“Partly shot, partly detained”
I think we an witnessing the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin. Changes in leadership in Russia tend to be quite brutal and looks like this one will be no different.
No expert here but nuclear weapons are typically targeted at military and important civilian infrastructure like power plants and stuff. It's said that the reality is cities themselves are not really targets. I think it's a bit of a myth that's developed that big cities in and of themselves are targets. Their only targets in the sense that there is some really important strategic military or civilian infrastructure to strike and the city inevitably partially gets in the way.
In the UK i'd be more worried if I were in Glasgow than London for example.
That would be my take on it.
If people would like to help Ukranians in Poland Rascals in Inchicore are accepting boxes of care products to go over on a truck. A real way to help I am dropping a few boxes tomorrow.
Spain is sending military and humanitarian aid through airports in Poland. The transport of 2 A400M planes contains helmets, bulletproof vests, mine detectors and 20 ton of medications and protection gear for nuclear & chemical dangers.
Russian fighting-age men have not been allowed to enter Ukraine since 2018 I think. Many may have slipped the net - but it goes to show that saboteurs were likely put in place over many years. Russian has no shortage of men with little prospects who can be paid to infiltrate Ukraine, blend in among the local Russian-speaking populace and carry out reconnaissance.
Cork wouldn't get a nuke as it would just improve the city
Yeah but they might want to get back at Skibereen for their local paper saying it had its eye on Russia
Yeah probably be more like this at Russian nuclear HQ
Putin is absolutely terrified of getting Covid, it’s been reported on several times, which indicates an underlying condition which a lot of people suspect. He is almost 70 and by the looks is thinking about his legacy, I don’t think history will be kind to him.
The oul swedes do be liken spreading the love, shur haven't they been doin it down in Yemen this last while, what with them bein neutral an all..follow the money innit
100% - the threat of nuclear war has kept Europe peaceful for a very long time, everyone knows it's a lose lose game. Hence how it will never happen.
Even if Putin truly has gone mad and decides to launch, there are so many people in the chain between him and any weapons flying that it's impossible.
Look at historical cases from the cold war where we came close to the brink - the 1979 Norad Computer Glitch, the 1983 Soviet Nuclear False Alarm - both these instances, the person in command was told by their computers that the other side had actually launched, and yet they still did not fire back.
If people are hesitant to launch back at a nuclear attack which is already on the way to them for fear of getting it wrong, you are not going to have a situation where folks launch an attack first.
This was a funny and slightly mental thread to come across in the middle of all this, some real aged like double cream moments in there!
https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057383413/the-vladimir-putin-appreciation-thread/p1
apparently kyiv is surrounded by russian army all exits/ways blocked according to ukranians ... not looking good
If you don't mind me asking jmreire, what the hell was your profession? I'm sure plenty of others on here would like to know.
Yeah but aren't they all theoretically his underlings, making blocking his order treason/mutiny/whatever?
I would agree and hope in about equal measure. The international pressure on the gnome in Moscow, or his bunker in the Urals, is rapidly ramping up, even since this morning and NATO are in this war in everything save for actual boots on the ground. It's a very dangerous time IMHO. Very dangerous.
We will support the Ukrainian army with equipment and money, said the Prime Minister of Sweden Magdalena Andersson on Sunday evening. The government in Stockholm will provide Ukraine with, inter alia, anti-tank grenade launchers. The last time Sweden handed over weapons was in 1939 to Finland when the country was attacked by the Soviet Union. The Swedish government is ready to send 5,000 to Ukraine. hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers (Pansarskott 86), 5 thousand. helmets, 5 thousand. bulletproof vests and 135 thousand. rations intended for use in the field. Andersson also announced that the value of Swedish humanitarian aid to Ukraine will increase to the amount of CZK 500 million (approx. EUR 47 million).
translated by google, but looks OK
It doesn't help that the only two nuclear weapons ever used in anger were dropped on cities. But those cities were chosen as they could be shown to have some military value.
Hopefully, it wont come to a nuclear war....but that assumption is based on rational people making the decisions. Now, that could be a big ask where Putin is concerned, and the signs at present are not over-encouraging, based on his recent decision making.
General Valery Załużny, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, announced that 100,000 people were mobilized within two days.
Have you read the Wikileaks material?
He worked in Import export I think.
Yes but if we give into this type of bullying he will do it again and then we are back at square one. Better to confront now, we didn't in 2014 and the current crisis is the result of that (apparently that has caused the death of around 50,000 people from a report published here earlier).
I imagine that's a euphemism for 'dodgy sh!t'?
Russia's central bank has issued an appeal for calm amid fears that new financial sanctions could spark a run on its banks.
Rouble crossed the 1 cent line (1 euro = 100 roubles, so 1 euro cent = 1 rouble) briefly for the first time in history.
Demonising the White Helmets was a favourite slur by the Russians. Those guys ere heroes going to rescue people in bombed buildings. Sick to see this slur resurrected.
I'd say that no one, and I mean no one, gets next or near him without being body scanned, with something like the one they use in Dublin Airport. And even if they did manage to get someone near him, that could kill him with their bare hands, the length of the table would increase his chances of survival ( and he is a Karate / Judo expert ) And possibly, there is a sharpshooter hidden near by as well. For sure he knows very well all of the different ways to kill someone.
Actually Mike, its the size of his hands I'd be worried about..in case it slipped !!!! ( only joking Mike.....)
Ukrainians in Ireland flying to Poland and into to their motherland to defend it against the invading thugs- absolute legends.
I guess it'll have to be
Anyone know any red (and not in the Soviet sense) priesteses
Everyone here saying Putin is at danger of setting off the first nuclear strike, when in fact, US Senators were implying they would be willing to support first strikes from the US from the beginning of December
Also everyone here seems to be like, sure if they strike London or Belfast or whatever, we'll be ok...fact is, the minute a first nuke is set off, it's game over for the lot of us....it'll be straight into The Road territory aka Viggi Mortenson style...
Anyone who lived through the 80s will realise this point.
Sane and calm heads needed now...the rhetoric needs to be toned down all over the world...we're ALL standing on a very dangerous precipice at this very moment in time
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