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Yes but they NEED to sell to China at pretty much whatever price the Chinese offer. Russia can't just cut the USA and EU out of it's trade and carry on with China as if nothing happened.

Finland look very likely to join, with the threat being the way it is and I still don’t see how any why there’s going to be another Yugoslav war, just because Serbia is pro-Russian. Russia can’t send any military hardware there without passing through a NATO country first. China may well take advantage of the situation but it’ll be completely on their own terms. Russia has literally nothing to bargain with. It may well take the sting off things but it won’t pay for a marauding Russian sweep across central and Northern Europe.

How does he invade Bosnia, without first sending his forces through a NATO country? I’ll be wildly optimistic on Putin’s behalf and say Belarus complies with no opposition and Ukraine and Moldova both collapse. Then what? Supposing he attacks Finland, NATO would respond, then he find himself facing a far superior force along a border thousands of miles long. His resources and logistics are already stretched trying to get hold of half of Ukraine.

Where does he realistically have to go without invading a NATO country. Finland and Sweden are hurriedly talking about joining, Belarus is Russian territory in all but name, He's going to be bogged down in a civil war in Ukraine, which basically leaves Moldova to invade before he's essentially toe-to-toe with NATO all along his Western border. All the while, his economy continues to tank and he has a very expensive war and occupation to pay for.

Watching Puel’s teams made me not want to go to games any more, I can’t put it any more simply than that.

Morbid prediction; get ready for a few bombs going off in Moscow and other Russian cities, followed by the swift arrest, "trial" and execution of some random ethnic Ukrainians on "terrorist" charges.

Correct. As painful as it is just to sit here and watch, I suspect Putin is desperate for NATO to get involved, so that Russia unites behind him. Right now he is trying to convince people he had to act for Russia's own security but if we don't get involved, it's just him killing innocent Ukrainians.

Rouble ends the week at £0.0061, down from £0.0098 just before the conflict. Now I’m no economist but….

'Pressing striker front four' translates to "Stürmervornevierdrücken" no double s in there though.

Forget a mad tyrant firing artillery at Europe's largest nuclear power facility, this is the real news. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/sainsburys-renaming-chicken-kiev-kyiv-26386074

Something like 'The Balearic Front press' or the 'Siegfreid Line'?

Marsh was before my time but Warney... f**k me, only 52.

I've done my own research and discovered that Le Tissier never actually played for us. It's all just lies the mainstream media want you to believe.

If the news from this last week is anything to go by, he’s showing support for those less fortunate than him.

There’s a cracking Zouma joke there somewhere, leave it with me.

I’m more annoyed at how easy the draw is for the other big teams, not even a Merseyside Derby or something to trip them up. If we managed to pull of the unexpected, that leaves us needing to beat Liverpool and Chelsea in the semi and final.

Man City. Brilliant. All the big teams avoid each other.

Videos have been circulating of an elderly woman, barely able to walk and hold up a sign, being arrested at a protest in St Petersburg. Unfortunately for Russian propaganda, she is a famous and well respected war hero. One of, if not the, last remaining survivors of the siege of Leningrad and an icon of the glorious history Putin wants to preserve and emulate. Kind of a tough sell, that one; arresting frail war heroes, for the glory of Russia.

I don't think anything we do on Saturday is going to lower his wages.

Nothing screams reliability like the phrase, ‘Romanian Mig’ and thankfully it looks like this isn’t a malicious act, just a very unfortunate coincidence.

I’d love it if one year the FA Cup draw was just like 0:45 - 1:25 of this episode.

Unconfirmed reports going around of a Romanian Mig and helicopter missing, inside Romanian territory. Really hoping that’s an accident/inaccurate, it would be a big escalation if not.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen such an emotional rollercoaster in 13 posts.

Great result that, tactics spot on, fresh and bright, won both halves, into the next round. Boom! P.S. Called it when the teams were read out, wallowing in my own smugness now. 😎

FFS! If we keep going like this, we'll end up with our women's U-15 reserves beating Man City 4-0 in the final.