I support the migs move though it's very risky too. We'll see how it plays out
So you just the wrote the opposite of what I said.
I dont see how Russia can win this anymore. Even if they take Ukraine and that's an if, their economy is absolutely fcuked. Their reputation worldwide is in the dirt. No one believes them about anything. People are making comparisons to N. Korea, but that situation developed in a very different time in history and over many generations. Russia has ended up that way in two weeks. There is not a hope Putin can hang into power if this keeps up. Russians love their McDonalds. Putin is McFcuked.
Plot twist
If they didnt offer refuge would you be saying they hung him out to dry?
The UK offered refuge to Free French, do you think that meant they werent bothered if France surrendered?
Why dont you move to Russia, criticise the war there and tell us what fuss went down.
Yeah because what you said was nonsense..they had no interest in "surrending"...if they did who exactly would make a fuss?
Re the foreign currency embargo - you can get up to $10 thousand in foreign currency and the rest in Rubles only, wonder how long their foreign currency reserves will last, can't see it being that long
Probably air strike it rather than let it fall into Russian hands.
Probably referring to this marvelous idea:
The Russian embassy in Lisbon.
I can't see him having designs on Moldova. At most I would see him linking up with Transnistria, which is de jure Moldova, but hasn't really had anything to do with that country since the fall of the USSR. NATO's response to the invasion of Ukraine has been pretty firm - something Putin did not appear to be much expecting. We can only shudder to think what going near Poland, an actual NATO member, would be.
What is happening now ? …… jaysus ……
I think people just need to be practical and logical in these situations.
Thankfully no Irish person is in charge of NATO.
Well you may favor it NATO boots on the ground.
but logically : IT WONT HAPPEN. Im not gonna post more and more RE nuclear war, deterrence, balance of power strategy etc etc etc - You cannot take the chance. And you shouldn't.
on Andrei V Kozyrev (figured it was him, but the way you mentioned it - i was like, WHAT!? - or ANDREI!!!)
Listen that all sounds perfectly salient to me. but i should point out, unless missing something BIG
NO WHERE in that thread does former Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev advocate a
What he does say is .. ambiguous (see below)
Listen morally i am with you , (and i am sorry if i caused offence) - I want to do something - but this situation is dangerous - and i can honestly say i cannot see it going your way (boots on the ground)
i COULD see
All IMHO
Has there already been a run on their banks?
It's fascinating how Nazi is becoming synonymous with Russian on this thread.
The Nazis were a bunch of swines as we all know but Vladimir Putin is literally a throwback to Soviet era Russian Communism which was a system that was a death machine all of its own.
I get that people need to simplify everything these days, however as well know Nazis were awful, but so were Communist regimes, nothing kills it's own people like a good old fashioned communist dictatorship.
This reminds me.
Fiction writers are going to love the new cold War. When you had the remake of Red Dawn with North Korean protagonists you knew things had gone a bit stale. Even political espionage thrillers were either set during the cold War or were just remakes of Cold War classics.
Speaking of Trolling Putin, Ukraine should acknowledge Russian demans with counter proposals.
1. Russia cedes Russian territory up to 10km from Moscow.
2. Ukraine accepts Russia can request to join NATO.
3. Ukraine does not desire to send in Ukrainian troops to police rRussia.
The latest phase of the snaking regarder comms strategy is basically "everyone do what Putin says, he's got nuclear weapons". This is point we're at.
I guess they just keep it closed forever 😆
I noticed in the report on the News at 10, the guy in Moscow didn't use the word "war" in his reporting. Main presenter in Lviv asked a question to him using the word "war" but the response was then carefully chosen to not repeat the term.
What does this mean in layman's terms if the Russians were to gain control of them?
Would they be important enough for NATO to intervene?
People only know about Nazis and that's it, it seems.
Tbh the movement of the migs to Germany and the ongoing negotiations are probably linked; pretty much to show the west means **** business and if he wants to go down that road he's gonna get a slap.
"From the West" ? is that where you are, or is it where your looking at?
"From the West"
I doubt it
If the research is that important why not have it in a Nato country in the first place ?
I think those are Ukrainian research facilities and not NATO sponsored research labs
For the life of me I just cannot understand how anybody, anybody at all, including those Putin apologists on here (Irish people?) are defending him. I watched Alex Crawford's piece on Sky at 9pm and am still crying, 2 hours later. I can't find a link to the vid but this is the article. Shame on anyone who supports Putin in his illegal land grab war in Ukraine
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-in-the-midst-of-pounding-mortars-remarkable-kindness-is-shown-by-people-fleeing-the-violence-12561049
It's fascinating that you are so historically and contemporarily illiterate that you think the Putin regime is communist, and yet think you should be commenting.
Reminds me of the chap on Liveline today who freely admitted to not knowing where Ukraine was on the map two months ago, but saw no problem in talking about it with the confidence of an expert.
I'd say he still can't pick out Ukraine on the map.
Who are these people? The vast vast majority despise Putin and disagree with the invasion. I don't know anyone that doesn't think this.
Jesus, Nuland has to admit in front of the Senate that they have biological labs miles from the Russian border, and somehow that's an excuse for NATO to enter into conflict in Ukraine.
How would you feel if you were a Russian and you saw that admission? Do Russian people not feel fear as well?
This really is some mess of a thread at this stage.
Well if people know about Nazis they know what we're dealing with here, don't they. Russian Nazis.
I think the point being is that we've had many wars since 1945 and no one mentions these. They leap straight back to Hitler and the Nazis for almost anything these days.
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