Makes the west look weak, nothing we can say will change China's position. If we give them or Russia anything they get a small win and prepare for the next invasion a few years down the road.

Send Ukraine the weapons it needs, France has sent very little compared to the U.S., UK, Germany, Canada and even Poland.

Cooperation with the Russians on the ISS should've stopped when they brought up the Luhansk and Donetsk flag and claiming they've been liberated from Ukraine.

I believe they also have 100 Typhoon jets, even if a handful of them are in working order is still directs the heat at the UK breaking the taboo so others can send theirs.

Britain to train Ukraine combat fighter pilots

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has committed to training Ukrainian combat jet pilots, according to a statement made ahead of a Feb. 8 visit to London by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

https://www.defensenews.com/training-sim/2023/02/08/britain-to-train-ukraine-combat-fighter-pilots/

I hope most of these comments hating on Boris are bots, he's keeping Ukraine in the media and putting pressure on governments to act. He's doing exactly what Zelenskyy wants and for some reason everyones shitting on him.

Arent they training pilots already? I remember reading something about that.

Seriously, every thread about the UK has at least 1 person bringing it up regardless of topic.

Considering many places like hospitals want a test 3 days before you visit shows that the virus can be dormant/undetectable after soon getting it.

People on planes can easily give it to each other and not be picked up by tests.

Luggage and clothing can also contain the virus which may infect them shortly after.

Ban them at least until they've gone though their wave.

Its not like Putin randomly decided to attack Ukraine the day of, hes trying to finish an invasion he started in 2014 and should probably be a bit more equiped.

How so? They're building another pipeline to Russia to suck up all that cheap gas.

They're probably selling them all the winter clothes, MRE's and military equipment too.

The west is also worse off since this invasion, billions have been lost sending military/humanitarian aid, billions more will likely be lost to rebuild Ukraine. China sits back not spending a dime, gets some intel on our weapon systems and our military logistics/tactics.

If things get super bad for Russia they might offer China some land for more support.

I dont believe you can actually kick a country out which was a big mistake in its creation.

>A significant amount of politics for the Macron government plays out on WhatsApp or Telegram.

...world leaders are really using foreign owned private company messaging software, jesus christ.

"All that is said on Telegram is potentially listened to by the Russians and the Americans," said Thomas Gassilloud, the Renaissance MP and chairman of the National Defense and Armed Forces Commission at the Assemblée Nationale. "

Are you going to correct me?

Go on then MR FACT CHECKER, how many days of gas storage does the UK have, and how many private vs public gas companies are there?

"It lasted for one hour only and a more standard spot price now around €50/MWh remains twice the norm for European gas."

>domestic production and storage in the UK now

The UK has some of the lowest levels of gas storage in Europe at 9 days and again all these gas companies are privately owned and can sell to Europe at a higher price or force the UK to pay a lot more than if they were state owned.

Theres also no guarentee the rest of Europe will sell any of their stored gas to the UK or at least massively over charge them so most people wont be able to afford it.

Even if we have the gas to not cause a blackout the poorest people might be forced into one due to not being able to pay the bills.

Because gas is limited and countries that heavily relied on Russia for gas are now importing from sources the UK do like Norway (which provides 1/3rd of UK gas). The increased demand also had private companies extracting it in the UK and exporting it to Europe because they can sell it for more.

Still half the power generation is from gas, expect energy prices to get a lot higher in the winter and possibly even have blackouts.