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[Politics] Russia invades Ukraine (24/02/2022)
- Thread starter vegster
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- Aug 24, 2020
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happypig
Staring at the rude boys
It maybe highly likely that the ship dragged its anchor and damaged the cable but that's not enough to convict in a criminal court; you cannot convict on "probably".
A civil court however.....
Interesting (I'm clearly lacking legal knowledge
).What would need to be done for a criminal conviction, do you think? Video evidence, for example, of a ship dropping and dragging its anchor?
happypig
Staring at the rude boys
Video evidence might do it. Maybe forensic evidence (bits of cable stuck to the anchor or vice versa) if they can get it.Interesting (I'm clearly lacking legal knowledge
What would need to be done for a criminal conviction, do you think? Video evidence, for example, of a ship dropping and dragging its anchor?
Maybe just shoot the lot of them and impound the ship.
- Aug 24, 2020
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I read somewhere that a plant in Italy (also linked with Rheinmetall) had been attacked.
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Clear. Concise. Correct.
It's a brilliant interview.
Thank goodness for the strong and consistent messaging from the Baltic States.
Excellent that Estonia has blocked Russian TV channel transmissions (keep out the effing propaganda) and replaced them with Estonian Russian speaking channels (IIUC).
I had no idea that, after their independence, there was resistance at first.to their joining NATO.
There are a lot of videos on this channel, and they're usually all the same, but this one's a bit different. Towards the end it covers the practice of the Russian commanders hand-cuffing their own soldiers before sending them to battle, to make sure they don't run away. You can imagine what would happen if their vehicle is hit with a drone.
Also (I think on BBC,
) Ukrainian troops say they haven't seen North Koreans on the front line for a couple of weeks: either withdrawn because of casualties and/or for more training (?)
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I echo your thanks to the Baltic States. I suspect the suffering they have endured is not widely known on here.
Their courage of messaging is not made up. It is a function of their experience of living in, and next door to, Russia.
Soviet deportations from Lithuania - Wikipedia
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The strength of this thread, now 1000 pages long, is that we get a huge variety of input from a huge variety of sources.Interesting and detailed analysis of a part of the front line.
Political interviews, geopolitical analyses, drone geek stuff, bavovnas, front line combat, and a few friendly Russian interlopers. And if that's not enough, we also have that crazy long haired economist. Something for everyone.
Not forgetting your eccentric Aunt Elvira, plus the occasional very good humour
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Yes, Aunt Elvira needs a category of her own. I first noticed the background to her video - what I assumed was her living room, with an atmospheric, mystical scene of trees and ethnic cleansing. I was quite taken by it.Not forgetting your eccentric Aunt Elvira, plus the occasional very good humour
This wasn't such a good read though.
www.theguardian.com
‘Everybody is tired. The mood has changed’: the Ukrainian army’s desertion crisis
Some of those abandoning the frontline say the longer the war goes on, ‘the more people like me there will be’
www.theguardian.com
papachris
Well-known member
I am very proud of my host country
Yes interesting, classic decor...looked like a silk painting
.She should do a double act with 'Mark, the Economist', they'd be unstoppable.