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"You have been trying to predict the Russian Ukraine war since it started and you have been consistently wrong"

I have been making the point that the Russian army is an army of useless clowns and nothing like the threat it ad presented itself to be, and that is well proven now. The idea they could wipe out all of Ukraine infrastructure in a few days is laughable. They tried that and ended up getting ten bells knocked out of them, especially in the north. Progress has been on WW1 tactics of throwing men on the grenades and completely destroying everything - even then progress has been inch by inch. The only prediction I was making that fell short was a much earlier introduction of nato heavy weapons. That was based on the public predictions made by various governments. They finally arrived, a couple of months late, and the impact of just a few, a mere few, against the clown army has been immense already. And there are many more arriving. The Russian army is a pitiful failure and is going to be crushed even more. The key question, when will the generals call it a day and withdraw seeing, knowing, experiencing the onslaught. The destruction of the Russian army and mounting losses is going to actually accelerate. At the moment Russia has the option to withdraw, otherwise they will be looking at unconditional surrender. Personally I would rather a nato/west coalition takes advantage and takes out all Russian forces and places the country under occupation for a decade or so and thereby stop the war mongering of Russia. Russia has become a problem!

"Is this what your life's come to.?

Spending hours upon hours throughout the week on an Internet forum crayonning fantasy garbage. Why don't you go and play call of duty."

Actually I dip in here a few minuets here and there to ensure that adequate replies are posted against the propagandist and delusional trolls. Mobile smart phones allow this wherever I am.

Now this call of duty, I was accused of playing this before and mixing up a computer game with reality. Intrigued, I obtained one of the consoles and one of these call of duty games, ghost. It is a bit like being in an interactive film, half of it is pre recorded scenes and then the player has to work through a sequence being told which button to press and when. I got somewhere half way through 'ghost' and was frankly board by it. There is no intellectual challenge, no ability to deploy your own tactics like stealth - you have to follow a tight set of arranged steps, there is no skill involved in the slightest degree, some of the physics better resembles activity on Mars with its lower gravity and where does all the energy come from or all those gadgets? I didn't get on with it at all. Game play is not much more advanced than ping pong Atari from 40 years ago, although the graphics are a bit better.

The console will be packed up and back to the exchange shop, probably just wasted a hundred quid which would have been better donated to a Ukraine crisis fund. Thankfully the game didn't impact on my ability to post on here, so every cloud does have a silver lining ;)

The Crimea bridge hasn't been taken out yet. When that happens, only then will Russia start trying to find what they call a peace deal, but everybody else will call Ukraine surrender and loss of territory. Ukraine will not cede land, the wet has put the permanent backing on that is reformulating to live with that. It might require the removal of Putin and his successors before a new Russian regime gives up the invaded territory to meet UN mandates and get sanction relief. Technically that could be years if nobody makes the move against him, the generals as I keep hoping for.

In reality, the current sanctions will be in place for some years, the wider non-government global sanction avoiding Russia will last much longer into generations. Russia may have to breakup to rationalize regions so they don't all completely collapse. For POLY, the only prudent option is to split along the original proposal along lines of jurisdiction.

Government sanctions is one thing, but the actions of private companies dealing with an untrustworthy corrupt terrorist state can not be changed. Officially China or India are not applying sanctions, at a state level. But in the boardrooms, at trade level, even at consumer level, there is as much a backing off as seen with western countries. Are you going to ship goods to Russia on credit terms? No matter what your governments position, you are going to want payment in advance, hard currency and transferred in full first. That is in fact exactly what POLY had to do as reflected in the accounts forward purchasing spares and, according to the declared costs in the RNSs, paid in advance. A lot of people all over the world also just do not want to be seen to be associated with regimes like Russia in the first place. Everyone had to hold their noses dealing with Russia before the war and murdering of children. Now the stench is terrible, can't even be in the same building with them.

zero carbon policy was already closing German industry and there are always deaths from cold. Germany will not have any heating problems as heating for many will switch to elecric powered by coal. You all ignore also that there are storage facilities for gas designed for 6 months over winter in case tge supply failed and all manner of backup plans that have been around for years.

You're clutching at straws mate. It is awkward, a pain, a back step for zero carbon and expensive, but there will be no energy supply issue for Germany or any if the others.

More indication, if it were needed, current sanctions are going to be around a long time, even if Russia declared a cease fire tomorrow. Whilst Russia is on Ukraine soil all the sanctions past, present and future will remain.

search Russia sanctions Wikipedia, mobile at moment so difficult copying links

It's been interesting following the delusion throughout the year, how everybody is just going to give up, abandon Ukraine and gets roll over on Russias command. Increasingly now there is a belief of some that Europe will be terrorised with cold homes into dropping to it's needs begging Putin for mercy.

You gotta laugh at it. How have the many theories that will end the war have worked put so far. Nato is expanding, fractures are being put to one side, big modern arms are beung supplied and deployed and support for Ukraine simply growes day by day as they go on the offensive on two fronts.

And you're kidding yourselves if you think Russia has some ace card to play on energy. The coal fired power stations are being recommissioned , zero carbon is being diluted by the day and rapid changes are being made to be able to refuse any Russian gas or oil before winter.

There is no energy ace card, nobody in thw west will be on their knees begging for help from Russia, Russia will be ever more isolated and cut of as the pack of propaganda lies continues to collapse aroind it and less and less and any current support of ambivalent neutrality stays.

It is all ready over for Russia and anything connected with it. Time for some people to get real and deal with the reality.

I'm not talking anybody in or out of anything, that was a classic AIM gambler response, everybody has to be pigeon holled one side or tuther to be attacked or cheered. How about you say something and an alternative view is aired in response? Just that basic and simple. Can you handle something as simple and basic as that?

t. The main point here is that fundamentally the company has not changed operationally,??

I think there have been some big changes, not least the ones that prevented divvie payments and created a change to buying and stocking spares and consumables which will inevitably run out.

As for the sp being due to the talk about splitting, again there is a problem. The sp crashed before any talks of splits, it could be argued there has been a recovery to some extent since the idea was floated

"Shares go up and down "

Crikey Danger Mouse, we better be careful with our money

Good Grief! Shares go up and down. Well I've heard some things in my time...

you really want my opinion? huh, yeah Right. How is the probability of a split up of the company represented in these charts and how are the split options represented? In fact, how do these charts know if or when any corporate action is to be taken in order to make these predictions?

No, wait, after I subscribe thirty quid a month for email alerts, all will be revealed eh?

"tree shake", "top up", "mm playing games", chartist mumbo jumbo.
Sounds at times here like a penny share ADVFN ramp fest of syndicate spread bets thinking they can manipulate the price. You pass yourself as lth rubbing shoulders with the real lth. Fakes. The lingo exposes you for what you lot are, and you know who you are.

due to drink? naaaa, just numb dumb plebs trying to sound intelligent. Most times it is amusing, some times just plain weird.

Lithium? POLY doesn't mine lithium. Is lithium ore a by-product or something? Have I missed something here? 'I for one' would like to know!!!!!!!! Geddit?????

I am desperately trying to work out exactly where the deramping is and where does lithium fit in to Macbeth. There are some truly bizarre comments posted on here.

For those wondering what Macbeth is, here is an abridged story line.

"Three witches prophesy to Macbeth, telling him that he'll be made Thane of Cawdor as well as King of Scotland. Shortly thereafter, he's promoted to Thane of Cawdor. He considers killing Duncan, the king, but it's not until his wife puts him up to it that he commits to carry through. Macbeth kills the king as well as the guards, and his wife frames the guards for the king's murder. Macbeth takes the crown after Duncan's sons flee, one to Ireland, one to England. Macbeth later hires thugs to kill Banquo and his son (they miss the son somehow) and has Macduff's wife and children slaughtered. Power mad, he tracks down the witches, who provide him with additional prophesies: 1) Beware of Macduff; 2) No man born of woman can kill him; 3) He need not be afraid until the forest comes to Dunsinane. When Macduff turns up from England with a group of soldiers bearing branches from the forest, Macbeth gets nervous. His wife, mad after her participation in the plot, ends up dead (likely from suicide). Macbeth kills a young Englishman named Siward (whose father is aligned with Macduff), crowing all the while about being unstoppable, then battles Macduff, who, it turns out, was born by Caesarian section. "Lay on, Macduff!""

English play (Shakespeare) mocking the Scottish (satirized through Macbeth), the madness of Scottish power lust and the violent base instinct of the Scotts. Like I say, English play for an English audience, 'beware the rise of the Scotts and mindful of the return of Macbeth and the madness of their harpy wives'.

Ahh the good old days. I am surprised, thinking about it, that Sturgeon hasn't had the play outlawed and all references and images of Shakespeare 'cancelled' and all the academics putting Shakespeare on reading lists flogged in public. Or is the SNP acting out the Macbeth narrative in a modern frame???

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Special opps being busy, this will test Belarus loyalty to the Kremlin

https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-belarus-military-bases-rocked-fire-explosions-days-crimea-air-base-sees-destructive-blasts

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V low volume but the A trades still active despite the routine relatively massive spread. Those iis keeping their hands in. No an environment to trust orders, this will be manual trading only when the fan its the shhit.