Russia - threadbanned users in OP

If the Ukrainians retake Kherson that will be a massive victory for them and a huge blow to the Russians. It would demonstrate clearly that the Russians are going to have serious difficulty holding anything they take in the Ukraine.

here it is ready it yourself

Price per MT

: U$D 885 (Eight hundred and seventy five US Dollar) FOB Rotterdam

Contract Duration 12 months

I know its from 2013 but its not likely to have changed much apart from price.

good luck ukraine

Listening to my local radio station in Donegal here, the idiot presenting the show going on about the terrible crisis in Ukraine, condemning Russian actions but then the buts come into play...

But Ukraine and the US were clearly provoking Russia into this situation by Ukraine flirting with nato and holding war games with them, nato trying to expand eastwards ect.

This presenter would not be the contrarian type you describe, but is still parroting back some of this rubbish as well.

They are starting to back away from Putin. Are the rats preparing to desert the ship.

Seems to be plenty of Photos and videos of unexploded Russian

misssles in Ukraine

I am no fan of EU and it's federalist drive and would have been no fan of some of the shyte that the US got up to over the years in the likes of Chile, Vietnam, Nicaragua, etc, but I wasn't dumb enough to believe that the good old USSR were anything but a despotic regime that totally subjugated everyone anywhere they got their hands on.

I have to say the EU has stepped up, but I do think a lot of that is down to the Eastern European and former soviet and Warsaw pact countries who have led the way much like the case with FIFA.

These countries know only too well what Soviet (for the most part Russian) domination was like and they have no desire to see the return of something similar.

I do find their are two weird cohorts of people at play here.

One hates anything US, British, NATO and would have been old soviet fanboys/girls.

I think the likes of Wallace and Daly fall into this category.

This cohort often ties in with modern very liberal social agendas and if anything make rights activists look really bad.

Then there is another cohort of recent arrivals on the scene who buy into all the Brexit, Trump bullcrap which would have been tied into Putin and these people parrot the absolute shyte pedaled on social media and even on the likes of Fox news and RT.

This cohort tie in with conservative people, anti wholesale immigration proponents, anti islamist, anti modern "woke" agenda (by woke I mean the ones that think we can pick a gender by the day or that want to change language to be all inclusive mullarkey - manhole is now personhole, pregnant persons, etc) and end up making them look like neo nazis and tools.

You get strange bedfellows that would still support Putin just because he is anti current US, EU, NATO, etc.

Irish politicians being called out for their hot air.

Putin made the decision to invade because he knows that the Ukraine are getting closer to the West and potentially were looking to join the EU. NATO is a smokescreen, its a great bogeyman to wave in front of the Russian Public from the USSR days but the danger to Putin and his cronies is the EU. If the Ukraine started to improve the quality of life for their citizens it would highlight very quickly to the Russians that they were being ripped off and conned by their mafioso Government.

The performance of the Russian military highlights this, it has been hollowed out by corruption. The equipment is sub-standard, hasn't been maintained but I'm sure there were budgets for that but given the way things work in Russia everyone has taken "their share" and what's left isn't adequate to do the job. As they say the fish rots from the head, this is endemic of the way the Russian government works.

Sorry! J-Town is what the US troops have re-named Jaroslaw.

And I hate this modern notion continously pedaled that the Allies should not have done the bombings of German cities, especially the likes of Dresden and Hamburg.

After all they were just the German people and combatants.

Some spanners label it as war crimes.

There is this continous thing about how Dresden was not a contributor to the war effort.

Dresden was actually a warning to Stalin.

It also turned out to be the perfect raid and everything worked for the Allies.

That is why it was so devastating.

Anyway to parapharase Basil Fawlty, they started it.

Who the feck started the bombing of cities, did they not try to level London, Birmingham, Coventry, etc?

Did they not level cities like Warsaw, Stalingrad, etc ?

We continously hear about the good Germans, but when you look at that famous photo of the workers giving the Nazi salute there is only one man refusing to do so.

Yeah none of them were a Nazi.

I saw a program the other night where they looked at one of the chief Nazis, Albert Speer, who managed through his mild manner, civilised demeanor, education and connections to avoid the hangmans noose.

That fooker, often labelled as the "good nazi", was responsible for the deaths of thousands of slave labourers.

If you are war with a country you are at war with the people, not just a select few in government and on the battlefield, because the people are the ones keeping the government in power and the ones on the battlefield supplied and supported.

I mean first of all he was talking specifically about support for Ukraine joining the EU; nothing to do with weapons or any other thing certain posters have been fixated on. And I'm pretty sure Ireland have been consistently advocating for a more rapid process for Ukraine to be able to join; so I have no idea what he's talking about in that context either.