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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by ChilcoSaint, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. Schad

    Schad Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, that's absolutely a concern. There's a reason why letting dictators go peacefully into exile has been a popular if entirely unsatisfying option in the past: fights to the death get really, really ugly. Your best-case becomes a palace coup and a post-mortem view of the sidewalk from a lamp post, your worst-case becomes something truly horrific. And that's when they don't have enormous nuclear arsenals.
     
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  2. The Ides of March

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    I think there's a need to post it everywhere possible until the message resonates with a massive percentage of the voting population.
     
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  3. San Tejón

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    He’s already making threats, based on what the ITV news showed, if other countries interfere.
    Needs a military coup in Moscow.
     
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  4. Le Tissier's Laces

    Le Tissier's Laces Well-Known Member

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    Yep. Brave Russian souls required.
     
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    They are protesting on the streets across Russia and being thrown into prison for it...
     
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  6. Archers Road

    Archers Road Urban Spaceman

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    I think he’s lost the plot, basically. He walked himself and his army up to the line them crossed it, but in his most recent announcements he didn’t look to me like a man in control of himself let alone anything else.
     
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  7. Archers Road

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    They can’t throw everyone in jail though.
     
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  8. Le Tissier's Laces

    Le Tissier's Laces Well-Known Member

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    Oh I know, and I doff my cap to them absolutely.
     
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  9. Shandy_top_89

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    Will be interesting if
    Apparently Macron has suggested that in recent exchanges it seemed that Putins personality had completely changed, I mean I know that is probably just a dictator warlord revealing his true face, but his ambitions were not exactly a secret before.
     
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  10. San Tejón

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    If it goes nuclear us and Portsmouth will be targets because of the ports, so it would be quick for most of us.
    Unless we all go round to Chilcos house.
     
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  11. Shandy_top_89

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    Can’t imagine anywhere in the U.K. bar probably the Shetland Islands would have any possibility of survival in nuclear war.
     
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  12. Schad

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    They can, and have, thrown an awful lot of them in jail before, though.

    But if the aim here was bolstering his public standing, it's already abundantly clear that this military excursion is far less popular in Russia than previous ones. And it very much appears that their security apparatus has been wrong-footed by the size of the protests, as they had nowhere near the number of police (or counter-protesters) deployed that they normally do.
     
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  13. Gregm1988

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    I read that as - but they will do going forward
     
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  14. Schad

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    They definitely will. But the size of the spontaneous protests, unopposed by the usual Kremlin stooge counterprotesters, is going to linger in the mind even when the internal disinfo apparatus rumbles into gear. Telegram chatter is also apparently much more boldly anti-war than one would normally expect (Telegram tends to be favoured by the Russian center/left but there's inherent risk in being out of pocket there, as well).
     
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  16. Le Tissier's Laces

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    Honestly, the usual suspects are already getting their grift on, that it’s fake, that Russia aren’t to blame etc etc. Just waiting for Right Said Fred to complete the set (though I haven’t checked their feed recently, they bay already have done so).
     
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  17. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace Forum Moderator

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    You would be welcome, but a conventional strike on Hinkley Point with the wind in the south west (which it always is) would render most of Southern England radioactive.
     
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  18. StJabbo1

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    These images claim to show action in Ukraine rather than denier fakes. Of course the fakery will come with all sorts angles trying to justify Putin's invasion. Wrong Said Fred would suit better nothing much right there.
     
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    Russia bans U.K. planes from their airspace in a tit-for-tat move regarding sanctions
     
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    Ukraine announced it had lost control of the Chernobyl nuclear site near the country’s northern border with Belarus. Pointless according to a Ukrainian spokesman.
     
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