Ukraine Crisis

[sniffer66]

My pension fund really needs a goal in the Liechtenstein v Faroe Islands match.

Possibly not the 100k hit mine took

Wow! I don't know anything about pension funds but that's a lot! Let's hope things recover soon.

Cheers. Just had the bounce back from Covid and then the war kicked off. Long term I know it will do OK - could just do with a few years plain sailing now

[Derek27]

Michael Clarke gave an interesting opinion. He says when Putin falls in the next months/years, Lukashenko will fall the next day.

[jamesedwards]

Without wanting to sound uncaring about the war, my pension fund really needs some good news for the markets to latch on to.

My pension fund really needs a goal in the Liechtenstein v Faroe Islands match.

Possibly not the 100k hit mine took

I trade my pension. Obviously the flexibility is far less but you can usually still move your pot around between cash, bonds, stocks and futures funds. I'm with L&G and you need to give about 72 hours notice to make a change, but it's enough time to protect against risky scenarios. I was lucky enough to pull it out of stocks and into cash before the Covid crash and then again before the invasion. Once you think the hit to the markets is around it's peak then you move it back into stocks again. Stocks eventually recover and you are quids in!

[Emmson]

Gotta say, Putin knows how to play his cards… not just right, but at the best time too.

[Kai]

First signs of Putin beginning a major face-saving operation.

Shocker, they would lose to Colonel Sanders at this point.

[sniffer66]

My pension fund really needs a goal in the Liechtenstein v Faroe Islands match.

Possibly not the 100k hit mine took

I trade my pension. Obviously the flexibility is far less but you can usually still move your pot around between cash, bonds, stocks and futures funds. I'm with L&G and you need to give about 72 hours notice to make a change, but it's enough time to protect against risky scenarios. I was lucky enough to pull it out of stocks and into cash before the Covid crash and then again before the invasion. Once you think the hit to the markets is around it's peak then you move it back into stocks again. Stocks eventually recover and you are quids in!

Good for you, but I'm not comfortable playing around with a 6 figure pot, without the skills to know if I'd doing the right thing
I pay for mine to be managed so leave it to the experts. Good news is, it's going slowly back up to pre-war\Covid levels.

[Derek27]

If you hear on the news about a UK man advertising for a Ukrainian wife, it wasn't me!!

[Archery1969]

If you hear on the news about a UK man advertising for a Ukrainian wife, it wasn't me!!

Too late, we all know its you Derek.

[Kai]

If you hear on the news about a UK man advertising for a Ukrainian wife, it wasn't me!!

Too late, we all know its you Derek.

+1

[Kai]

Apparently US and Russian forces directly engaged in battle a few years back in Syria, and it was a slaughter.

Article : https://coffeeordie.com/wagner-group-syria-khasham/

Wikipedia page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khasham

[Derek27]

A Russian's been arrested for holding up a sign that literally said "*******"!

[greenmark]

A Russian's been arrested for holding up a sign that literally said "*******"!

And others for holding up blank pieces of paper.

What a stupendously terrible legacy Putin will leave if he does leave in 2024.

My naggng doubt is that he may have been the bullwark between us and the real nutcases in the Russian elite. And therefore this is just a preliminary

But he's done/doing stuff that you can't ignore.
Razed Mariupol. Unleashed carnage and misery and will have to come back to the table or go nuclear. So it's all pointless, wasteful and he's reducing his friends day by day. And an isolated Russia is not a good thing.

[Derek27]

Reports of Russian soldiers accidentally shooting down their own aircrafts!

[alexmr2]

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[jamesedwards]

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I was thinking exactly the same thing.