Time to get Joe Jacob out of retirement!
I disagree but I understand where you are coming from
Greetings. How are things there in the embassy?
That's the kind of comment I expect out of John Kerry who lamented that the Ukraine crisis was distracting people from global warming.
Which, by the way, becomes completely irrelevant if the human species doesn't even exist after a nuclear war.
What a time to be alive 😀
No, but where is this intel? Can you share a reliable source on it? There's no point in saying that there's intel, and then when you're questioned on it, just saying that all the intel is sound. You need to back it up with at least a credible reference.
If you're speculating that they'll invade Poland, fine. But that's not intel.
Endless war and disease has been normal for humanity for thousands of years now, so not going to change soon.
Well said.
Russia has invaded twice in what 8ish years?! That doesn't point towards them willing to let Ukraine decide to be neutral....
And to think we thought we were done with face masks. Any chance that nuclear drills will start to take place?
Look relevant - they've unveiled a whole array of powerful sanctions and aid today.
It's the UK that looks irrelevant.
More the question is who will fly them? Ukrainian pilots or let's say people who just recently retried from the Polish airforce etc. Will fly them
Anything not set out in the Treaties is exclusively a member state competitive.
Will we ever see a normal day on earth again? From pandemic straight to this sh1t. FFS.
You're missing one thing, there, and that is that if the last 10+ years have social media are anything to go by, a lot of people have either terrible critical thinking skills or big egos to think they're in on some secret or forbidden information that makes them smarter than everyone else. In my estimation, the second one gives rise to the first.
If you want to see what Russian propaganda outlets are saying, I'm sure you can find it easily enough online, but there's no need for more traditional media services to make their objectives easier by giving them TV exposure right now.
We don't live in a society that is censorship-free anyway, and we should censor things that actively seek to undermine and destabilise society such as a lot of the complete b*lls*it artists proliferating half-baked conspiracy theories, and we should certainly censor RT right now.
There most certainly can be a neutral Ukraine! But it's for the people and government of Ukraine to decide that's what they want, without coercion or interference from any other country. Likewise, it may be that a portion of the Ukraine population would prefer to be governed by different administration, but that's still a private, internal matter for that sector of the population and the Ukraine administration to work out. It's just not Russia's place to interfere and definitely not their place to invade in an attempt to 'liberate'.
It may be hard for us here to fully understand the reaction to Russia of the ex Warsaw Pact countries - particularly our assorted array of "left" idiot politicians - but they all know exactly what they are dealing with and how to confront it.
Exactly. Constructively abstaining allows the military aid go through.
we are part of the EU- we should be one voice at this stage
Can't help themselves, want to look relevant.
Does anybody know what the carbon footprint of one Nuke is? If Russia launches one or more imagine how far back this would set the environment and increase cimate change.
This. Some people just love to have to opportunity to get outraged.
Last time I checked it wasn't a European superstate. Individual nations plough their own path, and should do. A functioning society, no matter how large functions better with wide opinions, even dissent, especially in tough times where cool heads need to prevail. Not Coveney et al looking for likes on twitter because they're caught up in the moment. DeValera's Ireland was a shítshow across the board, but was respected throughout the world(save for in England) as educators, rebuilders of third world nations and ex colonies and peacekeepers. I'd prefer that legacy over warrior any day. Because it's rare. Warriors are all too common.
You've watched too many damned WW2 flics. Ukraine has already won the hearts and minds(and social media) and decency war and that's something. It really is. But it looks increasingly likely they're going to lose the actual war, because Russian leaders tend to give zero fúcks for their own death count never mind the enemy's. I've actually been surprised that the Russians weren't targetting non combatants already. They had no such scruples in Chechnya(The Yanks aren't much better, so long as it's off camera), but Ukrainians are a little too close to home. Hopefully peace talks kick off soon and let some of the air out of this balloon before it bursts.
What I would propose is acting like the adult in the room full of screaming children amped up by the moment. Not adding to things by acting like them. If I were running Ireland, I'd be on the phone to all the parties I could to keep people talking. The longer they talk, and this includes the gnome in Moscow, the fewer people will die in the longterm and the less chance this goes into all out war where literally billions could die, because people stopped talking.
As for Russian rampage. They'll stop with Ukraine for the moment. And Putin is no spring chicken. A gilded Czar afraid to sit beside his own generals. He may 'win' today, but he won't win for long. He's a dead man walking. With little to lose. That is not the person you want near the controls of devices that could cause the extinction of the human race and this planet as it stands.
The intel was correct until now. No reason to doubt it now. Of course, I hope sincerely that I am wrong. But the old Soviet Empire did not just consist of the Ukraine and Russia. Why would Putin stop with the Ukraine. What does he have to lose? Only time will tell.
It is not an exaggeration to say that this is the most precarious political conflict that anybody amongst us has witnessed in our lifetime. And I cannot see an easy resolution
Not really. As I recall I mentioned that ukrainians are useful idiots doing exactly what west and russians wants them to do. They did not fail and the last nail which pretty much signed invasion off was idiotic statement of looking into acquiring nuclear capability. That was pretty much invitation.
One would have to shudder to even think that the likes of right sector might get their hands on anything nuclear.
Russian POWs say they were tricked and lied to by the Russian military.
They claim they were going to an excersise but ended up in the frontline in Ukraine.
Why? We are providing funding to the war effort.
Well they tried a neutral Ukraine and it led to 2 Russian invasions, so yeah, I think that's off the table now
Yes , it is a clever way of supporting the Ukrainian cause while remaining neutral.
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