It'll be fine until the Russians in one flat decide that the other flat isn't really a separate flat at all and burst in to annexe the living room.
Seems we’re in the mysterious heart attack, and accidental defenestration phase:
I haven’t posted in this thread in about a week but I have a question.
To what degree are Russians bombs targeting residential hamlets , theatres and other non military targets, “a mistake” or “disorganised” ?
Personally I don’t believe they’re either- but there’s been a lot of reporting of late where they seem to attribute such bombings and attacks as random meaningless and miscalculated - I think they’re totally calculated
Hon the boys
God, Russian military intelligence has to be absolutely non-existent. Did they not know that western weapons were coming into Ukraine in the months and weeks leading up to the invasion? That U.S. special forces were helping train Ukrainian soldiers? That anti-tank bazookas were one of the things Ukrainian troops were getting? Russia's right next door to Ukraine. They had no excuse not to have eyes and ears everywhere in Ukraine reporting things back to the Kremlin. Either Russia didn't know that Ukraine had a glut of sophisticated anti-tank weapons, which, again, would be an unforgivable failure of intelligence, or else they just decided to drive tanks and armour in anyway, which would be a massive failure in military planning. Either way, Russia's military strategy is grossly incompetent, but I'm just curious for posterity's sake as to which flavour of incompetence it was.
At least he only had a heart attack and didn't accidentally add polonium to his Spanish omelette or slash his carotid artery while shaving.
Show dead Russians solders in the street of Mariupol.
Could these ‘poor war tactics’ be all part of Pooh-tins grant plan. He hardly cares too much about the 10,000 plus troops he has lost to date and tanks etc etc……encircling cities and cutting off food water power supplies over time and he will starve the residents and Ukrainian soldiers defending same….? If it takes another month and a further 10,000 men then I’m sure he would see it as a huge victory if he could ‘claim’ Kyiv/Kiev……he could also be waiting g for the right time to use the his chemical and biologicAl weapons……or worse still the ‘nukes’…….this cnut could absolutely do anything……being beaten or surrendering is not in his vocab😡😡
Powerful. Says it how it is to your face.
I can just imaging the fear of the Russians solder's who are in tanks.
Portugal got the "almost" treatment aswell
Another voice of reason --
https://youtu.be/KCRYG7Z48Vk
Looks like Russia has pegged the Rouble to Gold
Losing men and equipment is never part of the plan. The Russians thought that Ukraine would surrender essentially after a few days in the face of big losses and what they believed to be overwhelming force.
It's unlikely he cares much for the lost men, but he certainly cares about the loss of military prestige that this campaign has delivered for him. Almost everyone believed that the Russian army had modernised into a competent fighting force, but that has been shown to be utterly false.
Despite all the times I read about it today (first time I've seen it), this does not come across nearly as bad as I thought. It's directed at Germany and Hungary and possibly there's a bit lost in translation.
Then we offer them 15,000 euro to move to Limerick
Noticed this a few times with him (while I admire his public speaking) but shaming countries to the whole world is more likely to alienate them
Good article on the battle between the Russian and Ukrainian air forces in the sky. Says its the first time since the first Gulf War in 1991 that fighter jets have been actually dog fighting in the sky
Better to remain at home and be thought a powerful armed force than to invade Ukraine and remove all doubt.
100% Agree.
Especially the Theater attack................it was shown on Western TV world to be a place where people where sheltering from the war.
A couple of days later,there was a direct hit on that Theater.
Western TV are inadvertently giving good intel to Russia
Ah yes, Yanis: the spoofers spoofer
Well actually I took it has a rallying speech. Stand up against Satan - evil (Putin). Because if Putin wins, We know we didn't act has one. His people face living under tyranny other wise.
How many generals is that now? Looks like they've lost more Generals in a month in Ukraine than they lost in 10 years in Afghanistan.
It's always interesting to listen to Yannis speak, and I don't take much issue with most of his points - he's entitled to his opinion, as he himself says, anyway. Just on a couple of things, though - to say that the West's interest in Ukraine is mostly strategic is to state something that's perhaps true of every significant war in history, i.e. that each side involved has strategic interests which they're either trying to defend or increase. By contrasting between the appeal to the emotion of the individual and the emotionally detached interests of the state, you're not pointing out a hypocrisy that is unique to the West, but one that exists for all sides in war since time immemorial. Therefore, if one is to accept war is happening, then this hypocrisy must be accepted also.
On NATO, I would have been on board with the idea of Ukraine dropping NATO membership as a term for a peace deal with Russia, but because Russia have already ripped up the Bucharest memorandum and waged war on Ukraine, it is understandable that Ukraine will want some sort of security guarantee which is more steadfast than Russia super-duper pinky swearing never to invade again. I think the only things that would deter Russia from invading Ukraine again, if it suited to do so, would be either facing a direct confrontation with NATO or else a heavily militarised Ukraine well able to bloody Russia's nose. Russia has stated that they want Ukraine out of NATO and de-militarised. If Russia gets both, where is Ukraine's security guarantee? At best, it would be on paper, but in reality would be down to the whim of whatever tyrant is running Russia at any particular time.
but because Russia have already ripped up the Bucharest memorandum and waged war on Ukraine, it is understandable that Ukraine will want some sort of security guarantee which is more steadfast than Russia super-duper pinky swearing never to invade again
Ukraine had those guarantees in 1994, and as much as I hate to say it, it was more that the Muscovites who let them down by invading.
And you get a unicorn, and you get a unicorn....
Typical low IQ stuff. Ukraine keep their 'sovereignty' by having two masters. No solution for Crimea 'kick it into the long grass', apart from the fact that occupying Crimea means Ukraine can never exploit their natural offshore resources. No NATO and demilitarized, Putin pinky swears he won't be back. Putin is clearly a man of principle and you can take his promises to the bank.
I'll never get those few minutes of my life back.
@briany - Russia has stated that they want Ukraine out of NATO and de-militarised. If Russia gets both, where is Ukraine's security guarantee? At best, it would be on paper, but in reality would be down to the whim of whatever tyrant is running Russia at any particular time.
They should get neither.
It's the choice of Ukraine as to what and whom they join and all this previous crap posted about what the USA would do if missiles were sited in Mexico is absolute nonsense. Even if Ukraine were to join Nato you certainly wouldn't see the immediate siting of deadly weapons within its borders.
It's all Putin paranoia. He has thousands of nuclear warheads that can be launched within minutes to all parts of the world. If (and it would never happen) Ukraine dared to invade or threaten Russia, Putin could wipe them off the map within the hour. And he knows this.
This is a land grab, pure and simple. Putin wanting to go down in history as the man who restored the empire to its former glory. And this was step one. He's as evil as Hitler and it needs to be explained to him by a consortium of countries - in no uncertain terms - that to continue with this war, and/or start others, and fire WILL be met with fire.
Sanctions or no sanctions, the bottom line is that when this is eventually over there will be no guarantees that he wont invade Ukraine or other countries in the future... or even follow through on his veiled nuclear threats. But in the meantime thousands have died a needless death and a country is being destroyed. All for what? To appease a paranoid dictator.
I think it's a case that putin and the top brass are suffering from the "does my arse look big in this" syndrome.
When the question was asked about their readiness for war all the trembling underlings said " Oh god no you look lovely in that dress .Actually I'd say you lost a few pounds!" Now that they have entered their " special military operation get the **** out of here phase:" let's hope putin is strung up before too long.
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