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Posted: 14:59 - 25 May 2022 Post subject: |
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Just nosing through the military spending of various countries...
Obviously the US and China spend a lot but after that it's Saudi Arabia, Russia, UK, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea all spending comparable amounts
Okay so Russia have a lot of troops but given their spending it's very much the apocryphal scene from Enemy At The Gates ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Easy-X wrote: | AFAIK it's the fact that Russia have effectively taken control of the Black Sea - at least from the Ukrainian perspective - which begs the question: why not just ship it out via road through Poland and Romania? |
Here in Saskatchewan trucking is only really used for short distances such as from the farm to the grain elevators, lots of short trips hauling around 20-30 tons. Large bulk movement is normally by rail and ship which collect from the regional elevators. I would presume being a similar large grain farming region they would operate the same and only have the infrastructure to transport via rail to ports and ship by sea. ____________________ Past:NRG50,AF1125(x2),NSR125RR,ZZR250,CX500,VFR400,KR1S,ZZR600(x2),CB400N,YZF1000(x2),KH125,Z200,FX400R,CBR954RR(x2)GPZ500S,GT550,VFR750F(x2),RD350N,XR650R,CBR600F,CB250,KDX250,YZF750R,CRM250,400EXC,KLR650,TTR600RE,DR350S,R100GSPD,RGV250,VMAX1200,DL650 Present:G650XC,C12,KZ750,1190ADV |
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Posted: 23:53 - 25 May 2022 Post subject: |
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Fair point but you'd think whoever had the foresight to train up the Ukrainian military before the war started might have also seen this coming ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Posted: 10:26 - 26 May 2022 Post subject: |
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Seems I'm not the only one asking this question:
How can Ukraine export its harvest?
Here's the interesting bit:
BBC News wrote: | Last week, the EU announced plans to help by investing billions of euros in infrastructure. But Mrs Stetsiuk's neighbour, Kees Huizinga - who owns and farms 15,000 hectares - says it's not doing enough.
He's been trying to transport goods since the start of the war, and is exasperated by the mountain of paperwork the EU requires, which he says has created queues at the border up to 25km (16 miles) long.
"It's just paper, it's not like they are actually taking samples of the corn. You just have to have the paper," he says.
On 18 May, two days after the EU announcement, customs authorities asked his drivers for two forms that they had never seen before. "The border is not getting easier, on the contrary it's getting more bureaucratic," he says. |
I love the EU! Brexit was a mistake! etc. ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Posted: 18:48 - 29 May 2022 Post subject: |
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Me preparing for the ruskies on the range 150m with optics.
Actually not bad for my first shooting range visit in 20 years
https://i.imgur.com/rWvkZ8a.jpg
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I’m not scared , I’ve got my catapult and a bag of marbles .
I might a bit more scared if I lived in Finland, Poland, or even Germany. ____________________ I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now! |
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If I lived in Germany I wouldn't be worried about a Russian invasion. Putin isn't going to waste any ammunition on the Jerries. They're all just going to freeze to death when he cuts off their fuel next winter. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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If we invade Russia now I'm sure we can get to Moscow before Christmas ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Eu still arsing about on how to end their Reliance on Russian oil
meanwhile dickheads like VAL go on about European Growth via using said cheap oil as a stick to bash the British? ____________________ '00 Aprilia RS50 > '92 Honda CG > '99 Yamaha Fazer > '91 Yamaha RXS > '79 Suzuki X5 > 01' Honda Cg > 07' Honda Cg > 82' Kawasaki Z200 > suzuki gsxr 400 gk73a > honda vfr 400 NC30> Yamaha RD350 YPVS F2 > Kawasaki ZZR 600 D1 > Yamaha TZR 250 2MA >Suzuki TL1000R > Yamaha TDR250 > Honda 929 blade > Suzuki SV1000 > Honda H100
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Whilst at home the resentful Remainers, the “I hate the Tories” Lefties, the champagne socialists and the self-harming ‘peacenik’ ignoramuses diss Boris for consuming birthday cake, Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people saying,
Quote: | The leadership of the United Kingdom, in providing our country with all the necessary assistance in terms of defence, as well as leadership in sanctions policy, will go down in history forever. |
A Russian dissident has called the EU “muppets” and Boris “a warrior” for his support to Ukraine.
Germany hasn’t delivered arms to Ukraine for 9 weeks despite promising to do so.
The EU is finding ways to keep buying Russian oil while only appearing to apply ‘sanctions’. Understandable perhaps, having foolishly become dependant on an unreliable regime.
Meanwhile Guy Verhofstadt has used the war and his ‘Conference on the Future of Europe’ (a select bunch of ‘citizens’) to call for the abandonment of unanimity in EU decision making, and an EU army to fix it all, and it really could happen.
Thank goodness we voted Leave, except we’ll probably have to pick up the pieces again when it all inevitably turns to shit. |
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Kawasaki Jimbo wrote: | Whilst at home the resentful Remainers, the “I hate the Tories” Lefties, the champagne socialists and the self-harming ‘peacenik’ ignoramuses diss Boris for consuming birthday cake, Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people saying,
Quote: | The leadership of the United Kingdom, in providing our country with all the necessary assistance in terms of defence, as well as leadership in sanctions policy, will go down in history forever. |
A Russian dissident has called the EU “muppets” and Boris “a warrior” for his support to Ukraine.
Germany hasn’t delivered arms to Ukraine for 9 weeks despite promising to do so.
The EU is finding ways to keep buying Russian oil while only appearing to apply ‘sanctions’. Understandable perhaps, having foolishly become dependant on an unreliable regime.
Meanwhile Guy Verhofstadt has used the war and his ‘Conference on the Future of Europe’ (a select bunch of ‘citizens’) to call for the abandonment of unanimity in EU decision making, and an EU army to fix it all, and it really could happen.
Thank goodness we voted Leave, except we’ll probably have to pick up the pieces again when it all inevitably turns to shit. |
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Posted: 14:22 - 31 May 2022 Post subject: |
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Boris is hardly steel tempered in the forge of battle; just like any politician these days: jelly conforming to whatever mould is en vogue
I'm seriously wondering whether the whole universal suffrage / democracy project isn't just an elaborate socialist plot If you want to wrest control at any cost it's much easier if you dilute the electoral base with an extra 15 million idiots (Reform Act 1918.)
Total tin-foil hat stuff till you consider the replacement agenda going on in the US at the moment. ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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Easy-X wrote: | Boris is hardly steel tempered in the forge of battle; just like any politician these days: jelly conforming to whatever mould is en vogue
I'm seriously wondering whether the whole universal suffrage / democracy project isn't just an elaborate socialist plot If you want to wrest control at any cost it's much easier if you dilute the electoral base with an extra 15 million idiots (Reform Act 1918.)
Total tin-foil hat stuff till you consider the replacement agenda going on in the US at the moment. |
Oh the latest right wing conspiracy theory. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 1 year, 331 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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