Russian invasion of Ukraine

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/senior-ukrainian-officer-coordinated-nord-stream-attack-washington-post-2023-11-12/

WaPo and Der Spiegel special report. Link says it all.

Read that in Swedish news this morning. Apparently Zelensky wasn’t aware of it happening.

How bad is this for Ukraine if it turns out to be true?

Who cares. We’re better off without it. Ukraine did us a favor

Valid point, but I'm curious to see how it reflects on Zelensky / Ukraine / the war

Badly by those who want it to reflect badly, well by those who want it to reflect well.

The polite thing to do would be to blow it up closer to Russia rather than right outside Bornholm, but other than that they did a splendid job.

What's the 'we' in this question? This post makes me wonder if you are accessing the forum from Russia?

Well, that's my question.

And I challenge you to a duel, sir.

Have at it, scoundrel.

How very dare you?

Well done, great achievement.

You're not supposed to add milk. It's the only time in ever likely to agree with a vegan

user156774 doesn’t add milk to tea=obviously forrin
As you can only duel with a social equal shall I put the pistols away again Lord Otter

One adds tea to milk, not the other way around.

One can fuck off unless one uses a teapot into ones overly delicate china cup. Plenty of teas are better sans milk, but a proper brew is in a mug and you put the milk in afterwards, even with my fancy ones where it's not cooling down the water before it's finished steeping it's nice to have some fine final control over milk levels. Also good oat milk is fine, just gotta give your taste buds a week to adjust, it makes less difference than using already boiled water.

I wrote all this shite then had a moment of wondering whether I'd become desensitised to this war or distracted by others or both, probably both.

One adds tea to milk, not the other way around.

If you want to flag yourself as middle class with pretensions. "Milk in first" is a pejorative term among the actual English aristocracy.

Did not know this!
Was just doing an obvious. I don't actually care about milk/tea order and seem to have stopped drinking tea lately in any case.

Probably both, but threads going OT is normal, even serious ones.

All the Ruzzian bot accounts of twitter have account names that end with a number. Who would have thought the vatnik robots would find their way to LFGSS.

I'm not surprised tbh, they'll add influence where they can. Doubt LFGSS will provide fertile ground, but other big forums are probably quite an easy target

Not British, but Western. As for my earlier question about your origins, I find it odd that you would know about the forum blocking Russia unless you are actually there yourself. But never mind, if you're here to talk about bikes and are open to reading about our hatred of Putin and the Russian Armed forces, be my guest I guess.
Now back to your initial comment, if I understand you correctly you're suggesting the West's democracy is as flawed as Russia's. What do you base that on? Sure, as a Green Party voter I would certainly wish for a different result, but that being said, I accept the results as valid. How would you convince me otherwise?

You wrote this reply at roughly 4:00 UK time but OK.
I read through my post again and see stuff one might disagree with, but can't quite spot a contradiction. You're welcome to point it out?

Where are you?

Interesting. What's the general idea about the war where you are? Are people being supportive? Angry? Fed up?

Amazing. Just like here. Who would've thought.