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You clearly don't read the music topics much, the was a whole discussion somewhere about the marketing of the single and the sheer numbers of different mixes on 12" Nobody was doing as you yet again imagine they would have been.

Why do you do this? Is it some sort of inferiority complex?

Intersting take on the Russian use of Nazi by a Ukrainian academic (short thread)

Brave woman

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I'm amazed, the petrol stations closer to our office have already fallen 3p a litre

The issue here is that Russia never seems to do that. It isn't what they do. Yes its a failing but no matter how long they had, they still wouldn't have done it. There are also plenty of pre-this war analysis of the Russian Military that you can read about how the different services compete and don't co-operate with each other, which again feeds into this They could have planned this for years in advance down to your granular level but the point is that they can't and won't. It doesn't appear to be how the Russian Military works, not now and not even towards the end of the USSR

Crude oil prices appear to have been falling since the end of last week

Yes but foot soldiers don't plan military campaigns. I suspect they weren't told because they'd have suffered lots of desertions. It doesn't alter the fact that this was planned well in advance and the wheels came off from the outset

Most of the evidence surfacing says this "special operation" has been a fairly long time in the planning

tbf to this debate there are plenty of Military Experts who have been saying for years that the Russian Military isn't what it claims to be, I was reading one such article minutes ago which was written 4 years ago, saying exactly this. It's very interesting in that it doesn't suffer from the fog of war wearethemighty.com Yes, its very UScentric and very much clickbaity too but it does provide some interesting detail in between all that

Various theories floating about, there's some Australian Academic quoted on the Guardian's Live page that has a theory that it actually was misinformation by the US and was something to do with their talks being held today. So who knows

Yep, agree with that

That isn't what the banner is saying. It's appealing to two specific Atalanta players to get on for the sake of the team. Atalanta have a Russian and a Ukrainian in the team

BMW is the new Toyata Pickup

Is it possible that the American bar is located in the Russian River valley in California? Second largest wine producing valley in California after Napa iirc But yes, people can be dicks, they'll do that with or without the media firing them up but yes the media make it worse That isn't what Facebook said either. Facebook iirc said they were going to allow posts wanting invading Russian Forces to die given the circumstances but not death to Russians in general. They made this decision because Ukrainians were being handed bans for expressing opinions about the invading forces (understandable in the circumstances) which then was hindering them getting access to other potentially lifesaving information.

LBC

Protect mixing politics with sport? They are inseparable. The caption is therefore utterly stupid The banner is actually just asking a Russian and a Ukrainian to get on for the sake of the team, there's a massive disconnect between the banner and the caption

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I'm now rooting for Russia

It certainly helps but they'd be disorganaised with or without the dead officers. There's the supply line issues which appears endemic, there's the non cohesiveness off competing interests between the branches of military service An army lacking in moral and a desire to fight and more again. It's not just one thing

Is this the government paying privately owned companies to reduce waiting times where the government is in control of the finances and it's just to bring down the waiting times until the new hospitals required are built and the required increase in staff numbers needed to staff the new facilities are trained and hired? If it's a temporary measure as I describe, what is the issue with that? There is a huge backlog of cases, would you prefer to keep the backlog? Keep people dying needlessly whislt they wait for diagnosis and treatment? I have no idea if it is that as I haven't read the article but due to years of Tory mismanagement and the pandemic something needs to be done to relieve the backlog and get waiting times down, we live in extrordinary times. If this isn't health insurance by stealth (which it doesn't sound like) or a permanent situation that leads to money leaking out of the NHS forever to private companies, then it must have some merit given the current circumstances surely? Or are people supposed to die for political principals?

It is being reported that Russia has asked China for equipment and assistance