Monzanator

4 hours ago, LDOG said:

Btw these countries are maybe right to refuse to play Russia anywhere but do they have no problems with playing Saudi Arabia should they qualify to Qatar? 

 

Yemen doesn't matter I guess 

Yemen supported Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War. Nobody will give them even a toilet paper.

Some update on the shipments to Ukraine:

19 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Wasek DSQ for suit ... revenge ?

 Boots. Apparently we used the same boots that got DQ in Willingen already

Iga Swiatek wins Doha 6-2 6-0 over Anett Kontaveit in the final

First World Cup victory for Bogataj - already an Olympic champion!

Also great 4th place for Frida Westman and 9th for Abigail Strate - both PB!

Some Brazilian football players & Manor Salomon from Israel are apparently on the Medyka border crossing and set to enter Poland.

There is one Polish player in the Ukrainian league (Tomasz Kedziora from Dynamo Kiev who is married to Ukrainian woman) and he is still in Ukraine but our FA tries to evacuate him too.

Kazakhstan has refused to send troops to help Russia and also won't recognize the Donetsk & Lugansk separatist republics

Joe Biden might be a bigger idiot than I thought he was. China must be truly laughing at all this.

Dayana Yastremska has left Odessa on advice from her parents and is in Romania right now.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CaaPTOCoxz9/

1 minute ago, Vic Liu said:

I think many users don't understand that why some people blame US and NATO for this conflict. I will try to explain from my perspective in a moderate tone. It doesn't mean it's right or it's justified to initiate the war. I hope the war could end immediately and no more death to come. It's just people have different view about how it even began.

 

NATO told Ukraine it could be a member in 2008 and Ukraine began its illusion it literally could become a NATO member ever since. So many years, US and other NATO countries never give clear message to Ukraine but give meaningless verbal support. The point is that it gives Ukraine bravery to counter Russia and even write it inside the constitution to become NATO member which is definitely intolerable for Russia. Without solid and concrete support from west, no post-USSR country should ever try this. US gave Ukraine fake hope, fake courage to provoke Russia instead of itself. US is hiding behind a weak proxy with meaningless support. There are some strategy equilibrium between major powers and have to appreciate each other's bottom line. Anyone who tries to break it has to think twice if I can take the consequences. If USA tells Ukraine clearly that I will not accept you as NATO member and if you have war with Russia I will stand by, I think Ukraine will choose to be like Finland and we will not see the conflict today.

You don't realize imperial Russian politicians HATE independent Ukraine for centuries. Same as independent Baltic states or independent Poland. This is rooted to Russian DNA long before NATO existed and the current war path didn't start in 2008 at all.

Angela Merkel's living legacy. What a pathetic joke she truly was.

10 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Call it fair, call it unfair, but the Baltic states are NATO members, unlike Ukraine, and so an attack on them will without a doubt be treated differently. Without adding an opinion to that, that's simply how it is.

 

If they were not NATO members, Putin would have long ago gotten them..

I'm not so sure about it. Of course NATO can send some troops to Baltic states but might concede this a lost battle for the sake of economical safety & pressure from global banks (as it always is). The best thing for Poland is that Putin will undoubtedly go after Baltic states first since there are enough ethnic Russians living there he can sell the old crap of "peace-keeping the Russian-speaking minority". That excuse will never fly with Poland. Western Belarus is no longer within Polish borders like it was in 1939.

Yeah, Germany & Italy block Russia's removal from SWIFT. This is truly pathetic. Let's cut the sanctions nonsense because it will do nothing.

Maybe if Russian rockets land in Brussels something will change? EU has clearly thrown Ukraine under the bus and God knows what NATO does when Russia invades the Baltic states. You know it will be Putin's next target. And Poland right after that.

@Olympian1010However the sponsorship deal between Schalke & Gazprom remains in place so it's business as usual.

Polish/Ukrainian border crossing in Medyka:

Zelensky confirms Russia has taken control of the Kiev airport. The writing is on the wall.

Russian forces have captured an airport 20 kms from Kiev. This could unravel very fast indeed. Obviously this was possible since the attack came from Belarus territory.

8 minutes ago, bestmen said:

Without nato , Russia will never attack their neighbors , they have the same culture the same religion the same language for some the same history, the same diaspora ..etc , usa is the parasite in this story 

Whoa! You obviously have no idea what's going on in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia not to mention Ukraine.

8 minutes ago, Wanderer said:

Given there is Russian minority there, I am afraid it could really have happened. -.-

Of course it would have happened. Just for the simple fact they were independent after WWI and avoided the initial bolshevik surge after the October Revolution. Russia hates the Baltic states independence equally as bad as they hate Ukraine.

Apparently FIFA will announce a decision on what happens with the Russia vs Poland playoff match scheduled for March 25th later today.

Our former FA boss Zbigniew Boniek said yesterday that Moscow is the safest place to play this match like planned but he might keep his mouth shut today.

5 hours ago, heywoodu said:

On the bright side, Russia is probably fucking their own economy with this.

 

On the dark side, the people who will suffer from that are the many millions of regular Russians who probably don't care too much about these things and just want to live their regular life like you and me. Obviously the Putin's and his cronies aren't going to suffer one bit from a sanction more or less.

EU played this card for years telling everyone that Russia can't afford to start a war with Ukraine because their economy will suffer. I guess it's pretty obvious that this narrative was completely false and Europe being dependant on Russian gas has far more to lose than Russia. Enough with this nonsense. It's obvious Putin has prepared for any santions EU can come up with. The War in Donbas lasted 8 years and EU decided to look away and pretend nothing happened. Former German, Italian, French and Austrian politicians are enrolled in Russian gas & oil companies and you want to tell me their economy will suffer?

First JWC gold for since 2003?

2 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

I was thinking about Bjoerndalen and Domrachava's daughter.  

Yes, her name is Xenia and she was born October 1st, 2016 so she's only 5 yo now.

Sivert Bjoerndalen is Dag's son indeed.

Ole Einar has posted several vids of his nephew Sivert on FB few years ago.