Russia v Ukraine

[Strontium]

On 14/11/2021 at 12:50, Captain Willard said:

One things for sure, if he does invade, you can bet the SWP backed Stop the war campaign will be curiously silent. 

 

Eye-opening thread from a while ago:

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

5 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Eye-opening thread from a while ago:

 

 

"Eye-opening" indeed.

 

11 tweets to say "Stop the War oppose the wars our government engages in in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc. and also opposes threats to repeat the same deadly mistakes in Iran".

[Anubis]

War! Huh!

What is it good for?

Distracting from Christmas lockdown

Say it again!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above is a joke, and not a conspiracy theory. Just before you start in.

[Gnasher]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

War! Huh!

What is it good for?

Distracting from Christmas lockdown

Say it again!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The above is a joke, and not a conspiracy theory. Just before you start in.

I feel like the annoying kid who spends the whole game goal hanging on the other teams six yard box berating his own teammates for not passing him the ball but I thumping your inch perfect pass which has left their keeper in no man's land and me alone two yards out straight into the back of the fucking net,

 

Over to you Edwin;

 

 

[Stouffer]

Like the start of Threads this. 

[Vincent Vega]

Garry Kasparov’s analysis seems sound to me. 

 

 

[Section_31]

1 hour ago, Vincent Vega said:

Garry Kasparov’s analysis seems sound to me. 

 

 

 

The Pilgemeister ain't so sure. 

 

 

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Pffft. Kasparov.

What would he understand about strategy and tactics?

[SasaS]

22 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

 

The Pilgemeister ain't so sure. 

 

 

 

 

Yes Pilger, it's all about terrorising the Russian minority and Nazism.

[Section_31]

Worst thing about any upcoming belligerent activities will be listening to US State Department talking heads pronouncing Moscow as Moss-cow  

[Bruce Spanner]

1 hour ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Pffft. Kasparov.

What would he understand about strategy and tactics?

 

I was reading a piece on Carlson the other day, he's threatened to not compete in the World Championship next year as there's nobody to really challenge him, except an 18 year old prodigy.

 

As you're reading it you realise that he's actually playing chess with the governing body and looking at all these permutations and percentages ect.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec/17/magnus-carlsen-chess-alireza-firouzja-world-title

 

Quite remarkable to see and understand the world in those terms.

 

 

[KMD7]

11 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

I was reading a piece on Carlson the other day, he's threatened to not compete in the World Championship next year as there's nobody to really challenge him, except an 18 year old prodigy.

 

As you're reading it you. realise that he's actually playing chess with the governing body and looking at all these permutations and percentages ect.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/dec/17/magnus-carlsen-chess-alireza-firouzja-world-title

 

Quite remarkable to see and understand the world in those terms.

 

 

Did you keep an eye on his match with Nepo Bruce?  Won game six (longest classical game ever recorded) after the first 5 were drawn and ran away with it from there on in. The guys a machine. He actually looked bored during the match so I'm not totally surprised at what he's said about stepping back from it.

I wonder if Fide will change the format of the final from now on to keep him sweet? 

[Bruce Spanner]

1 minute ago, KMD7 said:

Did you keep an eye on his match with Nepo Bruce?  Won game six (longest classical game ever recorded) after the first 5 were drawn and ran away with it from there on in. The guys a machine. He actually looked bored during the match so I'm not totally surprised at what he's said about stepping back from it.

I wonder if Fide will change the format of the final from now on to keep him sweet? 

 

Yeah, kept up with it, he came out and said he was bored at one point as there wasn't much point seeing it through after he broke him as he knew he'd won, though that's part of the game as well I s'pose, damn he's good.

 

Imagine being that peerless, must be a lonely place.

[KMD7]

4 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Yeah, kept up with it, he came out and said he was bored at one point as there wasn't much point seeing it through after he broke him as he knew he'd won, though that's part of the game as well I s'pose, damn he's good.

 

Imagine being that peerless, must be a lonely place.

Yep. Not much else he can aim for now except try and break into the 2900 rating.  It's funny as he was (for his high standards) not firing on all cylinders during the meltwater online championship earlier this year but still ended up winning it. Peerless indeed.

[aws]

I suppose as an alternative to winding up the tension we could always ask Ukraine to implement the terms of the Minsk Agreement they signed up to a few years ago. 

[Bjornebye]

Russia are always after a rook 

[Lario]

Thought there was gonna be more pictures of hot women if I'm honest.

[Bjornebye]

 

vs

 

 

[Section_31]

Loving the lads on here talking about chess matches like they're a game of darts. Love the GF. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

44 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Loving the lads on here talking about chess matches like they're a game of darts. Love the GF. 

War, chess and fit lasses on the same page. Where else are you going to get that?

[Gnasher]

For those promoting the veiws and theories of Gary Kasparov because the man used to be a chess genius Valdimir Pultin sends you this link,

 

https://allthatsinteresting.com/bobby-fischer

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Wondered how long it'd take Pilger to tell everyone it's the West's fault.

[Gnasher]

12 hours ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

Wondered how long it'd take Pilger to tell everyone it's the West's fault.

Not without merit though, the west has for decades embarked on a policy of steamrolling into eastern Europe for the purpose of controlling assets, gaining cheap labour and the USA getting one up on those nasty Russians. In return the west bungs the new hierarchy of these countries a load of money, and tells its people they're going to have a pocket full of lovely 'freedom'. Unfortunately the new government the USA rubber stamps often consists of some of world's worst right wing nutjobs.

 

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/eu-reports-find-workers-from-eastern-europe-face-low-wages-exploitative-working-conditions/

[Babb'sBurstNad]

5 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

Not without merit though, the west has for decades embarked on a policy of steamrolling into eastern Europe for the purpose of controlling assets, gaining cheap labour and the USA getting one up on those nasty Russians. In return the west bungs the new hierarchy of these countries a load of money, and tells its people they're going to have a pocket full of lovely 'freedom'. Unfortunately the new government the USA rubber stamps often consists of some of world's worst right wing nutjobs.

 

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/eu-reports-find-workers-from-eastern-europe-face-low-wages-exploitative-working-conditions/

There's always some merit to what Pilger says, that's what makes his instinctive anti-imperialist reaction to similarly overlook the evils of non-Western authoritarian regimes so sad. He's an invaluable tool in holding our own government to account, but he's also a polemicist who'll gloss over human rights abuses. I'm glad he lives in a society where he's able to say these things though.

[Gnasher]

26 minutes ago, Babb'sBurstNad said:

There's always some merit to what Pilger says, that's what makes his instinctive anti-imperialist reaction to similarly overlook the evils of non-Western authoritarian regimes so sad. He's an invaluable tool in holding our own government to account, but he's also a polemicist who'll gloss over human rights abuses. I'm glad he lives in a society where he's able to say these things though.

Fair enough.