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There will be a huge net profit since he's written off the massive loans he's made to the club, so no payback from the probable 2 billion the club will sell for. And yes, the payments are for ALL victims of the war, and since it will be this UK based charitable foundation making them, I think...

How more biased can you be, there's no allegedly about it. He's handed the club and its assets to the charitable foundation. And to imply what you have about profitability is bigotry when he is not calling in any of the substantial loans he's made to the club. They've become a gift, profit...

One bit of good news for Roman Abramovich in tonight's cup match: Chelsea 3, Luton 2. I see he's giving the club's assets when realised after the club's sale to all the victims of the Ukraine war. .

Today's aircrafts advanced navigation instrumentation and laser guided weapons have changed the target finding situation beyond all recognition from WW2. Cruise missiles don't even bother with eyesight but unerringly find their target. And even the warfare is very different now. In Kharkiv...

Helped to land but the pilot probably still imprisoned. It's what happened to Rudof Hess when he defected from the Nazis by air. Comms. Channel .

I was posting about Russia and sanctions, not the ex pats like Abramovich who are obviously vulnerable. I say again, sanctions have never worked against any country. I'd think Russia the last place on earth where sanctions will work since hardship is historically so normal there. The poor...

Soyuz rockets will be launching as usual anyway since they service the ISS with all its supplies. Musk's craft only takes crews. As well as that the west will still be dealing with Russia in all sorts of ways. Buying gas, oil and grain for example, and paying for it through Swift which has...

They do have their own airliners and lighter planes so won't be troubled. They shouldnt be underestimated, even the Americans acknowleged their superiority in metallurgy which resulted in them leading the space race. .

A bit of an empty threat when they are banned from flying over most places. They'll never wear the parts out! Anyway they are very smart aeronautical engineeers so will be able to make the parts if necessary. .

That comes of unnecessarily panic about Chernobyl. Germany's reaction was to start shutting down its nuclear reactors and burn more of its coal, then later for obvious reasons using more gas. They shouid have stayed with the nuclear stations and switched more fully to electricity. Italy...

The all inportant land link Russia needs to Crimea is almost complete, but for Mariupol. They are heavily shelling that large city but also seem to be trying a different tactic, cutting the electricity and now the water supply to the half million residents. Hopefully the residents will have...

This is Britain. We don't do things, we discuss doing them. We blew excellent chances with Russia over 20 years ago. As The Report says, by the mid 2000s it was far too late. (Meaning with Putin in place) .

It could do far better though, under 24,000 troops out of nearly a billion population. This of course is the USAs biggest complaint with us, Europe not pulling their weight with defence. Turkey , similar in scale to Germany with just 84 million population has the second largest defence force...

We didn't care much but most fags then were Woodbines made by Wills. They were cheap. B & H and Marlboro were much later, in the Woodbines days the other brands were such things as Players Navy Cut, Senior Service, Craven A and Capstan Full Strength. Craven A had a sort of semi filter and...

It's all the same to the Mail. They probably still believe Wogs begin at Calais. It's still less than 24,000 troops on the NATO side, so not much of a response to 150,000 from Russia, even before their latest reinforcements. .

We just need bicycles to make a noise. As kids long, long ago, we used to use a bit of a cigarette packet stuck to a chainstay or seatstay and butting into the spokes. That made a sort of motorcycle like sound as the passing spokes flipped the cardboard. .

Trouble is that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was only three and a half years old then, so being just out of potty training didn't learn the lesson. .

I agreed with all the rest of your post but not this. NATO members will stand firm in defending each other, especially after Ukraine. My 1939 birthday present of WW2 was because Britain had a mutual agreement with Poland which we felt we had to honour when Germany attacked Poland: The...

I think that quiet of bicycles is the problem. It's astonishing how many rely upon their hearing to cross roads. I think this arose during the decades when cycling was at a very low ebb but cars had increased enormously in number, so their ears became a pretty good indicator of the road being...

Certainly giving in isn't an answer, but as you rightly say, we haven't one. Isn't as easy as it sounds though. Economies have to be equalised before EU entry or the whole EU could destabilise and financially crash. And equalising the Ukrainian economy with the EU would probably be...