RTE News saying on their bulletin this evening that there is probably more need now for food rather than clothes (non perishable items obviously that can be transported over long distances and which won't go off).
Only reports are that Volnovakha has been retaken (great if true), but hardly a lifting of the siege
I was very supportive of peace efforts a few days ago , but I suspect this would be another waste of time. Having said that, Israel would only host if Russia gave the nod that it would negotiate rather than demand surrender. Would be a shame if Putin's plane suffered a 'technical' problem on the way to Jerusalem....
That's spectacular.
I've seen that many senior officers killed in combat In a two week period,and people still think they have a chance against the combined Nato forces
RTE news did a report from polish border showing some of the stuff that had arrived from Ireland…..one of the locals held up a pair of red high heeled shoes 👠 to make the point that this is the sort of stuff that is not needed. ……Surprise surprise…..some posh bird clearing out her wardrobe 😡
Mans appetite for war is voracious and history is littered with conflicts that were dastardly crimes against humanity.
But all of those had a sense that an ending would eventually come as they were conventional wars, and life could continue (with the exception of the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). With so many nuclear weapons in the world right now, and almost all immeasurably more powerful than those dropped by the Enola Gay, all this talk of reduction of stockpiles is pointless. Even a handful of the most powerful of them, and the subsequent lasting effects, would destroy most of life as we know it. At frequent times in history despots, tyrants and crazies such as Putin, Hitler, Stalin, etc, get to have total control of their country... and subsequently abuse that power.
I've read a lot recently about how Putin is bluffing, he's not bluffing, he's mad, he's not mad, yada, yada. Whatever, he's still made that threat, and no-one is going to call his hand. I don't see any way the nuclear threat will ever go away in it's entirety, not now with Putin and not ever. Now that the world has seen that Putin can achieve impunity just by holding that threat, I believe that even when he's long gone that no country will realistically be either willing or want to disarm on a nuclear level. It's immensely sad that future generations have to be born into a world full of fear and foreboding, and that politics, religion, ideology and nuclear weapons is the most toxic mix imaginable.
Ironically the recently launched $10 billion, James Webb telescope will train its eye on very distant worlds to see if they are habitable. We have our own habitable world right here, which at some point - possibly now or certainly in the future, will be uninhabitable. And all because of mans greed.
That there is life out there in the vast cosmos I have no doubt. I also have no doubt of what their singular view of us would be.
Pricks.
The explanation I have heard from military experts on British radio for there being so many dead generals is that the soldiers don’t want to fight and are disobeying orders or not advancing, and so higher ranking officers are having to go to the front line to ‘encourage’ them than would normally be the case
Conflict is part of humanity as it's part in every animal species. Once you accept that there's no unicorn-filled utopia, then it's easier to see things more matter of fact. I've got about 30 sparrows that live in my garden. I feed them, so they stick around. They're very gregarious, they'll alert each other to food, will collectively alarm call when the Sparrowhawk swoops in, and they'll huddle in the winter for body warmth. They're about as community orientated as could be. However, every so often a mad argument breaks out. Chasing each other, tweeting like mad and trying to bite too.
What I'm trying to say is, we're no different to sparrows. Most of the time we get along, then we don't. Of course sparrows don't have nukes.
And in a new low, the Russian scum have seized a humanitarian convoy intended for Mariupol and seized it's supplies, presumably to feed their own troops.
Boots on the ground, I say, and will continue to argue for.
What a brilliantly put post.
Excellent.
So was the purported translated intent of that video wrong, and the pilot was actually calling for Russian victory?
Never stops being surreal
Hopefully not Just manpads ,they could do with something with longer ranges to force Russian aircraft to stay further away,
They could.do a few C-rams to shoot down incoming missles and other munitions
Agree with gist and there will always be bad actors, but there are some steps we can take... we can set thresholds and limits through weapons control for example.. maybe expand the list of banned weapons (autonomous robots are on the edge of legality), get serious about global disarmament.
The planet has enough problems and humanity faces enough challenges that we literally do not have the time, energy, or resources to be wasting on this kind of sh1te. (Ditto for other regions afflicted by war and conflict.)
I don't know, any videos i've seen they seem to be more interested in promoting themselves on social media well behind the frontline.
That pic could be from anywhere
I have some breaking news for you that may astonish: Ukraine did not attack Russia, so trying to spin them as being as bad as Russia had they done something they didn't, is hoping we are fools. Sod off with that Russian slime think.
I think the US has been hinting that they will send more sophisticated AA and other weapons
I can do better - sorry, worse - Arresting a woman who was holding up ablank sign:
It' didn't go far. i believe it's moored in Kalliningrad, or at least that is where it was reported to have gone at the time.
Just about sums up certain posters. You read buzz-words in a person’a post. You are sufficiently discourteous that you do not even bother reading past the buzz words. You jump to erroneous conclusions and mislabel the poster. You inferred the exact opposite meaning from my post than what I actually intended. And then you proceed to insult me. A bit of self-reflection is required, perhaps?
Also, perhaps you should read a dictionary and discover the meaning of offensive and defensive
I know this is the Internet, but I think you took that poster's meaning completely wrong. Re-read their post.
To Cyrilic?
That's incredibly defeatist - at least wait antil they attack.
The problem is that they have been refusing to supply non-Soviet equipment with the exception of "simple" stuff like ATGMs, RPGs etc.
I suspect the US is just sending more of the same; although obviously I hope not.
Can't un-invent things. Nukes are here to stay. Sure, the US and Russia could agree to reduce from 1,200 to 500. Doesn't particularly matter. We already have all sorts of controls on weapons and where they can be used. As you can see with Russia, they're not too bothered about the 'law' and neither was Assad.
Cluster bombs on civilian targets are against international law, but Russia still uses them for that. Just as domestic laws don't stop all crime, international laws regarding war are flouted regularly. Again, there is no utopia. There's only bad and less bad, good and less good.
Off topic a bit, but something is going down with Iran/Iraq. Looks like Iran has hit the US embassy in Iraq with ballistic missiles.
Fair points. OK. It's Plan B so to unite humanity and save the world: Fake alien invasion.
Well there is no harm in trying to take advantage of the situation. Might tidy the place up a bit
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