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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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 π
We all know this guy is a huge war fetishist . As long as Iβve been reading the forum this man has been playing the tough guy role, exhilarated by prospect of war, fascinated by equipment, defending us aggression in other countries, he even named himself after a gun - but I think this child would not survive an hour in combat
Can't think of a precident where it has worked in the past in countries that are dictatorships (or quazi dictatorships like Russia) and even democracies.
The Germans thought that bombing Britain would cause the population to get rid of Churchill and put in place a leader who would sue for peace.
More recently the sanctions on Iraq between the two gulf wars lead to a lot general hardship and deaths (a lot of arguments regarding the actual figures) and even then the population didn't rise up. Not because they all supported Saddam, but the general graft of trying to survive and raise your family is more important to most and because they weren't certain that they would be supported by external forces after the Kurds were left swinging in the wind, and might be slaughtered by their own military for trying to.
Supposedly, the Russians have left/abondoned the Chernobyl site which they captured early enough in the war.
why would they give this up? (Why even capture it in first place and then give it up etc)
I know one lad currently living there with his Russian wife mouthing off how we in the west don't know the real story about what's going on in Ukraine and the Nazi's who are holding the country hostage,
Actually has anyone heard from the ghost hunter from here who went to ukraine to fight
Do you think that the twigs would hinder those trucks from being spotted even if they were in a forrest? I don't , they are a joke.
Hmmmm.
Looks like Putin is surrounded by Yes men.
Sam Goldwyn of MGM said he didn't want yes men working for him and wanted to hear the truth even if it cost that man his job.
As military invasions go, it has been a total cock up. You couldn't quite class it as a 'defeat' yet, but it has gone extremely badly. They seriously underestimated the Ukrainians and overestimated their own abilities.
Who would have predicted on invasion night nearly six weeks ago that the Russians would make very little progress and take no important Ukrainian cities?
Even if he will not face any Court of Justice after this is all over, he will face the unavoidable truth that his master plan failed....and he will not be able to escape from that. It will haunt him, 24/7/365 until the day he dies. Fir some one like him, that will eat away at him from inside out. And he may meet something else too, if his erstwhile friends decide that the time for his replacement has come, which also at this stage has to be playing on his mind.
I'd be wondering if its rigged with explosives. Couldn't take Kyiv so we'll irradiate it instead.
Like Hitler was
When it comes to putin anything is possible ,and nothing is off limits he's a basket case
This lad above definitely has a few of the Russians saying, "I ain't gettin' on no plane!"
But they're probably saying it in Russian.
Well provoking him into it doesnt make it any better either,we are better than him.
He is a cornered rat on a sinking ship,remember,capable of anything at the moment to save his russian ass and pride
Finland just needs to apply and to think some on here wanted to see Nato disbanded and now's looks like not only are they getting stronger but bigger too
Looks like Sweden too
If Finland joins so will Sweden,and probably many others will hopefully follow
Some of their soldiers have been seen wandering the exclusion zone in a state like this
From the Daily fail but the boss of GCHQ is worth listening to :-
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10669969/GCHQ-boss-says-Ukraine-invasion-chaos-Russian-incompetence.html
Bring back the flamethrower
We 'do' know and it's all lies and utter nonsense by the Kremlin propagandists. Very few civilians in the Donbass have been killed by the Ukrainian authorities in the last few years : any that did so were invariably accidentally caught up in fighting between the two opposing sides.
All of this garbage has been instilled in the Russian public to whip up hatred against Ukraine (it's the Polish Corridor of 1939 all over again).
Not sure if it's been mentioned already but the Russians "deliberately destroyed" 50,000 tonnes of food in warehouses in Ukraine.
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