Oh yes same as UK and now Germany have done
Being the leader of the most powerful country on the planet i would expect a bit more,but thats just me
Could tie in with reports of Chechnya fighters heading to Ukraine.
Is there a Russian troop revolt going on
That could be seriously massive if true...hopefully a sign of things to come!
I ommitted him as he is not currently a politician and can only see him being a noisy irrelevance going forward. May even end up in jail at some point.
do you think you can just drop off 3000 soldiers in ukraine and tell them to have at it?
Apparently the 5000 troop riot has been fact checked and confirmed
https://twitter.com/StodolnyBart/status/1497704729467572224
The US used massive AirPower and missile strikes in Iraq before going in. The Russians used a tiny air campaign before invading Ukraine. The US were beyond paranoid about suffering heavy casualties and unleashed complete hell to prevent that. The Russian strategy is hard to fathom.
The whole point of mobile ICBMs is that they move around. They move around constantly, even in peacetime. This could be old footage or new but it means nothing.
I don’t think Biden has been too bad all things considered in this? They are backing Ukraine to the hilt and I’ve no doubt plenty more to come. I’d imagine American intelligence is one of Ukraine’s biggest aids right now.
I shudder to think what news and footage I'm going to wake up to in the morning, but I have to call it a night.
Elon is sending Starlink terminals to Ukraine.
I hope so
I totally agree, I think some TDs have raised it.
Russian central bank assets to be blocked? That's potentially hundreds of billions of dollars worth. Unreal.
The no-win calculus I referred to above is even more starkly apparent now after 3 days of fighting.
Putin has lost (even if he takes Kyiv tonight) and he's taking Russia down with him.
Not when they are losing and using what seems to be seriously significant amounts of hardware not to mentions soldiers.
I am well aware of the facts around the gulf war...my dad was a prisoner in it.
Would be absolutely fantastic if true.
It's a nice thought.. that there are Guardian Aliens of some sort out there, ready to save us from ourselves. There's a senior ex-Canadian military fella (senior) who tells a similar story; implying that we have made contact but that the AliensTM are hanging back until we up our ethical game. I don't believe it.
And it doesn't matter, because whether there are aliens, Gods, or similar out there, we have to take responsiblity for our own actions. But I can see the virtues of spreading such a message... dangling full contact with aliens (and their tech) as the reward for easing back on our free-floating hostility towards each other.
Wow. Could be the start of something bigger
Yes I was thinking of that, thats why I said some form of.
Although we do here the distinction of ethnic Russians and ethnic Ukrainians.
Send our javelins and Gustav 84mm and we do have the ARW who could well support the Ukrainians
10 Greek civilians killed in Mariupol.
Disgraceful.
If you think 3000 well trained Irish soldiers wouldnt make a difference you would be very wrong, I'd love to see it, however we would pay a price for it.
**** Moron on Sky News press preview can't even get Volodymyr Zelenskyy's name right.
It really is. He is looking for an opportunity to score points on behalf of his orange buddy in Florida.
We see you Nigel.
Oh, he's shared his diary with you has he?
I'm really sick of posters here taking pot shots at Biden, not because of his actions in this conflict, but because of who he is and his party. If he'd fuked up, fair enough, but to be fair to the US, they have done and are doing all they can, within the confines of not wanting to start a broader conflict. Anyone with an ounce of sense and an understanding of the realpolitik grasps that.
Take your culture war to another thread please.
Doesn't matter what Biden does about Ukraine, the usual right wing media outlets over there will hammer him. If he says relatively little, it'll be "Where's Biden? Why is Biden so weak in his response?". If Biden were firmer, it would be, "Will Joe Biden cause WW3? Why are the Democrats such warmongers?" Might as well just get on with his job and let Tucker Carlson do his nightly sermons with that stupid vocal cadence of his.
Anything can happen, nothing should be considered impossible at this stage.
To be confirmed but big if true.
We are militarily neutral? Ireland are not going to be literally the first foreign country to send soldiers.
Also how much impact do you think our relatively tiny army would have?
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