It sounds like they are being treated very well by their captors though, thank goodness.
I'm glad every time I see a Nigel Farage tweet because each one is a reassurance that I'm on the right side of things, by virtue of the fact I disagree with it. If he starts tweeting things I agree with, I'll start to get worried.
He's single handedly ensuring the word "odious" is at no risk of falling out of use.
It just isnt unless its WMDs.
Or we would already have had nuclear war over Vietnam or Afghanistan.
Mushroom clouds.
Have an awful feeling that Putins strategy may turn to some form of ethnic cleansing to gain control and support over Ukraine.
This may be by driving a huge swave of the population over the western borders while systematicly bombing the civilian population. At some point he may have enough of an ethnic Russian population within the country to support his regime.
I do hope this is just me being ridiculously silly even thinking this is even a possibility.
Well if they don't want to be there they should surrender or **** off back to Russia
If that's true, and I hope it is because people should always be treated ilke human beings, the Ukranian miiltary is treating them better than some people on this thread would.
I swear to God, can we stop with the WW3 fears?
It's not going to happen.
Another IL76 has just turned off its transponder off flight radar as it entered Ukranian airspace.
Flying low at around 6k feet across the Belarusian border.
Such an ominous feeling watching it knowing the desperate night ahead.
Can't rule out anything can we really. Nuclear threat is real.
Not long I would imagine, perhaps less than 48 hours : they would be coming in from Ukraine's western borders from places like Poland, Czech Rep, Slovakia and Hungary and with no Russian troops to impede them.
You're right, it's not going to happen because NATO aren't going to get involved.
No it's not. It's a really dumb question.
You're dealing with a paranoid psychopath who appears to have totally come unhinged. It's entirely possible (and there are multiple parallels in living memory in the ex-USSR).
It's fair game to cheer dead Russian teenage soldiers.... if you are Ukrainian, on the ground, fighting the battle.
A lad on a laptop sitting in a room in Ireland doing it is just incel level pathetic.
I think the border crossings will be the bottlenecks. The are not a lot of them and the ones that are are probably overrun by refugees trying to get out. Getting them to the border, especially the Polish border, will be relatively easy. Germany has activated some of its wartime provisions that will give military traffic priority on all modes of transport, meaning even transit traffic like the 2000 machine guns from Belgium or the 400 Dutch anti tank missiles will be able to cross pretty quickly. I'd say a day or so for road transport to the Polish border crossings once it's loaded onto the truck. Air transport will initially be shorter, a few hour or so until they reach the closest airport to the border. Getting it across is another matter but I'd guess another day or so to get it to the front lines.
Apparently a comparison here between the progress made by Russia in Ukraine and the US in Iraq over the same time
https://twitter.com/bazaarofwar/status/1497408494995218432?t=m8t44Vvzn214PhIgFUio-A&s=19
You're assuming the Russian military has humane ways of dealing with deserters.
Fairly hard to ethnically cleanse a population that's the same as you.
Fair play to Sweden there. Really twists the screw on FIFA to kick the Russians out.
Again, I'm falling pages behind by posting this but "Brilliant Post FTB". Wish I could "thank it" more than once.
Escalating sanctions faster then the rest, that's were biden is
Everyone seeking a NATO intervention, that is a nuclear war you calling for. You'd be best packing a bag and shipping off to Ukraine and helping the resistance.
With the European ban on Russian flights, how are the Russian thugs going to access Konigsberg? (The exclave they stole off Germany post WW2)
Are America and others going to follow suit?
We need the aliens to come back and turn them off again!
[quote]At an unusual press conference recently held in Washington, D.C., a UFO author and a half-dozen or so former U.S. military airmen asserted that "The U.S. Air Force is lying about the national security implications of unidentified aerial objects at nuclear bases and we can prove it." They claim that since 1948, extraterrestrials in spaceships have not only been visiting Earth but hovering over British and American nuclear missile sites and temporarily deactivating the weapons.
UFO author Robert Hastings, who organized the news conference, said, "I believe — these gentlemen believe — that this planet is being visited by beings from another world, who for whatever reason have taken an interest in the nuclear arms race."
Hastings claims that a global conspiracy exists in which all major governments have been covering up evidence of UFOs for decades.[/quote]
Exactly, why is Ireland not sending in Troops.
we are not in NATO so won’t kick off WW3
The reason it is not going to happen is because NATO won't send in troops, and because Russia won't attack a NATO country. The poster asked what if NATO went in. The answer to that is simple, a complete and utter route of the Russian army and a defeated Madman with 6,000 nuclear warheads.
NATO leaders are not insane, and that is the reason it won't happen.
Better of dead in Russia, than trying to fight in the Ukraine.
Do you actually not know the answer to this or? Because of nuclear war.
There's no need for Biden to be front and centre - I don't think he is a particularly strong leader anyway. Macron (yes thats how bad things are) seems to be the most pivotal Western Leader here to be front and centre.
As an aside, after all this I sincerley hope Farage, Wallace, Daly, Taylor Greene, Gozar etc etc and their ilk are not forgotten about and run out of politics. They have all been compromised to some degree.
The US very nearly turned itself on its head last year in the insurrection. Putin probably had something to do with it.
Apart from this being a ridiculous notion - if we did officially send in troops, Russia would potentially attack us. Even if we're not in NATO, the UK would get involved, who ARE in NATO.
Long story short, WW3.
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