No surprise there.
No 1 target for 60+ Migs soon.
Seems as if a schism of sorts has emerged in the Russian orthodox church.
You can see the leader of the church, Patriarch Kirill, almost handing a large cauliflower to Putin below.
Elon musk helping to provide Kyiv with continued internet access via. Satellite
If I remember correctly in Georgia 80% of bombs dropped missed their Targets and and a fairly high percentage of that failed to detonate , where has the billions being spent.
Looks like over the last 8 years ukraine spend well and spent right ,
Makes you wonder what would have really happened if Russian tanks tried to take the fulda gap way back when
Is the world going to let Putin obliterate Ukrainians and not intervene for fear of starting WW3. By that logic we could be under Nazi German rule now. No wonder Putin has gotten away with murder in the past 22 years.
It does have juristiction, just that is difficult to apply it practically outside non-signatory countries like the US as an example. The ICC court members were targeted for sanctions by Trump for seeking to bring prosecutions against US soldiers.
The ICC might have difficulty prosecuting crimes committed by Russians in Russia but not for crimes committed in Ukraine. However if they cannot bring the Russians to The Haag the point is mute.
Wile it's tempting to think that he could only be this awful because he is on the take all you have to do is look at the hard-left on twitter to see that this sort of toxic thinking is rife.
Here's the Irish Republican Socialist Party for example:
These people are lost. They've swallowed the Kremlin propaganda because it's easier for them than to admit that "The West" may not have been wrong about something after all.
Everybody who watches that channel takes up smoking, but they only smoke Winston Salems from 1943.
I’ve a dreadful feeling about tonight and tomorrow.
Whatever Putin planned for and anticipated, there’s just no way he could of anticipated international reaction. Maybe some of the sanctions but surely not them all. Main reason I think it is because of how quickly it’s escalated to nuclear war because he’s actually not getting a free ride to Ukraine.
I appreciate he’s a very clever man, but nobody can anticipate everything, certainly not it war. If he wanted to galvanise NATO, push Finland/Sweden closer to joining, force penal sanctions on Russia , force countries to risk their own reliance on the gas and European countries to prob consider its position regarding its no army or big stick policy, then fair play to him.
Some of the links provided and politicial commentary’s on why EU is so neutered, presumed there would be no response from EU and also presumed the EU wouldn’t make any changes. Also presumed nuclear warheads are the only stick that matters which ignores the fact that it’s a stick that would inflict harm on those using it.
It also presumes money can’t even out the game. While you can’t make an army in a short time I’m sure if the EU wanted it could get its hands on warheads from our American friends. The presumption is that there is just no hope for us euroweenies and we should of done a deal with Putin for peace regardless of how bad a person he is and regardless of whether he would stick to the deal.
One of the points made in one of those videos was that Putin wasn’t aggressive until 2008 when the possibility of Estonia and Ukraine joining nato was signalled with intent. The presumption is that the western countries should just of listened to Putin because he’s a serious guy and listening and appeasing him would of meant peace. It’s a very large presumption to make with a person who they admit has a very different view of the world.
I find the links to alternative views on the conflict and how we have gotten here very interesting. But I also think it shows that even very intellectually intelligent people can interpret events in a different way.
Fascinating thread on the media war:
https://twitter.com/irgarner/status/1498334397904441344
Probably threatened to show him how to fill out a tax return
I hope the British and Irish security services have their eyes on the activities of these bozos and are taking notes.
I was talking to somebody in real life who tried to tell me that the pictures were staged……
I saw a guy open and eat tinned Boar war beef on one of those youtube channels, must have had the constitution of a shark.
Well it won't actually be obliteration but in broad terms yes. Nazis didn't have nukes, which totally changes the ball game.
Did a bit of Googling there, there was a Sinn Fein rep. there at that conference as well as the thickos from the dissidents.
Questions should be asked was he a rep. gone rogue who just took a junket to Moscow, or did SF leadership know he was going. He seems like a SF no-name, but it's a question worth posing to Mary Lou McDonald et al.
Check out 2007 and some previous winners of this;
Absolutely stultifying. As recent as 2007 Putin graced the cover. I can remember well back to then and it was common knowledge even then he was an authoritarian dictator.
Vacuum bombs have been confirmed in use by the Russians against Ukraine.
I think you mean Georgia? I think it was a bit reckless for NATO to drop hints there given its small size and unfavourable defensive location.
But also Russia was still recovering and had been fighting in Chechnya etc
Once Putin got them to a certain level he would have tried to get Baltic States back or destabilise them if they hadnt already joined NATO.
I don't think Mick ever had an issue filling them out. Paying them was a different matter.
I like that there is little talk of a coup in the media. Surely intelligence services are getting into the ear of higher up people to say you are the backed guy.
If there was no chance of a coup, I would imagine intelligence services would be "leaking" stuff to media to try and create a bit of tension, that doesn't exist.
Lovely job...every little helps!
Mi5 are pretty much running these group of clowns and doing a great job of it by the looks of things.
Tidy bit of business if true
Sure thing Dan, now you go first, and see what happens!!! Easy to be judgmental when you are far from danger, yet telling others who are in danger that they should be accountable for their government actions. Moscow's Stari Arbat is a far cry from Grafton street
Yeh that’s what I think and meant. He was building up his power and army until he was able to do what he’s doing.
Hes a dictator , who relies on a ridiculously pathetic Johnny big balls image and fear in his people. A war is not bad business for dictators , it’s not bad business for any leader who wants a distraction or way to galvanise the people they want to control.
Saying “the west Created Putin” presumes his ambitions were not to create an empire and he’s been coaxed into action. So he wouldn’t of interfered with Baltic states, create unrest and just play a longer game to build back the Russian empire? I mean he’s basically said he wants to rebuild back to the 90s, so that ambition wouldn’t be there if the west didn’t do what it did? Doesn’t really add up to be fair.
17 miles of armour approaches Kyiv prayers
I know you should know this. But, ( and I can't believe this needs explaining), up to Little Boy, WW2 was a conventional war. We were never going to be under Nazi rule. We are now in the nuclear age, the age of mutually assured destruction. Hence the long game of NATO.
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