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  • That explains why Putin have such a high rating



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,108 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    I hate to sound like a conspiracy nutter, but:

    The pullout from Chernobyl.

    Peskov saying nukes are only for a threat to Russia's existence.

    That nutter Yakov Kedmi saying a failure to take Kyiv and othere cities and have a win would be a threat to Russias existence.

    A complete pullback from kyiv and such hast troops are abandoning loot and gear that's slowing them down.

    A false flag pretext of Russia blowing their own fuel depot in Belgorod.

    Not seeming to care what would be found in Bucha.


    I really fear all this points to Kyiv possibly being about to be targeted with a WMD.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 662 ✭✭✭Private Joker


    I've just got home from welcoming a bus load of refugees from Ukraine. We were there all day waiting for them and they arrived shortly after 2 in the morning. Most of them had been travelling for 3 days to get to Ireland and spent most of the day getting processed in Dublin.

    I'm a very pragmatic person but the pain and suffering I saw in those peoples faces made me want to hop on a plane to ukraine and fight those monsters. Young women with their babies and young kids absolutely broken. There was a middle aged woman who had pretty good English had left her 3 sons in Kyiv, fighting.

    And this is just the start, I'm sure I'll have to see many more bus loads over the next couple of months. I was involved in the Syrian refugee crisis but this is a magnitude greater , I really don't know how we will be able to manage the numbers, all I know is we must try, these people have nothing, most are carrying their life in a suitcase.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,917 ✭✭✭eire4


    For me today means we are passed that point. It is time for NATO to go in full bore. Russia needs to be pushed out of every inch of Ukrainian soil and then treated like an international pariah state just like say North Korea.



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Can't be voted out, unless they agree to it, can't get through any resolution without them so nothing can be done under the UN banner. Which leaves it as either NATO or the EU to do something, which he'd love as it proves Putin right in his twisted world vision, or some alliance of willing nations that would then be difficult to keep acting as one for the same goals.


    The permanent seat on the UN probably does as much to prevent the west from being able to respond as the threat of a nuclear response does.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,393 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    This has seemed to have gone under the radar on hear.

    Seems to have been officially confirmed last night by a member of Congress ,

    but all operational T-72 tanks belonging to Nato members are to be given to Ukraine for the fight against the invaders.

    Hand over has already began and is expected to be completed in a matter of days rather than weeks.

    US military are helping to organising the transportation with fellow allies.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭Field east


    This is hard to understand. These conscript/ young shoulders had been on the front line / fighting and they now find the time to steel , go to the PO and post valuables home - no trauma, no recuperating, no getting ready for the ‘ next round’ . No control be their commander, etc. Maybe it’s part of the culture, they being so badly paid, need money to ‘pay’ their immediate bosses ie bribes, etc



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,826 ✭✭✭threeball


    It's a load of crap to be honest. A smokescreen to be seen to do something in the aftermath of the images from Bucha. Russian tanks have shown their worth in modern warfare and they're next to useless.

    What they really need is air defence systems and targeted missiles to take out shelling positions or Russian strongholds. Sending a load of antiquated tanks is another 2 fingers to Ukraine and her brave people.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭Field east


    whats the possibility of Simon Coveney/ the Irish Government inviting Ambasator Filov to visit Dublin airport/ arriving bus load of refugees to witness at first hand and listen to what they have to say. I assume that they have a common dialect so understanding eachother should not be a problem. If he could leave his own thoughts aside for the visit and just listen to their stories. It probably end up in a follow up interview that he would be even a bigger liar than originally thought



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,393 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    The tanks are requested by the Ukraine.

    So they must be of use them.

    To be honest I'm surprised that they are to be supplied.

    It will be the first official supply of offensive weapons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,503 ✭✭✭circadian




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭Field east


    Could the UN revise its rules for membership. Set up a new organisation eg Organisation of Soverign Nations Peace With Eachother (OSNPWE) or whatever. And when fully set up its first members would be drawn from the current list bur exclude those that are for example invading another soverign country. And when fully set up the UN as currently existing would be made formally made defunct/cancelled/would down, blown up or whatever. I know that I have presented the concept / framework in broad outline .

    something must be done so that the UN going forward does not allow , for example, a country invading another country having a veto

    i suggest that NATO should also revise its rules for membership /engagement in conflicts. Given what’s happening at the moment it’s unacceptable that it has the means to put an end to the misery but is constrained by its rules. Is could consider also fastracking its new member joining rules. Could be done in the proverbial day by setting up ‘AN ASSOCIATE MEMBER ‘ category and immediately make available all of NATO services without asking for anything in return in the short term

    something PROFOUND needs to be done in both org to make them more fit for purpose



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,039 ✭✭✭Call me Al


    What division of the Russian army were in charge of Bucha?

    I haven't seen this explained anywhere.

    Edit. I see it all detailed on Wikipedia.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bucha

    Post edited by Call me Al on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,067 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Russia did not degenerate, this is just a mild reflection of the previous centuries of savagery.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,289 ✭✭✭brickster69


    Germany blocks an EU wide ban on a number of essential materials. Not a lot they can do when you are reliant on them.


    "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭technocrat


    Another Russian shill!

    Murder is murder doesn't matter the century.

    A European country is committing genocide in 2022 and your going on about equivocation... disgusting comment!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,106 ✭✭✭Christy42


    And they got dragged into ww1 because Belgium was invaded. However in both cases they only made the agreement to help those countries because it would benefit them. Belgium because, like Ireland, it was a strategic weakness for the UK if it was in enemy hands. Poland because Nazi Germany was not going to be stopped with appeasement.

    With Poland they could have waited for another country or one less but a line had to be drawn somewhere for their own benefit. Even then there was largely just economic blockades against Germany until they invaded France over half a year after the declaration of war.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭technocrat




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    Ukraine definitely needs weapons to go on the offensive now because Putin will step up over the next while before their big victory day in May. Things could get very bloody now that he looks like concentrating on a few areas .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,289 ✭✭✭brickster69


    Lithuania stops all energy ties with Russia. Mind you they did have a bit of foresight to invest in LNG terminals.


    "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump



    Poster wasn't equivocating. They were responding to a comment that Russia had degenerated by saying that they had never moved on from those times.

    i.e. to make it simple - "The Russians have descended into savagery" is responded to with "they never got out of savagery"



  • Posts: 7,946 [Deleted User]


    You've picked them up entirely wrong. Might be a subtlety in their English. But, he is condemning Russia more than most in that comment



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭technocrat




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 809 ✭✭✭technocrat


    Yea I see the context it was expressed in now.

    The Bucha story is all over the news this morning so my anger took over reading the above comment.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    One wonders if there was ever a plan to commit mass executions like those reported ?

    Maybe a sign of pure frustration at the dismal failure to achieve objectives militarily?

    Disgusting either way



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭AyeGer


    That’s pretty horrible from those Russians. All the more importance that Ukraine gets their own land back and moves towards the EU and the West.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,605 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    And yet there are some round here who think the guy who reversed the lorry into the gates of the Russian Embassy went too far! That lying toad of an ambassador needs to be sent packing immediately!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,280 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Looks like NATO want rid of all soviet era military hardware. Will be a nice payday to the US and UK weapons industry to replace them, but also good news for the Ukranians. Hope they put them to good use

    Chomsky(2017) on the Republican party

    "Has there ever been an organisation in human history that is dedicated, with such commitment, to the destruction of organised human life on Earth?"



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