Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Amprodude · 26-03-2022 12:07PM

Georgia Chechynia, Syria never had a better chance of recapturing old territory from Russia.

circadian · 26-03-2022 12:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838013#Comment_118838013

Lol.

Bumpstop · 26-03-2022 12:21PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118837947#Comment_118837947

Crying with laughter.🤣

gandalf · 26-03-2022 12:21PM

Did I read correctly that someone replied to the thread with the phrase "The Daily Mail reported"..there should a script in place to autoban them LOL! I put more credence in a briefing from the Russian Ministry of Defense 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

greenpilot · 26-03-2022 12:21PM

firemansam4 · 26-03-2022 12:25PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838282#Comment_118838282

Imagine if they all coordinated a ressurgence at the same time, then Belarus uprises against their regime as well. Russia will be well and truly in the sh**t.

cnocbui · 26-03-2022 12:26PM

This is very dystopian: :-(

Rubizhne after Russian shelling.

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1507669583628546052

Did the Ukrainians manage to take out the 16 truck convoy resupplying the antidepressants?

Strazdas · 26-03-2022 12:29PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838359#Comment_118838359

One of CNN's military guys was saying the other evening that if Belarus was to send its army into Ukraine, it very likely would lead to the toppling of Lukashenko (a deeply unpopular invasion that most of the population would be against).

briany · 26-03-2022 12:30PM

Can't help but feel worried for SKY News reporter Alex Crawford and her team. She's reporting from the evacuation of Chernihiv, travelling along a route the Russians are targeting and sheltering with other evacuees in a basement. Some of those news reporters are nuts. It was only less than a month ago that it was Stuart Ramsey's team, I think, getting fired on at that checkpoint and pretty much filming the whole ordeal. That's not to mention a number of other people working in the journalism field who actually have been shot and killed during the conflict so far.

Maybe like those guys who race the Isle of Man TT, it's just a different breed of people and they're aware of the risks they're taking, but, damn, you only need to put yourself in so much danger before it's just not worth it.

briany · 26-03-2022 12:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838377#Comment_118838377

And if Lukashenko openly defies a demand from Putin for Belarussian forces to join the fray, what happens then? He can neither order forces to war nor defy Putin without putting his job security, at a minimum, in critical danger. He must be on his knees every night praying for this war to just go away.

PrzemoF · 26-03-2022 01:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838462#Comment_118838462

They can't even get to Kyiv, so it would have to be denazification with long range missiles.

DrumSteve · 26-03-2022 01:04PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838462#Comment_118838462

Trying to put on a brave face at this stage is hilarious. This is not the early 20th century any more.

They caught the Ukrainians on the hop, but they think they are gonna waltz into Poland without a lot of dead Russians?

And if they think they can fire a nuke at warsaw without St Petersburg or Moscow being wiped off the map they have another thing coming.

briany · 26-03-2022 01:12PM

@DrumSteve

They caught the Ukrainians on the hop, but they think they are gonna waltz into Poland without a lot of dead Russians?

They didn't catch Ukrainians on the hop in this last round. It's one thing to roll tanks into a largely Russian area of a country that's going through a revolution. It's quite another to go into another country that has a highly motivated and well-supplied military that's waiting for you to try something.

The Russians have nothing of worth to threaten Poland, and NATO by extension, other than raw numbers. The only thing Putin can reasonably threaten the West with is the nukes, because their army is a complete joke (relatively speaking).

Fiery mutant · 26-03-2022 01:15PM

The Russians would find it hard to take a kindergarden at the minute, never mind make an attempt at Poland or anywhere else. If they tried massing on the Polish border, the Poles would crush them while they slept.

Loafing Oaf · 26-03-2022 01:16PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838462#Comment_118838462

Strazdas · 26-03-2022 01:33PM

Very good article in today's Indo about the brainwashing and gaslighting of the Russian public which has been going on for many years. I'm amazed to read that many Russian people (perhaps as high as 80%) are not even aware that the Soviet Union invaded Poland in 1939 and the Baltic states in 1940. It appears they have an entirely garbled view of Russia's history and its place in the world, fuelled by years of lies and state propaganda.

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/putins-denazification-lies-prove-its-russia-that-needs-liberating-41484509.html

thomil · 26-03-2022 01:48PM

Another 5100 anti-tank weapons are on their way from Germany to Ukraine. According to German newspaper Bild and TV station n-tv Nachrichten, these are RGW-90 MATADOR anti-armour weapons. Apparently, to avoid having to get approval from the Bundestag, these weapons were purchased by Ukraine with money provided by Germany. 2650 weapons have been delivered, the rest will be delivered in smaller weekly batches as they come off the assembly line. The order by the way was placed on March 18th. I've had Amazon orders that took longer than that.

https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1507685990755971073?s=20&t=cVcx0LHuvajgRsI41YQ6wg

This is a major shift in German policy, as these weapons are purchased directly from the manufacturer, rather than being drawn from Bundeswehr depots, as was the case with the Panzerfaust 3, Stinger or the infamous Strela missiles.

It's interesting to see that the Greens in Germany are emerging as the driving force with regards to supporting Ukraine. From what I've seen, it's been Minister for the Economy Robert Habeck and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who were the driving force behind this purchase and the rapid approval for export.

Danzy · 26-03-2022 01:55PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838586#Comment_118838586

Russia never underwent a demarxification campaign, the leadership of the country are all products of the old system and still applying its tactics and methodology.

Danzy · 26-03-2022 01:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838625#Comment_118838625

Great to see and great to see that the Pro Russian structure in German Govt are being worked around.

deise08 · 26-03-2022 01:59PM

With regards to the Black Sea.

Is it only Russian boats/ships in that area or are there allied vessels there too?

I know I sound stupid but if there are, do they just float around looking at each other? I mean would each side be visible to each other?

I was reading about exercises in the Med/ionian and North Sea. Would they be the closest ships?

Or is there any need for Nato/Us/EU boats to be there?

26-03-2022 02:00PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838640#Comment_118838640

What structure is that?

26-03-2022 02:08PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838462#Comment_118838462

Shower of twats. Good luck with that. Their obvious tin pot army would be laughed at .

Muahahaha · 26-03-2022 02:21PM

That Daily Mail story about Hunter Biden running bio labs in Ukraine to produce anthrax is such a complete and utter load of tosh.

Everyone knows that Hunter Biden is in Moscow running an underground McDonalds and dealing in black market Big Macs. The demand for his Big Macs is so high that he just doesnt have the time to be making anthrax in Ukraine.

Typical Daily Mail making sh1t up again.

Field east · 26-03-2022 02:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838059#Comment_118838059

Is it not in the RU interest not to let out this information because it must be very debilitating for the RU army? On the other hand maybe it is to RU advantage to make the list as large as possible - even though it might be fake so as to mislead the Ukr army. In war every ‘ possible advantage’ is taken - true or not

JoChervil · 26-03-2022 02:23PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838381#Comment_118838381

But well documented and objective relations can help enormously in a latter punishment of war criminals

Strazdas · 26-03-2022 02:25PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838635#Comment_118838635

It's easy to see how the public can so readily buy into the nonsense of "denazifying" and "demilitarising" Ukraine. They don't even understand their own country and its history, never mind that of their neighbours.

circadian · 26-03-2022 02:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838521#Comment_118838521

I couldn't help but laught because of the sheer size of her balls in this morning's report. They jumped out of the van and shells were exploding all around them and as calm as you like, she lifts the camera and looks at it says "as you can see....they're shelling the area around us." Like it was nothing.

I made my way through some crazy **** during the troubles, including missing a massive car bomb in 2010 by less than 10 minutes but this is another level. It's a relentless gauntlet of artillery, gunfire and anything else the Russians can throw at them and the reporters somehow have their **** together.

20silkcut · 26-03-2022 02:30PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838625#Comment_118838625

A Panzerknacker possibly the best name for a weapon I have ever heard. 🤣

briany · 26-03-2022 02:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838725#Comment_118838725

Yeah, again, I don't think the Daily Mail was claiming that, instead reporting that it was Russia claiming that. The Daily Mail can be a pretty sleazy tabloid, but even they couldn't be that bad.

Fascinating, though, that the extremity of Western right-wing, particularly in America, will happily lap this kind Russian propaganda up.

Wibbs · 26-03-2022 02:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118838586#Comment_118838586

Oh I have heard that stuff from Russians I've known. Their propaganda "history" of World War Two is staggeringly daft in places. According to what they're taught out of the womb Russia never put a foot wrong in that and history is either spun as part of Stalin's grand plan(he tricked the Germans to come in such huge numbers to encircle them. Yep...), or like the examples you gave is completely omitted. The Allies did little save for the start and were corrupted by America's influence.

I also noticed, or rather fully fleshed out what I noticed in the past but didn't quite solidify into thoughts, but because of recent events see another pattern. Namely how Ukrainians were viewed and how this has been spun by the Kremlin and changed over time to their ends. I knew a Ukrainian woman ten years ago and she was friends with some Russians and other Russians I knew suggested I should bring her over for a get together(a housewarming IIRC). Fast forward to around five years ago and her name came up in passing with the same Russians and the tone had shifted. She was of Russian background herself and grew up in the West of Ukraine and the Russian line was "how can she live happily there? That's very odd" kinda thing. I thought it a bit strange at the time, but didn't really delve any deeper as I hadn't seen her in years. The impression I got was since the invasion and annexation of Crimea and after Maidan and the Russian stooge getting the heave ho, the Russian top down spin has gone from "Brothers in Little Russia" to "Nazis on our doorstep, whores to NATO". And these are all people living in the West, though they naturally as diasporas the world over do consume the media of the old country. Now imagine that same stuff being fed to Russians in Russia itself, especially beyond the urban western parts of the country and you can build suspicion, even hate quite easily.

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