But wait, theres more!!
If you mix some soap shavings in, you can make DIY napalm!! all for the price of a Molotov cocktail!!😐️
So IMO there is a distinct possibility we may be dealing with a madman who "wants to see the world burn". And unlike Saddam has the capacity to make that happen..
There is also a distinct possibility that he has access to better intelligence reports, advisors, and sees a positive (for Russia) outcome to all this.
People are rushing to the idea that he's gone nuts. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if this ends up very different from the projections in this thread. Admittedly, I think it's a foolish action at this stage, but, I'm not a leader of a nation, who has fought off competition for years, nor do I have the resources available to him for analytical projections.
As for wanting to see the world burn, if that was the case, he would have opened all this with nuclear/biological/chemical attacks on his biggest enemies first. Not played with international diplomacy for months, and invaded in this manner.
Why the fauq would anyone want to sign another sham Minsk agreement,they repeatedly smashed the other 2 Minsk agreements , Russia didn't even want Ukraine involved in the original Minsk agreements
I mean technically we are still a neutral country, so until the official position changes, we can't be picking sides in any conflict. We can complain on humanitarian grounds of course.
"some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn" - Putin is the Joker
Strong words from Donald Tusk
The going straight to nukes route would almost certainly have even his close supporters think him mad and take him out.
exactly the only hope for ukraine except surrendering is to completely sacrifice the entire country (the west will pay to rebuild after) and engage in syria/stalingrad style street battles with russians - the more body bags going back to russia the better optically - meanwhile take any random chance opportunity to attack/ terrorise russia - moscow and all russian cities should be paralysed at this stage with bomb threats to help russians realise their brother slavs are being murdered in the ukraine - the west also needs to provide ukraine with cyber weapons - if putin is fighting dirty the gloves need to come off sooner rather than later - why else bother fighting if you are going to surrender - its either fight or dont bother
as the saying goes sometimes the best form of defense is attack and you cant negotiate with a tiger who has his head around your neck
It's never a good idea, if you want to keep communication channels open.
It is a surprise that such a large embassy has been allowed to continue to operate.
Very true, but this idea that Putin wants to see the world burn is nonsense. He's driven by his position of authority/power along with the access to wealth/comforts. He's not going to give all that up just for kicks. There's a lot more going on, than these simplistic notions about his sanity.
Seems to be from last year, a standard manouevre exercise (based on the comments in the thread)
Need to be very careful at this time to post reputable news updates I think.
Look like a Romanian flagged container ship was attacked in the black sea, 2nd one in 24 hour's
I can't really explain that, it would seem an obvious thing to me to do. However, I might suggest that 2 reasons could be we are seeing the ones that have NOT been mined, secondly the Ukrainians may have been expecting millions of people to flee major cities and did not want to endanger them.
Engaging in bad faith diplomacy as usual. Do they think Zelensky is just going to wander into Minsk and not expect to be arrested and thrown into a kangaroo court and put on death row?
The images are from last year….they only signed up today. Posting library images to accompany a verifiable story isn’t fake news
Why shouldn’t we?
He isn't though
Putin may end up with annexing a few eastern regions with the rest of Ukraine disarmed and in disarray, which is bad (for us and our European/American allies), but hardly evidence of insanity or nihilism.
I know how the ordinary Irish utilitarian-materialist person thinks because I've come across it all my life. Any motivation which doesn't follow a simple cause and effect one-step logic is deemed a 'conspiracy theory' or unbelieveable. Because people "wouldn't do that. What would be the motivation? It makes no logical sense" etc., etc.
Or if its inescapable, like now, its attributed to 'insanity'.
Historically its normal, and the same pieces of territory have been fought over repeatedly over centuries.
The British forces which won the Crimean War were made up of roughly one-third Irish soldiers/sailors so its not even outside of Irish historical experience.
Snake Island, located off the country’s southeastern shoreline, was approached by the two Russian vessels on Thursday after Vladimir Putin declared the start of an invasion at 6am in Moscow.
“I am Russian warship, repeat I am Russian warship,” the advancing vessel announced. “Proposing to put down the arms immediately to avoid bloodshed and unjustified deaths.
“In worst case, you will be hit with a bomb strike. I am repeating…,” they said, according to the translation by CNN.
Two Ukrainian guards engage in a brief exchange — “should I tell them to go f*** themselves?” — before responding with: “Russian warship, go f*** yourself”.
History will not look kindly on German, Italy and Hungary for stopping the removal of Russia from SWIFT - Hungary is a big issue... they have been leaning east for some time.
TBH I'm more than a little creeped out by the desire by many here to see Ukraine become a battlefield for the next 10-20 years. A guerrilla resistance to Russian occupation would be brutal, considering how Russian forces are trained to deal with it.
The 1st one was Turkish ya?
You have to wonder if these "accidents" are calculated moves, to see NATO's reaction to civilian NATO members assets being hit
If that's what you're going to end up with in any case, why put your population through a war before ending up there?
Ireland has always aligned itself against the colonial occupier. We know what it's like to be victimized and suppressed. This should be no different. The ambassador should be put on a Ryanair flight out of here with 24 hrs notice.
And turf out that Israeli gobshite for good measure while they are at it. **** these manipulative gaslighting ambassadors.
I don't mind rational and defensive arguments/disagreements in diplomacy.
However, straight up lying, I have a huge problem with.
I would love to know the real reason why he's invaded.
Is he happy to have Ukraine as it was, just with close ties to Russia? I believe this is how it was in the USSR.
Does he want Ukraine as part of Russia? Which I think it was pre 1922?
It seems to be that he just doesn't want Ukraine to be so close to the west as Russia views Ukraine and Russia as having a very close relationship historically and culturally.
Maybe they don’t want to bend over to Vlad?
It's quite misleading though.
Why not post a proper link, like this?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/klitschko-brothers-former-heavyweight-boxing-champions-to-take-up-arms-for-ukraine
In his rambling mad eyed speech earlier in the week he said Ukraine wasn't a real country and was part of Russia.
He also hinted he doesn't accept the independence of any territory that was ever part of Russian or Soviet empires, up to East Germany.
Yeah but
In a crisis, it would be very much up to Putin how to react and whether to escalate. Like a US president, he has access to a nuclear briefcase, the Chegets, with nuclear launch code. According to an analysis by the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey, the defence minister and chief of staff of the armed forces are also supposed to be involved, but in Putin’s Kremlin it is unclear whether they would act as any kind of brake on his actions.
So is it clear his inner circle would have the capacity to block him if he decided to go down in flames?
There's a combination of things at play, certainly he has made it clear that the cultural side of it in his view would dictate that Ukraine is Russian territory. Then, when you look at other Eastern Bloc countries that have benefited greatly from joining the EU that would make his policies in Russia look bad. A crumbling economy, a large nation next door joining the western economies and possibly western defence alliances. It doesn't look good, especially considering Belarus is a complete shithole and by all intents and purposes under his control.
The history of Russian domination and genocide in Ukraine is brutal.
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