Jimmy_D

My guess, Trump is desperate for this war to end by any means possible so he can say he ended it, because he thinks it'll mean he gets a Nobel Peace Prize like Obama got. I'd guess The US have taken Russia's position, adjusted it with the bare minimum they think they can surrender to on Ukraine's behalf, so they have to negotiate with Russia as little as possible, still ended up with something that's not acceptable to Russia, and of course something that could never be accepted by Ukraine either.

He hasn't though, there's in effect nothing for Ukraine to accept, Russia have already rejected it.

Looks like Russia will let Trump's deadline pass. Ukraine's options are to let Russia commit genocide, or to do everything to try to stop Russia committing genocide. It's happened before that Putin has embarrassed Trump, and support for Ukraine has continued, albeit limited as it's been under Trump.

Feel sorry for Still to a certain extent as I think there’s a decent manager there, and obviously the team are playing with a hundred times more confidence now, that makes any tactic work far better. Eckert benefited from Romeu coming back in at the same time, it’s difficult to read how much impact that’s made, as well as that most elusive aspect managers are always chasing, a bit of luck, especially getting that first win. That said, if the team continues ticking over like this, and look like they’re this confident in the tactics, there’s absolutely no reason to disrupt that. How often do we see a new manager bounce? Or a win after an international break? Or in more recent seasons, any sort of comfortable control of a game?

Brilliant first half, and we were able to just control the game 2nd half with a tricky midweek game coming up. One lapse in concentration from a set piece aside, (when 5-0 up!) that was a damn near perfect performance.

Fantastic half of football!

You seem to be under the impression that Russia can maintain what they’re currently doing indefinitely. They can’t. They’ve already lost significant capabilities that they had at the start of the war, with no way to reconstitute them any time soon, most significantly the Black Sea Fleet, the vast majority of any tank forces, full AWACS coverage, any ability to operate aircraft over unoccupied Ukraine, and their own comprehensive air defence. It will be decades before they get back even to what they had at the start of the war.

At the start of the war? Everyone thought Russia were a peer to the USA. Now? Even after switching to a war economy, Russia can’t protect their own skies, they’re torching their economy deeper and deeper, more and more unsustainably, to fund their military. Materiel consists more and more of civilian equipment, throwing thousands of barely trained troops and foreign mercenaries into gaining small Pyrrhic victories. They can still cause an awful lot of pain, but they don’t have the military means to defeat Ukraine. Oil money is running out, transport companies are going bankrupt, and even oil companies are going under. In Russia! The biggest lever they have left is terror, targeting civilians in a desperate hope that it becomes too painful to continue, and they’re pulling on that lever as viciously as they possibly can, but that won’t stop Ukraine militarily.

I wasn’t suggesting that you had said that, just simply demonstrating how utterly ludicrous the idea is, and has always been, that the UK military is as weak as you keep trying to imply.

So what would Russia’s plan be to invade the UK and ‘steamroll’ our military alone?

Obviously pretty limited opposition, but for the first time in a very long time, it actually felt like we were relatively comfortable in a game at St Mary’s!

Welcome back! 😇

Get in and **** you ref.

Great news!

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, although we were unlucky that literally every mistake ended up in the back of the net.