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King, I don't think Vlad has lost the plot. See what Trump recently said about Vlad in that regard. He's smart and very switched on. However I agree. Dang hard to agree with an invasion even if there was cold war-esque provocations. However however. Putin was smart to take advantage of a weak POTUS, a fragmented leaderless NATO, a bumbling Bojo, a Macron with aspirations of being Jupiter, a thoroughly energy compromised and dearmed Germany etc etc. Only thing Putin got wrong (in a military sense inb4 moral peral clutching) imo was the level of tenacity the average Ukrainain would show in defending their lands.
That said there anit a snowball in hells chance of Ukraine standing aginst Russia no matter how many NATO toys are sent their way. It simply cannot be the case in an objective sense of military matters. As I said yesterday occupation is an entirely different kettle of fish but some commentators really shoudd bear in mind that east of Dniper Ruskies find favour still amongst the locals, not so on the West. Almost as if demographics are a lot more important than some would like to concede.
SO basically as much as one can, legitimately, argue against Putins decision to invade it is not the machinations of a mad man. Quite the inverse, tis the decision of a highly logical mind. Further I should point out that Putin is not all powerful within Russia. He signed off on plans presented to him by others within the Kleptocracy Putin set up during the waning days of Yeltsins Presidential rule and has only being reinforced since.
While I agree that Putin is a wrong to lament the passing of the USSR I do bear in mind he is the leader of a country that increasingly suffers from nostalgia for bygone times much like it could be said MAGAists and Brexiters did. And I say that as someone who identifies as both.
So is it really mad that long running leader of a country that is a shadow of it's former self harbours desires for old glories? Not really. But it's also not reality, those times are gone.
Or are they... we like to think that because it's present year that somehow intrisic human nature has changed.
Yeah well. Here's an annecdote from Putins childhood. He grew up in a single room apartment with his parents and in an autogiograhpery commissioned when Putin was made Prime Minister out of no where Putins tells the tale of how he learnt to never corner the rat in his room as whent he rat was backed into a corner that was when it would jump at you.

I trust people realise why I recount this Putin childhood yarn. Russia has been backed into a corner and Putin has acted as he has thought best fit (jumping) as so have his politbuero. Agree or disagree, tis not the machinations of an unhinged mind. If it was Putin backed into a corner he'd have called in old favours, eg Bill Clinton paid 500k to speak for 45 minutes at a Rosatom dinner event, to flee to the west from a population out for him after years of feathering his own nest. That is not the case

Pffft, "Being torn into dichtomnous camps"
I trust you understand the context behind that statement. I wish you the best of health but you really should expand your horizons beyond one of football-eqsue tribalism. It may just save innocent lives from pointless proxy wars fought at the behest of monied interests :)

...but NATO.
Damn character count lol.

The Ruskie air defense system is actually really good and unlike a lot of newer NATO toys it is properly battle tested and likely manned by veterans of Syria. More migs may help defend west of the Dniper but I for one would not want to be in one of those migs sent on a mission anywhere near the Ruskie front let alone to strike second and rear line targets. Forget Belarus as that would be a suicide sortie. Interior defense, alrighty then.
Also can you say escalation?
As an asideI feel compelled to reiterate I watched the nuclear power plant battle live, nothing hit the reactor. It was all aimed at a car parking lot, an office building used for training and the reception area to a welcome facility. Not sure what that mayor who declared shelling was even talking about as 30 mm chainguns, RPGs, 7.62 mm small arms fire and javelins shelling does not equal. But people report what that mayor said as fact. Well it sure anit what I saw nor have been able to verify since beyond what I said.
BUT MUH MAD VLAD DAMAGED A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. Nyet. There was a fire in an office building caused by nurermous things like breaching charges, tracers, ammo stockpiles igniting, RPGs etc, it was put out once the plant was secured. Also certain elements of Zelensky's government did muse upon the notion of an irradiated scorched Earth policy weeks before the invasion of Ukraine.
Now I wonder why the Ruskies have gone out of their way to capture nuclear power plants with as little damage to infrastructure as possible. Almost as if the Russian Army has made it a strategic imperative that such a scenario never plays out.
Za vas paschim liquidakor Chernobyl N Pripyat!

Also there is credible reason to believe hardcore elements within the Ukraine army that is defending Mariopol are the ones preventing humanitarian corridors there as they know once the civilians leave then the 205 mm Ruskie howiters will start to sing in their direction. Some people only care about civvies/innoncents dying once they are made aware of such things.
Civvies have been dying in the Donbass region at the hands of Ukraine hardcore elements for 8 years now. This is fact.
There is an argument to be made for hypocrisey towards those who only now argue about innocents dying within Ukraine. This could all have been prevented by our lot taking the Minsk Agreement seriously. But our lot did not and now here we all are. Being torn into dichtomnous camps domestically while an enteriely preventable and pointless brother war rages once more in Europe.
I do feel for the innocents caught up in all this but at the same time I will not prevent moral pearl clutching to distract me from the cold hard facts of "the grand chessboard".
If serious about wanting to stop the bloodshed then one should be in agreement that it is time for the Zelensky government to surrender with terms that don't include fantasical nonsense like the return of Crimea. Ukraine concedes Donbass and Crimea, is free to join EU but not

Jesus wept how anyone can claim russian hackers are the greatest threat when you have the CCP is beyond me.

Hurtle, well said and you spelt Burisma correctly. I believe there is also around 4 daughters/sons of sitting US congressmen/women are on the Board of various Ukrainian oil and gas companies. Smacks as the same stuff that happened under Putin when Yeltsin was still President and Putin was still a fresh faced barely known out of no where Prime Minister. Skimming off the top left and right while allowing foriegn interests to benefit for leverage later.
MFW politicis is sleezy the world over. Be nice if we could get back to EUA but alas I fear a political angle will have entered these boards for as long as geopolitics demands it. If surrender this ends quickly. If all strategic cities, powerplants, Military Industry Capacity taken with most of Ukr army encircled before Zelensky accepts terms then this could be a few months yet before we even think about occupation politics with Zelensky gov acting in exile and Kremlin likely holding most of East Ukraine to Kiev. If Odessa falls there will be a much smaller area Russian forces would have to checkpoint to prevent NATO toys being sent to hot zones and Ukraine would become landlocked. So imo still a Russian strategic imperative.
The longer Zelensky drags this out the better Russia's positon becomes and the worse Zelensky's. Despite claims on the radio while I am at work it would appear that Russia domestically speaking is BAU when it comes to grocery store prices, the average Ruskie is either midly supportive of the invasion or quite supportive and there is a sense of, how to put this, not that USSR is coming back but made in Russia will come back thanks to the corporate globalised world of the west turning their back on them.

Rather than spend my time researching what's occuring in Ukraine I've spent my after work time chatting with Ruskies in their places of the interwebs. Take Facebook and Twitter being blocked. They don't care cos they use Discord and a Ruskie homebrew social media initialed as VK. As for protests. No where near as numerous as some are trying to make out. 3500 arrested for protesting invasion in a country as big and populous as Russia is quite insignificant statisically speaking.
So basically it would appear to this burger flipper who prefers to find things out for himself that western attempts to break Russian economy, even if successful, will only cause a Make Russia Great Again effect as seen with the corporate woke western world turning on Trump and trying to "cancel" him again and again.

This is all rather depressing as personally when I invested with EUA I was proud of the fact I was doing my part to help everyday people in the Kola region have jobes for generations while I make some money as well. Now you have people expecting you to divest yourself of such things out of some moral pearl clutching logic however if you don't want Putin to have a big army everyday Russians need jobs.

I'm kinda meandering here so I'll leave it there.
Za vas paschim. (To the fallen).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSjSPQIZdQs
I challenge anyone not to shed a tear or cry outright during this exchange between 2 brothers in arms that served in the Afghanistan Occupation, survived it only to find themselves as brothers in conflict during the Chechen war. Do not underestimate the sense of brotherhood that exists even in war. However orders are orders tavorisch, da?

Here's a comment from the comment section on youtube for further context. I cried hard watching this last night and reading the comment section afterwards. War is hell.
"According to an article, Alik was Ivan Savin, a Russian Colonel who sent 1,000 of his men to what I think would have been the Central railway station to capture it. As heard in this clip a Chechen commander Turpal Ali Atgeriyev tries to console with Alik in an attempt to stop the attack. Alik refused because he was under orders and the attack went underway. While the battalion secured the perimeter with vehicles, a radioman heard the words 'Welcome to hell' on his headset before the battalion was attacked with automatic and RPG weapons fire. Alik called for support multiple times with his friends on the line inside the station building but nothing came. With most of the 1,000 he died fighting.

copied from original video."

As for Pentagon intelligence. X for doubt.

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Yeah dude, well played CTC1988. One of these days I'll be making those kinds of punts :)
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I agree, let's stay focused on what we got. On a sidenote, lol at the spread.
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Good post as per Tigra. Godspeed ;)
Did another 200 quid sell and rebuy in the ISA before I even had a coffee to think about it lol. Almost feels like playing MM games of my own, except at a loss cos I'm a lowly pi lmao. Taken another 1.4p off the average, happy with that even if after 2 rounds of this new strat I've lost 520 odd shares. Average down from 18.6 to 15.2 though which works for me.
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I'd be pretty dissapointed with 40p given everything that has developed since I first invested. Bin lids all round ;) And that's me being conservative given wider geopol context. I had upped my own personal expectation in line with the ACF reports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_OxKOjGmz4
Multicam livestream, bottom right camera shows what appears to be an assembly point for citizens to muster and leave. Cam 6 (middle right) has had the sound of offscreen RPGs and sporadic small arms fire so ceasefire may not be country wide.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/breaking-russia-declares-ceasefire-in-ukraines-mariupol-to-open-humanitarian-corridors-says-report/ar-AAUDEsG
"Ceasefire to let Mariupol residents evacuate, says Russian defence ministry. Russia's defence ministry announced a ceasefire on Saturday to allow residents of two besieged cities, including the strategic port town of Mariupol, to evacuate. "Today, March 5, from 10 am Moscow time, the Russian side declares a regime of silence and opens humanitarian corridors for the exit of civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha," the ministry said."

All good Rayski, I hear you on the fatigue front. My sleep pattern is outta the window since Putin invaded Ukraine. I imagine some people are just waking up to the news about Hungary banning wheat exports and the price of wheat as a result.
https://www.ifcm.co.uk/market-data/commodities-prices/wheat

And people were worried about the current inflationary pressures and subequent cost of living lol.

You sure you not getting your wires crossed here as unless I am missing something Eurasia Mining (EUA) is not anywhere in that article.

"Eurasia Drilling Company Limited

Fitch has downgraded Eurasia Drilling Company Limited's (EDC) LT FC IDR and LT LC IDR to 'B' from 'BB+' and placed them on RWN. EDC is among Russia's largest onshore oil drilling companies with a high reliance on a single customer Lukoil. It has FX debt.

For further drivers see 'Fitch Affirms Russia's Eurasia Drilling Company Limited at 'BB+'; Outlook Stable' dated 28 June 2021"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTEpYQ3AxEU
Map showing territorial changes including major towns/cities, mountain ranges and approximate division strength locations on day 9 of Russian invasion of Ukraine. I'd love to know what that Russian division down by Moldova are doing. I must confess to only having heard of Transnistria recently, must be garrisoning that area I assume.
Orrr they are waiting for an amphibious assault on Odessa to then join in the assault thereof. Of which the fall would lock up quite a chunk of Ukraines ability to move people, goods and hardware across their western border due to the Karpathian Mountain ranges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvuPTuMokQ8
Skip to 1:15 to jump over the book plug. Video title
"Palladium Price Explodes, Gold Rallies as LMBA Eyes Russian Refineries"
Good video, worth ten minutes of your time imo.

Ice, I sold within the ISA. I'd be waiting min 2 days to transfer between accounts. Plus stock market losses can be claimed against CGT :) I just hope the BOD get this liquidity event over the line in time for me to declare SXX losses within the 4 year timescale tehe. I am confident they will.

Roger, if you are concerned about the money you have in here but also want to drag your average down without adding capitol just do small sells and rebuys. I sold 200 quids worth and rebought earlier and somehow my ISA cost is down 350 odd quid down and my average had almost 2p shaved off it.
All the best.

Given I'm skint I can't grab more but also given the disparity between my ISA average and SP I just lost 300odd shares selling 200 quids worth and then rebuying. Knocked 1.7p off my ISA average so, to me, those 300 odd shares were worth the sacrifice and I get to feel like I took advantage of the SP situation once again. Given I have way more shares in ISA than I did in trading when I first invested in EUA I may do it that a couple more times until we get out of this invasion fueled situation. Not advice, just sharing my burger flipping experiance of investing.
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