Most of Europe has about 4 weeks of a fairly mild winter left so that is a very low risk, plus there are 60m barrels of oil coming onstream from storage.
The Ukranians, if they have any decent missle launchers, need to bomb the last 500m and the first 500m of that convoy. It effectively immobilises the whole thing as they can't just drive into the field as most of them will sink. After that its bide your time and wait for the new planes to take out the rest at their leisure. Losing that much equipment would not only scupper the Ukrainian offensive it would would Russia itself in an incredible weak position. Losing that much equipment would leave them in dire straits should other states rise up.
Nice of the Russian army to abandon one of their mobile Human Rights Violation platforms for the Ukrainian army to use
You weren't talking about Poland though, were ya? You were talking about Ukraine, and how the Germans and Austrians 'ran the place in a civilised manner'. When I called you out on how the Germans actually ran the country in a total barbaric manner less than 80 years ago, you decided to get smarmy and throw some pissy digs about me bashing a keyboard.
I absolutely love Con Air as well.
Why should I not question what I hear or see?
The big difference living here in the West is you can question what you hear or see to your heart's content. People may disagree, maybe even insult you, but you can still question and do so far more comfortably here than in Putin's Russia.
We have a few Irish politicians, utter wastes of space(a low bar among Irish politicians), who are publicly questioning the current narrative about Russia and Ukraine. But they can. They'll get roasted on Twitter or here, but they don't have to worry about falling out of fifth floor windows, or putting on poisoned underwear, or drinking a cup of poison laced tea, or being shot to death on a Dublin street.
There’s been a major reawakening here and in Europe- we simply cannot allow our lives be held over a barrel (excuse the pun) like this. We are going to have be more energy self sufficient and that means everything like our peat stations (here in Ireland), nuclear power, fracking, oil/gas exploration off our shores has to be on the table
No, I said Poland, you assumed Ukraine. The Polish partitions occurred in 1773, 1793 and 1795. Ukraine at that time was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the western part went to Austria with southern Poland. Think the rest of it ended up in Russia.
I cannot see Russia targeting Ukrainian citizens indiscriminately like some are suggesting. I cannot see them committing mass genocide or blanket bombing urban centres because they will immediately lose hearts and minds at home which will rapidly cause Putin's downfall. Hopefully he will be ousted sooner rather than later either way.
I do see Russia targeting strategic and military sites which will result in many civilian casualties. If I were living close to a potential target, I would be long gone.
Do you honestly think the people maimed and killed by cluster bombs, or the family burned alive by a missile strike just a few hours ago are just really good crisis actors?
once a russian missile destroys a Ukrainian Nuclear power station, the excrement will hit the fan
Putin has been attempting to undermine the West and the world order for years. He'd of course like to see NATO break up, but it's killing him that he's been unsuccessful in the venture so far. He thought he was close when Trump was POTUS, but it turns out that Trump is an incompetent, raving manchild who fell at the COVID hurdle and couldn't stay in the job.
And what a terrible position to try and negotiate from by invading Ukraine. This action has severely spooked the western world, and spurred it into action. We were enjoying a nice period of peace in Europe (you don't have to do much reading before you realise just how bloody the history of Europe is) and here comes Russia drunk on vodka, being the pr*ck at the party.
Poots... if I may call you that. You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar. If you want more countries nearby to align with you, maybe stop being the leader of a country with increasingly less and less to offer the world culturally and economically.
Bottom line is that if there must be hegemonies in the world, I'll accept the American one with NATO backing it up, even though I far from agree with everything they do in the world. It's still more open and rich than the glum Russian alternative.
Now point the thing at that several km line of trucks or the troops dug in at that airport.
Well, the longbparagraphs were mostly waffling about the stories and overarching narratives both sides tell themselves to cast themselves as the hero. The bit about the objective truth was raised by the poster and I responded in the last post.
Do you think you can find the objective truth about what's actually going on over there? I presume the headline things like the invasion, the people fleeing, the maps we see if controlled areas, the convoy heading to Kiev, are reasonably accurate. But do you think you have a good line on the details?
all this is a legitimate worry but I’d urge you to chill out a little bit. Hopefully we will get through it without Armageddon. And I don’t trust the Russians either!
Oh I’m sure there’s two sides to that story…or something to that effect.
But they are doing it already!
The is a new Voldeputin graffiti in Poznań, Poland. It was crated over night on 28th of Feb.
You know exactly what I meant. Read it again.
I call on all Russian diplomats to resign in protest.
Dear Russian diplomats, you are professionals and not cheap propagandists. When I worked at the Foreign Ministry, I was proud of my colleagues. Now it is simply impossible to support the bloody fratricidal war in Ukraine.
That convoy is there for the last 24 hours, its doing nothing atm and its mostly supplies as the latest news tell us. Dont waste an expensive gun, use it when tanks or planes start invading
Cut the nonsense man, You were talking about the Ukraine, this is what you said - "Russia got Eastern Poland and Austria got the south and parts of modern UKRAINE including Lviv under the band and Galicia. The German and Austrian parts were run in a civilised way" All I did was point out another far more recent timeline where the Germans and Austrians ran the Ukraine into a utter Holocaust, and they very much did, and you for some reason, got totally pi$$y about it.
Examples? Any Russian ive seen interviewed or on radio voxpop in Ireland barring those from the embassy obviously have condemned it.
This has been discussed in the thread
The people on the island were recorded on an intercept telling the Russian ship to "to go **** itself", the ship then opened fire on the island, communication was lost, the people were presumed dead. New information later came to light that they were alive. I strongly suspect you are immediately seizing on it in order to project your flimsy narrative that a bulk information on this war is part of a systematic lie, so that you can play this role of "not knowing what is true"
You can't deny what Russia is doing to Ukraine, so instead you relied on a technique of finding some information, any information that turned out not to be fully correct, so that you could portray that global media is "just as bad" or the same as Russian media.
This is going to happen a lot in this thread as the conflict goes on. Contrarian posters and Putinbots will feign being objective, or pretend to be "confused", but you'll notice that they will always zone in on cherry-picked incidents whereby a individual story doesn't turn out to be correct, or there is an injustice towards a Russian soldier, or if global media makes any mistakes in reporting - in order to project that it's all systematic.
Likewise when I presented information on Skripal, despite obviously not knowing much about it, you immediately tried to discredit it by "questioning" it because it supports the fact that Putin has people murdered.
"I just question things" is an act that many conspiracy theorists commonly use to try and attack facts and truths they don't like.
Russian General 1: We are making slow progress, we might just have enough fuel to get to the big oil depot outside the city.
Russian General 2: Ah, yes, about that..
Oh I read what you posted but its bollix that they are only targeting military and strategic sites.
Or do you count using cluster munitions on a shopping centre and apartment buildings strategic. Destroying theatres with missiles strategic. Hitting apartment blocks with cruise missiles STRATEGIC. As the Ukrainians said to the Russian Navy F-OFF!
If they are english-speaking Russians they are probably more liberal and get their news outside Russia. A correspondent from a Russian outlet (one of the last remaining independent outlets) explained this - basically young professionals, especially those who can speak English are often aware of what's really going on. The problem is traditional Russians, who get all their news from state TV, they are much more likely to staunchly support Putin. Russian polls have confirmed this.
More good news
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I take it you haven't been reading the post by digger1985 on here?
I cannot see Russia targeting Ukrainian citizens indiscriminately like some are suggesting
You need to get your arsé to specsavers so.
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