O/T:- Ukraine [Incorporating 'Congrats to Russia' thread]

[Masson4]

Fantastic to hear that the Newark lad, Aiden Aslin, Shaun Pinner and other prisoners of war have been released today and are safely on their way back to home soil. Rumours were still abound just yesterday that they may already have been executed as they were condemned to be.
Can't even imagine what nightmares they and their families back home must have been living through.

Newark man Aiden Aslin released by Russia and will return to UK
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/...newark-7612580

[drillerpie]

I think the last few months have really showed what Russia is - a dangerously backwards, corrupt, imperialist mess with an unfathomable superiority complex.

It has also shown exactly why Ukranians are so desperate to move away from it and move towards the west.

The Russian solution to any military problem has always been to throw more lives and human suffering at it, but this invasion really has been an eye opener as to what modern-day Russia really is.

Even leaving aside the raping, pillaging, mass graves, torture chambers and all the other war crimes, in the last few months we've seen:

The dirt poor people from the regions lured there with the promise of a few dollars for the family, or a looted washing machine, a toilet bowl, and some used Ukranian lingerie for the missus.

The Chechen psychopaths castrating Ukranian soldiers alive with box cutters. Now deployed to mop up deserters.

The soldiers sent to fight with cardboard body armour and WW2 rifles because they didn't/couldn't bribe the quartermaster enough to get proper gear.

The snatch squads on the streets of the people's republics and their 'recruitment process' of beating fighting age men up, chucking them in the van and sending them to the front (to fight against their own country, which is also a war crime, but at this point who's counting?

The cumbersome, old-fashioned and thankfully totally ineffective military doctrine and centralised chain of command.

Recruiting violent criminals from maximum security prisons to send into Ukraine. What could possibly go wrong there? To quote the guy from Wagner: "We don't take *** offenders...although we understand that mistakes happen". Gross.

The mental nightly current affairs talk shows on Russian state TV. Which western country will they fantasise about nuking tonight? Last one I saw it was the UK for the Queen's funeral. Or was it Germany. I can't remember there have been so many. Check out Russian Media Monitor on YouTube to get an idea.

I could go on but it's time to go to work.

[Old_pie]

The mental nightly current affairs talk shows on Russian state TV. Which western country will they fantasise about nuking tonight? Last one I saw it was the UK for the Queen's funeral. Or was it Germany. I can't remember there have been so many. Check out Russian Media Monitor on YouTube to get an idea.

I could go on but it's time to go to work.

And still the United Nations and its Security Council can only wring their hands in fear of upsetting China or escalating into a nuclear war.

Tomorrow will see the fake democratic choice of parts of Ukraine voting to become Russian. This means that Putin can declare any future attack a cause for a tactical nuclear response.

As you say Putin and his anachronistic chronies are gangsters doing what Russia has always done in my lifetime, invade neighboring countries.

1948 Czechoslovakia
1951 Yugoslavia
1958 Hungary
1978 Afghanistan

plus countless others, taking action in the knowledge that the West would not wish to intervene.

Churchill was not far wrong in thinking:

The plan called for a massive Allied assault on 1 July 1945 by British, American, Polish and German – yes German – forces against the Red Army. They aimed to push them back out of Soviet-occupied East Germany and Poland, give Stalin and bloody nose, and force him to re-consider his domination of East Europe. But the plan was fraught with danger and the Allied force risked being dragged deeper into Soviet territory to face the nightmare of fighting in a Russian winter. The ghosts of Hitler and Napoleon were never far away.

USSR/Soviet Union/Russia has bred a criminal thug and a criminal empire. Fortunately the criminals have no honour and that is showing in the pathetic army and equipment they have built up.

[countygump]

Check out Russian Media Monitor on YouTube to get an idea.

I could go on but it's time to go to work.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!

[LaxtonLad]

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!

There's quite a few Yanks who'd do exactly the same to them - they're on YouTube too. No shortge of loonies on either side.

[GranthamPie]

You wouldn’t want to live anywhere near London at the moment, would you?

[Glad2BeAPie]

You wouldn’t want to live anywhere near London at the moment, would you?

Wouldn't want to live anywhere that doss hole at the best of times

[GranthamPie]

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You wouldn’t want to live anywhere near London at the moment, would you?[/QUOTE
Wouldn't want to live anywhere that doss hole at the best of times

Haha… true. I had to laugh at the Russian politician who said they would turn London into a Martian landscape… too late fella!

[i961pie]

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Haha… true. I had to laugh at the Russian politician who said they would turn London into a Martian landscape… too late fella!

While they were turning London into Martian landscape what do you think Moscow might look like or would we just shrug our shoulders?

[upthemaggies]

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While they were turning London into Martian landscape what do you think Moscow might look like or would we just shrug our shoulders?

Notts would be back in the FL, we'd move 14 places up the pyramid if every club inside the M25 was destroyed.