment.

Must have took your advice. Sanctions are pointless was your line of defence wasn’t it?

That can’t be true. The EU is a dictatorship that allows no country within it it’s own sovereignty. How quickly you forget.

Finally Left with no choice after the EU announced it.

Ferage thinks he’s a hero in Finland because a Finnish right wing MEP once hugged him. I’d imagine Finnish people are looking at Ukraine right now and thinking EU freedoms or vulnerable to Russia? We’ll take the EU freedoms thanks. Same for Poland which the Brexit press were salivating over the...

Yeah I think so. Finland kicked its arse.

I would say getting silly now but we passed that point years ago

Not much of a punishment really. More of a reward.

Apparently a Moldovan merchant ship has been attacked and hit by the Russian navy 12 miles of the Ukrainian coast. No one killed by the sound of it and possibly a mistake rather than a deliberate attack but it’s easy to see how this could escalate to neighbouring countries. As we seen in the...

Chucked out of the Eurovision Song Contest now.

F1 had cancelled the Russian GP. Not that it will make a difference but it’s the right thing.

Apparently in polling in Russia on the run up to this only 8% of Russians support military action by the Russian army in Ukraine and only 9% support the separatists in Ukraine. Putin might have misread the room catastrophically on this. Be interesting to see if the protests in Russia increase...

Saw it. If I got the gist of it he was saying that unlike in the Cold War the problem is that there’s been no longer term joined up thinking between administrations in numerous western countries and also no joined up thinking between the western countries so there’s been no sustained unilateral...

Imagine if Corbyn…

Can you imagine Trump doing that.