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       Re: Ukraine
       By: Expatrick Date: March 1, 2022, 4:08 am
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       Seems like the UK is not being too helpful to Ukrainian
       refugees.
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       Re: Ukraine
       By: macliam Date: March 1, 2022, 6:52 am
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       [quote author=Expatrick link=topic=155.msg4523#msg4523
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       Seems like the UK is not being too helpful to Ukrainian
       refugees.
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       {understatement}
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       Re: Ukraine
       By: DaveLovesDee Date: March 1, 2022, 10:48 am
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       I see someone mentioned India in the other place's Ukraine
       thread, with predictable results.
       I made a choice to have my account restricted so I wouldn't be
       able to post there, it's still fun to watch those who use to
       frustrate me without having the ability to respond.
       Be excellent to one another...
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       Re: Ukraine
       By: Expatrick Date: March 1, 2022, 11:25 am
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       [quote author=DaveLovesDee link=topic=155.msg4525#msg4525
       date=1646153298]
       I see someone mentioned India in the other place's Ukraine
       thread, with predictable results.
       I made a choice to have my account restricted so I wouldn't be
       able to post there, it's still fun to watch those who use to
       frustrate me without having the ability to respond.
       Be excellent to one another...
       [/quote]
       Yup, Bipat's at it again, only Indians matter & it's fine for
       India to align itself with China & abstaining from the UN
       resolution vote. Looking forward to a ban now from BE following
       my latest post.
       Nice quote from a Ukrainian refugee arriving in Budapest
       "The Hungarian border officials and immigration were very
       helpful, everything went very, very quickly and swiftly. We even
       got a free train ticket to Budapest! Thank you very much for
       everything!”
       Bit different to the UK stance.
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       Re: Ukraine
       By: macliam Date: March 1, 2022, 12:40 pm
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       [quote author=DaveLovesDee link=topic=155.msg4525#msg4525
       date=1646153298]
       I see someone mentioned India in the other place's Ukraine
       thread, with predictable results.
       I made a choice to have my account restricted so I wouldn't be
       able to post there, it's still fun to watch those who use to
       frustrate me without having the ability to respond.
       Be excellent to one another...[/quote]
       'twas me!
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       ... and Bipat bit, as expected - but this time she got smacked,
       instantly.... although as the single-minded Hindu propagandist
       she is, she still tried to divert and disrupt the thread to suit
       her purposes. I make no apologies for criticising India - more,
       I think all aid should be diverted immediately to Ukraine from
       India, a country that chooses to allow its people to wallow in
       poverty whilst building nuclear bombs and space rockets.
       Despicable and contemptible.... nothing more.
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       Re: Ukraine
       By: jsmth321 Date: March 1, 2022, 11:41 pm
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       Canada to ban russian crude oil.Mostly symbolic since Canada
       hasn't imported any oil from Russia in 3 years.
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       Re: Ukraine
       By: caretaker Date: March 2, 2022, 1:31 am
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       The part of Germany's new plans that I like is construction of 2
       new LNG seaports so they can start cutting Russia out of the
       European energy equation.  Let them sell it to China.
       Meanwhile Kharkiv has been taking a pounding.  Maybe Putin hopes
       gutting Ukraine's second largest city will encourage them to
       give up Kyiv to save it, and maybe pigs can fly.
       Edit:  When I see sources indentified as 'people with knowledge
       of the matter' I'm usually skeptical, but even as a rumor this
       is intriguing.  If China is now reluctant to finance
       international purchases of Russian oil, could that mean they're
       shooting for control of their business?  If, under the guise of
       aiding their ally they could buy Russian oil at a low price and
       re-sell it, they get a cash cow to hedge against any losses they
       experience from loss of exports.  Because I know little about
       finance, it could be that this one bank is insignificant and
       won't affect sales too much, and if it is important, it will be
       in the news again.
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       Re: Ukraine
       By: Expatrick Date: March 2, 2022, 3:35 am
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       Seems Russia has reverted to the tactics employed in Hungary in
       '56.
       Just blast away indiscriminately at anything in their sights.
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       Re: Ukraine
       By: macliam Date: March 2, 2022, 5:21 am
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       Supposedly (and everything is suppostion) there are arguments in
       many Russian families where the younger prople get much of their
       news from social media, have most to lose from the war and have
       no memories of past crises and the older generation who only get
       news from state media and buy in to the Putin byline.
       #Post#: 4549--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ukraine
       By: macliam Date: March 2, 2022, 5:29 am
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       The USA has (belatedly) closed its airspace to Russia.
       Russian and Belarusian athletes at the Paralympics will only be
       able to compete as neutrals, they will compete under the
       Paralympic flag and Russia and Belarus will be excluded from the
       medals table.
       If I was Putin and looking for support, I think I'd have grave
       doubts about having China as a friend........
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