Lionator

Personally, if you’re ‘standing up for oil and gas’ then you should be talked over regardless of your gender.

Saints at their best can easily match them.

Wagner is a coward manager, you saw that in our league games against us. They have some handy footballers but he prefers to sit back.

This is everything you’d expect from a team who are pathetic away from home.

Leeds win this but lose to a better footballing side in the final. Norwich are very limited and not brave.

It's all for deterrence. Unless you believe Putin is completely irrational, and the evidence indicates he is rational, then you can calculate he probably doesn't want to use his nuclear arsenal and probably only will if another country is marching to Moscow, or if the chances are that he'll be killed if he doesn't (ie murdered by hawks if he cedes Crimea). Doesn't stop him from rolling out his propagandists to threaten it though. China are a lot more guarded and responsible when it comes to nukes. I believe they're the only major nuclear country with a non-first use policy.

Rob Lee and Michael Kofman are both great!

Any problem Russia have is surely going to be not as bad as any problem Ukraine have if that makes sense. I know this is Jones (so not popular) but I think he captures a lot well in this tweet.

There’s a clear trip from Amrabat there. Should be a penalty.

Atrocious from Trippier.

This whole Kharkiv thing has come about because of corruption in the Ukrainian ranks. There were supposed to be fortifications on the border and they never appeared. https://english.nv.ua/nation/anti-corruption-activist-exposes-suspicious-wood-supply-contracts-for-fortifications-in-kharkiv-obla-50418691.html

It won’t be a massive defeat unless something catastrophic happens (complete collapse of lines) which is very unlikely. It will be a war of attrition, they risk losing Kharkiv long term. Unless Russia really fancy a 10-15 year war, Kyiv is safe. But the idea of them getting Crimea back let alone Donetsk and Luhansk is basically zero at this point.

And this was the original point of what the Czech politician was saying.

Very true

But is that realistic? We’re likely to get a Republican government who only care about borders and sticking one on China. And in terms of deal’s, it’s where you have to get creative I think. Negotiate with a China or India to become a guarantor of Ukranian security.

What’s the alternative though? Ukraine are struggling with resources, Russia are too but the manpower advantage is coming through, that’s not going to disappear. You make a peace deal ceding the four regions, a DMZ on the other Russia/Ukraine borders, and probably security guarantees for a sovereign Ukraine but outside of NATO membership. If this war goes on and on then Ukraine could eventually lose all sovereignty. We aren’t putting troops on the ground either, because that would be stupid and dangerous.

this is interesting as Czech government are very anti Russia. I think if the situation deteriorates further for Ukraine then I think we could see more of this before it gets really critical. My prediction is if Trump wins in November, a peace deal might be wrapped up fairly quickly.

The west ain’t going to bat hard for Georgia anyway, as there’s no strategic value in it unlike Ukraine. We have Turkey and Azerbaijan already in the region who can provide us with what we need and look how we abandoned democratic Armenia over its imperialist Azeri neighbours because they simply meet our interests.

To be fair if somebody is a full on pro-Russian tankie then I’d be asking why because it is a bit odd. I don’t sympathise with Russia but even the smallest understanding of history can explain how we got here today. Watch traumazone by Adam Curtis on bbc iplayer (huge pro Russian propaganda arm) for example. Soviets watched their empire get crushed by corruption, misadventure and western foreign policy. It was a corrupt hell hole in the 90’s, now it’s still corrupt but the standard of living has vastly improved hence why Putin is adored in Russia, a bit like Modi in India. They’re bitter and think that Russia should be seen as the great country that they think they are. They don’t want to take over or destroy the world, they just want to be respected as a fearsome peer (like US and China). It won’t happen but if you take that perspective, a lot more of it makes sense than ‘Putin is a genocidal maniac who wants to destroy the west’.

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Since that Arsenal 0-0 game, Man City have won every league game, scored 30 goals and conceded 5. Wild.

Did we not have the option of signing Akanji or am I dreaming?

Why are they not showing the incident? 🤣🤣🤣 snowflakes

Ortega is better than Ederson anyway

You’d rather get studded in the head then get a full on hip to the head.