Isn't this like saying Ireland has run out of Guinness?
The OPSEC point made in that twit is valid, though the building is not the same as the one in which the photograph is taken.
As regards the car, the point about the folks in the BMP being jumpy is a valid one. Commuting around in your Skoda in a war zone is not an advisable activity for just such reasons, and it's not the first time such things have happened. The death of Katerina Esser, a young woman in a civilian car in the wrong place at the wrong time who was machinegunned by a tank was also caught on film... in 1945. Granted, on that occasion, at least the Americans attempted to render first aid and there was active shooting going on, but still, we don't know if the Russian convoy was just coming out of an ambush of its own.
Whilst it is true that the Russians do seem to be showing limited care for civilians (whilst equally being reluctant to run over or shoot protesting civilians trying to block them), I wouldn't write this down as being anything other than a tragedy of war as opposed to total indifference.
Are you suggesting its lies?
Ireland needs to start growing a lot more Rape Seed, and to have it's own crushing plant and refinery. Ukraine was one of the biggest producers of seeds and vegetable oils, as are Russia, and all foods contain this, it's will soon show up in the prices of food.
(Putin presses the big red button under his desk. A couple of seconds later at an unattended vending machine at the far end of the Kremlin...)
I have no idea why people think that Putin will use Nukes. The chances are so low. They have never used them in the last 70 years, if they do use them there will be MAD, thus the end of Russia(and everyone else, although I bet not everyone). Why would they ever use them? The only point that I can see them using nukes is the moment before they lose access to their own nukes, then sure a decision would have to be made. I actually think Nato could invade and occupy large parts of mainland russia and even still they would not use nukes, only when the end of russia as a state is threatened might they consider nukes and even then, it is still better to not use them from russia's perspective.
Talk of Nazi' this and Nazi that is straight out of the Kremlin play book.
Agreed. It's a pretext for an asset grab.
Russia's unilateral breach of an existing agreement makes negotiations difficult. As Russia has shown it cannot be trusted any solution will need an effective means of enforcement, something which will be difficult for Russia to accept but without which will be difficult for Ukraine to accept.
I'm not sure I believe this. Wouldn't Russia refine its own jet fuel?
There an oil exporter but don't have enough for themselves.
This is turning out be a sh1tshow in their own backyard... Delighted!
I think you're broadly missing the point. If we were at a situation on boards today posting about a US invasion of Canada or Mexico because the Russian military were setting up shop there, the USA would have ended up there via a series of calamitous foreign policy errors over decades where either Mexico or Canada decided the USA was more foe than friend. Nor would I think anyone be making excuses for them or low-key condoning them.
Notwithstanding, that the notion of Russia in the economic state it is in, with its coercive and transactional approach to foreign policy ever being in a place where they could land on the borders of the USA and Canada or Mexico entertaining it is fanciful to put it mildly.
A better question is how did Ukraine end up in a space where they completely reject a 'brother nation' and want to throw in their lot with the EU and the West generally. Russia and the low-key supporters have some questions it needs to ask themselves how it came to this. The CIA and the dastardly Pentagon etc etc have less to do with this state of affairs than you think. The answer lies much closer to home.
Got to have hope in that if it gets that bad then either others around Putin will sense weakness and get rid of him, or that if he presses the big red button that there are enough other people in the chain of command to say "hang on a moment lads, are we sure about this?".
Do they have fuel for their military aircraft?!
There's no denying Russia has unilaterally broken the agreement. It could be argued that releases the other signatories to the agreement from any undertakings they gave to Russia but not from each other.
I think Russia has walked right up to the line in terms of use or threat of use of nuclear weapons in alluding to 'consequences you have never seen in history' without explicitly threatening Ukraine with the same as to do so would oblige the USA and UK to come to Ukraine's defence.
Russia will not want USA's and UK's direct involvement. I don't think that is a line they will cross.
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Might be a different one. The one I saw showed your man with the selfie and then beside it showed a picture of the building with a large hole in the wall where the rocket had gone in. It wasn't from a reputable news source though
Edit. This is not where I saw it but it is the same photos
Do you see the irony in using whataboutery but then complaining about whataboutery? I would imagine you dont.
If it's the same incident I'm thinking of it was actually worse than that:
It was reported that at least two Russian operatives entered the building and opened fire on mostly sleeping or resting volunteers; there was footage of multiple bodies appearing to have numerous gunshot wounds.
Where do you think all this will end ?
The more desperate Russia get and the more Ukraine appear to be winning - might seem like good news but to me that just pushes Putin closer and closer to the nuke button - and then we are ALL FUCKED !!!
There was another story though about Ukrainians doing some basic training in a local community hall/gym/basketball hall kind of place. One fella took a selfie of himself with all the lads in the background and posted it online. About 5 minutes later the building was hit with a rocket and they blamed local collaborators recognising the building from the inside and passing on the info.
Ordinary Russians who overwhelmingly approve of Presidency. You make your bed you sleep in it, good enough for them.
It's the minority who don't approve of him that I feel sorry for.
How did I disparage him? I just said he's exactly how I pictured him. A rural cute hoor boyo who most likely has patches on his jacket sleeves.
The chat bot has been in place since the beginning of the invasion. The Ukrainians have been using every piece of information they could get their hands on. They were also harvesting information from TikTok. Russian and Belarus teenagers posting videos of military equipment passing through the rail network were an invaluable source of intelligence.
They can make a movie about it "Enemy at the Gates 2"
Ahh would you give over with that shyte. Yeah they were paving the way for the women and children to follow.
Now how come that isn't happening in Ukraine at the moment?
It is a busted myth that all those young lads were fleeing Syria, Iraq or indeed Afghanistan.
Yes there were Syrians there, but there was every type of chancer from not just Middle East and Central Asia but also parts of Europe amongst them.
Just like it is a busted myth that they were all doctors, engineers and scientists.
I think the other thing some people seem to be missing is that price increases for petrol and in particular gas do not just affect the prices at the pump:
Gas and petrol are used for a multitude of industrial processes and any decrease in availability or increase in cost is going to put strain on all kinds of supply chains. We could be talking medical equipment and supplies, pharmaceuticals, food, etc.
And as with everything else these increases are going to impact the poorer people and poorer nations around the world disproportionately.
This isn't just about Johnny with his BMW stopping on the petrol station forecourt and having to spend more so he can drive his bike up to the Wicklow mountains for his Sunday spin.
Nobody is mentioned "how inconvenient it is when they turn up near us". That is only you.
Again you are being obtuse and not acknowledging the original posters point. Such strawman deflection does not help your argument as it shows you don't must not have a strong one.
I don't know how anyone could refuse to help the Ukrainian people fleeing the war.
There are people, for example, in camps in the likes of Calais. They have possibly been there for years. They were never near a warzone. They will never be in a warzone. There is nobody in France trying to murder them. By concocting and implying a false equivalence between those "refugees" and the women and children literally fleeing Ukraine for their lives at the minute, you are seriously insulting those Ukrainian women and children.
I wonder. We can generate electricity fairly quickly by other means. Home heating might be trickier - I guess ultimately you can make gas yourself if you have enough electricity?
But it's just paranoia; there's no rational basis to it. Ukraine as a standalone actor could never attempt to invade Russia, no matter how much western weaponry it possessed. And if the US/NATO/The West wanted to launch an unprovoked attack on Russia it wouldn't need any help from Ukraine. So if Russia genuinely has no aggressive intentions toward Ukraine, the Ukraine joining NATO or whatever military alliance doesn't change anything of substance.
Of course if Russia still harbours ambitions to annex more of Ukraine, install puppet governments etc. then obviously Ukraine joining NATO is a major hindrance to it. But that's where your analogy with Canada and Mexico falls down, those countries have no 'good' reason to join any anti-US military alliance because they can be certain America has no intention of invading them.
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