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Quote from: Metalmicky on February 26, 2022, 04:12:59 pmI've ran the full range of emotions today - really strange as I have no connection to the Ukraine.I was in tears when saw a live report of all the people signing up and a work chain being formed to make Molotov cocktails..I was angered when I saw the false reports from the Putin pack and the Russian media..and I felt great pride in the united response of the European nations...... and the Russian public. I'm also fast becoming a fan of President Volodymyr Zelensky... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-60539193I felt an overwhelming sense of doom on Thursday and Friday - but today I feel like I'm sitting in my Ukrainian T-shirt and willing them on...I've just given money to the cause, but can't help but feel that I wish I could do more for the people of my now second favourite country....... so very brave and resilient... MM how do you donate money to the Ukrainian cause ?I also want to donate .
I've ran the full range of emotions today - really strange as I have no connection to the Ukraine.I was in tears when saw a live report of all the people signing up and a work chain being formed to make Molotov cocktails..I was angered when I saw the false reports from the Putin pack and the Russian media..and I felt great pride in the united response of the European nations...... and the Russian public. I'm also fast becoming a fan of President Volodymyr Zelensky... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-60539193I felt an overwhelming sense of doom on Thursday and Friday - but today I feel like I'm sitting in my Ukrainian T-shirt and willing them on...I've just given money to the cause, but can't help but feel that I wish I could do more for the people of my now second favourite country....... so very brave and resilient...
Language matters.People who truly want to virtue signal without explicitly criticising Putin for the ear criminal he is will use very carefully chosen language. So Stop the War are talking about Russian "movement" in Ukraine. Like they've made a wrong turn on a day out.Now Chelsea.Wringing their hands and dabbing damp eyes over "the situation" in Ukraine.https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2022/02/27/club-statement-on-the-conflict-in-ukraineCall it out for what it is. An illegal, unprovoked war of aggression by a tyrrant. If you can't do that, shut the f**k up and spare us your sanctimony.
From Beeb....Putin puts Russia's strategic nuclear force on 'special alert'Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to put its nuclear forces on "special alert" - the highest level of alert for Russia's Strategic Missile Forces.Speaking to top military officials, including Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, he said Western nations had taken "unfriendly actions" towards Russia and imposed "illegitimate sanctions".
And this.Zelenskiy: Ukrainian and Russian delegations to meet without preconditionsUkrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the Ukrainian and Russian delegations will meet without preconditions....have they actually done it?
Those two Russian Generals at Putins news conference don’t look happy, I wonder if they are contemplating putting a bullet through his head
Quote from: albie on February 26, 2022, 09:35:30 pmThe best thing the UK could do right now is removing visa restrictions on people fleeing war zones.The UK Nationality Bill gives the right to remove asylum claims from war refugees for a range of spurious criteria, none of which are relevant to the need to evacuate for personal safety.Any politician who opposes offering support to refugees in these circumstances is a moral leper of the worst kind.We managed to find visa approvals for Russian oligarchs in their droves when we were looking to enable money laundering on an industrial scale.Let your MP know that this is the least we can do!100%. And suggestions like this, from an obscure Tory MP that refugees should apply for fruit-picking jobs to get a visa are...beyond words.https://mobile.twitter.com/deletedbyMPs/status/1497697221252366337I cannot emphasise enough that absolutely noone should be trying to make cheap political points out if this catastrophe. But equally, the Govt and ruling party must be held to account if we are going to show our true soul in dealing with the humanitarian disaster.
The best thing the UK could do right now is removing visa restrictions on people fleeing war zones.The UK Nationality Bill gives the right to remove asylum claims from war refugees for a range of spurious criteria, none of which are relevant to the need to evacuate for personal safety.Any politician who opposes offering support to refugees in these circumstances is a moral leper of the worst kind.We managed to find visa approvals for Russian oligarchs in their droves when we were looking to enable money laundering on an industrial scale.Let your MP know that this is the least we can do!
Quote from: Filo on February 27, 2022, 03:28:12 pmThose two Russian Generals at Putins news conference don’t look happy, I wonder if they are contemplating putting a bullet through his headCould have been as reports coming in that he now has one General less.One of the two, his Chief of Staff, supposed to have just resigned:https://twitter.com/Billbrowder/status/1498000670896631815
Christ you have to wonder if the Russian army has the stomach for this. https://mobile.twitter.com/shaunwalker7/status/1497946816087789569