It seems like he is playing his last hand very early. Getting nukes in readiness is purely to reverse the opposition to the war at home. Once people think their country is in danger of invasion or attack they either rally around the leader or replace them. Putin is betting on the first option but is more and more likely to end up with the second.
He will be given an out. A pistol on the desk loaded with one bullet.
"Koenigsberg" - I see what you did there! :D
They will pretty much be working for free with the ruble collapsing and the run on the banks tomorrow anyway!
You are kidding me, Trump would have been waving Russian flags in celebration at his handlers invasion.
Are you kidding! I see Mattie McGrath up around the Glen of Aherlow most Saturdays on a piebald with nothing but his jocks on!
Here's the reality: the Donbass puppet republics are run by a motely crew of Don Cossack mercenaries from over the border, and assorted Russian-leaning locals paid off by the Kremlin that would have been regarded as extremists before 2014. The Russian language issue was poorly handled, but Russian is the day-to-day language of almost every major Ukrainian city except Lviv. The notion that Russian first-language speakers were significantly discriminated against was and is boll*cks. Zelensky is a native Russian speaker for instance.
These two puppet states are concoctions of the Kremlin and are mini North Koreas on Ukrainian sovereign territory. There was, and is still is, no popular support for these areas to be cleaved away from Ukraine. A million and a half people have fled, mostly West to the areas of Ukraine the Kremlin has it are discriminating against them. There's an argument for some sort of Federal arrangement for Ukraine, but that's for another day. The puppet states will have to go.
I continue to be absolutely amazed that they manage to get western presenters to spout their nonsense, must be paying them a fortune.
Russia Today in English must be the funniest TV station out there. It achieves nothing. It is completely at odds with modern telecommunication. It's so on the nose to the point of parody. Are the anchors actors?
What will his legacy he be if he does that now? It will be a sorry disgraced pitiful legacy. To someone like Putin, legacy is everything. Everything he has done up until this point will be for nothing.
There's no way he is coming out on top on current trajectory. To me that is what makes the situation much much more dangerous. He is like a cornered rat.
FFS that is one mental image I could have done without!
Only way this will end would be the military elite staging a coup and placing Putin and the elite under arrest. Otherwise I cannot see this ending with this getting a lot more nasty.
The Trump who denied Ukraine aid unless they gave him dirt on Biden?
The Trump who has been licking Putin's backside for 6 years?
The Trump who believed Putin over his own intelligence agencies?
That Trump would be on the golf course
British Youtuber Bald and Bankrupt is in Ukraine, or at least was up until very, very recently, and has just put up a video documenting the first part of those travels in the city of Lviv (1 day before Russian invasion), looking around the city and asking people their thoughts on the situation (he speaks fluent Russian/Ukrainian).
To be fair though, what yourself and Mattie get up to in your spare time is your own private business.
I know you pay him well to do it and all.... but I heard that it even still makes him uncomfortable sometimes
They were propping it up during the week and have $600 billion in foreign exchange reserves to continue to do so. Although it's effectively throwing good money after bad if it continues to slide.
the nuke talk is **** terrifying.
Commical Ali will be making a come back soon on RT to say there is no problem to the Russian public
The RT stuff might actually be real footage of damage in those areas, and may be inflicted by the "Ukrainian side". The lie would be, of course, why those rockets or missiles were coming across in the first place.
Will this finally show that Ireland is governed from Brussels? I saw a headline saying Irish government ban Russian planes from Irish airspace. It was the eu who decided this.
And it'll be the eu who decides to expel the diplomats. That will happen this week.
I wonder what that poor English sod thinks of his career choices ending up working for RT during a war like this.
The guy won't work in media again after this. Interestingly, RT had offices in Dublin for a while somewhere around Fitzwilliam Square doing online content. I know it closed after a few years, but I wonder what the folks who worked there have to say about their experience.
Absolutely, Russia should not be allowed to surrender at the talks until its agreed to hand that territory back...
I am trying to erase it myself with this. Might be of use to you gandalf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYzVMcgWhg
Ah lads, the Covid fear should not be transferred to the Russian situation. Nuclear weapons will never be used.
Ah don't be at that sh1te. Ireland is a small country and to wield any power at all it has to be done in conjunction and coordination with partners and allies
The thing about Putin and legacy is that had this not have happened, his legacy in the west at least would have been quite good I think. He's always been a fascinating character and there was always an element of respect that people had for him, at least respect that someone like himself would have appreciated.
As a band of Ukrainians led by Zelenskiy rolls in behind him...
My understanding is their central bank is being sanctioned, so they can't liquidate it's assets. May as well pay them in monopoly money because it won't have any value outside of Russia. Think paper have a value of €30 a tonne for recycling, so some value at least!
that presenter sounds like he has a UK accent, any western presenter working for them and spouting nonsense should be charged and jailed in their home countries, or revoke their citizenship.
Another Lord Haw-Haw from Galway?
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