Those sanctions are working well then. Putin turns off the taps: Russia cuts off gas to Bulgaria and Poland in toughest response yet to Western sanctions, pushing European gas prices up 24%.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10758199/Russia-cuts-gas-Bulgaria-Poland-toughest-response-Western-sanctions.htmlIt will be cold winters starting from the end of this year for many Europeans. But let's all continue to pretend we can build a billion wind farms, solar panels and nuclear power plants in the mean time. European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called the move 'yet another attempt by Russia to use gas as an instrument of blackmail. This is unjustified and unacceptable.'
Yeah! Russia should just accept being shut off from everything whilst we still get our gas, how dare they respond?! I'm not justifying the Ukraine invasion, but the finger pointing by politicians in the west is truly astonishing. Basically they fucked us over for decades pretending we can go green when we can't. Many of us excelled in improving living standards by switching to service industries and letting poorer countries do manufacturing for us. But to pretend we can continue down this path without energy is utter bollocks! I expect to see much more of this, especially by the winter: "Putin and Bitcoin are the reasons why you can't afford your gas and electricity prices, nothing to do with us. Oh you want a nuclear power plant? Sorry, we are too busy sending 1000 tanks to Ukraine." Your argumentation is all over the place. Russia unilaterly changes an agreement saying that gas shall be paid in USD, to rubles, the counterpart insists with sticking to the agreement, Russia then breaks the agreement and shuts of the gas, and in your mind that is somehow fair. And I fail to see why giving aid to Ukraine is in opposition to building power plants.
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Today Bitcoin price 38.3k USD. All the coins in the market are being dumped due to the dumping of Bitcoin prices.
Yes, and all your base are belong to us.
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The ideologs don't care. All they care about at the moment is "Shulzie-boy, why aren't you building more tanks and sending them straight to Ukraine??" Yes, why isn't he doing that? Germany seems to always end up on the wrong side of history.
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The total russian combat losses as of today is approximately:
Personnel ‒ about 21200 persons killed
Tanks ‒ 838
APV ‒ 2162
Artillery systems – 397
MLRS ‒ 138
Anti-aircraft warfare systems ‒ 69
Aircraft – 176
Helicopters – 153
Soft vehicles ‒ 1523
Boats/cutters ‒ 8
Fuel tanks ‒ 76
UAV operational-tactical level ‒ 172
Special equipment ‒ 27
Mobile SRBM systems ‒ 4
The russian offensive is not making any advances worth metioning.
The US is sending 72 155 mm howitzers and 144 000 artillery grenades, and tractors for the howitzers, this is in addition to the howitzers and grenades allready sent. They are also sending 121 newly developed, to Ukranian specs, suicide drones called Phoenix Ghost. The Netherlands is sending the self propelled howitzer Panzerhaubitse 2000 and France is sending their CAESAR howitzer.
Ukraine is gettin lots of modern western 155 mm artillery, this means that they can use the GPS guided precision grenade Excalibur and the Bofors/Nexter Bonus antitank grenade that releases two homing warheads over the target and hits the weak roof of the tanks. it can reach up to 35 Km, so one fire round (or whatever the english word is) can theoretically wipe out a whole tank company.
The Russians in Mariupol are now digging massgraves for the civilians they have killed, satelite pictures show.
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Wars suck. All of them. They are pretty much always failures by default. Even especially the "freedom" wars of the US and allies, least after WW2. Even WW2 sucked... Wars suck.. SLUT Yeah, but some feels better than others.
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Oh look all you Putinverstehers and scumbags, it's the archangel killing antichrist.
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The spring offensive has started.
And archangel Michael is sending rain over the battle field.
The head of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Danilov, said that Russians started second phase of the invasion.
“This morning, along entire front line of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions occupiers attempted to break through our defences,” said Danilov.
BREAKING: Battle of Donbas starts, Zelensky says. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia had concentrated a significant part of its forces for the offensive in the east of Ukraine. “No matter how many soldiers are drawn there, we will defend ourselves. We will fight. We will not give up anything Ukrainian,” he said in a recent address.
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I understand that the archangel Michael is the patron saint of Ukraine. That explains a few things.
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Is Jesus back yet I have looked through the window I couldn't se him
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That loony has as much say as Hitler, exactly nothing. It is up to each individual of what he or she will do. (decentralization) There is no war if no-one follows orders and mind the own business. You scumbag.
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Happy Easter WO Gang! Italy, the land formerly known for good, healthy, unprocessed food! Did you think my hat was only a meme? PS: No, bitcoin still not accepted. You mean ground beef, tomatosauce, cheese and pasta in a mix of your choise? Sorry, couldn't resist, have a good easter!
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The roumors have it that monday might be a good bet.
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So, before the war the russian military was the second best in the world, now they are second best in Ukraine.
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This war has been an eye opener for me in many ways. I did my military service in 1980-81 in the coastal artillery regiment 3 (KA3) on the island of Gotland, the closest we had to the Soviet /Warsaw pact border. I served in something called ”rörlig spärrbataljon” I don’t know how to really translate that, but it would be something like ”mobile stopping batalion”. Our job was to, together with other parts of the armed forces, stop a soviet invasion, in our case to shoot and sink the soviet landing ships coming at us from the Warsaw pact. We had some damn good cannons to do that with, and I was manning a AA gun unit whose job it was to provide close air security for those cannons. In 1992 I was recruited to the then newly formed Marine Home Guard. My job would be to do what I was to do in case of war, namely manning a AA gun unit, in a ”Fast spärrbataljon” that translates to something like ”fixed stopping batalion”. Basically the same as before but not mobile. By that time the warsaw pact was no more and the only remaining enemy was the Russian Federation, however, in my mind, and in many peoples minds, that pretty much still equated to the old soviet union/Warsaw pact, it was just some kind of default setting in our brains. And that default setting didn’t change until the Russians attacked Ukraine and I started really looking at the map and realized that Russia only has one port from where they can do a landing operation on Sweden and that is Königsberg/Kaliningrad, instead of all the Baltic states, Poland and East Gemany as it used to be. The cannons were scrapped when the Swedish government decided, around 2000 that the eternal peace had come, and the coast was defended by missiles instead, namely the Rbs 15. As it dawned on the government that Russia had not turned in to a peaceful democracy more and better missiles were made. And what I finally realized was that we now have enough of these missiles to sink every landing ship and escort that that the russians can send towards us from Kaliningrad. And with an air force about the size of the Ukrainian air force and 30 planes in storage, but with much better jets and state of the art missiles, especially the Meteor, the Russian air force in this region would not be a big problem for us. In other words, I have recently realized that Russia is not a real threat to Sweden, and that feels good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBS_15https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_(missile) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Coastal_Artillery#Cold_War
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Yeah that was a huge mistake by the Russians... flagship of the Black Sea fleet had been hit.... Those Russian generals/admirals are completely retarded or what? It's clear that this attack was masterminded by NATO/US, but c'mon... it's a flagship, just 3 similar ships in the Russian navy... completely unprotected within reach of Ukrainian missiles? Yes, 'cause you really need to "mastermind" shooting two anti ship missiles at a ship that patrols the coast at 5 knots in a pattern that repeats like a tram. The truth is that the russians really are that bad.
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I say I can't read it because it's too damn small. Don't shrink charts and texts to the point where they aren't readable please.
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I may be a bit drunk on Tito's V but CB seems to be missing for 9,10,11,12 ?
Muahhhahaha.
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