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  1. 15 minutes ago, ranger_syntax said:

    What did they mean by this?!

    Well, assisted thinking at work. What happened, what was said?

     

    France is leading a new coalition that aims to provide Ukraine with “medium and long-range missiles and bombs,” President Emmanuel Macron has announced. He has also not ruled out deploying ground forces to support Kiev in future.

    Macron made the remarks following a summit of Ukraine’s backers on Monday, intended to demonstrate unwavering support for Kiev amid the suspension of American aid.

    According to the French leader, the newly established coalition seeks to enable Ukraine to “carry out deep strikes.” There is a “broad consensus to do even more and faster together” to support Kiev, Macron added.

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    Speaking on Monday, Macron also claimed that the deployment of Western troops to Ukraine cannot be ruled out, insisting that Paris will “do everything necessary to ensure that Russia cannot win this war.” His remarks were echoed by French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in comments to the RTL broadcaster on Tuesday.

    In response, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov warned that “in this case, we have to talk not about the probability, but rather the inevitability” of a direct conflict between NATO and Russia, should Western military personnel be deployed to Ukraine.

    Earlier this month, Paris and Kiev signed a bilateral security pact under which France pledged €3 billion ($3.26 billion) worth of defense aid by the end of the year.

    In January, Macron revealed plans to provide Ukraine with 40 more SCALP-EG long-range cruise missiles and “hundreds of bombs.”

     

    Now ask the Telegraph, how they came up with that headline? 

     

  2. 23 hours ago, Scott7 said:

    Who are these politicians? What did they say and when did they say it? Politicians are terrified of terrifying the electorate.

     

    Do you know the percentages of defence spending throughout Europe?

     

    The population of the UK s more interested in BAFTAs than in NATO

    I hear what Sunak and Co. whisper into the Charlatan's ear, what they proclaim openly. The German half-wits are hell-bend of outdoing one another with the willingness to help Ukraine and threats to Putin, despite the fact that both are hollow rhetoric. You can find out the defence spending easily enough, no need to ask me to do it for you.

  3. 1 hour ago, stewarty said:

    I'm not a military man, but if that is true, why are they being used at all?  

    Remember Iraq, or what you now see in Ukraine. For all the planes, missiles, drones and glide-bombs, it is the foot-soldier that does the "real job". And the best support in the field is still the tank that can destroy any remaining stronghold of the enemy.

     

    The point is hybrid-warfare. You have to combine drones with artillery and MLRS, planes with missiles and glide-bombs, tanks and IFVs, as well as the soldier on the ground. And everything in the appropriate numbers.

     

    People may snarl at this, but once all diplomatic attempts failed, Russia saw that what it had in Ukraine was not enough from all these things to make it work. So they took a step back, reorganized and since early 2023 at the very latest, they set the tone. Ukraine soon had no professionals soldiers, ran out of planes, missiles, tanks and all. So the West sent this or that, but in low, effectively insignificant numbers or in different stages. And by the looks of it, arsenals being empty and people gone, that will not change anytime soon. The rest is maths and common sense.

  4. 2 minutes ago, Scott7 said:

    You cannot be serious. Time you came back to live in the UK for a spell to learn a bit of reality.

    Explain. All I hear from British politicians is very much the same that I get from German ones. Big bad and evil Putin will come and swallow you all, once he's finished with Ukraine. So invest in armies and weapons now! And that is the talk since essentially forever, just switch Putin for Communists.

  5. 12 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

    I hope we never find out, but it doesn't matter how many nukes, destroyers, subs, aircraft, soldiers etc a country has. If it cant protect its own food and water supply, energy grid and communications network it has no chance.

    A very valid point. As Idisi said, Russia has not the army to actually take over these lands. The army that marched on Kiev was never meant to occupy it. Any sane military analyst will agree to that - and has. Nor were the numbers at the start of the conflict. How on earth would they have to capacity to occupy even Ukraine as a whole.

     

    The most important question is never asked though. Both for the whole of Ukraine and e.g. Poland or Western Europe. Why? Why would they do it? There is nothing there for them that they don't have already, and in abundance. The only thing that is there is death and an enemy population. So, why would they go West? 

  6. 3 hours ago, Idisi said:

    See, Russia's soldiers will not walk to Polish or any Baltic countries' mud. There is no need, no will, no interest, and, purely realistic, not the manpower to do this.

    But they don't listen. It is the evil beast in the woods, big nasty bogey-man they can use to terrorize their people's minds from childhood onwards, so they will fund anything needed to keep him away. And they rather believe the fairy-tales and horror-stories than open their eyes and actually go and see the place, speak with people (not exiled do-no-goods), listen to what their diplomats and politicians actually say, not what is being "presented as their words or meanings". Since most people in the West don't speak or understand Russian (or Chinese), this is easier than with most other information they get. Assisted thinking is a fine tool indeed.

  7. 18 hours ago, CammyF said:

    Has the war kicked off yet? 

    Yes, for those with open eyes. As I noted a few times: if you have trouble with your neighbour and start a fist-fight (or he starts it), you bloody your noses and his "friend" / neighbour happens by and hands him his best iron pole to hit you with: would you regard this chap not an enemy as well? And wouldn't you think about handing him a beating once you are finished with your neighbour? 

     

    Elsewhere, I just read that during a recent exercise, a British submarine-launched missile failed to ignite its engine and plopped into the water next to the submarine. While the two main British aircraft carriers like their stay in the docks for repairs etc.. If I were that "friend", I would really think about handing over that iron pole unless my house is in order and I am ready for what is coming my way.

  8. On 18/02/2024 at 08:45, Sutton_blows_goats said:

    Someone formerly high up in one of these media outlets said they often get together and decide what narrative to set on specific reporting. Like a media conglomerate.

     

    Probably all backed by Bill Gates and big pharma.

     

     

    More like George Soros and other "Transatlanticists" . A wee while back, there was a report on a get-together by folks from the so-called "far-right", i.e. some AfD (Alternative for Germany) and CDU (i.e. Kohl's, Merkel's and now Merz's "conservatives") chaps in a villa near Potsdam. They talked about a variety of things, including "re-migration", by which they meant the sending back of some 730k asylum seekers from all over the world, who's application was denied, but who still hang about for years, getting state aid et al. A "investigative journalist" from the "independent NGO" correctiv booked a room there, made some photos, didn't join in the event, but whipped up a story adding to this "re-migration" point some lines from the days of the SA, SS and similar Nazi-rhetoric, which were never spoken or even intimated. This article went viral, was mentioned in every single news-outlet and broadcast for a few weeks running and sent waves of people onto the streets (as you might have seen yourself) by their thousands. A shit-storm par excellence was levelled at the AfD ) and much less so, for some reason, the CDU), to the point of wanting to dissolve this party (standing at some 25-30 % of the voters in various regions in Germany). The fear of "far right extremists" is being pushed to the limits by the media, AfD guys discredited at every corner.

     

    Now, a Swiss journo went there and did his job (!), asking what was actually said and who participated and, lo and behold, much of the Nazi-speech of the report was actually added by the correctiv chap. The organisation obviously kept their mouths shut, does not want to reveal any sources for fear of compromising them. A quick look at correctiv tells you that it supposedly is an independent organization (advising politics and media) which no ties to anyone and living solely of donations. If you follow the way of the money though, it leads to US billionaires, Media publishing houses, federal banks and the like.  See the graph below as an example. From an article ...

     

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    From 2018, the US multi-billionaire and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his foundation “Omidyar Network” become the main sponsor of Correctiv.

    The Omidyar Group acts as an investment vehicle that finances hundreds of NGOs around the world, as well as several media platforms, including the Ukrainian TV channel hromadskeTV, which is considered to be explicitly anti-Russian. In addition to the “Omidyar Network”, the eBay founder also founded the Luminate and Democracy Fund foundations, among others. While Luminate has a more “liberal-progressive” appearance and, among other things, aims to achieve a “fairer world”, “Democracy Fund” serves the other side of the political coin and supports, among other things, the protagonist of the US neoconservatives Bill Kristols and his project “Defending Democracy Together”.

    Omidyar also co-finances the transatlantic German Marshall Fund through the “Democracy Fund”, which in turn has supported current German federal ministers such as incumbent Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir, both from the Green Party.

     

    ... so what we have is a made up article defaming the main opposition party, creating a hype against the "extreme right" (which the AfD is not, but who cares, as she opposes the government's ruinous course) which in turn deflects brilliantly from the real problems of society in Germany. An article made up by some transatlantic "fact-checkers" and "informants" being paid by people neck deep in the making of politics and determining what the media writes and says. The truth is out there, one just has to dot the i's and cross the t's.

     

    That's why I occasionally make a remark about the echo-chambers with regard to politicians, analysts and advisers. They usually come from this or that background sponsored by certain people who in turn make sure that their way of thinking is ingrained in these people. They do as they are being told, some more, some less obvious. It is far from being a "world of conspiracy", one dominated by freemasons or, as some like to see it, the Jews. But if you follow the way of the money and the background, you usually can quickly determine from which hymn-sheet certain people sing, and why. The Greens started the 2021 elections with slogans like: No more war. We'll stop and never send weapons to regions of conflict etc.. They've become the biggest war-mongers within a couple of months. Guess why ...

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  9. On 15/02/2024 at 17:20, stewarty said:

    You've mentioned this a couple of times... but what do you mean?  Is the German state preventing non-sanctioned translations from circulating?  Seems an odd situation.

    What he means is that you cannot access most German language Russian information sides, e.g. / and the main one being "Russia Today" / RT, which was banned as a TV programme and all internet sites of it.

     

    In essence, they deny the German customer access to information options (which are by law his/her right) as well as essentially saying that the German customer is not able to distinguish fact from fiction or news from propaganda. So what the German public gets is "assisted thinking" 24/7, from people who sit in echo-chambers and tell you what e.g. Putin thinks, wants, believes, you name it. Which is, from what I have seen via Sky News, BBC World Service and the newspapers online, more or less the same what the Brits get.

     

    The sad irony is that in all other aspects, people hardly ever believe in what the politicians say, or what papers/TV claim. But as we can see here (no disrespect whatsoever), 15 to 50 years of Western Sovietology and anti-Russian propaganda (it is what it is) have succeeded that no matter what, Putin and Russia are evil and must be contained and defeated. Who cares what was happening in Ukraine pre-2021 (as e.g. an independent guy like Baud - and many others too, even hardcore Russophobes - explained with sources like the NSA, if you had read his article) or that Uncle Sam from beyond the Big Pond  was starting wars for decades on the trot (killing millions, and you know that as well as I), crushing and removing governments all over the planet that didn't suit him, or, while we all bemoan Nawalny (whom far less people in Russia know than in the West), keep people in Guantanamo (occupied illegally) in a prison without prosecution, trial, or any human rights, because they are termed "terrorists".

     

    What you see is Uncle Sam being ruled by the Hill's hawks and two ageing senile/plain mad man, your country being ruined as much as mine. And the best these chaps - like "centuries of politicians before them - come up with is the well-aged claim that some heinous power beyond the horizon is going to come and strip you blank and remove all your coin and put you into forced labour, if you don't do what they want ... of whatever fancy story they have. 

     

    I, for one, am essentially shocked that they believe that everyone in the West has an IQ that's barely north of the room temperature. Yet, so many dance to this fiddle, and let their tax many vanish in one of the darkest pits of Europe and for a cause not theirs.

  10. Just now, CammyF said:

    Morelos scored far more goals than Colak and would have thrived in this type of system and style we are playing.

     

    He is out all time top European scorer and whilst the end of his Rangers career wasn't how we'd have liked, when he was on it, he was unplayable.

    When at his peak. His last year was 1 goal in 5 chances, if not more. He will remain our European top goalscorer, but "let's keep the church in the village".

     

    Dessers gets really good assists and scores some fine goals now. Colak would have loved this environment too. Same as Roofe. 

     

    Maybe we leave the "better than" debate on strikers, as it is all about opinions and preferences.

  11. 21-3 shots at goal, 10-1 on target. The rot in terms of chance-conversion continues, even though luck is with the Stags tonight.

     

    Typical Tavernier game. Two perfect crosses, one decent shot, but then fills spaces that should be used by attackers.  Maybe he just stays near the HW-line and doesn't occupy spaces near the box where we seem to have too many players, and they hinder one another.

     

    We'll probably score four or five more, but sometimes you wonder ...

  12. 6 hours ago, stewarty said:

    Ah, here comes the sanctimony to help us understand that we all just need to open our minds to Putin's ideas and how he's really just a benevolent dictator... 

     

     

    It would help to understand the Russian point of view. The Russian point of view as presented by a Russian, not by someone of the echo-chamber experts who know exactly what a Russian thinks and what he means when he says something. For that is the world many in the West have been brought up with. Anyone in here says that Putin is benevolent? You, like others, just seem to imply that or similar with any reply not going along with the Western line of thought. So the level of discussion drops to the personal, i.e. people level, rather than what lies beyond that.

  13. On 09/02/2024 at 16:45, ranger_syntax said:

    This is a cope.

     

    nobody move until master say so

    Indeed. Given by most replies of "our fan-club", a Socrates quote might be appropriate:

     

    Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

     

    And just look how the debate on the Putin interview evolved in the Western MSM and politics.

     

    Wee sidenote: German free and liberal and democratic media censors do their utmost to chase any German translation on the internet. Going straight against German law of free speech and information gathering, and performing better than the STASI that they supposedly hate so much ...

     

  14. Regarding Lammers, we could go back a few months and people on here were saying that e.g. Dessers is "no footballer".  Like many players before him. Dessers and Lammers obviously are footballers, for they make lots of money in that job, only that football is a team game and if things click, all is fine. It appears that the Utrecht side and Lammers click. Or the style of football they play, the style of the teams of this league play. It didn't click for him with us in a time of transition, squad- and management-wise. It's hard to say it ever will click with us - and our soothsayers are, on hindsight, usually way off the mark, but rarely admit to it later. As long as he's our player and does well, fine. Some guys need their confidence boost to get back on track, and it remains to be seen what Clement makes of this.

  15. 1 hour ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

    A swallow does make summer.

    He did so a few games back and essentially did not do much worse than others (namely Goldson & Tavernier) today either. I'd rather have him in these kind of games than McCausland or Cantwell getting an injury. Decent enough squad player.

     

    Should have been more goals, would love to see Silva and Dessers alongside one another, the former likes to drop deep and his all action style (like Cantwell) may earn him a few cards (IMHO, he rode his luck with Collum today). Decent workout for Cortes, Diomande, Raskin, and Jack.

  16. 3 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

     Cortes looking very good so far, think he’s been very bright.

     

    Raskin and diomande been quiet but wright has been poor. Final ball very low quality when things don’t break down with him.

     

     

    Aside from sending Cortes away to supply Barisic? He's not much worse than others, maybe we should stop looking for faults where there are none or very few (not least compared to other players). 😎

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