Russia/Ukraine, China/Taiwan.

[Glam]

I'm surprised about the ira, but having the raf base literally in my back garden I guess made us more aware as you'd see increased armed presence every time something kicked off.

Being married to someone who was a civilian working at the RAF camp made you aware of stuff. The times he would be searched going in and out of the place runs into the thousands. When Sir Peter Terry was shot at Milford, the camp all but shut down. I think it was higher than red alert, whatever that may be.

I will say though, I never learnt about the cold war or the holocaust while at school, everything I now know, I've found out about in the last 40 years.

 

[staffordjas]

It's a shame that no one on here has really taken any interest in this....

Stafford Helping Ukraine.

Just incase anyone can help in Stafford... https://m.facebook.com/groups/635452931077047/?multi_permalinks=637853094170364&notif_t=group_highlights&notif_id=1646322523547419&ref=opera_for_android_speed_dial

www.staffordforum.com

I somehow missed the forum thread until you just put the link on to it. Been following Stafford Helping Ukraine page though.

Someone one the Baswich page was collecting stuff to be sent over as well . So as well as wind up torches, battery radios , loads of toiletries etc ,I bought dried food for the pets being carried by evacuees. Heartbreaking seeing people fleeing with just a small bag and clutching their cats & dogs.

 

[proactive]

Being married to someone who was a civilian working at the RAF camp made you aware of stuff. The times he would be searched going in and out of the place runs into the thousands. When Sir Peter Terry was shot at Milford, the camp all but shut down. I think it was higher than red alert, whatever that may be.

I was driving a mate home that night and we were stopped by armed police on Baswich Lane and the car searched at gunpoint. We had no idea anything had kicked off and apart from being shit scared, I remember thinking it was a little excessive for doing 35 in a 30.

 

[littleme]

I was driving a mate home that night and we were stopped by armed police on Baswich Lane and the car searched at gunpoint. We had no idea anything had kicked off and apart from being shit scared, I remember thinking it was a little excessive for doing 35 in a 30.

Not liking it cos I like it, but because, yeah...

 

[staffordjas]

I was driving a mate home that night and we were stopped by armed police on Baswich Lane and the car searched at gunpoint. We had no idea anything had kicked off and apart from being shit scared, I remember thinking it was a little excessive for doing 35 in a 30.

Our club run ran past the house just before the shooting . Kept having cops around the house for weeks. Twisted my words round so much I was almost talked into admitting pulling the trigger myself!

 

[tek-monkey]

Interesting development, and another clear indication of how they feel about Russians. Their victory day is 9th May, the father in law doesn't want us over here in the run up to that date and certainly not travelling nearby in case putin wants another victory to celebrate to take people's minds off Ukraine losses. I see it as unlikely at this point but their hatred is steeped in complete mistrust. With good reason I guess as he lies as much as Johnson.

Guess it gives us time to get Eric's passport sorted.

 

[tek-monkey]

Something to look out for on the flight home

https://www.reuters.com/world/europ...raine-nato-looks-its-weakest-link-2022-03-21/

 

[BobClay]

We appear to be in a slow waltz toward World War Three.
◄----- (orders more bacofoil.)

 

[Mudgie]

Being married to someone who was a civilian working at the RAF camp made you aware of stuff. The times he would be searched going in and out of the place runs into the thousands. When Sir Peter Terry was shot at Milford, the camp all but shut down. I think it was higher than red alert, whatever that may be.

I will say though, I never learnt about the cold war or the holocaust while at school, everything I now know, I've found out about in the last 40 years.

I have no recollection of "the camp all but shut down" even though Peter Terry lived in the Officers Mess for a while after being released from hospital.

 

[Cue]

We appear to be in a slow waltz toward World War Three.
◄----- (orders more bacofoil.)

It would be a very brief war

If nobody pulls out the nuclear football (and honestly I’m not sure if a nuke would even make it out of a Russian silo with how well their inventory seems to be kept) it’s basically a game of “whose missiles will hit Russia first?”

They’re not a superpower, they just act like they are.

 

[tek-monkey]

It would be a very brief war

If nobody pulls out the nuclear football (and honestly I’m not sure if a nuke would even make it out of a Russian silo with how well their inventory seems to be kept) it’s basically a game of “whose missiles will hit Russia first?”

They’re not a superpower, they just act like they are.

I think the main issue is Russia is huge and their weapons are spread out, some are guaranteed to get through.

 

[BobClay]

It's not silo's or land forces you should worry about. It's Borei Class strategic submarines.

 

[Withnail]

It's not ... land forces you should worry about...

Interesting twitter thread on why that might be.

tl;dr

 

[Theresa Green]

https://www.icij.org/investigations...Xum-Gy_mOOrazGHzqoKrf93RZd20Jk6xoCKqQQAvD_BwE

 

[Theresa Green]

Nine bob Notes

 

[Theresa Green]

[url=https://ibb.co/1fSGLG8] [/URL]

 

[Studio Tan]

 

[Theresa Green]

Russians and Ukrainians are stranded together in Thailand

Russians are still popular in Cyprus

And Goa

 

[Studio Tan]

 

[tek-monkey]

Another thing I learned in Latvia, which was apparently true in the other occupied lands.

Russia used to move very large numbers of their own people into other countries they occupied, in an attempt to make the natives more "like them'. Locals were reassigned from jobs and Russians shipped in to replace them, I guess the idea was they'd breed them out? At one point Latvia was over 1/3 Russians, which i guess explains why they now latvianise all citizens names.