https://mobile.twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1505654066575204358
What's about to take place in Maripol is going to make Aleppo look like a tea party if the Russians follow through, a modern day genocide, these aren't the actions of a man defending his borders and protecting native Russians from the Ukraine nazis, its a warlord that's had his nose bloodied is now going to set a example
Interesting piece on how russian casualties could be higher than any estimates.
https://twitter.com/MarkHertling/status/1505890299163381764?s=20&t=mTj74LRtZoVYqG0da13vPA
Celebrating the deaths of ordinary Russian conscripts that thought they were on a training mission is hardly virtuous.
Putin invaded Ukraine on the back of a ridiculous narrative around denazification but it’s ordinary Ukrainians and Russians that are suffering for his megalomania
Indeed, deaths shouldn't be celebrated. That said Russian soldiers are writing "onwards to Berlin" on their helicopters, Russian pilots are pulling the trigger to drop bombs on buildings marked "children", Russian artillery crews know full well they are hitting humanitarian corridors, grad launcher crews know they are hitting residential areas. These same soldiers see that Ukrainians aren't rushing towards them with open arms or welcoming them in any way, they see protests in many places they go, signs telling them to "f**k off", and people who speak their language telling them to leave. Russian soldiers and their command know what's going on, so you'll find people have little sympathy with them.
Same is true for any war. Mass needless destruction and suffering.
Europe needs to up the pressure on Putin to offer realistic negotiations by shutting down the cash stream from oil and gas imports.
With Europe, absolutely agree. The EU plan is to cut reliance by 80% this year (they can't cut overnight unfortunately). Obviously this is going to hurt us, some more than others, but indeed it has to be done.
So the rhetoric about "poor morale" and "military exercise" rubbish on Twitter is bolix?
They know full well what's happening according to yourself?
Doesn't that suggest it's not just Putin who's motivated to invade Ukraine?
Russian troops are suffering poor morale, their conditions are pretty dreadful. In the beginning certain soldiers genuinely believed they were on a training exercise, however it's now 24 days in, no one is under those illusions any more.
Polls in Russia have shown a significant amount of Russians support Putin, and this invasion.
Sure there was a lot of people with a lot more media access than the Russians who believed that Blair and Bush had proof of the WMDs in Iraq. It was a fight they took up with Iraq when the issue of the day was with Al-Qaeda. They said it over and over and over again and you'd believe black was white by the end of it. The Russian people are being brainwashed in the same way. Nobody winning here and we will all pay in our own small ways in the coming months/years. The only logical way out now is the eradication of Putin by any means ASAP
Putin will likely be in power for many years to come, militarily he is protected by nukes and politically he has relatively strong support among Russians. This is a good, if disturbing, read.
russia can't build tanks anymore, oh dear, too bad, fewer options for putrid to massacre women, children, and old men in the future. Sanctions must remain, business as normal cannot return while putrid and putridism or anything like it thrives in russia.
Given they expected a tidy three day max war, they will run out of a lot of supplies and equipment.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1506113379118764033?s=20&t=3Kz4LfsK3tihJMhDgWf_TA
I understand, support, and applaud the effort, however, tongue firmly in cheek, thanks to the past month I just can't help thinking $10k for a russian tank is a bad deal 🤔
Interesting situation if it proves to be correct, the encirclers getting themselves encircled.
https://twitter.com/sumlenny/status/1506265327973376009?s=20&t=ovTz-kqysFq71CpB4aab3w
In more "2022 hold my beer" news, reportedly smoke coming from the russian embassy in Warsaw. It's thought they may be burning documents. An ideal time to become acquainted with a place called the Suwalki Gap if this is the case.
I see on the twitter machine again there's elements in the fsb pulling out their hair that the west hasn't directly intervened against Putin.
All the plan was the west would be forced into the war and the west would deal with Putin.
God if true aren't they a really infantile nation.
It would make sense though the missile tests in Irish waters, the fighter jet flights into the Swedish exercise and the attack helicopter flight into Japanese airspace.
It'd be more like an fsb plan of those loyal to Putin to arrange a mock Putin assassination in a car bomb attack and claim the death of Putin by American forces and have Putin retire to some hideaway.
It's quite the sad situation considering the size and wealth of russia. It could be an amazing country if the paranoia (and no doubt many other problems) could be dealt with. I just downloaded a book (have the hard copy for years, but it's in a safe place 🙄) by former Sky TV's Tim Marshall called Prisoners of Geography. The very first country featured, russia.
I think if the russian security services wanted to take out putrid he'd be gone by now tbh. No more than the Dublin Dunnes, one wonders what might come after him. At least after the collapse of the USSR there was some hope with Yeltsin.
Yeltsin was s disaster for Russia and the world. He opened the country too fast and sold everything in sight. If Gorbachev could have continued with his slow changing of structures in Russia it would be a different place today.
Yeltsin created Putin in more ways than one.
The Russian army must be in meltdown if their abandoning the above and not even bothering to torch it
Abramovich is 100% Russian government Kremlin. Any payment Abramovich makes is payment by the Kremlin. He's a walking Kremlin bank account. Started by Yeltsin. Maintained by Putin.
Had the West not been so self involved congratulating itself on "winning" the Cold War, it could have seized the opportunity that was personified, if imperfectly, in the form of Boris Yeltsin. If russia has been helped to become a modern democracy, properly, we'd not be in the situation we are today.
We can't make that mistake a second time.
They should probably hang onto it until they actually receive the jets first.
Farmers and shopkeepers fighting for their town
https://twitter.com/KremlinTrolls/status/1506404268441485322?s=20&t=wAG0LlMEdloYoRDRM9JLkg
I saw on the Twitter post some one saying that the population of that area was 35k. They probably had 5k+ fighting makes. What had the Russians forces a couple of tanks, a half dozen APV's and maybe a few hundred men.
Russia has less than 200 k troops on the ground. Ukraine has an army if 200 k plus a militia of another 5-800 k as well as maybe a couple million volunteers/ conscripts.
They could have 3 million us armed fighters at present.
This is why my donations to Ukr have been money sent to their army. They need weapons to arm those willing to fight. They'll only beat the russians if they get enough western military aid.
We see in Kherson what happens to those unarmed willing to fight, they protest and get shot in the legs by the vdv.
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1506550389121990661?s=20&t=jzt1nSeRKNL-tp0Gz25ZCg
I see amazement that Poland had 40 diplomats. Wonder if they knew Ireland has 30???
Here's your guy
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/23/putin-aide-chubais-quits-kremlin-leaves-russia-a77051
A wonder they lasted so long in Poland
In other news, it's being reported putrid will only sell gas/oil to unfriendly nations in exchange for roubles.
I lol'd
https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1506660815390351361?s=20&t=GRgr9txvFGwPQ8dwtJrTIA
Now we're back in the USSR, heart problems
https://twitter.com/ALanoszka/status/1506720788489121801?s=20&t=Q7Bhl4AoCUy5GtWP66W0Fg
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