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Putin ordering the attack resulting in many ethnic Russian Ukrainian troops KILLED?

Sorry, missed a critical context word....

MHUK, yes, the ethnic Russians. In our perfect woke heaven in the UK, such ethnic division is not recognised. But in places like Ukraine the divisions can be very deep. The 'Russian' areas are the ones I was suggesting would be nibbled away and not needing an invasion of tanks and this is what Biden was intimidating as low level minor ingres. And if the component of the Ukrainian army is half ethnic Russian then it could be an issue, but it can work both ways. Putin ordering the attack resulting in many ethnic Russian Ukrainian troops? Even in such a controlled society that would not go down well and you could end up with the Russian army refusing to follow Moscow orders!

As I said before, one huge game of chess is beginning. There is already a war there with live ammunition skirmishes. Another objective might also be on Putin's card. Breaking up the EU to bring back Eastern states back into a new Russian Soviet union. A number of Eastern EU states are not happy in the EU to start with. And looking at the various positions of the EU states and how the EU has allowed itself to become reliant on Russia for its main energy supply, Putin has the upper hand here. Marcon is moving to align with Russia already.

One huge game of chess.

Funny the the Irish open everything up just as Ryanair extends more routes to Ireland.

SO, jotom, this non IAG related discussion business. SO your brexit claims? And? Does the word hypocrite mean anything to you?

And if you want to post Brexit related numbers, how about some of the lost business of the EU with UK? How about factoring in the effect of a pandemic on EU/UK/World trade? And how about recognising the basic plain fact that the reduction in trade was entirely self inflicted by the EU as it tried to set up a system to damage the UK as much as possible in the vain hope we would crawl back begging to rejoin but instead it is the EU which has lost out the most, the city of London hasn't collapsed, the massively over complicated border and trade controls have significantly damaged it's own supply change, other trade blocks are putting up barriers to the EU but not the UK in retaliation and the so called unity of the EU barley exists anymore as many countries are going it alone in more and more decisive ways.

Face it, the EU shot itself in the foot trying to be clever trying to punish the UK for having the nerve to be democratic. How may *exit movements are there now across the EU? EU deserves wll it gets over the next decade.

Now, will you stop rabbiting on about non-IAG topics and do what Longterm asks and STAY ON MESSAGE!

get over yourself jotom!

So you are keeping 'logs' on people? Are you sure you not getting a little carried away?

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/a-3-3-trillion-expiry-of-stock-options-adds-to-market-jitters-1.1711166

Of course nothing related to IAG, except the sp, so jog on those who don't consider the 360, or anything else.

Something is spooking the sector, it is nose diving, I can't find the cause though.... scanning as deep as I can.

US markets haven't picked up the markets. Hopefully this won't be the start of a reverse trend. With the ending of restrictions coming up soon a cynic might say the bots have turned the markets down for some iis to stock up on cheaper shares ready to cash in on the good news bounce towards the end of next week.

Naaaaa.... that would be too cynical.

https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-airport-to-barbados-flights-halted-early-3536534

Not good news, the 'pent up demand' is failing to show. There are many news reports of routes all over the world being restarted much later in the year or not at all. The transatlantic start up has all but stalled. Seems to be confirmed that countries are not reading the data from countries ahead of them with omicron and are going through it independently despite there is zero benefit form travel restrictions or any other. It spreads, peaks and dies away irrespective of the control measures. But nobody seems to want to know.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/coronavirus/2022/01/21/ba2-omicron-sub-variant-now-under-investigation-in-uk/

This is of concern because this is how the 'expert' community can potentially keep testing as part of everything for maybe years ahead. Every now and then claim a variant needs to be investigated. How could you spot a variant? You need to keep lots of testing. How can you do that? Make testing a requirement for being able to travel. Testing has a major negative impact putting people off travelling. Either we move to living with covid and with flu and by doing so drop all the testing to nothing than would be in background routine health screening, or we are going to be locked into this damaging practice for many, many years. These experts need to be taken on and not regarded as some sort of saints. Many have a self interest in keeping this pandemic going.

It is the same patter as the last few weekends. A goon appears over the weekend when there aren't any moderators on duty in order to get a few days uninterrupted trolling.

However, this latest spread bet troll has been actively bullying now over a number of posts. Specifically appealing to users to act against a single person. Clearly stating the intent is to stalk ever post. This is now repeated in several posts, might be enough to rid the board of him before Friday office close - will have to see if I have time to assemble the case.

Meanwhile, I am not answerable to you, troll, and my strategy is well posted and well known and, frankly, none of your business.

Enjoy the remaining time you are allowed to post on here.

Looks like Meat Loaf wasn't jabbed. Another anti-vaxxer dies!

https://nypost.com/2022/01/21/meat-loaf-was-ill-with-covid-days-before-his-death-report/

I've just realised, it's Friday. Yay! Been lounging around so much this new year I'm losing track of time. Cripes, almost through January too. Where does all the time go?

https://thepointsguy.co.uk/news/eu-nations-person-based-covid-travel-rules/

The recovery and removal of all restrictions back to normality is going to be a long foot dragging exercise.

This may also explain a market correction, i.e. the Ukraine situation is having an effect but at a distance.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/18/investors-continue-to-ditch-russian-assets-amid-war-fears-a76071

Of course, Winter Olympics - forgot about that. Could delay any movements.

One thing is striking, the resemblance to early 20th century history. A leader that secures head of government position permanently, is aggrieved at loss of status and empirical territory following the loss of a 'war', expansion and annexing of lost territories, threatening to limit expansion whilst preparing for more, stringing along gullible politicians with promises of no hostilities. I believe the next stage is Marcon waving a piece of paper in the wind guaranteeing 'peace in our time'!

Interesting how the market can move as one. Has this anything to do with it?

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/bank-of-england-to-raise-rates-again-in-february-as-inflation-surges/articleshow/89031918.cms

I should add, the last time the EU tried to be important and clever in international relations we ended up with the Balkan war which NATO had to go in and stop eventually. The EU has been kept out of this so far and I hope that remains so else there will be trouble.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/20/frances-macron-calls-for-eu-russia-security-pact-in-break-with-us-calls-for-unity-a76095

Sorry, it was France calling for the EU- Pact with Russia. Some object to my use of the expression, soviet EU. Well........

Ed1, could be right, Russia may not try and nibble away at the border to enclave Russian dominated towns. Instead if Ukraine tried to join NATO and have NATO forces deployed then Russia could, as you say, look to neutralise them. If you turn the tables, and NATO took the same view of the Russian forces deployed would NATO be qualified to take a first strike? I still think there will be some territory taken, but not necessarily by tanks, perhaps more ethnic aligned towns with Russia asking for Russian protection and Russian forces taking up positions on that basis. A kind of perverse democracy - I suspect that is one of the scenarios Biden had in mind when he talked about minor incursions. This is what the Russians used to qualify the Crimea incursion. The flip side of that will be other towns close to the border and any incursions asking NATO for protection. But will NATO forces then be deployed in Ukraine There is one big game of chess about to start. I read about the EU and Germany actually looking to make a pact with Russia yesterday, will try and find the link. Anyway, I will write to Putin and ask him to hold off the war until Autumn because I was planning a bit of tour around Ukraine as an undiscovered place to visit this summer. Having said that I haven't done any war tourism so I might get to do both at the same time.