Tell Me Something............Anything!

[Macca]

But it's gone from Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest mad, to Jack Nicholson in The Shining mad.

It think it sort of perpetually alternates between the two Jakes.

For 'The Shining' I'm a big fan of the 'Wendy Theory' which, if correct, means Jack isn't mad at all, but Wendy is:

[Alex_UK]

I don’t think Putin was expecting the strong resistance of the Ukrainians, or the united response from the West. I agree with Grant, this needs to be an “inside job” - you have to feel sorry for the Russian population, but they, the government and military need to say enough is enough...

[guy]

interesting trying to interpret the looks on the faces of the defence minister and and chief of staff as Putin told them to put nuclear forces on special regime of combat readiness

[Pigmy Pony]

interesting trying to interpret the looks on the faces of the defence minister and and chief of staff as Putin told them to put nuclear forces on special regime of combat readiness

I was doing that too - their heads were nodding agreement while their eyes barely managed to conceal their horror. I don't expect they'll ever be seen again.

[walpurgis]

interesting trying to interpret the looks on the faces of the defence minister and and chief of staff as Putin told them to put nuclear forces on special regime of combat readiness

I expect they are likely to have been told how to look. The whole thing may well be rehearsed.

There's a lot of 'spin' coming from all directions I think, notice how we mostly hear about the difficulties the Russians are encountering. It's likely negative news about Ukraine progress is suppressed.

[Mikeandvan]

Putin should have taken a leaf out of the U.S. handbook on war and called the invasion 'Humanitarian Intervention'.

[guy]

Putin should have taken a leaf out of the U.S. handbook on war and called the invasion 'Humanitarian Intervention'.

That is exactly what he has done - during the past couple of years over half a million Russian passports have been issued to residents of Donbass region of Ukraine.
He is now going in to protect those Russian citizens.

Putin doesn't need a handbook from anyone, he was trained as a lawyer and worked for the KGB for quite a few years before entering in to a career in extortion, corruption and self aggrandisement (whoops should read "politics", but spell checker took over )

[struth]

well he has pretty much got whole world bar belarus and to an extent, china agaist his country now. their finances are going back to stone age. he needs to wise up fast before someone in the kremlin does it for him.

[Pigmy Pony]

China knows what side its bread is buttered, and will know that a few million skint Russian citizens won't be enough to prop up their economy. They're already on a yellow card with me.

[guy]

Also China can't be too anti Russia over this invasion because they plan to do similar with Taiwan.
Sensible to sit back, be non committal and see what the west does with Russia.