Is there going to be a war?

wanderlust wrote:Thanks for the update. Please post your links to the “experts” who have claimed Putin doesn’t have the option of blowing dams or using illegal weapons so I can contact them to put them right.

Sluffy wrote: Russia has already blown a few dams but the effectiveness is only temporary until the water level settles.

Sluffy wrote: If he goes down the nuclear or chemical rout America will retaliate - it is said they will simply sink the Russian Black Sea fleet.

wanderlust wrote:>10,000 Russian troops gathered in Belarus prompting concerns that Russia will open another front. Multiple sources.

Zelensky is worried about this dam as reported here and elsewhere but the US military strategist I quoted felt that far worse carnage could be caused by hitting two other dams of the Dniepro.

However an expert told me "the experts" say this isn't an option.

British intelligence update, as of today pic.twitter.com/2wbXpQz9ak

— ТРУХАEnglish (@TpyxaNews) October 21, 2022

wanderlust wrote:With winter and sub zero temperatures rapidly approaching the Russians have redoubled their efforts to deprive Ukraine of power and water - whilst digging in in the areas they currently hold.
There is nothing to stop the Russians from continuing to attack from a distance throughout the forthcoming winter so Ukraine needs to find a way to survive the next 4 or 5 months.
The record low temperature in February is -32 centigrade.

karlypants wrote:Vladimir Putin 'DOES have Parkinson's and cancer, leaked emails say' 


https://mol.im/a/11377825

Biggie wrote:Are Russia really dropping Satan 2 in the new year?

Sluffy wrote:I quite like Beau (Justin King) and have yet to see anything he's said that I would take issue with but he's still just a random bloke off social media - and I keep saying never trust anyone's word without checking things out for yourself first.

I'm not trying to torpedo him in any way but I post a link to an article giving some historical background on him that highlight that he once held views (maybe still has, maybe not, I don't know?) that haven't always been mainstream shall we say.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-03-30/google-moonshot-redirect-far-right-online-extremism-anarchist

Fwiw I think Beau has been speaking a great deal of sense on the YouTube clips I have seen so far in respect of the war.

boltonbonce wrote:Always worth a listen, unlike a few youtubers I could mention. Pretty balanced on the whole, and generally knows what he's talking about, again, unlike a few of them.
I don't pay much heed to most of them, due mainly to that little problem of 'confirmative bias'. That need we have to search out content that backs up our viewpoint, making it, in our eyes at least, the truth.
It's in all of us. I know it's there, so can control it. Some can't, and there's the rub.

Sluffy wrote:

Indeed Bonce.

Hatred and bias have ruined this site and those spouting it such as Wanderlust and Hip Priest were clearly engrossed in seeking out on social media, others who shared the same views as them - Confirmation Bias.

Multiple times I pointed this out (even linked to articles explaining what Confirmation Bias is and how damaging to them it was to their reasoning) but it was like trying to reason with stonewalls.

Sadly, with the advent of social media, people can believe any old bollocks they want and find instantly many holding the same views and supporting each other on them - despite it being absolutely untrue.

It gets to crazy levels - for instance Hip Priest chose to believe some random nutjob from Scunthorpe than the whole of the numerous public inquires and judicial findings in respect of the awarding of PPE contracts.

He probably still believes 'Phil' from Scunthorpe to this day!

Crazy, crazy, crazy attitude.

They want something to be so and will block out everything else that doesn't fit in with their belief.

We have half of America still believing Trump won the last election - despite absolutely zero evidence he did.

We have the vast majority in Russia believing Ukraine was going to invade them.

People are controlled and manipulated - always have been (what do people think religion basically is?) - but it happens instantaneously now with social media.

It's not going to go back to how the world was before social media so expect the craziness to get wilder and wilder as people now seem to believe everything they read on there to be true (if it is what they want to hear) and all a left-wing/right-wing plot against them if it isn't!!!

boltonbonce wrote:
A friend of mine turns off if anyone from the other side of politics comes on to give his side of any argument. Just not having it. He's made his mind up, barricaded the doors, and is ready to let loose the cannons.
Rather sad really. When we stop listening, we stop learning, and that benefits no one.

Sluffy wrote:

Your friend must be Wanderlust then.