Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Unfortunately the Russians did hit some nuclear waste being stored, but despite the usual panty-wetting people in ireland go in for concerning any mention of nuclear, it really shouldn't be a problem, just a mess to clean up later, among the many others.

The Ukrainians have set up a hotline so that Russian parents whose children are soldiers can find out the status of their child and their well-being in the Ukraine. They are also raising funds to have the bodies of the dead soldiers repatriated to Russia. This is an incredibly powerful move on the part of the Ukrainians

"Niles..... these boyhood photos of yours. Why are you pouting in all of them?"

"Those weren't pouts. You know very well my pollen allergy caused localised swelling."

which was in reply to my saying:

"cnocbuiFeb 26, 2022

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118696207#Comment_118696207

It would be rather nice if the French foreign legion turned up at the border and swapped their uniforms for the local ones - ahhhem!"

Take that, bitch.

Ukraine has officially brought a lawsuit against Russia to the UN International Court of Justice in Hague. We demand that Russia be held accountable for manipulating the concept of genocide to justify aggression.

Info from Polish state TV web page in English: https://tvpworld.com/

3 days ago I'd say avoid it as plague, but now the situation has changed...

Messed up the Syrian sentence 🤪

The simple fact is this - the western world is so financially, culturally and militarily centred around the USA that imposing sanctions on them would be ruinous for a lot of countries attempting to do it. Or at least it would create so much pain for those countries' citizens that they just wouldn't tolerate it. The kind of sanctions that Russia faces just wouldn't be an option for a country like Ireland to impose against the USA, not that Ireland would even have the international leverage to impose them.

But what we do have is liberal democracies where we can speak out against government actions. Where we can peaceably assemble and protest and tell government administrations that we think that what they're doing is wrong, and we will vote them out if they continue to do it. We can donate money to initiatives which help victims of war. We can tell the world we don't agree with our governments' doings. We're not hypocrites. We're just individual humans trying to get by in a world where military hegemonies and alliances are going to exist and all we can do is hopefully be with the lesser of two evils.

New Turkish drones have been put good use attacking Russian convoys.

And the Ukrainians took a large delivery or air to air misssle for their combat aircraft , hopefully they can engage Russian bombers coming in

The Uk spend a third of that every year, so that's, say, €900b over the last 2 decades. So no, while I welcome the German gesture, that's really all it is, and it's the UK and French expenditure I welcome. I like almost every German I have met, but 'Germany' is a terrible and selfish country in many ways, not least of which is making Trump right on one topic. That is pretty much unforgivable.

Could you have a go at explaining this thought process again? There's a lot wrong in there, but it could be down to typo's, e.g.

It's largely a defensive organisation, with loads of weapons. Who exactly are they going to bully?

Belarusian citizens are protesting against the war.

The Germans have closed their airspace as well and a flight to Athens might be academic by the end of the day!