I really don't know how to politely wish them what I really want to wish them so I'll just say hopefully they're healthy, smiling and VERY SUCCESSFUL after this is over!

It is clear that the UK is only allowing Visas in cases of family reunification, and not for elderly parents either. But you have to be able to fullfil minimum salary requirement, etc, and all through all the red tape and wait. Ukrainians have been turned back trying to get on Eurostar at Gare du Nord in Paris, trying to reach family in the UK.

Please read the link below.

https://www.freemovement.org.uk/can-...asylum-policy/


''Wilson Solicitors London: sorry to report that @ukhomeoffice is refusing entry to Ukrainians at Paris Gare du Nord (Eurostar) seeking to join family in the UK because they don't have a Visa. And not being helped to apply for such a Visa'.

So those people have managed to get out somehow, and made the long journey in hope of finding safety with relatives in UK - and now turned on the street in Paris. And you ask about my 'agenda'???

I hope your family and the close ones stay safe through all this.

Difficult to understand what central bank sanctions mean in practice.

Good article here.
"What does it mean that Russia “has” X or Y in foreign reserves? Where do these reserves exist?
The dollars, euros, and pounds owned by the Russian central bank—Russia may own them, but Russia does not control them. Almost all those hundreds of billions of Russian-owned assets are controlled by foreign central banks.
Russia’s reserves exist as notations in the records of central banks in the West, especially the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve."

So if Russia wants to deploy these reserves and then the ECB and the Fed say "no" then they are stuck in a bad place.

"Seven days to the Rhine", in 4 days they have not even managed the 400Km to Kyiv without running out of diesel.

And here we go. Putin orders RU nuclear forces on combat alert.

Putin is insane

This is madness ! fortunately I still have my copy of the Protect & Survive
leaflet published by HMSO when Maggie Thatcher was PM back in the 1980's.

In the end I didn't need it as the only Brits that were attacked back in the 1980's were those living on the Falkland Islands, admittedly by another dictator, General Galtieri.

The Red Army isn´t what it used to be it would seem and I´ll bet that the wargame scenarios will have been changed.

Just now on Sky News, Ukraine and Russia agreed to negotiations on the Belarus Ukrainian border.

Moscow reports that Ukraine agreed to talk to Russia in Gomel, Belarus.

For their peoples sake please let them stop fighting and start talking. This is madness and must be stopped.

Aaaand America puts it´s nuclear forces on high alert, Russia responds by alerting even higher, and the US ramps it up a notch. Russia goes to gas mark 11...

Are we really going to slide into a nuke war?

Just a few days ago, some EF members laughed at me for being concerned.

I am certainly not laughing now, perhaps they still find it funny

JW, I threw away my copies when we moved here in 2009 - safe in the knowledge we would never need them.

Anyone emptying the booze and baked beans from their bunker?

I would hope Biden doesn't do that, and I don't think there is any point in it.

But I feel sick in my stomach.

It´s nothing to do with Biden, these are the MAD mechanisms kicking in.

It's the End of the World As We Know It ! - by REM


It's the End of the World As We Know It ! by the pop group REM

America doesn’t put their nuclear forces on high alert. Putin doesn’t like the sanctions and the statements.

Putin: "Western countries aren't only taking unfriendly economic actions against our country, but leaders of major Nato countries are making aggressive statements about our country. So I order to move Russia's deterrence forces to a special regime of duty."

Russian MoD: Ukraine's Forces Use Banned Phosphorus Munitions Outside Kiev

https://sputniknews.com/20220227/rus...093422868.html


Will they use this as a pretence to use nuclear weapons?

Well they can ramp up a notch with thermobaric weapons before the big ones.

It seems that Sting was wrong: