That’s pretty funny to be fair.
It's a horrible symbol.
Can imagine the fear it strikes into people. Will be up there with the Swastika.
F*ck that, this is Ireland. The lad will be up in the circuit court in a few days for criminal damage. He'll get probation, as long as he doesn't already have a record.
Anything at all could put you on Putin's radar. There's probably a couple of lads from the rangers already over there off the books. That's more likely to get us bumped up the list than some do-gooder crashing some gates. I mean, ambassador to Ireland isn't exactly a high profile position. Putin probably didn't know the ambassador's name before the RTE news interview. We're on a par with Cyprus or Malta on the scale of importance - do you think Putin would nuke Nicosia first just because some local farmer crashed into the embassy gates. I think Putin has higher priority countries to worry about.
Rubbish statement.
Germany imports less than half of its gas from Russia, without this it can still supply heat and electricity.
Lives comes above economics any day
Yeah, Russia supplies about 40% of EU needs and and some of the possible alternatives are not ideal.
He's not going to nuke Ireland because a truck rammed the gates of the embassy. He's going to nuke Ireland because Linda Martin lives here, and I'd have to concede that it's the only sane course of action.
So the sanctions that we rightly support being implemented against Russia which are bringing its economy to a halt didn't " genuinely concern "you or have you think we might be a "prime target " but some guy ramming a truck into the gates of the embassy might kick off WW3 you reckon.!
It just shows how pervasive social media can be when a simple tactical military symbol can become much more than its intended purpose.
Well, when it is going to cost 100 billion rubles to repair...
FFS the Special Delivery Operation at the Russian embassy won't put us on the target radar. We are already on it as a major Datacentre Hub and a logistics point for the Americans via Shannon Airport (Sure the Russians have a consulate in Limerick to keep an eye on the comings and goings down there). I believe someone said earlier in this thread during the cold war there were 3 war heads aimed at us.
Aye but those gates are going to cost them trillions of rubles to fix.
It seems likely they were effectively bankrupt as of yesterday, so the prediction was astonishingly accurate. Something as big as this has a certain momentum, so things won't come to a screeching halt. You are more likely to see things like Russia suggesting talks with conditions that are ever so slightly less laughable than the ones 3 days ago.
They stole it off a Power Rangers villain.
I think us bowing to this tactic and allowing our "western" values be demolished at gun point is more of a risk than anything else it's Russia in Ukraine today, Tomorrow it LL be China in Taiwan.
More likely: 'Learner driver damages gate of Russian embassy in Dublin while attempting simple 3 point turn.'
Civilised nations and cultures respect embassies and their role both in diplomacy and in quid pro quo protection of our citizens abroad and only in the very worst conditions have they been closed down and diplomats expelled and more often than not that happened under petty tinpot dictatorships. Which we are not and shouldn't apsire to be with knewjerk hotheaded emotionals. It's got nothing to do with inflated self importance either. Even though on the UN peacekeeping front we've been one of the biggest contributors in Western Europe and our flag doesn't have the stain of many imperialistic nations so we're more likely to be welcomed into delicate situations. Never mind the voting power of our disapora in the US. There's a reason why every US president has tried to dig up a great granny who once owned an Irish setter. Even the first African American president played that well worn fiddle.
And you miss the point entirely about putin and his minions. They're worried because the West is strong. Much stronger than Russia on pretty much every metric. The largest country on the planet with the GDP of Italy and that comparison will look ever worse and worse by the day as the power of Western sanctions and indeed weapons on the ground in Ukraine bite ever harder. The only toys in their arsenal are nuclear weapons and the threat of them. They know damned well without that stick to wave the West would pound them into the soil of Ukraine within a week. The only reason he's risked a major overreach in Ukraine is because of that stick and overreached he has. His economy is going down the toilet, his foreign reserves frozen, his currency practically worthless, his friends and minions are haiving their foregin assets seized, the bulk of Western corporations(who have huge power) have withdrawn, export/import shipping is decimated and politically their name is mud around the world and their armed forces have lost more men than in a week than the US lost in Afghanistan in decades. And that's going by the official Russian figures. Ukraine is hurting and badly, but Russia is losing very very badly. It will take a long time for them to come back from this misadventure. A very long time.
Its a letter. Guess you're not a fan of going to the zoo.
The banning of all Russians is equally perplexing.
Who's banning all Russians? This is a Putin war, and that of his sidekicks, not one launched by the Russian populace.
It should have been done after the HSE hack, it's gas how we play nice with Russia and then at every chance they get the knife in.
I'm not sure if I'm on the right site( this is donedeal isn't it?)
Anyway, set of wrought iron gates for sale, can deliver. €200 or 1 million rubles.
Also all sorts of gate/ fence repairs carried out.
We already watched the Chinese take Hong Kong, we'll watch them take Taiwan too.
Western commentary seems genuinely surprised at the less-than-state-of-the-art Russian equipment used to wage this war, and yet I'm still fearful that we haven't seen the full ferocity of the Russian arsenal yet. Perhaps, Putin is afraid that the optics will be so bad that he might actually cross Beijing's red line (if they have one that is)?
This time tomorrow I'll have the equivalent of that in my pocket in loose change.
Russia-related article in terms of energy. IEA strategy for weaning the EU off Russian gas supplies. They believe it can be done quite quickly.
Don't knock the Lada Niva, they are way better off road than a lot of the modern tat that claims to be offroaders in this part of the world.
Very mechanically simple as well.
They can go down the route of the forced tillage cultivation of WWII where eventually anyone with over 5 acres had to dedicate 3/8 of their land to tillage and crops if their land wasn't mountain, bog, etc.
They had inspectors going around to enforce the rules.
A lot of our land is not suitable to modern tillage, but a lot more land could be definitely used.
Actually this war could prove to be environmentally beneficial where people start growing local produce and cutting imports and all that involves.
Not that I am endorsing any dross from the greens or the fookers that want to screw Irish agriculture.
Also finally people might cop on that the great globalisation experiment is leaving us in the Western World wide open to getting royally screwed by foreign despotic regimes.
Didn't take long for someone to moan about refugees being treated like they're people who need help. I expect it to get worse. Before long they'll be talking about how the new refugees are leaving prams at the bus stop. Same bullshit, different day.
Starting to enjoy reading the bizarro fantasies on this thread about Ireland being some sort of prime target for Vlad. Appears a lot of people are on some sort of thrilling emotional rollercoaster with this whole thing.
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