So Belarus are invading as well now?
This is fucking nuts to see, Liz Truss literally saying she supports Brits travelling to volunteer in a war. Live on the BBC. Never thought Iād see anything like that.
Does that mean weāre at war with Russia?
Hey there Putin!
Stop the shootinā
Use your brain
Donāt hurt Ukraine
Thatāll teach him.
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Weāve always been at war with Russia
/Orwell]
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Her poem reminds me of Kevin Eldonās alter-ego Paul Hamilton.
Putin feeling the squeeze with Sanctions and Ukraine holding their own
Just seen they are to hold some sort of peace talks
I think thatās the serious point here. People thinking itās all about them - my house price, my social media profile, my virtue-signalling poem - rather than doing something useful to help the people being bombed.
This guy worth a follow if you werenāt already.
Heās a Canadian comedian who likes to satirise the right wing crowd.
Anyway heās on his way to help in Ukraine.
Rumoured that Putin isnāt vaxxed.
Hopefully he dies of covid.
Heās getting pretty owned isnāt he.
Or as the kids say, heās taking an L.
Donāt want to speak early though because heās completely nuts.
Well some of his most vocal supporting oligarchs are starting to ask for peace, seems they donāt want to have holidays in Russia or drive their sports cars on Russian roads.
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US immigration lawyers are saying they are overwhelmed with requests from Russian men fleeing with their families, asking if they can get political protection after Putinās invasion and most likely be conscripted, it also comes as several Russian MPs withdraw their support for the Kremlin following Russiaās invasion of Ukraine. Sounds like they are willing to back Putin until it starts to hurt their bank balances and the free flow of money out of Russia. Iām sure there are a lot of dodgy people in Russia that you donāt want to piss off by taking away their means of laundering money internationally.
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BP getting rid of its Russian Oil shares is a pretty big deal.
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Can someone explain the Swift thing please?
Someone else can probably explain it in more detail but it acts as a global messaging system for cross border payments. Russian banks would have to find an alternative system for sending and receiving payments if they are excluded.
Only some Russian banks will be hit. So I assume they will just route funds internally to banks that can use it. But itās a headache for all involved. Also accelerate some kind of wider embrace of crypto.
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Howās the mood where you are Spanky?
Well, wife and daughter (I had to look after baby) went to the protest supporting Ukraine in freedom square yesterday, the largest protest since the Soviet era in the 90s, so a pretty fucking big deal.
As Estonia is an ex-Soviet state, itās obviously on Putinās list somewhere. Not sure where, but itās such a small country and has been occupied by Russia so many times before, people are nervous. If Ukraine falls, then whoās next? Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia.
So the mood is wildly supportive of Ukraine, and nervousness of the outcome. Wife has said if it werenāt for our kids she would be on a train to Ukraine to help fight off the Russians. So we are at that kind of level.
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Canāt be arsed to read back through thread and not sure if I mentioned it before but we have already started planning what to do if the Russian tanks start showing up at the border
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