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I have a feeling decision to gradually abandon Ukraine has already been made - it's hard, it's expensive, it's no longer so popular, there are elections to be contested, someone else will deal with the fallout, lets focus on Israel, we need Russia to deal with Iran, lets not make Russia an easy prey to China etc etc etc Some are saying once the assistance clears the House, the floodgates will open, I fear it will just start dripping again or they will focus on delivering stuff prepared six months ago which isn't urgent but is simply in the spreadsheet. it will be just another in the long sequence of myopic decisions which later come back to bite you on the arse.

Ola muchachos! Tengo tres sobres en la mano.

But only if we improve our shots fired / shots blocked ratio.

Three weeks out for Bradley they are saying,

Maybe it's the wrong boots? He fell over for both Palace biggest chances.

They will just kick it down to the Slough House.

I think Trofimov of WSJ (or is it FT?) wrote a book dealing with negotiations, as far as I recall from an interview, Russian demand of neutrality included Ukraine giving up all foreign military aid and links, not just potential bases or NATO membership, on top of contentious subject of limiting Ukrainian military size. There were also, as stated in this article as well, no indications what happens with occupied territories, and obviously, the key question of security guarantees - that the US (and its allies presumably, like the UK) would go to war with Russia if it decides to continue with the war or initiates new round of hostilities after a ceasefire, which as we can see now, Russians were well aware would never happen, even if the security guarantors actually signed anything (which they wouldn't). So in essence, Ukraine would have agreed that Russia can dictate its foreign policy, size of the military, has a pretext for invasion if it is not happy with how Ukrainians are honouring the agreement (see Minsk which they already used for justifying the invasion), keep the occupied territories whilst Ukraine would depend on fickle Western governments that cannot come up with a plan of long term sustainable logistical support and constantly put various obstacles in front of delivery of various weapons to actually go to war with a nuclear power. Which the said nuclear power has the right to veto anyway, according to some of the drafts. I think Russia was just buying time and trying to see what they can get through other means while they regroup.

The question is, as I understand it, when do we rest two or three of the key players that look most in need of a rest, in the game we have almost no chance of winning, and which then potentially leads to a trophy we don't rate much or in one of the league games, where we can still be in contention for what matters the most. Also, if something were to happen in the Thursday game, it would probably equally depend on how well Atalanta play, not just on us, as in, we need them to be bad, make mistakes, start panicking.

Sorry, what context? We are two points off in the title race, and 3-0 down away to a decent Italian side. How likely it is we can overcome this side which has just amply demonstrated they know how to play against us? So lets prioritize EL and go chase a Miracolo a Bergamo. And disregard the unlikely but by no means unimaginable possibility City may drop points but we were not able to capitalize because we prioritized the EL?

Prioritizing Europa League over the title race? Fucking hell. By all means have a go, but... fucking hell.

As far as I recall, it's true except he made Adam Driver's character Jewish which he wasn't, toned down that the white guy did all the dangerous work and that the black guy was mostly doing the undercover work against the Black Panther Party, including the infamous agent provocateur stuff and entrapment.

That would be truly shocking if it's him.

There was some ridiculous number of separate groups at one time, like 300 or even 3,000, I know it was incredible. Even on the regime's side there were all sorts of militias, domestic and foreign. And that is even before you get to Isis, Al Qaida, Iran and Russia. And Turkey.

Oil slightly down today.

It has probably changed since six months probably given to Netenyahu have passed and it is clear that Israel's operation in Gaza has reached its limits with respect to Hamas and is going nowhere.

I am referring to their leaders.

Now that we've blown it on all fronts the pressure will be off and with hopefully end of a period of rotten luck we will get a lot of our confidence back and start winning again. It probably wouldn't be enough but this race has already turned several times this year and there may be more twists and turns down the road. Or it may just be a procession for City. We have still already made massive strides in the right direction compared to last season, other than Klopp leaving obviously, but maybe this new guy has some good ideas, who knows. I may have reached my limit of doom and gloom today, lets start looking at what we are building, which is good and quite promising and forget about Klopp's send-offs and quadruples and Alonso the savior and other stuff mostly living only in our heads.

Because western defense of Israel (and from Jordan and Iraq) is a good thing, especially if it makes Israel more reliant on this support. If Iran actually managed to score real important hits that would be disastrous. And people on here seem to have a problem with this for some reason. Iran doesn't care about Palestinians, neither do Yemenis. They are just using them.

How are Iran and Assad good guys for you people? Bizarre.

You would think the players would at least be interested in winning the league, regardless what happens to the manager.

I just couldn't help but read it in the voice of George Galloway.

I love it how we only need to win our last six games and they will both drop points. And at the same time we can't fucking score at home.

I hoped we would cut our goal difference deficit to Arsenal today. And we did!