Ukraine (Mod Note & Threadbanned Users in OP)

All that boot polish isn't good for your head.

I thought even most diehard conspiracy loons had stopped suckin on Putins teat.

Real bottom of the barrel folk that are still believing his crap.

This post is suffused with nonsense.

To educate you:

There is NO civil war in Ukraine.

The Russian invasion of an independent sovereign country is a criminal act of hateful murder and destruction, with absolutely no justification.

The deliberate targeting of civilians, the horrible torture and cold-blooded murder of innocent people are war crimes.

I expect the civilised world to pursue the animals who did this and to bring them to justice, as was done in Bosnia-Herzegovina, no matter how long it takes.

Please educate yourself.

That is precisely why wars happens and why this solution does not work.

War is business for most of the parties involved. Wars are being sold as some heroic fight or something like that while simple truth is that big countries always go after smaller and weaker and everyone who involve itself in this is just making it go for longer. If you think that all this arms shipments "help" which is going to ukraine is free of charge you are mistaken. It will cost us and them but sadly they will pay more. They will have to pay for it after the war and will also pay with lives lost due to prolonging this conflict.

Flooding any side with weapons and ammo just make the other party more determined or just to stay longer. It was apparent in korea, vietnam, yugolsavia, afghanistan, libya, syria... The result is more dead people.

Wars should not start but since we do have so called "superpowers" they will always be inclined to take advantage of each other by fomenting direct conflicts or proxy wars.

You may be right about holidays but any other stuff we get from russia will still come from russia. It will be more expensive since it come through some intermediary but it will come nevertheless. There is no boycott of russian goods possible without sending us to stone age too. But you know that yourself.

It’s working well enough for Ukraine so far, even at the current lukewarm level of support provided by the rest of the world, with the Russian army in retreat everywhere but in the Donbas after some 6 weeks of fighting, and Putin down to his last few BTGs from the Far East.

Ukrainian civilian deaths always were, and always will be, attributable solely to Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine. Motive, or the lack thereof, doesn’t come into it; no more than Russia’s capacity, or the lack thereof, to make its troops respect basic tenets of humanity in occupied areas.

Your sanctimonious prose continues to be completely devoid of objectivity.

Sure, we go down to grammar when all else fails. So much for inclusiveness and tolerance. I would not say you are openly racist but grammar remarks and calls for bullets and javelins without even having slightest idea about ethnicity or where someone come from originally is very telling. I take it may be down to emotions or too much of a coffee.

If I have to pay €4 a litre for diesel and ration it's use until such time as the Russian people get off their arses and remove the criminal gang in charge of their country so be it. I was going to call their leadership Nazis but it no longer seems as if that's even applicable, National Socialism was an ideology, Putin and his followers are merely an organised crime gang and I look forward to see them becoming meat crayons dragged across Red Square by horses.

LOL you really are funny. It is not my country. In fact russia invaded my country not that long ago so I do not have any warm and fuzzy feelings for them.

You do believe whatever you want to. I do not care that much, some people simply do have problem controlling their emotions.

I said it many times I do not know how many times do you need to hear it. I do not care a bit about russians. This whole situation for me is no different from any other war which happened or is happening recently. There are no winners in any war. Only death and destruction.

I am not from russia ok comrade? (in case you are ukrainian since they used to be comrades too)

Do you understand simple concept that someone can be Irish even if they were not born in Ireland?

There's no civil war going on in Bucha, or Kharkiv, or Mariupol.

This isn't some "backwater regional squabble", it's the largest array of armed forces since WW2, the full on invasion of a European country. Completely illegal war, based on lies. Every death is Putin's responsibility and no one elses. There's absolutely no justification for it.