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You're first mistake is assuming people get flight info from youtube channels. Your second is not keeping up with the news. These flight resumptions were announced back in early August and it actually starts from 30th Oct. However since then its been announced that 50% - 80% of Aeroflot staff are being called up for mobilization into cannon fodder at Ukraine, so good luck on those booking these flights and the pending cancellations that will occur.
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‘I will cross the border tonight’: Russians flee after news of draft
Bkk Brian replied to Scott's topic in World News
Here's one way to stop them flying out, call up all the airline staff ???? Half the workers of Russia's biggest airline may be forced to join the army by Vladimir Putin, report says Vladimir Putin may force at least half the workers of Russia's biggest airline to join the army, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Friday. Staff of at least five airlines, including Aeroflot, received conscription notices within a day of Putin's speech. Sources told the newspaper that between 50% and 80% of Aeroflot's employees could be ordered to the frontlines of the conflict with Ukraine. A source close to Aeroflot said that over half the staff at three of the group's airlines, including Rossiya and Pobeda, could be called up, per the report. https://www.yahoo.com/news/half-workers-russias-biggest-airline-111205548.html -
Just did a little reading up on this. Although out of the 4 subs there's always a minimum of one out on patrol, 2 others are also armed and ready although they would not normally go out on patrol during a time of crisis as there's no need. By keeping one submarine on patrol at all times, the UK avoids the risk of sending incorrect or misleading signals to a potential adversary at times of heightened alert. However the other two can quickly aim their missiles and fire. The fourth sub is normally in maintenance. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmdfence/986/98605.htm https://www.medact.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/THE-UK-TRIDENT-MISSILE-SYSTEM-FINAL.pdf
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Couldn't resist this meme I saw yesterday for that last statement of yours: They will feed the hungry Ukrainian Cannons. HIMARS table for two On a more serious note, Putin wants to instill fear, he did this right at the beginning of the invasion with his first nuclear threats. This latest is a sure sign he's in serious trouble. Nuclear weapons are first and foremost a psychological weapon to use as a tactical threat as he is doing although he adds rather lamely this is not a bluff. A sure sign it is a bluff. Its been reported the US has sent some private messages to the Kremlin with some serious warnings to them. The only thing that should be happening now is arming Ukraine even more so and more rapidly to deal with this mobilization and get back their country.
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Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
Bkk Brian replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
Since when was full mobilization, partial? First 300,000, that went up to 1 million as reported by Russian media, now 1.2 million being called up. Russia to conscript 1.2 million people Russian authorities plan to conscript 1.2 million people for their “partial mobilization,” Meduza has learned from a source close to one of the country’s federal ministries. Additionally, a source close to Moscow’s leadership told Meduza that up to 16,000 people from the capital are slated to be drafted. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/09/23/russia-to-conscript-up-to-1-2-million-people -
Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
Bkk Brian replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
Russian soldiers have raped and tortured children in Ukraine, a UN panel said. Victims of sexual violence by Russian troops ranged in age from 4 to 82. “There are examples of cases where relatives were forced to witness the crimes." “We were struck by the large number of executions in the areas we visited” New UN hard hitting report: https://web.archive.org/web/20220923124045/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-crimes-united-nations.html https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2022/09/update-chair-independent-international-commission-inquiry-ukraine-51st-session -
‘I will cross the border tonight’: Russians flee after news of draft
Bkk Brian replied to Scott's topic in World News
This talk of 300,000 to be drafted is total bull. This is a full mobilization the Russian people know it. The decree Putin signed apparently has a classified section mentioning 1 million. "The independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe reported that a source in the presidential administration said Russia was seeking to draft more than 1 million people" ‘It’s a 100% mobilisation’: day one of Russia’s drive to build its army Summons delivered to eligible men at midnight. Schoolteachers pressed into handing out draft notices. Men given an hour to pack their things and appear at draft centres. Women sobbing as they sent their husbands and sons off to fight in Russia’s war in Ukraine. The first full day of Russia’s first mobilisation since the second world war produced emotional showdowns at draft centres and even signs of protest, while it appears Russia could be considering far more than the 300,000 new conscripts claimed by the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/russia-mobilisation-ukraine-war-army-drive Protesters are being threatened with 15 years or some are being taken as conscripts. In Buryatia, college students literally taken away from their classes to be conscripted and sent to war. Insane. -
Not sure, it seems as its part of the investigation, this from yesterday: Deutsche Bank’s Trump Exposure Dropped 87% in a Matter of Weeks The real estate company of former US President Donald Trump that month repaid two loans worth at total of $295 million to Germany’s largest lender, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by New York Attorney General Letitia James. James says Trump made “false and misleading” financial statements to Deutsche Bank to get better terms on his loans, resulting in interest rate savings between $85 million and $150 million for him. Trump has repeatedly denied wrongdoing. “The bank takes its legal obligations seriously, including appropriately responding to authorized investigations and proceedings,” said a spokesman for Deutsche Bank. He declined to comment on details of the relationship with the Trump Organization. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-22/deutsche-bank-s-trump-exposure-dropped-87-in-a-matter-of-weeks
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Here is the reality: Countries that refuse to take a side in Russia’s war in Ukraine are “complicit” with Moscow’s “new imperialism,” French President Emmanuel Macron told the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday in an impassioned speech. “Those who are silent today are serving — whether against their will or secretly with a certain complicity — the cause of a new imperialism,” Macron said. In some of his strongest comments since the beginning of the war, Macron said Russia’s aggression against Ukraine marked a “return to the age of imperialism and colonies” and said the world faced a choice between “war and peace.” Perhaps a reminder also from Zelensky at his UN speech:
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Assault on Kiev: Russian helicopters swoop above Ukraine's capital
Bkk Brian replied to Chris.B's topic in The War in Ukraine
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+1 ???? "I notice that Russian diplomats flee almost as quickly as Russian soldiers." Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba delivers a memorable one-liner in response to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's hasty exit during a UN discussion on the Russian invasion of Ukraine https://twitter.com/Biz_Ukraine_Mag/status/1573020668874182658
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More collusion/corruption in the frame: Son of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was leading a real-estate division of Deutsche Bank as it gave President Donald Trump over $1 billion in loans to finance his real-estate projects when other banks wouldn't Trump's business career is more connected to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy than we ever knew Justin Kennedy, the former global head of Deutsche Bank's real-estate capital markets division, was one of Trump's close business associates, The Times reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter. Because of Trump's inconsistent track record in business, which included multiple bankruptcy filings and frequent lawsuits, most other major banks would not lend to him. Deutsche Bank loaned Trump the funds to construct and renovate skyscrapers and other developments in New York City and Chicago, The Times reported. https://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-kennedy-son-loaned-president-trump-over-a-billion-dollars-2018-6?r=UK
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Good to see Thailand is now in the process of scrapping all restrictions. One of the worst periods that the world has gone through because of a virus in many years. Fortunately the vaccines saved millions of lives and will continue to do so in the future for those at risk. Time to get back to normality now. The Thai's that continue to wear masks, its their choice and should not be mocked because of it.
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Some interesting scenarios and analysis here. What would happen if Putin unleashed a nuclear strike on Ukraine? Andrey Baklitskiy, an expert at the UN institute for disarmament research, noted that Putin threatened nuclear war "if the territorial integrity of our country is threatened", he added: "those statements go beyond the Russian nuclear doctrine, which only suggests Russian first use in conventional war when the very existence of the state is threatened." "Putin adds 'territorial integrity' and [the] very abstract protection of people, independence and freedom ... coming from the person who has sole-decision making power regarding nuclear weapons, this will have to be taken seriously." In other words, Putin could be laying a trap - if Ukraine continues its counter-offensive on occupied territory that Moscow declares "Russian" after sham referendums, then it could grant him a pretext for a nuclear strike. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/explained/300695173/what-would-happen-if-putin-unleashed-a-nuclear-strike-on-ukraine?cid=app-iPad
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After Texas Sent Him to Washington, One Migrant Launches a New Life
Bkk Brian replied to Scott's topic in World News
Whatever job he got I hope it all works out for him, just hope it wasn't for one of Trumps resorts or buildings that are known to have employed them.