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Mech1 · 15-03-2022 08:22PM

120m excellent, bigger target to hit.

jmayo · 15-03-2022 08:23PM

By all accounts the Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki, Czech PM Petr Fiala and Slovenian PM Janez Jansa have entered Ukraine by train and travelling to Kyiv.

Yurt2 · 15-03-2022 08:25PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118790069#Comment_118790069

What Minister of State drew Kyiv in the St Patrick's Day junket lotto?

jolivmmx · 15-03-2022 08:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118790076#Comment_118790076

I heard that they were going to send Mick Wallace

jmayo · 15-03-2022 08:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118790076#Comment_118790076

I'd willingly drive the bus full of our shower to Kyiv myself.

BTW the Ukrainian farmers have shown what they are made of, it is time the fishermen stepped up now. 😁

15-03-2022 08:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118789595#Comment_118789595

It's one of the things they're known for. They fund opposition both neatly curated and more "extreme" and they also let everyone know that they do it. It's a perverse society.

Dohnjoe · 15-03-2022 08:29PM

Hillary Clinton's response to being banned forever from Russia

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1503752794158911493?s=20&t=nLcCamNO_gx4N5d0VR9ZCw

realdanbreen · 15-03-2022 08:36PM

I see where Russian troops are living on a diet of potatoes and onions! Now I don't know much about what weaponry the Ukrainians have but if you have 3 or 4 Russians cooped up in a tank and a few of them break wind then that's as good as any stinger missile!

Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦, f**k Russia.

Manic Moran · 15-03-2022 08:39PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118789886#Comment_118789886

There's an old saw that the winner of a war is the side which makes fewest mistakes. The Russians are proving utterly incompetent, either due to lack of training or morale. Probably both.

That said, whilst Ukraine has been quite good at holding the line, you don't win a war by sitting on the defense, and I've seen very little of the major maneuver units. Ukraine has mechanized brigades of its own and outside of local counter-attacks, I've not seen them being effectively used either. If could be that they're still just whittling down the Russian forces and waiting for an opportune moment, but I have a suspicion that they are being wasted holding the line as well. Defending is all well and good, if you don't mind your cities and soldiers being shelled, but the risk is that eventually the defense will be breached somewhere, at which point things start to go South. Hoping that the Russians decide "OK, after losing all these forces we're going to go home, lesson learned" is a questionable strategy.

Dubh Geannain · 15-03-2022 08:39PM

https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1503751361946693641?t=J1X0FMnG4CVCyEZSRdQi2Q&s=19

I'd say that was after a few of his army were looking like downing tools.

Manic Moran · 15-03-2022 08:41PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118789946#Comment_118789946

No, it's being done for safety issues. If they want, the pilot can turn off the transponder (Signal beacon), so the only way to find the aircraft is with an air search radar which may not be easy against a stealthed aircraft. You then need to figure out what it is you've found, though at over 50k ft, that shouldn't be too hard.

It's one of the capabilities identified as critical which Ireland lacks. If a pilot turns off the transponder (As the Russians have been known to do over the Atlantic), there's no way for Irish ATC to know they're out there.

fritzelly · 15-03-2022 08:41PM

Good episode about Roman on Panorama last night if you can get to see it

15-03-2022 08:43PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118789929#Comment_118789929

The way I describe it is thus: I stand in front of you and lie. You know I'm lying. I know you know I'm lying. The conversation just continues. I feel creeped out thinking about the level of cynicism.

I would argue that the Russian "narrative" has become a lack of narrative. There is no truth. 150 years of mass media from various perverse, sadistic, cynical powerkeepers with the threat of the gulag for pointing out the obvious would make anyone switch off. More recently they're known for flooding any discussion at any level with nonsense so that there's literally just too much information and the state themselves want it known that they're doing what they're doing. Kinda an extra little "**** you" to everyone.

Wibbs · 15-03-2022 08:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118789996#Comment_118789996

That raises another aspect to all this. The West has ploughed an awful lot of weapons into the country for obvious and great reasons at this time and they need all they can get, but when this is over and Ukraine are rid of the Russian military, that leaves a lot of military grade weaponry in the country and not just assault rifles. Handheld and portable anti tank and anti aircraft weapons for example. And I doubt anything like a definitive inventory is being kept for obvious and practical reasons. If they get into the wrong hands the threat of appalling terrorist atrocities would be a concern.

In the post Soviet era Ukraine was known for illicit arms dealings, so it's pretty likely at least some of those people and networks are still around, and as this drags on and in the aftermath, you will have the scum that always rise in the wake of human disaster who see opportunites to make serious cash. A loyal Ukrainian will see an anti tank weapon as a means to fight Russians, a small percentage will see it as made of cash. At least it's something that requires a major case of the beady eye.

swiwi_ · 15-03-2022 08:46PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118790069#Comment_118790069

I find this kind of weird

1) Have Russian given guarantees that the transports won't be attacked? Even by error or "error"?

2) Does the Ukrainian President wish his hiding place to be made known?

I imagine Russia really really does not want to draw NATO in, so that transport is probably as safe as houses, but still.

Wibbs · 15-03-2022 08:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118790097#Comment_118790097

And the comments note, that a particularly orange man isn't...

Hobgoblin11 · 15-03-2022 08:48PM

Irish citizen and journalist Pierre Zakrzewski who has been killed while reporting on the war in Ukraine. Is this Irelands first casualty of this aggression?

Yurt2 · 15-03-2022 08:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118790161#Comment_118790161

A few years back, two North Korean intelligence officers operating in Ukraine were caught red-handed having broken into a disused Soviet missile factory, stealing critical parts and missile blueprints. Madness when you think about it.

Bayonet · 15-03-2022 09:00PM

"Would not allow" - and how exactly, Mr Biden, will you be able to stop them? who will monitor what goes back and forth between Iran and Russia? will all cargo planes and ships between the two countries be checked?

No, of course not. This is a word salad for domestic consumption. This Iran nuclear deal, which is already dreadful on its own merit, is Russia's sanctions escape route. Despicable.

https://twitter.com/InstaNewsAlerts/status/1503821758469705730?s=20&t=fRLbSFKlFyoHHbLy_6HCcw

jolivmmx · 15-03-2022 09:01PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118790170#Comment_118790170

Oh no, you see @Wibbs it is because the fear oráiste is the bestest and the toughest and the bestest president. The Russians quake in their boots when they think of him. They would be too terrified to place sanctions on him. It is because Joe Biden is weak and in bed with the Russians and, and, that they placed sanctions on him. It is not what the MSM want you to believe. None of this would have happened if our greatest and bestest former President didn’t have the election stolen from him

Beasty · 15-03-2022 09:01PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118790166#Comment_118790166

No guarantees AFAIK, but they will not want to deliberately attack them. That will only increase the outrage and could be another move towards NATO getting involved. It has been suggested the 3 of them stick around as that becomes a bit of a human shield for Zelenskyy

Equally Zelenskyy is going to be regularly moving around to minimise the chance of detection

greenpilot · 15-03-2022 09:01PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118789946#Comment_118789946

All commercial/civilian aircraft and military aircraft working in commercial or civilian airspace are required to transmit or "Squawk" a unique code that identifies themselves, plus height, direction of travel and airspeed. The apps simply recieve and process the same transponder signal that airtraffic controllers see. Military aircraft transmit only if they want to be seen, so there is another side to the Global Hawk story.

jolivmmx · 15-03-2022 09:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118790230#Comment_118790230

Putin seems to like to make statements to the world. He is really a show man. Harming our leaders would be his ultimate way to show his disdain and contempt for meddling Western leaders

jolivmmx · 15-03-2022 09:10PM

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Interesting theory from Reddit

Call me Al · 15-03-2022 09:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118789934#Comment_118789934

Maybe they did.

I don't think they have claimed this find was today's? And even if they did would you believe them anyway?

They may have sat on this and monitored communications until their hack was rumbled.

Personally I think if they could garner intelligence of any value its what they've probably done.

fritzelly · 15-03-2022 09:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118790263#Comment_118790263

More camouflaged Trump crap

Gregor Samsa · 15-03-2022 09:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118790263#Comment_118790263

It’s illegal, under the Logan Act, for an unauthorised US citizen to enter into negotiations with a foreign government with which the US has a dispute.

15-03-2022 09:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118788545#Comment_118788545

Have we descended to this nonsense now? I've met many Russians on holiday. A few were obnoxious, most were not. Same as any other nationality really.

cnocbui · 15-03-2022 09:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118789549#Comment_118789549

Pure twilight zone. They need to check the Kremlin water supply, there seems to be something in it.

corkie · 15-03-2022 09:33PM

Times Radio: 'The West is at war with Russia' | Garry Kasparov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0no08rerPw

Speaking to Aasmah Mir on Times Radio Breakfast, Russian chess grandmaster & dissident Garry Kasparov said that the war in Ukraine will go worse and that the West is at war with Russia. "After Putin failed to win the war in two or three days as he planned, so he shifted to the strategy he knew best so destroying the country, levelling the cities, and spreading his campaign of terror," he said. He added: "The question now that remains open, at what point NATO and America that is a leading force in NATO, will recognise the simple fact we are at war with Russia, whether we like it or not, and this war has been declared on us by Putin. "We're fighting a war by other means. economic, political, technological, but it's a war and Putin kept repeating: it's not just the war on Ukraine, it's war against NATO, it's a war to redesign the world in his vision, which is, you know, back to medieval times."

Going by that he is suggesting that NATO, should get involved now, instead of waiting until later?

On another note, hopefully not giving ammunition to putinbots?

If Putin sees this as a ‘Military Operation’ and not a 'War' can he be guilty of War Crimes?

And yes I believe 'War Crimes' have happened in Ukraine.

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Times Radio: 'The West is at war with Russia' | Garry Kasparov