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Curious about the Poland thing if it is indeed the attention to attack Poland, then something must be different in the attempt. As they were unable to dislodge a stubborn Ukraine, unable to save face against a newly Nato’d Finland, so this would either be a more blustering misdirection/attempt or something far less palatable. Thankfully likely the former I would guess.

Looks decent and nothing really wrong with it, just slightly underwhelms ultimately.

This passed me by at the time, but OMG, Balatro is so so good

Speak repeatedly, speak loud, and in this cult of personality what you say barely matters. People hear what they want to hear, Brexit being the perfect example of this process brought to its natural conclusion.

Sounds like this 2% will be canned by the Sénat though. Bog standard tax flight pushback

Nice. No day is ever truly wasted

Some Norway stations have refused to refill US naval units

Big leap to couple growth under Biden with growth under Trump tbh, especially after recent signals and discontent from markets

Agree with plenty of this, except the bit in bold. Who wants to fight Russia? Except Ukraine, as they see been given no choice! There should not be a desire to fight, merely a reluctant willingness to so should further incursions occur. Best case, ceasefire occurs on best possible terms, Europe recognises its military negligence and the US returns to democracy.

Did I just read that the FAA just cancelled a contract in favour of StarLink? No conflict of interest here

Curious that the Baltic states did not get an invite to todays meeting

Making Ukraine concede territory is not the only option here, as this 100% cannot be a concession by the perceived smaller country. There is a known aggressor here and for them not concede something is madness, with exhibit a being Crimea. Yes the possibility of a wider conflict then exits, but it will not be a nuclear conflict as there remains an exit strategy for Russia that allow them to save face.

just tell her to shut up Kier

Turkey seems to be making a strange pivot with regards to Ukraine, or perhaps this is just the latest example of playing both sides to the benefit of Turkey.

Agree that this is the status quo, but we do have right to disapprove.

Summarised in 3 words as “might is right”

So either let Russia have sovereign Ukraine territory to end the or the war just rumbles on?

Not sure this is the wrong outlook, as we would be par of a peacekeeping source. So it would be Russia (re) engaging in a war.

Wasn’t the US supposed to protect Ukraine as part of the deal that saw Ukraine give up its Nuclear weapons (The Belgrade agreement)?

What weight does Putin have? 3 years suggests not a massive amount. There is of course a risk of escalation, but if Europe enters Ukraine as peace keepers, the only complaint can be the point @leicsmac raised about perceived ownership from Russia.

I shall call one of you Neville and the other Chamberlain.. (I jest) This episodic flexing of power needs to be called out at some point, and I don`t necessarily mean boots on the ground, but it also should not stand without some allied response.

Question is, if Europe makes a stand and send troops to Ukraine - what happens? Nuclear exchanges? Putin gets assistance from the US?

Doesn’t it also have open territorial disputes with both Tibet and India ?

Suppose the rallying cry for Sundays Europe bash has been given….

So rather everyone else is just busy losing?