He should have proved that he really believed that fighting is not the answer by letting you kick him in the balls and him doing nothing about it
Channel 4 doing some fairly unflinching reports.
It's just sickening what the Russians are doing to these innocent people. Just looking at that one man at around 29 seconds in talking about evacuating people. A mortar, I think, strikes the road only a few metres away - cutting him off mid sentence. He survived, but a lot of people in Ukraine are getting cut off mid-sentence, like him, and that's it. They're a memory. It really hits you - the suddenness of it. That's lives gone, people dead, and other people living with no life to go back to. For no good reason. Putin has to end this war of ego right now, and if he won't end it, someone must end him.
You have it in reverse my Friend, its what the dedicated underdogs did to a so called "superior" enemy. And sandal wearing ones at that, and with the most basic of weapons for most of the time until the US started supplying more sophisticated firepower.
There was no one in NZ before the Maori arrived. They were the first settlers, so no one got wiped out except the Moa and various other mega fauna like the enormous Haast Eagle that fed on 3.6m tall Moa.
Russia is about to default on it's debt
Definitely a Limerick man!!
Wouldn’t it be mad if we all were put in a room together. It would be funny to see if we could pick out who’s who on the thread. I guess that would defeat the purpose of Boards, though!
In the early days of the thread, when there was a lot of pro-Russia nonsense, @Yurt2 was one of the few providing high calibre and very informative posts. I may have given up on the thread if it wasn’t for him and some other high-quality posters on the topic
If Russian strategic bombers are planning raids on Ukrainian targets then Stingers and other MANPADs probably won't be much help*. On the other hand, if the Russian strategic air arm is in as bad shape as as the rest...
*Surely they could have come up with a better term than something that sounds like personal hygiene product for men?
More withdrawals by social media
From brothers to fascists
An image of Ukrainians as enemies has been built on Russian television for years, says Irina Grigor, who did her dissertation on the subject.
I never knew that they knew what they were. I thought the prisoners just ate them!
I know that people are embittered because they feel like they are experiencing suppression of their freedoms, slowly. They feel like they can no longer speak freely. This is combined with the fact that our standard of living feels like it is falling. My parents between them earned below the average wage. They could afford a decent standard of living and nice house down the country. Now, people feel that they cannot afford to do anything beyond exist. Home ownership is beyond the reach of many. Pensions are set up on the basis that mortgages will be paid off and dependents reared. People cannot afford to buy and are having kids later. This means that when a person takes a pay-cut and draws their pension, they will be inflicted with old-age poverty. Where will they go if they cannot afford their rent?
Vultures prey on the above and tell the people that they have simple solutions to those problems. That is why these people are elected. People feel exasperated by their declining standard and try to fix it….
But we end up with lunatics like Wallace and Daly
I'm not gonna put much stock on the word of some randomer on twitter about a palace coup in Ukraine
Though it did occur to me that Putin might have been given a false steer on this operation and then had it's implementation deliberately undermined by those around him...
I dunno, as I watched the footage I got visions of new Gulags. Would anyone put it past them really?
Well that's just pathetically childish.
No they aren't. The Chinese are extremely over rated in the same way Russias military has been.
Great to see protests in Russia seem to be growing...3k arrests
War crimes, like taxes, are for the little people.
You are out of your goddamn mind if you think that Putin will end up in the Hague
That's what he wants you to think. I reckon he's lining himself up to be Putin II.
You can tell from his posts that he has spent far too long in the company of evil soulless people. So that narrows it down to either the Kremlin or Limerick
How dare you make that comparison. Wallace definitely does not have lovely, fabulous, hair
Only thing that lad would understand us a bullet to the head. This is all you’re dealing with
I have got to disagree with you, DT. @Yurt2 is one of our own!
And keep his kids in top south Dublin schools… no Wexford techs will do for our blue collar champion of the working man
You see that's the problem. You need to understand it to stop it. Same with the Trump presidency. We can't hide our heads in the sand, we need to analyse the why.
If they make a few lovable gaffs and tell the disenfranchised that X group is stealing their glory and that is why they are not more successful in life (it has nothing to do with personal responsibility), you are on to a winner. And promise the sun, moon and stars to them all 🙄
You know the way there are lobby groups in America, how is this monitored in Ireland?
All this talk of war crimes is passing me off because that's all it is...talk. Waffle of the highest order. You do not punish war crimes retrospectively. You stop them and punish the perpetrator. It's the only thing that works. Does anyone seriously think Putin is put off by the potential of being brought up on charges. He'd laugh in their face.
Sure of course he'd know. He's posting from the Kremlin. He's playing the long game rather than the putinbots and lulling us into a false sense of security
It is genuinely frustrating and tragic to see how history is so easily disregarded and forgotten in just a few generations.
Doomed to repeat itself.
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