Geopolitical Risk

[Waltzing]

Look mum they have stolen our uniforms...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/23/moscow-claims-ukraine-prepping-invade-moldova-wearing-russian/

[BlackPeter]

The RR (Ronald Reagan) of the Republican Party is who? Senator G ? your kidding hes starting to talk like his own man!

"""You have to have actions consistent with that statement," he said. The senator said Ms Harris' comments in Germany were particularly poignant given the historical context. "We're talking about the Vice President of the United States declaring that Russia is involved in crimes against humanity — in Germany of all places, you know, echoes of World War II," he said.""

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/20/train-ukrainian-pilots-f-16-fighters-now-biden-urged/

One gun run... just one and the RR man will try to take the hill!

What has happen to Senator G?  Hes a man after all....

RR to the rescue...

what ever ...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-T8cnCrxO8

it all unplugged...

Jokes aside "Uk Defense officials in whitehall"

"They added: "You can see there is a storm coming because all the trends and indicators are that we will find ourselves in trouble at some point in the next five to 10 years.

"We have a leaking roof and rather than fixing it we are removing roof tiles and making the roof worse." "

Are we taking this serious enough and is it a rerun of 1930's all over again.

To be honest ... I never understood why Western fighter jets might be useful in Ukraine's defence against the Russian attack? They are bloody expensive and easy to take down, it costs an arm and a leg to maintain them and you need to train people for years to be able to properly control them. As well - you can't really do a lot of useful things with them.

Give them enough tanks and ammunition, give them mid range rockets (to take down enough Russian infrastructure to keep the ugly bears busy fixing their own stuff), give them land - sea missiles to manage the Russian navy and give them enough Patriot missiles and Gepards to keep the Ukrainian air clean of the Iranian drones and whatever is left of the Russian rockets. But for what would they need fighter jets?

[Waltzing]

it not my field but its incredible to see the development of ammo and it new age designs...

whats next... AI bullets? Lets hope "Chat im a alive" doesnt arm its self...

the UKE's are apparently development Graphical Processing Unit software probably based on Navidia GPU's to sort out the battle field...

Dont put on the other guys helmet!!!!

[Waltzing]

Will China Dare?

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-war-in-ukraine-china-is-reportedly-negotiating-with-russia-to-supply-kamikaze-drones-a-13909157-4740-4f84-830e-fb3c69bc1dff

[Hectorplains]

Western media finally looking a little more critically at the invasion.   

[Hectorplains]

A good summary of where it's at.

[Waltzing]

Putin did not snap... it was the plan all along... everyone knew that except Merky Muckel.

now shes reading SpokeShave...

she having a reflecting time at the moment before starting think...

did we ..... UP!!

[Waltzing]

How did the UKE keep the trains running when the power was out...

Diesels and STREAM!!!!!

Get a puff of this!!!!!

If NZ has a really bad problem getting Diesal and the power  grid goes down "this is how you do it"!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQZAQ9R2_Oc

[Onemootpoint]

We do not seem to need foreign invaders firing missiles to take out our infrastructure; we seem to do it ourselves.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weather-news/300816828/west-auckland-community-isolated-after-temporary-internet-cables-cut

[Waltzing]

There are many factions in a country that is full of diverse  groups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
 
Its a country now full of more and more extremes at both ends of the spectrum.

Puts lives in danger and no one with an ounce of care for the safety of communities would do this even if your opposed to societies governance.

[Waltzing]

G20 Finance Minister meet in India over the weekend . No statement on IMF debt programs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-DJbXkfc7w

[BlackPeter]

Putin did not snap... it was the plan all along...

How would you know?

Don't forget, Adolf Hitler as well was once just a mediocre painter without ambitions to take over the world, and I would assume that Putin was not different. Admittedly - I can't assess Putins painting skills, but I hear he used to be once a quite insignificant KGB paper shuffler with a very boring job. I doubt that he had at that stage already the plan to recreate the big Russian empire by attacking other countries.

He "advanced" during his lifetime from an insignificant KGB bureaucrat over strongman to Adolf Hitler Mach 2 - and while his ambitions have been obvious at least since 2014 ... I don't think it was possible to foresee or predict them from the beginning of his reign.

And don't forget - he is not the only strongmen meddling with other countries ... if we fight all of them all of the time, then there are not too many countries left we can deal with ... not even the US (which attacked over the last 70 years or so Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and overthrew democratically elected governments and established instead murderous regimes in some other countries like e.g. Chile).

[Waltzing]

last decade BP ...cant remeber the moment but it was at a speech he made in europe.

Think once the oil rev came in he saw the opportunuity to restart the empire.

[BlackPeter]

last decade BP ...cant remeber the moment but it was at a speech he made in europe.

Think once the oil rev came in he saw the opportunuity to restart the empire.

This would be consistent with my remark about 2014 ... so, yes - its not a recent surprise, but Merkels reign and Russia - policy (Ostpolitik) started nearly ten years earlier, didn't it?

[Waltzing]

Yes she did...  but it all started with this guy and german business..

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/gerhard-schroeder-altkanzler-erhaelt-561-000-euro-fuer-buero-aus-staatskasse-a-1170471.html