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So they downed a Russian drone but lost a whole city to the Russian army. .

Denmark too on a similar very large scale. We do too in Britain, my waste goes to the Beddington Waste to Energy plant, today's every week batch leaving here this morning. And my mixed waste, like hundreds of others in this area is NOT sorted into recycling, since we physically cannot have...

As I posted, he regrets the passing of the USSR, but in addition questions the status of Donbass as many do. The basis is the CIA started euromaidan revolution, later renamed Maidan, then the Orange revolution. That was only supported by a quarter of the population when they seized power by...

Inded Biden hasn't abandoned them. It's the Republican right who are blocking the money Ukraine needs and what you say about Trump's intentions is very true. But Ukraine manpower pushing Russian militarists out of the way is sheer fantasy. Putin's Russia won't budge from Ukraine as the...

As ever you are looking at the present and ignoring what went before. Ukraine set itself on the NATO path as far back as 2004 and did not agree that they wouldn't join NATO before the war. Even shortly after the war started, the nearest Zelensky got to that was musing publically during a...

The Dutch who have a big bike theft problem have a best of both world's solution. They often buy expensive new pedelecs and then make them look terrible. Hand brush painting parts of the frame and rims etc with different colours, adding disreputable worn panniers and hand grips, their...

They are not forced is correct, they are bribed by the USA with money, flooded with help, by EU membership promises. Between 2004 and 2008 when Putin finally lost his temper with Georgia and attacked, the USA had literally thousands of Americans in that country, steering and bribing them to be...

The forum is a bit like comics and the tabloid press Chris. Mostly useless but very entertaining nonetheless. .

Don't feel too bad, I did it once myself with a new TV set that had it's mains On/0ff switch designed into the cabinet so well that it was invisible unless knowing where it was. Not having one didn't seem odd since some sets, including my present one, don't have them. .

A typical American answer, avoiding the questions and replying with distortions. Untrue, Russia with its huge land mass is a superpower on all resources, the envy of the USA with much of its own resources already spent. Blatantly untrue, ignoring the facts. Long, long before there were any...

The threat of his nuclear arsenal is all he's got to deter NATO from physically entering the Ukraine conflict. Biden has threatened quid pro quo. And to say we haven't threatened anything is a travesty of the truth. NATO was set up solely as opposition to the USSR, but has been used to...

Their critics are right, it's silly fear mongering. Russia will not attack any NATO country or one like Sweden which is on the brink of accession to NATO. In any case they would have to go though Finland to attack Sweden and Finland is already a full NATO member since last April. .

This is Alberta where the crude oil bearing Tar Sands also are. If they catch fire, extinguishing them could be nightmarishly difficult. .

Yes, one false claim, that nitrogen pollution was halved. So only the claimed level of reduction was ruled against, but only the grounds that it was not backed by evidence. The reduction might have been halved, but in any event it was still very real and worthwhile as any such reduction is...

Thank you. I don't know who Nealh was referring to or know of that particular dismissal. Such rare dismissals are not openly notified, those lost just disappear. I only know of the other two since one of them was known to me through living not far away. .

I don't know where you get that idea from. The last two I saw were abruptly dismissed at the first offence of its type, which was deemed bad enough. Behaviours that don't meet that standard are not acted upon, no matter how many times reported. That's the light touch, not acting for dictators. .

There are two, I've communicated with both, met one and very long ago turned down the chance to become one. Moderate cyclists? Mad I am not! I've seen former members dismissed for extreme misconduct. It's not easy to achieve though, since a very light touch control is preferred by the...

You're missing the point and so are some who've unwisely bought one. They are high population density city vehicles which are nothing to do with climate change. Their purpose, like e-buses here, is to solve the very real severe air pollution problem. They have absolutely no problem doing a...

Yes, it was a daft startup at the outset, and not the only would-be newcomer to the EV van and truck business who will fold. The existing commercials companies already had that scene well covered. .

But they'd be mugs to pay. There is no threat, not now or within half a lifetime. The so-called threat to Europe from Russia is a fabrication and non-existent, the USA's usual sabre rattling. And China won't be ready to take on the world until at least half a century, not that they even want...