He's also a ghost hunter and budist monk
Why would they be bothered
Thanks, I'll try!
I posted the story because I'm against people unnecessarily throwing their life away fighting a major military power.
No genuinely and I mean this with all due respect. It wouldn't surprise me one single bit if you were lashing this text off from behind a battered gate on Orwell road.
'how does everyone here feel this guy wearing the tricolour to ukraine'
'if you want to get the inside scoop go to this telegram channel for this banned Russian mouth piece military Twitter channel'.
For someone who waffles about not liking violence and war you are promoting some pretty graphic sources.
Hence I think you are a pro Russian shill. With decent enough English to suspect that you've been located here a while.
Both siiiiiiiiidessss.
Russia bombing cities in the west near Polish border.
I would imagine if he was captured alive or even if he was killed. The Russians could use it as part of their propaganda to try and show their population that the Irish army is involved in the conflict in Ukraine. My biggest fear is if he is captured alive they could torture him into making a confession that he was sent to Ukraine by the Irish government.
My first thought is that the Russians are trying to stretch the Ukrainians, get them to pull men and machines away from maybe Kyiv and Mariupol. But I'm not wise in the ways of military strategy, so willing to be corrected.
Anyone waving an Irish flag around outside of Paddys Day or a sports event is a guaranteed nutter these days anyhow.
Bigging up the Russian army?!
Soldier makes excuse for pissing his pants.
I'm not keyboard warrioring, I've no desires to go over and play pew pew with the Russians - but, this guy is an embarrassment to trained soldiers.
I know, but come on.. everyone deserves to be treated right, even if they make stupid decisions.
Also when talking about British soldiers, you have to take into account that a large number have learning difficulties:
Almost two-fifths (39%) of recruits to the Army have the reading ability of an 11-year-old or lower, MPs have warned.
A similar proportion (38%) can only do maths aimed at pupils in their last year of primary school, says a Commons Defence Select Committee report.
And
The Army is so desperate to fill its ranks that it is signing up recruits with a reading age as young as five.
Normally, its rules bar hiring anyone with a reading age below 'entry level two' – equivalent to that of a child aged seven to nine.
This is considered the minimum soldiers need to be able to read instructions for using firearms and explosives.
I don't highlight this to humiliate them, in fact it's an absolute disgrace that the British government exploits those with learning difficulties in this way.
"bullet catcher"
What the actual f is wrong with you?
Well I assure you I'm no Pro Russian shill although if the Russian government is reading this and wants to send me a paycheck, preferably not in Rubles then I may reconsider 😄
As someone who has studied history a bit, I always believe in having multiple sources of information. Even if you know one is biased, it can still help you understand how the other side sees things but to be honest we are getting propaganda from both sides so it is really hard to know who to trust and to be honest, we won't know the real picture until possibly years after this conflict has ended.
I'm sorry if the sources I have linked to also graphic but I do believe at times if you want to prevent violence, you need to show people what it is like even if it upsets some.
No you dance the very fine line. But expose yourself often enough. It's actually superbly easy to spot. As we say here anti war 'me hole', Anti ukranian assistance more like.
I shall continue to consume your methods and point out their flaws.
Adversarial
"Thanks, I'll try!
I posted the story because I'm against people unnecessarily throwing their life away fighting a major military power."
Can I get an Amen, Adversarial to...
Putin is a rabid dog and his tiny penis should be cut off and fed to his dog as a little appetizer?
Thanks for the constant stream of pro Russian propaganda btw.
The guy in that article is free to do as he wishes. You casting aspersions on his character is hardly surprising considering.
Putin is a war criminal who has illegally invaded a peaceful independent country and who is currently waging a war against the Ukrainian people. You can try and paint that any which way you like - it won't wash.
Sky News are reporting that Putin has said they will need to "welcome" foreign volunteers from the middle East. Around 15k. Basically the Syrian army.
That's desperation.
What's the definition of a Russian string quartet?
A Russian orchestra back from a US tour!
He might be onto somethings, seems to be lots of Spooks around here of late.
It wouldn't surprise me one single bit if you were lashing this text off from behind a battered gate on Orwell road.
Do you seriously believe the people in that consulate give a flying monkey's testicle about what people on this thread believe? If their aim is to spread propoganda amongst the Irish people they have far better ways of doing it than posting on Boards.ie
Maybe that was the wrong term and a little offensive. I apologise. I guess maybe the correct term would be a Walter Mitty. I really do hope at least for his mother's sake. He returns home safely or at least if he is captured by the Russians they treat him as a legitimate prisoner of war and release him in due course.
I hope the Ukrainians are doing some kind of vetting for all the foreigners joining their ranks. No doubt most of them are professionally trained and well intentioned, but you can be sure there's a few sociopaths heading over to play at rambo and to shoot at people with no consequence.
For all the supposed russian brilliance in the dark arts of propaganda it is amazing how cack handed and amateur it seems when an actual war is going on. There is no longer the plausibility of looking for peace and being provoked etc.
Great to get Russian insight on this... BUT, should be leaking Russian strategy? Do you like one lump or two of polonium with your tea?
Damn my position has been compromised. I better head back to Moscow at once!
I'm not an idiot. I prefer to sweeten my tea with the wonderful sweetness of lead.
Evidently you've no idea how their constant and wide spread misinformation war works. Ill let you go off and research it yourself. No country, format or forum is off limits pal.
The trick is that you think it doesn't exist and they've better things to be doing.
.. Like what processing visas!!?.....
So should Russia currently be in another country's sovereign territory killing it's citizens and destroying it's infrastructure? Yes or No will suffice.
It's also contradictory. Pre 2014 the Kremlin spin and actual feeling on the street would have been that Ukrainians and Russians were indeed brothers. Something that wouldn't be thought of about Poland or Latvia, or any of the other Soviet era statelets with the exception of Belarus, Georgia and Serbia to a lesser extent. Post 2014 the Kremlin spin has been to distance that familial relationship in the Russian mind and increase the Ukrainians are nazis attacking our Russian Ukrainian brothers in the East storyline.
If he had only invaded and taken the Donbas that spin would have made sense and he'd likely have gotten away with it with few sanctions from the west beyond impotent grumblings in the UN, and chances are high he'd have been welcomed by the ethnic Russians too, and been feted as a hero of Russia back home, with little spin required. It still staggers me that he decided to go for the whole country and I'd bet it staggers his minions and generals too.
Since comparisons with hitler and appeasement seem popular; if hitler had stopped with annexing Austria and the Sudetenland(and for similar excuses/reasons to putin), where he was welcomed and it was a walkover where he wasn't, WW2 would have been way down the line of probability. This comparison of course has some thinking putin won't stop with Ukraine. The difference is hitler could and did take Austria and Czechoslovakia with ease and then Poland and France and the Low Countries with relative ease and had enough in his back pocket to take on Britain and Russia. At that point there wasn't an army on earth that could stop him. Putin's problem is there are and a few of them and his 'Czechoslovakians' are not rolling over and are pushing back hard.
Those Spetnaz commanders were just reserves too , right?
Absolutely. I wonder what they do with people like this.. There is PR value to their arrival but the Ukranians would have to be careful what duties they assign. I assume there's a protocol.
You can see the blood lust on this thread, even. War gives every sociopath and angry old man an opportunity to vent their inner ugly, except due to the circumstances they can do so openly and all in the name of a good cause. They are fooling no one.
And on Putin, his tiny penis and his pet dog... any comment on that, Komrade?
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