Heartbreaking and despairing watching the little kids go across the border and the interviewer asking them their names.
He is clever enough to play the basket case even if he is not one: Look I'm so crazy I'd push the button so don't mess with me. I don't know if he is or is not though...
It is nice to see a certain Nikolai Farage's reach finally exceed his grasp though.
Merkel was complicit in the taking of Crimea, she is a war criminal, she appeased Putin and said Ok to his taking of Crimea so long as he didnt 'take' any more
Lots of women and children entering Slovakia also.
women with children carrying what they can in plastic bags.
, been given places to stay , rooms and food by the locals doing what they can.
What is the Russia end game in Ukraine. Take it over and put in a pro russia government and assurance it won't join nato?
As soon as the Russian army leaves the Ukraine the government will collapse so they will have to leave the army there for a long time after which will constantly face attacks and bloody civil unrest. Taking Ukraine is probably going to be the easy bit. Holding Ukraine after is just going to drain the Russian resources. Ukraine has 44 million people. Holding a country that size against its will is impossible.
Did every other Embassy release a similar statement to the one he released? I haven't seen anything about saying they did.
Yeah and I've enough money to survive the rest of my life so long as I die some time this year. 🤣
Imports shipping can help but the infrastructure to switch how half a continent gets gas takes a while.
As a former FG voter I have No interest in Richmonds and his virtue bandwagoning thanks
We'll see I suppose. If irc earlier in thread, you predicted Germany would do nothing at all, and try to just carry on business as usual if there was an invasion.
If depressing stuff (often posted/highlighted by you) about how complete severing of ties with Russia could affect Germany & also the rest of us + leverage Russia holds in return when that is done is correct, maybe they will have needed time to get people ready for the pain that is coming + clearly see it is necessary.
I saw putin on tv asking the Ukraine military to topple their government. Surely that is the message that our European leaders should be drumming into the Russian military., topple that madman putin.
Putin already shat all over the Russian medical staff in the pandemic. He lost medics in droves. Not so clever now, Putin.
Not sure that's how it works. I read an article that Germany for example has enough of a stockpile in its own country to last til this winter.
Ah yeah, along with our own gobshites. And this isn't just "the left", but this is one case where their nonsense is clearer.
It's a good time to take stock. If someone can't be on the right side of the current events then how in the **** could you trust them to do anything?
I guess he has to show up if invited. He really is in a difficult position as all Russian ambassadors are. If he refuses to show up when asked that would look like he is not doing his job. More trouble with the Kremlin...it's not easy.
I hate to say it, but long before any of this happened I raised an eyebrow when Mick McCarthy went over there...
A basket case with a massive nuclear arsenal. We don't really have a choice in regards to Russia itself. Sanction them as much as needed to get them out of Ukraine would be my opinion and maintain those sanctions thereafter.
I don't see an appetite for WW3 in the west which is what it would be if they get cornered. That's just the reality of the situation unfortunately.
Norway,Algeria,UK,Netherlands and US delivers gas to europe,Quatar is another option.
Its just a matter of increasing deliveries from these countries and more storage for LNG tankers
Channel 4 interviewing people in train station in Poland. Some are going the other way to Ukraine to fight.
The people of Poland seem to be doing what they can to help people.
If that is the case, then don't go on RTE spreading the bullshít. Just refuse to do the interview. Don't release the bullshít statement he released and put on twitter. Just toe the line when directly asked about it to keep your family safe.
I really don't want to derail the thread but I f*cking despise the British left. You have the likes of Stop the War w*nking themselves off about how awful Britain is while being free to wail and wail about how awful Britain is. They recycle the same old spiel about how the working man needs Socialism but apparently, the Ukranian working man can go f**k himself. I now regret voting for these cretins here in 2019.
I would advise all to watch Winter on Fire on Netflix, the documentary on the Maidan siege.
If you've seen it you will know they will not surrender Kiev. Russia will have to flatten it to take it.
We should stay out of this
I don't not a bit. He got this cosy job by being one of Putin's cronies.
F#ck him. I hope he is kicked out of the country.
Agreed plus maybe ask Santa for radar?
You know as well as I do that won't happen (unfortunately). The west isn't going to come to such close quarters with a nuclear power. That's why, frankly, Ukraine is fighting on it's own.
Nordstream 2 is to increase gas transfer to Europe.
Original Nordstream and another few are still running. Cut them off and Europe runs out of gas quicksharp.
I don't know if you're being serious here. Russia is a sh*tehole. It's got a GDP the size of Spain's. Remember the PIGS acronym? Putin has sacrificed their economy for absolutely nothing. He was scared of NATO and his actions have now provided the biggest justification for its existence since the Cold War. Sanction them with literally everything possible is my opinion and boot them c*nts out of every possible international body.
Nordstream 2 is on hold. I suspect the Germans will proceed with that when things calm down.
I never said they have any right nor did i shed any tears at the russian soldiers lying on the ground after the ambush....I was giving some more detail to the discussion about the car being hit on purpose or not!!
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