Are we heading into WWIII?

[Stubby]

Just now, Mick Dempsey said:

We hear that side to it for sure.

But Russia has lots of men and control over the narrative internally.

It’s a war of attrition now, as you said, there’s no movement in the lines.

Glad I’m not there!

According to the ISW Ukraine has made a significant step in its electronic war fair use . Now being able to confuse and counter certain missiles and all drones so that they dont reach their intended target . There is still danger from falling parts of the shot down ones and the ones that don't make their target still explode but not were the Russians want them to . All they have to do now ( the Ukrainians ) is work out how to get them to turn around !

[Mike Hill]

2 hours ago, Stubby said:

According to the ISW Ukraine has made a significant step in its electronic war fair use . Now being able to confuse and counter certain missiles and all drones so that they dont reach their intended target . There is still danger from falling parts of the shot down ones and the ones that don't make their target still explode but not were the Russians want them to . All they have to do now ( the Ukrainians ) is work out how to get them to turn around !

 

Some of their recent data skills have been used here in Norway to Rob people via their smart phone.

 

Three of them drive around in separate cars with some kind of device which jumps into your bank the moment you log in via smart phone. The cops are vague on the exact details but it's UKE nationals and judging by how the cops handled the seized devices its pretty secret stuff.

 

 

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, Mike Hill said:

 

Some of their recent data skills have been used here in Norway to Rob people via their smart phone.

 

Three of them drive around in separate cars with some kind of device which jumps into your bank the moment you log in via smart phone. The cops are vague on the exact details but it's UKE nationals and judging by how the cops handled the seized devices its pretty secret stuff.

 

 

Corruption exposed in Ukrainian arms procurement . 100.000  shells not turning up and huge amounts of cash being divided up between between buyers and sellers . There is shit people wherever you look .

[Stere]

Meatgrinder: Russian Tactics in the Second Year of Its Invasion of Ukraine

WWW.RUSI.ORG

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Russian tactics are changing as lessons are learned from military failures in the war in Ukraine.

 

 

Some on  electronic warfare here & how the russians have adapted there sytems & tactics to counter the Ukrainian weapon systems.

 

 

 

[Haironyourchest]

The battle lines are currently stalled, but the real war is happening all over the world. It's diffused through the economic and geopolitical spheres.

 

BRICS took on another 6 members. Probably more to join next year.

 

China seemingly overtly supports Russia now. The support was always there, obviously, but diplomatically played down at the beginning.

 

India was playing it cool, but seems to be tacitly throwing in with Russia more and more.

 

The global south increasingly supports Russia, with a few notable exceptions.

 

Support for the war has dipped in the US and EU massively since the start.

 

Speaking generally, the "right" want out, the "left" want to keep it going. In the EU the "right" are gaining ground. 

 

Germany is not looking good, by the numbers. AFD want out of the war.

 

NATO is not the military power it once was. Still got nukes but manpower is down.

 

Israel throws a spanner in the works. Houthis targeting Israel linked shipping etc. international court going after Israel led by a BRICS member. Truly massive protests against Israel all over. 

 

EU has a Muslim problem. A sizable chunk of the EU population hates what Israel is doing and the governments of the EU support Israel. This is a powderkeg.

 

The USA has a debt problem. 33 trillion, etc. social security will be bankrupt in 10 years.

 

USA has a migration problem.

USA has a civil/cultural/political bifurcation problem.

 

USA also has a military problem. Nukes, yes, but manpower is down.

 

Africa has kicked France out and disconnected from the French banking system. Decolonisation, with help from Russia.

 

We in the West are just as heavily propagandized as the Russians/Chinese. Ours is a more subtle propaganda. In the main, it's propaganda by choice, a self directed filtering of news and information, confirmation bias etc.

 

We were told the sanctions would humble Russia. Nothing of the sort happened. We're still buying Russian crude, at inflated prices, via India.

 

My prediction is there will be WW3 of we want it. Ball is in our court. It's not a war we can "win", by any means whatsoever. Nukes or conventional, if we survive the event we won't survive the aftermath.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[GarethM]

I have a simple solution, stop watching all the fear porn, take up a hobby, maybe we can have a resurgence of building ships in bottles ?.

 

I promise you'll feel better, well maybe marginally when you know you can't effect or affect what's happening elsewhere.

Edited January 28 by GarethM

[Mesterh]

I think you're right in that its not worth worrying about it as we can do feck all about but I do think it's worth keeping half an eye on what is going on in the world.

 

 

[Joe Newton]

8 hours ago, GarethM said:

I have a simple solution, stop watching all the fear porn, take up a hobby, maybe we can have a resurgence of building ships in bottles ?.

 

I promise you'll feel better, well maybe marginally when you know you can't effect or affect what's happening elsewhere.

Ostrich tactics. Why not?

[GarethM]

33 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

Ostrich tactics. Why not?

Realism my boy realism.

 

Unfortunately the yoof of today who seem to obsessively follow and stress about world events.

 

You need to know enough about the world but also know what you can and cannot change. You didn't see the general population running around during WW2 or the cold war, it's Fear Porn and people get addicted to it.

[Mesterh]

10 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Realism my boy realism.

 

Unfortunately the yoof of today who seem to obsessively follow and stress about world events.

 

You need to know enough about the world but also know what you can and cannot change. You didn't see the general population running around during WW2 or the cold war, it's Fear Porn and people get addicted to it.

I think that you maybe getting most of that info from Facebook. I don't see the yoof obsessively following and stressing about world events. They are still hanging around the local off licence/chippy/corner shop, watching YouTube, playing football, Fortnite, giving the girls a bit of grief to try and get into their knickers and if your a gypo out doing a bit of grabbing. 

 

I think that you would have seen most of the population running around and thinking WTAF is going on during ww2.