I’ve a spare room in the office here that I’ve also logged, although I dont think it will be practical as we are far too rural with fuck all transport and not within walking distance to shops. Will see what they come back with, fuck all in the scheme of things to do, but sure if it could help someone then we will try make it work. What we lack in public transport we make up for tranquil and nice areas with beaches!
Local church where I am here in Espana was collecting food etc to send off to Ukraine or to refugees in Poland. (Ukranian priest in the church). Church storage was robbed last weekend. Some proper scum out there all the same.
Apparently some other folk going around “collecting” money and food for the Ukranians, but keeping it themselves.
Brian McAlduff seems to be the Irish Ambassador to Russia, and if I were his family, I’d be worried, because there’s little or nothing about him to be found online, so if I were to guess I would suggest Russia have already disappeared him.
It’s all relative really. Damaging the gates is fairly petulant and yer man behind it appears to be a headbanger with a chequered past. But it’s not like he turned up at the ambassador’s residence with a box of Ferrero Rochet. That could have caused a serious diplomatic incident requiring UN intervention given the horrific nature of the “chocolate” (as @backinatracksuit confirmed previously).
Based on war games I ran in the wake of Putin’s 2014 invasion, a more likely option would be a sudden nuclear test or a high-altitude nuclear detonation that damages the electrical grid over a major Ukrainian or even Nato city. Think of an explosion that makes the lights go out over Oslo.
Those war games indicated that the best US response to this kind of attack would be first to demonstrate US resolve with a response in kind, aimed at a target of similar value, followed by restraint and diplomatic efforts to de-escalate. In most games, Russia still responds with a second nuclear attack, but in the games that go “well”, the United States and Russia manage to de-escalate after that, although only in circumstances where both sides have clear political off-ramps and lines of communication between Moscow and Washington have remained open. In all the other games, the world is basically destroyed.
The US have war gamed every possible scenario with every president and every Secretary of defence…when donald rumsfeld was Secretary every possible scenario resulted in total destruction of h7manity.