Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Stuttgart - today, by the look of it:

Perhaps last week and Poland was a different trip.

I was responding to the suggestion that ukranians should start bombing Russian targets (the poster included hospitals and schools so I'm pretty sure they meant proper terrorism). EDIT: They said economic targets not civilians targets.

They are already attacking Russian military targets and that's fair game. Interesting how we would probably never think of it as shelling the own people. They pull out of area and attack the Russians who have moved in, they inevitable hit ukranian civilians and Russia Today reports they shelled their own people and we report that the Russians did it or we just say people died and imply the Russians did it.

Once they start into insurgency/terrorism, then we won't have a clue what's true and what isn't

Average Russian infantry are paid less than their Ukrainian counterparts

"Corrib supplies around 60% of Ireland’s annual demand with 35% imported from the UK and the remaining 5% coming from the Kinsale"

If putin took a bottle of expensive vodka and a revolver into a bunker and did-for himself, who would take over and would they be much better? If putin is the biggest head-kicker in Russia, would the next in line just be the next biggest head-kicker or is there any real chance of genuine regime change?

Edit: @HalloweenJack addressed this a few posts ago.

Oh yeah, that's going to be one hell of a mess. You're right that if Ukraine wants to 'win back' some of its own territory, it means shelling it. I also think similar to what happened in Syria could happen in Ukraine. Initially there were two sides and it quickly became 37 sides. We could see more foreign volunteers appear in Ukraine, Belarus could gat involved. At that point the general western public will lose interest in the mess of Ukraine and it just becomes the new normal to have this low level war of attrition in a European country.

You seem nice.

Countries are free to choose to join NATO.

NATO doesn't have any "designs" to invade Russia, they are no threat to Russia, only to Putin's imperialist and history rewriting plans for neighbouring countries. Of course Putin spins Russia as the victim (always) and portrays it as expansionism.

We are here because Putin invaded Ukraine and was always going to invade Ukraine, NATO or no NATO.

Yeah I was gonna say surely you mean final 2 roubles but that would only be equivalent to a tiny fraction of 2 cents at this stage...

Yeah I'd agree 2 sides is easy to follow (us and them, good and evil) and that's the whole point of propaganda, to keep the natrative simple. We would probably lose interest pretty quickly of it becomes complicated with lots of sides.