Ukraine

What makes you say that? I can see news articles that he is unwell, but no reference to poisoning.

 

He was taken unwell just after meeting with a Putin puppet.

 

What would Putin gain from poisoning him?

 

I remain skeptical. Erdogan is the closest thing Putin has to a friend in NATO.

 

I see that one of Putins very expensive hypersonic missiles has been taken out by a US Patriot missile. The theory that Patriot should be able to knock out a hypersonic missile is no longer a theory.

Wait....Putin said that these mega bucks missiles could not be intercepted. It turns out that he may have been mistaken. What a shocker...

I reckon the war will end this year. Putin will simply run out of money.

Did you see the Victory Parade. Hardly any kit and the tanks were antique.

 

Because Erdogan embarrased a Putin body double in public. Kept him waiting and squirming in front of the media.

 

There's a reason why the US binned off its own hypersonic missile project. It's ridiculously expensive, ridiculously hard in terms of the engineering, and short lived anyway as counter measures get better.

The focus in Britain and America now is on laser weapons. They're not very good yet, but getting better. Once they get that nailed, it won't matter how fast or agile a missile is, because if you can detect it (you can) you can hit it, if the thing you're hitting it with moves literally at the speed of light. No more guessing where the target will be when the counter measure gets there, just point and shoot.

 

Putin is either stupid or running out of the cheaper missiles. I suspect both are true. His Generals are also bonkers. The Russian defence trenches have been dug in flat open ground which is free of obstruction. Great for seeing the enemy approaching but not so good at stopping missiles or shells from landing next to you.

 

A bit surprised about this. Most people think that Russia is a massive country by area - but in reality it is only slightly larger than the US.

This is because maps distort the size of countries as you move further away from the equator.

I've lurnt something new today.

Putin can keep his fossil fuels:

Wind turbines have generated more electricity than gas for the first time in the UK. In the first three months of this year a third of the country's electricity came from wind farms, research from Imperial College London has shown.

 

About time Ben:

The UK has confirmed it is supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles it requested for its fight against invading Russian forces. The Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250km (155 miles), according to the manufacturer. By contrast, the US-supplied Himars missiles used by Ukraine only have a range of around 80 km (50 miles).

The missiles are already in Ukrainian hands.

 

I just hope we can afford it, its all getting out of hand, while I see the point I just wonder if the money is there, or the missiles, these are coming from a supply that will have to be replaced.
We might be running down Putin's arsenal, but we are also running ours down and our defences.

Not sure where you are getting your figures, but I'm getting Russian territory as being 1.8 times the size of the US.
I think Canada is the second largest country in the world.

I've not noticed much benefit, financially, from wind turbines personally, so I'm not interested.
Come back and tell me how great they are when it halves my electricity bill which is highly over inflated, must be all that WIND.

 

To me its all about doing the right thing. Money isnt part of the equation. Its simply a case of good fighting evil. I have never been more proud of my country. . As with tanks, I hope that we have opened the door for other allies to provide long range weapons. As they say, evil will triumph where good men do nothing.

 

This could actually be good for the UK.

Basically, we're having a bit of a clear out. Most of the stuff we've donated is pretty old. But having it on the inventory makes it difficult to justify replacing it. But having given it away, now it is much easier to justify replacing it, and the replacements will be much newer.

As for the cost, the government has a magic money tree. If necessary, they'll just magically produce more. Money is after all nothing more than numbers in a computer system. They magically created loads when covid struck.

Alternatively they could borrow it. Anyone with a bank account or a pension is indirectly lending the money. The government sells state backed bonds to the banks and pension providers. These bonds are held as securities to be redeemed, with interest (or yield as the trading sorts call it) at some fixed point in the future, or if the holder of the bond gets desperate for cash before the bond matures, they can sell it to another investor. This is going on all the time among pension providers and banks.