Ukraine v Russia II

Nice capture! Right over their heads

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFoot...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

 

Hungary is an agitator state. They need to be expelled

 

Well, from the prelude to this war, the Dutch court handling the MH17 trial, has handed out 3 life long sentences and one
acquittal for the 4th accused.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/17/europe/mh17-trial-verdict-intl/index.html
So these are the first war criminals sentenced to life.

 

I was focused much more about the support of Tajikistan towards suspended Russia. Another nice signature. Whoever supports Russia in this war, they will meet with them in some non-political aspect.

https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/10...decision-to-play-a-friendly-match-with-russia

Bosnia and Herzegovina. But this was cancelled after a lot of pressures.
Bosnian football federation is in hands of Serbian officials of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vico_Zeljković

Arranging such friendly matches means: we support Russia. Nothing else.

 

Hungarian company MOL is in Russian hands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOL_(company)

If you follow the pipes, you can see which EU countries have Russian business influence. The company has controversies.

 

"the convictions were handed down in absentia".
In Russia, this is worthless.

 

After my latest hiatus, I wanted to come back as "Indigenous Monitor", but as well all know "Moderators are a Stupidface"

 

Excellent [emoji3468] on Russian collective responsibility

#26

Why we think all Russians are responsible for the war.

How collective responsibility can push Russia to rethink its imperial myths, bring justice to Ukraine, and prevent future wars.

A (long, as always) thread.

— Ukraine Explainers (@uaexplainers) November 20, 2022

 

After a forced vacation I tried to come back as Moderator Monitor. Buy my face wasn't stupid enough to pull it off. (Mods - will this get me another vacay?)

 

This is the time to provoke the mods to eject you from Big Soccer since the only thing that will be here for the next 6 months is crying about the US not making it out of group.

 

Just 1SoG/game though!

 

I'm seeing that the EU agreed on a 2.5billion package to Ukraine, and are planning on 18billion for 2023.

I wonder what happened with Orban's threat to veto? What concession did he make? Or what threat did he cave to?

 

They will release funds owed to Hungary that the EU was withholding

 

There's a surprise

Left without a cause — or a job — and exposed to Taliban retaliation after Kabul’s fall, these fighting men are being recruited into Russia’s war by a network of their peers. https://t.co/6TggBzos6n

— Toronto Star (@TorontoStar) November 22, 2022

 

So NATO trained them and they're attacking someone who famously ISN'T in NATO... makes sense,

 

Well, this is interesting.. SAAB is apparently on the verge of getting a contract for a HIMARS missile that seems to attach a rocket to a 250lb Small Diameter Bomb.

SAAB- Boeing developed GLSDB might be an interesting option for Ukraine.

“We are imminently, shortly expecting contracts on that” Saab president and CEO Micael Johansson told analysts on 28 October.

Source: https://t.co/fgGLPSSo18 pic.twitter.com/Bf53mjAQE0

— Def Mon (@DefMon3) November 22, 2022

SAAB claims it has a 140km range, which would put most of occupied Ukraine, except most of Crimea, into range of the bomb.

140km Range indicator from the current front line indicating reach of SAAB GLSDB, which can be fired from HIMARS/M270. pic.twitter.com/N3PJEgqrrp

— Def Mon (@DefMon3) November 22, 2022

This is much longer than the 92km range of the HIMARS missiles currently being provided to Ukraine, but may be more palatable to the US than the 300km ATACMS ballistic missiles the US is withholding from Ukraine.

 

Russia is f**ked if this is true:

#China has partially suspended purchases of crude oil from #Russia in anticipation of the imposition of a price ceiling by Western countries, Bloomberg reports. pic.twitter.com/UsoKy6YVWi

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) November 22, 2022

There is obviously a lot of customers out there besides China, but China is a huge consumer of Russian oil and has taken up a lot of the slack left by Europe shifting their oil purchasing to other sources.

 

That was to be expected, China's looking for a bigger discount

 

I'm not entirely sure why Ukraine announced this (except maybe as a feint to Russia), but they officially announced military operations on the Kinburn Spit.

⚡️Ukraine says military operation underway on left bank of Dnipro River.

Ukraine's Southern Operational Command said that the operation had been launched on the Kinburn Spit in Mykolaiv Oblast, and a storm in the sea is helping Ukrainian troops to liberate this territory.

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) November 21, 2022

The spit is basically a marsh with a single road through it. Now that the Kherson Oblast north of the Dnipro has been liberated, it is not defensible by Russian troops, but it is also not exactly an area that Ukraine can keep supplied without building a bridge to connect to the spit and figuring out how to improve the transportation system in that area.

 

China already has a big discount. Of course, question is, is that discount price higher than the set limit, or lower.

 

I'm sure they'll get an extra discount but I'm not sure if they care if its lower than the cap. If they get along with it, they get no more energy from Russia

They are one of the main drivers of BRICS who are currently working on a currency that would undermine the dollar. It would be a surprise if they got along with the cap now which helps those working against their interests.

 

We should put a Pootin tax on Chinese goods to take away the benefit of extorting Russia and alleviating the energy inflation rate of us.