Putin complaining about being misled... he was told Russia had the A-Team.
The A-Team fired thousands of rounds and never hit anybody - Sounds like a fair assessment 😀
Putin doesn't need an excuse ,if it wasn't for American intelligence he already would have launched chemical weapons in Ukraine and the sad Part people on here would have Blamed Ukraine for not Just giving Putin what he wants and bow down to him
Any Irish left in Russia now would want their head examined or a kick in the hole, possibly both. We should have zero to do with them going forward and that includes their so called diplomats.
Thats doesnt mean we or Ukraine have to get down to the same level of barbarism as Russia
You will only make things worse for both parts
And you dont want to give Putin an excuse for using Chemical or nuclear weapons either
This is it ,
They are not stupid but yet they will expect the government to send a jet and rescue them if things go tits up in Moscow,
They damn well know the Russian embassy here is a front for Russian intelligence across Europe and we allow it , but expect excuses about how we shouldn't do anything
By all means , remove them at this stage, that's the best case scenario, no argument from me on that score. But it all depends on the situation at that point. And these Medallion's make absolutely no pretense at all about what they are designed to do....the color of the parachute proves that. They are designed solely to deny the area they land in to people, and they do this by blending in. But even when they are visible, as you mention, vibrations can set them off, so if they have been in the warm sunshine, and a shadow falls on them, it will be enough to set them off too. ( Cluster bombs, on the other hand , are designed to explode on contact, and have bright yellow parachutes to warn about their presence when they fail to explode, but even these can be triggered by the slightest change in their environment) Dropping a bomb or other explosion into the middle of them, can set off quite a few. But it's the snakes in the grass ( literally) you have to worry about. There are no easy or simple solutions to the problem.
Embassies don't tend to be as useful as some people make out, in countries with dodgy legal systems, where if you get into strife an embassy will be able to do little for you. That US basketball player, Brittney Griner, being a case in point. Any Irish people in Moscow should have left weeks ago so I wouldn't be concerned at the closing of the embassy there.
And to think people have bigged up the Russian military on here for years with grand tales of their prowess and super weapons ,and how they would take nato out in days ,
And yet here we are ,
Russia has plenty of bombers that could vastly increase its destructive power from a high altitude.
Maybe you think differently, I think Putin is callous enough to carpet bomb Ukraine cities if Russian residential areas were bombed. Would you take the risk he'd be of the mind not to escalate?
Probably posted already.
Intercepted phonecalls.
Talk about rape and eating dogs.
There's a lot of barbarity happening that we'll never hear of.
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Seems Zelenskyy doesn't share lavrovs opinion on talks
@goldenmick
Like I said above
As above
Err....
@Gatling - I'd be happy to see hundreds of missles to hammer Moscow ,st Petersburg and any other population centers in Russia.
Which makes you a liar.
There are probably around 20 million innocent civilians in those two cities, and your answer is to indiscriminately bomb them with hundreds of missiles. Which really puts you on the same level as Putin and Hitler.
If some crazy kid goes and shoots up a school or university, does that mean the kids parents get to go and shoot up his family and friends in revenge?
We ALL KNOW that Putin is bombing the shite out of Ukraine and thousands of civilians are being killed, but if you stoop to his level then you really become no better than him. And apart from that... a) It's a war crime. b) It would start another World War. c) He would likely nuke the Ukraine.
You know I had some respect for you based on quite a few of your former posts, despite the fact you were often condescending to others. But no longer.
And before you make another asinine comment like this one:
@Gatling - Do I care what you or other's think 😂😂😂😂😂.
No .
....just remember, credibility has to be earned in life, including on Boards. You've just taken a major hit on yours.
Whats been happening for the last month .
Russia obliterating part's of Ukraine on a daily basis
That was suggested weeks ago ,but the government decided they needed it or the Russians would close our one in Moscow , which might be bad for Irish citizens in Russia
'I never back track...'
Only a boastful idiot would make such a statement.
Close the Russian embassy in Dublin now!
Beslan that time Russian soldiers massacresd a school under the guise of protecting them from Chechens 300+ dead including 186 kids and they claimed it was a successful operation
And Broadcast live around the world
I'll repeat this and then leave it there.
You are confusing War with War-Crimes.
If you broke into my home and murdered my chidren, I wouldn't feel any need, desire, or justification to murder your chidren.
Because I'm not a psychopathic nutcase.
Do you understand that analogy with regard to Russian tactics and Ukrainian tactics?
That's the difference between amateurs sitting at their keyboard. Those making the decisions can't afford to say 'okay, let's see what happens if we lob a few missiles into Russian residential areas'.
They won't run the risk of Putin not retaliating/taking the excuse and obliterating Ukrainian cities.
Or do you think Putin would have too much of a conscience - I ask again. What did you think Putin would do next?
It didn't work with Beslan or the Metro/Airport bombings
I counted less than 3 people .
But your wasting your time and strokes ,my opinion won't change
I previously said in other threads on Ukraine Finland and Sweden would be next to join Nato ,looks like Finland is heading there already
I Never back track ....
You do though. You posted a comment this morning saying you would be happy to see Russian cities bombed, you spent the whole day trying to defend yourself against people calling you out. You were saying Ukraine should level Crimea and Donbass because 'war'.
Now you're claiming you were only talking about hitting military targets all along.
You were not.
I'm sick and tired of hearing that if Russia are given a bit of their own medicine it " will strengthen putin back home" or it will " antagonise putin ". Let's be clear, putin doesn't give a f**k what his fellow Russians think and is going to continue slaughtering until he is stopped. As things stand there doesn't appear to be desire for Russians to stop him so maybe a taste of their own medicine might prompt them to act.
But that's just a photo of a stopped convoy en route somewhere, the twigs are from where they started or their final parking spot, at the side of a road in a forest.
Looks like desperate Russian troops even managed to shoot down one of their own aircraft very recently,
The comedy keeps on giving
Plenty of military targets Based in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia ,
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