It looks irrational now, but IMHO it's a mistake to think the idea going in was. For putin anyway. To him and many Russians suckling on his propaganda teat this was a liberation of ethnic Russians from 'nazis'. It was a way for him to do some grand gesture befitting a czar and to show his subjects the threat of 'The West'(which runs through their blood at this stage) and how strong czar Vlad would show them. The targeting of civilians was always going to happen, as were the losses of his own men. He expected and allowed for that in a way a Western leader couldn't. He doesn't care about Western optics. The nuclear mickey waving was also 'a warning to The West' for the world and his people and the biggest stick he has to wave. Without it the West could reduce Russia and her armies to a bloody rubble. It is literally his only bargaining chip.
For me the most actually irrational thing he's done is to go beyond taking the Donbas(and maybe extending his land route to Crimea). That makes little to no sense to me, because he probably could have gotten away with that and gave a 'win' to his subjects. Hubris I suppose, and thinking the West and Europe and the rest of the world were weak. Sadly for him they've rarely been this united in wanting to fúck someone up and are doing so with their money. As usual always follow the money. If so many Western societies and huge corprorate interests are willing to take a major financial hit to make a point, the one they're making the point to is screwed.
If it's on a public forum then it can bee seen, and scraped. What then , who knows, but suspect disinformation and trolling, or perhaps nothing at all, but everything is being monitored. I wouldn't be overly suspicious of boards.ie being a target, but I certainly wouldn't be posting rhetoric that's anti Xi or Putin on my social media and then flying into Beijing to see the sights.
Hello all. Its been a while.
Does Mr.Putin have something akin to an Eircode or Zipcode?
Asking for a friend....
There's a whole lot of a difference between what he says and what they can actually do. So far they are not doing well against a smaller, better-trained, more war-ready foe, who have limited air support. I doubt he'd want to make good on his rambling threats if faced with likely superior military adversaries.
It's so laughable any notion of Irish people being Pro Putin. Again, I don't know how you made this conclusion and you still haven't explained it. You also read back on my old posts which is weird.
Im also completely purplexed in regards to Putin not just aiming for Donbas and linking up with Crimea. He could have gotten away with it.
I really did think the other offensives were just a bit of posturing to eventually negotiate down to taking those eastern regions and leaving it at that.
Would love to know what's going on in that head of his.
The men are welcome to stay and fight. It's the women, old people and kids I feel worst for. Always caught up in men's wars
If say he's itching to try some of their new toys.
No, it's exaggeration to make a point. I appreciate English may not be your mother tongue.
You don't think Mick Wallace and Clare Daly are pro-Putin?
It's not a 'genocide'. I do wish people would stop using terms they seem to not understand. And where is putin saying he's going to invade other parts of Europe? He can barely invade Ukraine. If he touches any EU/NATO country it's WW3 and he knows it and it's something he couldn't spin to his people and hasn't tried to spin it beforehand. He's been spinning Ukraine as a nazi state that needs to be slapped for the guts of a decade. We may not believe it at the time, or in time, but evil pricks always tell you you what they're going to do. For the craic and a mighty penance, read Mein Kampf. He lays down the script for what was to come and in plain terms.
Christ, is every man in that region a bloodthirsty warmonger now?
You do realise there are men who don't want to fight in wars but feel they need to do so to protect their families?
It's not a bloody gender issue.
Why would Putin not invade Gotland, part of non-NATO Sweden?
Those Russians really do love sh*t talking. They are like the drunk propped up at the edge of the bar at the end of a Friday night , promising all sorts of glories.
Toys break and they can only use them once!
Well they are certainly anti American imperialist, that's for sure. As many people are in Ireland.
I'm not sure that makes them Pro Putin.
Em, read the tweet posted above. And Putin and Surkov are literally telling us they plan to invade other parts Europe. Why the hell do you think they reference the borders of the Russian empire? For the craic?
Like, how slow on the uptake are you?
Putin denies the right to existence of a Ukrainian state and people.
This is the planned destruction and erasure of a people ffs. Of course it's a fooking genocide.
genocide, the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.
Let them capture Kharkiv first, which is right across their border by the way
then i'll worry about Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, parts of Sweden and Poland 😂
Meh, masturbatory fantasy posturing on a TV show. No doubt if we went looking we'd find American TV shows debating an imaginary scenario of how they could take Russia. The nuke argument and mickey waving goes both ways. Plus unlike Russia who has bugger all experience and skill in projecting military force much beyond their borders, America and NATO do. America has been prosecuting foreign wars for 80 years.
Sure he can't even nail a couple of small Ukrainian cities next door. The mutual defence clause in the Lisbon treaty is why and the Swedes have a proper army. It also brings with it the risk of EU/NATO members helping them. That would be over in 2-3 days but not to his liking!
No I’ll pass thanks. Check out these lovely Russians living in free Germany https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/tcgqtx/russians_in_germany_protesting_against_accepting/?
Not particularly. They're just as likely to be pro naivete and whataboutery. Daly's entire spiel during this has been Russia are bad, but why aren't we looking at all the Brown people that have suffered at the hands of the west and are being ignored etc. Which is a valid point, just made at very much the wrong time.
Wallace and Daly deny the right of the Ukrainian people to defend themselves.
They castigate the west for arming them.
That is blaming the victim.
They claim to call for "peace".
But they know Putin has no intention of stopping.
They call for "de-escalation" and blame the west and NATO. But the west has been trying to "de-escalate" with Putin for the last two decades.
Wallace and Daly are the biggest weasels in Ireland.
They claim not to be supporters of Putin. They just advocate for policies that would mean Ukrainian surrender and give Putin everything he wants.
That is being pro-Putin.
That is being a Lord Haw Haw.
As we know you are, from your postings here.
We get it, some individuals hate the West/US/UK (so much it would make the Taliban cringe). There's an anti-US-imperialism on this forum for precisely that reason.
Up to 1,149 Russian vehicles/equipment now destroyed
Wow….there’s loads of them
They talk about capturing those countries, but having not seen the wider clip, presumably they are looking to denazify those places too? I'm not sure it would be a particularly hard sell to the general Russian population, but presumably their economy would be in the shitter by then so not sure how they can afford it.
He knows full well thay NATO would step up if any of those got invaded.
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