"PENTAGON - The prospect of fighter jets "at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America" departing from a U.S./NATO base in Germany to fly into airspace that is contested with Russia over Ukraine raises serious concerns for the entire NATO alliance. It is simply not clear to us that there is a substantive rationale for it. We will continue to consult with Poland and our other NATO allies about this issue and the difficult logistical challenges it presents, but we do not believe Poland's proposal is a tenable one."

On potassium iodide tablets.

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Best taken within 3-4 hours of exposure.

Once daily.

Don't take them outside of an attack and If you have to take it stick to the dose recommendations.

The idea of winning some kind of morality tale with Putin as being more important than risking the deaths of tens of millions of people and sending humanity back to the dark ages is mind blowing.

The whole point of nuclear weapons is to avoid direct military conflict between the nations with them. It can't be any clearer.

I say support the Ukrainians in their struggle but we need to maintain a sense of proportion of risk on the stakes involved. There are multiple actors pushing the west into madness.

The rules are clear, an attack on Nato is war and that's the point at which nuclear war is risked....not before.

The best we can do is find the best peaceful solution possible, that will avoid the most death.

As for the bombing of civilians this has happened in every single case of cities being taken. Nato has been doing it themselves for decades of war in multiple theatres.....The Saudis do it every day in Yemen.

This has always been terrible and videos don't make it more so.

Edited by Stirlingsays (08 Mar 2022 10.47pm)

Russia wants Crimea. The independence of Ukraine severely restricted the access to ports. The West pushing Ukraine to join NATO was the excuse Putin needed to take the peninsula by force, under the flag of counter-terrorism. It's not about positioning of missiles or armies. It's about port access. (although this might change in such a dynamic situation)

Haven’t heard about a visa office in Calais but we did have BF Officers base there.
Albanians claiming to be Kosovans. Further back Nigerians claiming to be Liberians. Without documentation we have to prove who they are and where they are from. In most cases nearly impossible.
Not necessarily the Govvernments fault, think HR Act to start, then you have the lawyers and do-gooders, who feel anyone should be here. If no checks, no way of weeding out potential terrorists, paedos etc

Edited by Spiderman (08 Mar 2022 8.02pm)