Whitey Grandad

Don’t try to be clever. There are plenty of ‘nation states’. The full title of Israel for example is ‘The State of Israel’. France is both a country and a state, or as a king once said “L'État, c'est moi ”

Where do you see a distinction?

Kyiv won’t fall in one night. It would take hundreds of thousands of troops to occupy and suppress a city even if they use extreme measures. Even if key buildings were occupied this conflict would drag on and on throughout the country.

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says 500 Stingers and 1000 “anti-tank weapons” are being sent. https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/berlin-schickt-ukraine-stinger-raketen-und-weitere-waffen-17836825.html

I believe that the Russian method is to airlift fuel to the units as they advance. Without control of the air that must be difficult.

Soviet Union or Warsaw Pact?

#whataboutery

KWP seemed to be enjoying himself tremendously last night.

Are we safe yet?

I’ve not been back long from the game but I’m still buzzing about it. There was a real carnival atmosphere around the stadium this evening. The place is filled with hope and expectation, something that has been lacking up until only a few months ago. I like it 🥳

"Surrender now before we get beaten"

The Ukraine isn't an EU member. I cannot believe that you didn't know that.

"I (a) hate all this gamesmanship in the PL and (b) want us to do it."

They’d need to cut a lot more than just one. The internet is derived from a military specification that allows for widespread disruption to signal paths. A few years ago I was in north west Ireland where I could see a cable laying ship a few miles out. I was told that the fibre optic cable it was laying had the capacity to handle all the transatlantic traffic between Europe and North America.

Ah, of course. I tend to drink at home. I like bottled craft beers and I keep a few so that when Saints win I can have a celebratory glass. Before this season they used to go out of date before I could drink them.

Can't you drive back to Farnborough after the match?

Only a birthday card these days. One on the 100th and then on the 105th and every year thereafter. You’re right. He must have received hundreds.

There's a big difference in quality. How many of this 150K are conscripts?

No they aren't. They are Ukrainian and they don't want life to go back to th e way it was forty years ago.

Don't tell me that you believed what he said???

Russia would be wiped out along with all the others.

That was fabulous. The contrast between the Saints fans and the identikit robots up the other end was startling.

There were intended to have replays but the Covid cancellations put paid to them.

So because Trump said it wouldn’t have happened, it wouldn’t have happened? Love is truly blind.

Anyone he wanted to.