you can be sure there's a few sociopaths heading over to play at rambo and to shoot at people with no consequence.
As with an earlier post regarding many UK sold having learning disabilities, these are exactly the kind of people they want. There are very few intellectual soldiers for a good reason.
worried about what happens tonight and over the weekend now. The column has dispersed into positions around the west of Kiev and looking like a full on bombardment of the city is about to commence. This is utterly hellish
Vladislav Surkov changed Russia with misinformation. His tactic was to not just support groups he liked, but to support everyone so no one knew what to think. He wanted everyone to suspect everything all the time, and call each other names so that no real truth could ever be reached. In this confusion and chaos authoritarians reign supreme. He wanted people to act just like your acting, without evidence just throw out the accusations.
No, I don't support the invasion in its current form. I understand Russia's reason for seizing control of the Crimea given its history and it's importance to their navy in the black sea and they should have stuck to just being in the Donbas as there they have a large ethnic Russian population and a majority there seem to support the idea of being part of Russia. At least that's the impression that I got before the current wider incursion into Ukrainian territory.
I realise it's bad form to reply to my own posts but I've had a second thought that Putin could also be trying to up the ante to goad another country, NATO or otherwise, to provide yet more military assistance (in the form of that well-worn tabloid phrase, 'boots on the ground') to give him the excuses he needs for home consumption.
Third thought is to create more panic within Ukraine, so more people leave the country altogether, try to over-stretch EU neighbours with refugees so the EU's fortitude on help and sanctions etc. wavers.
Or even, little bit of column A, little bit of column B ...
I think perhaps you have too high an opinion of yourself and this forum. Boards.ie would not even register a blip on the radar of influencing Irish culture and society.
Of course I have a high opinion of myself, but I'm actually unsure what the hell that has to do with this current subject. I'm talking about forums. Your talking about my opinion of myself?
Did I say Russians are targeting me? (short answer, no)
You're off your nut friend.
Yaka dak daka dak dak Yaka dak.
I'm basing my opinions on the content of that posters post. They are saying one thing but linking and throwing out slurs that are completely contrary to what they say they believe in.
It's not rocket science.
Its hardly exploitation, people who would usually struggle getting a basic job or cope successfully within society in general are provided structure and a decent living in their countries armed forces.
Also interesting the same people that say why would Russians have an interest in Ireland.. Yet here they are with one of the biggest embassy in the western world.
Mad shite all together when you really think about it.
Little oul Ireland. To high an opinion of itself..... Etc etc ad nauseam
So are we at the stage where Russia can do pretty much anything it wishes in Ukraine, including killing civilians, chemical weapons etc and Nato will not intervene? Nato and the EU,US,etc owe it to Ukraine and ourselves as to where exactly they stand. Hundreds of Ukrainians will be killed by Russians before I quit work today and many more in the days ahead. If there is no limit or red lines as to what Russia can do in Ukraine well then just say it!
Will these millions of refugees want to go back to Ukraine when it’s under Putin?
Back to the cesspit of the grey 1960s USSR.
Turkish Airlines has suspended the sale of airline tickets from Turkey to other countries for Russians.
Well let's look at that. The UK embassy twitter account only yesterday had to be censored by Twitter for posting deliberate misinformation and violating twitter rules. The same shite that's being reposted on social media by pro Russian gobshites . So no hardly surprising that would happen here.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/russia-ukraine-hospital-bomb-twitter-b2033340.html%3famp
nothing wrong there, you'd hardly spoon a suspected enemy combatant until he's identified? or cuddles maybe? perhaps netflix and chill?
A simple line of thought that the thread and forum is populated by apologists?
Or both siders.
Or those that benefit from spreading misinformation?
It does genuinely seem you have done zero research in a decade plus long misinformation war thats battle ground is the internet.
Once again off you toddle there and read the vast number of resources on the subject.
Or did the trucker in Wisconsin just one day get up and decide to wear a putin t-shirt across his chest.
LOL. Naivety to say the least.
Putin okays Middle Easterners to come and fight for Russia.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the green light on Friday to bring in thousands of fighters from the Middle East to fight against Ukraine."
At a meeting of Russia's Security Council, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said there were 16,000 volunteers in the Middle East who were ready to come to fight with Russian-backed forces in the breakaway Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
"We know many of [these volunteers], they helped in the fight against ISIS during the last 10 years," Shoigu said, according to TASS.
These are genuine refugees, all women, children and elderly men.
It won't be like the "refugees" of the last 25 years, travel half way around the world, once asylum granted fly home for holiday.
They are supposedly only taking those with varified military back round ,
But that won't see stop Walt's Claiming they are going to fight , chances are this gobshite will get as far as Poland and no further
"I don't support the invasion in its current form"? Do you mean because it's so inept? Or because property is being destroyed? Or because civilians and soldiers are dying? Or the fact it's created a refugee crisis etc etc? What exactly do you means and what sort of invasion would you support? Do you believe in the 21st century invading another country's sovereign territory is a legitimate tool of statecraft?
Its not just you with the accusations the thread is getting filled with them. All well and good to dissect someone’s post and say ‘that there is Russian propaganda’ etc.. but this meta narrative about shills and bots and supporters of this and that without evidence is exactly what Surkov and Putin want.
The weather wouldn’t be pleasant for them 🥶
Are these the ones they were offering $200-$300 a month to fight?
I am sure they will fight with great distinction for their very lucrative pay.
Some nice street art in Gdansk, Poland.
Yes that's right. They want to be able to continue allowing subtle and not so subtle propaganda being peddled. And folks like yourself to pretend it isn't happening. Because that only happens elsewhere. In other places... That matter.
Gas man.
'... Mr Putin, today I posted a comment on Boards.ie and planted a doubt in Wibbs head. Ukraine is ours!'
The long Russian military convoy that had been stalled outside Ukraine's capital has now 'dispersed,' says U.S. satellite company Maxar
Multiplied by millions of times across lots of platforms and countries, then it has a noticeable effect.
There is propaganda being peddled and it is being challenged. There is a massive subtly that you’re missing, I’m not saying propaganda should go by unchallenged, in fact I champion it, but especially in a thread as important and fast moving as this critiques of propaganda should quote the post your taking about and not have to go back through seven replies to get to what is being talked about. This is arrogant behaviour makes the thread unreadable.
Critique others posts all you want, call them disinformation and propaganda but play the ball. Don’t just go shouting ‘I scored a goal’ nobody cares.
"Dispersed" lol
Honestly I'm surprised seeing as how many desertions they had from that column. Still, good to see Vlad had long enough jumper cables to start the few bits that still had drivers
![Photo of [Deleted User]](https://we.vanillicon.com/v2/e050b53be62f0ae2404c620976170938.svg)
![Photo of [Deleted User]](https://wb.vanillicon.com/v2/bd89cdce15309a6ec2dff928c865017a.svg)
![Photo of [Deleted User]](https://w0.vanillicon.com/v2/07abd39dc4f0afde3c391afc78cc920e.svg)
![Photo of [Deleted User]](https://w8.vanillicon.com/v2/86b2bf519a78c14958c9040117dc4dc1.svg)
![Photo of [Deleted User]](https://w9.vanillicon.com/v2/976c251907293720934980d33d6fc1eb.svg)
![Photo of [Deleted User]](https://w8.vanillicon.com/v2/877aa92d1fda3704e03b5aa206affea2.svg)
![Photo of [Deleted User]](https://w6.vanillicon.com/v2/62877c35768f143f69acd7bb6cd43f3c.svg)