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Sorry to pick this up days late, I just saw it had no reply. Birth rate has been falling sknce the 60's, but population has been growing as life expectancy has improved. The post Clamp was replying to is wrong though to suggest the Earth cannot sustain the human population at some point...

This attack doesn't seem to have any benefits to Putin, even claiming Ukraine are behind it just makes Russia look weak and vulnerable, incapable of protecting her citizens. Also, shooting the place up and killing civillians is one thing, destroying a fairly new Moscow venue building is another...

Yeah, they should run away to Britain away and live in Salisbury, Putin cant touch them there.

You know that Israeli forces went into Jenin and blew shit up a few days ago, the biggest Israeli operation in the West Bank for 20 years? You would have seen more Palestinian flags in London last week too.

I read him moaning about attacks on bridges in Crimea not being responded to by Russia with enough force. He said something like, "We don't have red lines, we have brown streaks in our underpants"

"Russian Warship, go f*** yourself" was pretty meaningful dialogue.

I have gone sideways a bit on this because of Triggars challenge, but my point was more that those in Russia that are aware that their Government is willing to say whatever it needs to say, are aware that other States do this also, whichever media channel is reporting what the Government has...

Not exactly equal, no, but have you seen Fox News, GB News, Daily Mail? Some sections of the media we consume in the West is almost as bad.

A good number realise that their state news is one sided, but most of those also have the same level of distrust for western media, which is probably fair.

Lukashenko decreed in Febuary that Belarus would create and train a territorial defence force of up to 150,000 men, which would be mobilised if attacked. A Belarusian official also said they had a potential 1.5 million people that could join military organisations if Martial law had to be...

"Before Russia even invaded there was so much bloodshed there." Depends on when you think Russia first put its military men into the Donbass. Also the intensity of fighting had reduced enormously prior to Feb '22 invasion. There was no bloodshed there prior to Russian inteference.

Not for a while, but they can cut Crimea off from Russian supply lines, and if they do that I don't see how Russia can hold it.

OK, but if we are discussing form and use of English in the UK, we would be fannies to use American English ways of speaking as examples.:p

I know families that have lived in Crawley for 3 generations, but the kids still support Newcastle United, or Leeds, like their Grandads do.

I would say they are third generation Russian immigrant, or third generation Russian Ukrainian, or Ukrainian of Russian heritage. I don't think anyone other than you would say a person whose grandparents came from another country, were third generation Italian?

All the fighting is taking place in Ukraine, of course Ukraine is shelling Ukraine, and it was in 2014.

South Ossettia is a similar. Even now, over night Russians literally move the border a little further into Georgia, some people find their house that was in Georgia when they went to bed, is in South Ossettia when they wake up.

One condition of joining NATO is that you have no border disputes with anyone. Putin snatching Crimea effectively had blocked Ukraine from joining, even if they had spent the money on defence to the level required.

A number of former Special Forces men, UK and US have been employed as trainers by Ukraine, working in Poland and Ukraine.

I reckon it will probably be a completely different bunch of blokes now.;)