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Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Stroller, Jun 25, 2015.

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

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  1. Goldhawk-Road

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    How are Wagner Group going to react to this?
     
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    they wont be getting on planes anytime soon
     
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    :emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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    what did the judges think
    were the girls auditioning to be simons next girlfriend
    i have room for them in the cheerleading team
     
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    Like a real life “Game of Thrones”
     
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    Ask Putin for a raise ?
     
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    Hold their hands up and accept Putins "offer" to be assimilated into his army....with Prigovhin gone and Wagner allies in the ministry "disappearing" they've not really got a lot of choice unless they want to be shot down in a plane!

    What this does show is that Putin is still in charge and isn't shy of ordering the murders of any dissenters, so he ain't going anywhere soon
     
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    they will do as they are told or its off to the gulags to finish their sentences
     
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    Prigovhin was very critical of a couple of Putin's generals. It could possibly be them that are trigger happy.
     
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    Nothing happens without Vlads say so
     
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    Possibly, but he's half the man he was.
     
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    On the international stage.....

    I don't think he sees hinself as anything less than supreme leader within the confines of his own bedroom, and that's the image he wants to portray thoughout the whole of Russia.... discount what this little prick can do at your peril
     
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    As Steels says…..to us in the West maybe. However he’s still hugely popular, or feared, in Russia and he ain’t going anywhere yet. Besides……there’s potential successors out there who make him seem like quite a nice guy.

    And before any of the usual suspects shout the usual “Putin Lover” bollox……..I’m not. Just telling it as it is.

    Cue Steels……….
     
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    Like who?
     
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    Alexei Dyumin
    Nikolai Patrushev
    Dmitry Medyedev

    A few more of course but I can’t be bothered to type them up Tob
     
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    Putin showed weakness when Wagner was marching on Moscow, and Russians weren't hurrying to defend him.

    Wagner apparently threatening Putin if Prog is dead. Who knows...?
     
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    Being taken for a ride! India lands on moon after taking £2.3bn in UK aid over five years


    The UK paid India £2.3billion in overseas aid to India between 2016 and 2021 - even though Britain's economy is a fraction of the size.
     
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    Interesting question with their apparent spend in space exploration (and income generation in satellites):

    “Currently, India's space industry is valued at $8 billion with a 2% share in the global space economy. The government spending on space is around $2 billion and the country has launched 381 foreign satellites since 1999 for 34 countries clocking $279 million in revenues.”
     
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    He's getting bolder...

    Ukraine says it launched 'special operation' in Russian-occupied Crimea
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    August 24, 20234:25 PM GMT+1Updated 2 hours ago

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    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks at the press conference after the opening session of Crimea Platform conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, 23 August 2023. The Crimea Platform – is an Acquire Licensing Rights Read more


    KYIV, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Ukraine's navy and military intelligence carried out a "special operation" overnight in which units landed on Russian-occupied Crimea, the defence ministry's Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) said on Thursday.

    The operation, which Reuters was unable to independently confirm, would amount to a rare demonstration that Ukrainian forces are able to stage ground operations in Crimea, which Russia seized and annexed in 2014.
     
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