Its an accurate description so why not?
As much as the ordinary Ukrainians were talking tough and patriotic on news features over the last week, I don’t see an effective large scale guerrilla war breaking out- essentially if a Ukrainian sniper attacks a band of soldiers marching down the street, they’ll simply retreat and send in missiles that will decimate everything within a half a mile of that one sniper- door to door combat will be minimal I’d say- expect a Ukrainian surrender over the next week as the country becomes crippled in terms of infrastructure and a move to a Russian installed puppet government .
there will certainly be ongoing guerrilla battles but I’d guess this would be small scale- Russian strength is just too great .
incredibly depressing stance I know but I don’t see any other way out of this- Ukrainians have nothing to negotiate with- there’s nothing they have that Russia can’t just take.
Boris would be coming across quite sensible if the Tories didn’t have massive links to Russian donors. London relying on Russian money, Berlin relying on Russian gas. Putin doesn’t need ‘kompromat’ when he has this.
I see Vettel has withdrawn from the Russian GP, so F1 surely pull the race in Sochi soon. Fairly minor point though.
AGREE big time
What happened to the ban on protests within a certain distance fromLeinster House? Not for us Irish but OK for others.
It was accurate though. The time for diplomacy with the rogue Russian has passed.
VPNs. I'm sitting in Dublin but the network that I'm on is in the UK so I would show up as being somewhere north of London.
I am curious which Ban would that be?
Nothing was coming through it or was likely to for some time. They should cancel Nord stream 1 instead.
The turnip will be the new Russian currency.
Nope you are wrong. There was a technical issue they were down for about an hour. But not related to freezing of truckers accounts.
Finland and Sweden reportedly attending today's NATO meeting. Certainly in Finland's case it's hard to be truly "neutral" after the new reality this morning.
Genuinely curious why you need to know this. You can challenge any opinion you wish.
We need to look down the road.
Putin is clearly unhinged and needs to be toppled. The West has cosied up to him and his henchmen in the past and it's the ordinary people who are now paying the price.
If he feels a threat from within, it's scary to think what he may do.
Five different banks having a technical error the same time as truckers accounts were to be frozen. All Canadian banks.
Technical error would be the type of excuse Russia would come up with.
thats a new pipeline, there are still the other ones, There was an Austrian headline today saying their gas imports were normal
The Russian Embassy is on Orwell road- I hope there’s an organised protest there on the coming days- I for one will be there - problem is the road is quite narrow so it won’t hold too many crowds - doing something is better than doing nothing no matter how small the gesture
One bullet could save thousands, if not millions of lives.
History’s most unnecessary invasion/aggression ever.
Wait for it. The charities and schools will be looking for money for Ukraine in no time!!
Would it not have made more sense to protest outside the Russian Embassy.
Its not as if those spineless gimps in the Dail who won't even spend any money on our own defence and are too chicken to join NATO will do anything to help them.
Anti-war protests in Russia.
That gobshíte is just another gullible victim of Russian disinformation and will happily be Putin's fluffer for free. Just like the other gullible eejits on this thread.
Statement released by Russian Embassy in Irelands twitter 18 minutes ago.
https://twitter.com/Rus_Emb_Ireland/status/1496834900665712641/photo/1
On VM news it seemed like they covered that protest and also one outside the Russian embassy.
Or maybe he's perfectly sane but has embraced Nixon's Madman Theory...
Need to expel them asap. Don't need another propaganda outlet.
The lying is just so brazen and how people can be dumb enough to fall for it, I'll never understand.
The only bits that weren't a lie were the header and footer
Every single thing coming out of Russia for the last 3 months about this has been a lie.
They are lying now in spite of what everyone can see with their own eyes.
Imagine how all the countries along Europe's eastern flank feel today. They are going to feel threatened. They need to take action to enhance their defences with NATO.
The ambassador and his military attache should be declared persona non grata. That statement is scandalous.
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