bickster

Exiled Brummie if you don’t mind

Those closest to Putin? Shiogu et al? They are about to be replaced. Putin is about to lose his closest advisors as part of the deal. Right now, it’s Putin that needs to be careful. He’s essentially a puppet

Funny you should mention them, without going into the whole rant about the new 6Music. The Manics artist is residence shows this last week have been great. Mainly great tunes and the complete opposite of pretentious. I really warmed to them as people. They were completely under rehearsed and just winged it. They played Ironmasters by The Men They Couldn't Hang (a personal favourite of mine) and I thought they’d go on about the song being about the history of Welsh Industrial rebellion and they didn’t really know that much about the song and what it was saying. “I think there may be a nod to Merthyr in there”.. The song is pretty much ALL about Merthyr and the wider rebellions (even going back to the Rebecca Riots from Welsh farmers) but it specifically name checks William Crawshaw who was THE iron master responsible for the Industrial Revolution around Merthyr and Hirwaun and the revolt against him even produced the first time a red flag was raised as a symbol of the workers on Hitwaun Common. Anyway none of that, they seemed utterly clueless about it which given their reputation, I found utterly refreshing Soz for the long post

Who are the new enemies? He’s actually showed he has more support that anyone thought before The enemies he has today, are the enemies he had last week. Thing is they now know a little bit of what he’s capable of and he’s not a bullshitter

Luxury toilet paper for Lichfield tightarses

Prigozhin is still alive

There doesn’t need to be. Putin appears weaker than a weak thing

Like anyone is arsed. Chip paper

I still think there’s a few twists and turns left. Putin still looks very weak.

Who is? It’s there for al, to see ands has been all along. It was highly unlikely that the Ru chain of command would obey orders to launch a nuke on Ukraine, it would break down somewhere, to launch one on their own people in their own country in the midst of a civil war… nah really can’t see it. Putin can give whatever orders he wants, there really isn’t much chance of it happening

Couldn’t have been that bad, he got elected President of a country.

Tactical nukes, are we back to this again, there no such thing really, they still kill people for hundreds of miles radius just not as quickly as a big one. And that could still be considered an attack on NATO even if it wasn’t aimed at Ukraine

Shiogu also has his own PMC, Patriot, even that could get messy but Putin after his announcement this morning can no longer do that, he's called Prigozhin a traitor and a terrorist

Putin won’t get to say that is my guess. This isn’t going to end in a negotiation.

Right now he has no clue who is on his side in all this and he's hardly going to win if he nukes his own country

Survival. It’s gone from a verbal battle between him and the Kremlin / MOD to attack is the best form of defence. It’s his survival instinct

Absolutely no reason for that, China and India might be getting cheaper fuel still by paying in a foreign currency to a Swiss bank account but I don’t see how it affect oil any further at this stage

Very little, the West has already adapted to not dealing with Russia

There are signs it’s split. Last night RuAF refused to fire on the convoy, today Wagner shoots Ru Comms plane out of the sky. There is no complete one side or the other. We don’t even know if the FSB /GRU is fragmented yet and they may well be key but it certainly seems like, as a lot of people suspected, Russian has sod all military not stuck between Wagner and Ukraine. Wagner convoy is just rolling on, unopposed and picking up Ru ground troop units on the way.

Glasto is on Tv, doomscrolling on my tablet

Just starting on the brilliant The Comet Is Coming, should be good

Used to play football with Brodie on the Toxteth Astroturf many years ago

Martin Campbell, he’s definitely more cuddly than when he was in Rain.