Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Ambiguity? Cheap shot?

You're very adept at pulling the wool over your own eyes as well as others.

You know damn well I can't go back over 1200+ pages of the thread one by one.

You DID tell numerous people previously to go to the Ukraine and fight if they felt that strongly about it. And now you're denying it, which makes you a liar. And you're still continuing to spout the same nonsense in the last 2 or 3 pages. (If anyone knows a way to quickly pull up all of a persons posts on this thread, then please let me know).

People only have to read your posts for the last few hours on here to see exactly the type of person you are. Almost all of them are sneering at people, insulting, name calling, derisory and dismissive.

You clearly think you're something you're not. It's not clever or smart to continually talk down to posters, disrespect their views, be rudely dismissive and attempt to belittle them. You've done that to dozens of posters, and Boards is the loser at your presence on here.

Your opinion counts for nothing when you're continually trying to force it as the only correct view on people, and pathetically trying to back it up with your schoolboy sneers.

What part of Russias 6500 nuclear warheads did you miss?Are you aware of the madman called Putin have threatened to use them?

Did you count them all and confirm they all actually work? Because going by their military equipment hardly any or it looks decent and looks more like scrap than anything else.

Anyway Putin isn't going to use Nuclear weapons he knows he can't as there would be no logical approach or sense to use them and especially not in Ukraine. If he does Russia is also finished as a country. He is just flashing this card at the West because he knows they are weak and won't do nothing. He is ahead of them at present with basic strategies even if he's losing the war on the ground. The West are like a rabbit in the headlights not knowing what to do or handle Russia exactly.

sure wouldnt gamble on it,would you

At this stage we should.

No

He didn't condemn the rape and murder of innocents

He deserved a firm rebuttal for saying "ah sure that's grand if there's a war on" (my paraphrase)

Read between his lines? - cologne on a pig!

I found the documentary," Putin's road to war" on RTE player. This is interesting and mentions the apartment block bombings.

I haven't watched this on player as I'v it recorded so I don't know how well it plays.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings

I think the Baltic states are now rolling up their sleeves and may even intervene on the ground. They know that Putin has shot his bolt more or less, and will never be in a position to retaliate conventionally against them.

Come on now, you must approach pronouncements like this from both sides in time of war with a large pinch of salt.

The only sort of definites are what transpires in real time: we know that initial Russian thrust to Kyiv has failed, we see the evidence of much destroyed Russian equipment, we see the ruination of many Ukrainian towns and some cities, we know the Russians have a strong foothold in the east, we know the Ukrainian defence forces are well established there and will be reinforced. We don't know how this battle on a long front will work out, the Russian forces will presumably fix their supply problems and throw a lot in to try and overwhelm, the Ukrainian forces supplied by the West will resist fiercely and try and drive forward. Who will prevail? Who knows but if morale of the troops is a factor, Ukraine has a significant edge.

We shouldn't, we should keep giving Ukraine as much as they ask for and it is sh*tty, but that is the starting and endpoint when MAD exists, whoever says otherwise is a feeble keyboard warrior with no convictions of their own.

The real question is how far countries can keep on pushing back as russia defangs itself in a very stupid way, the west has gained control through all this, russia is making itself a complete joke, china will use russian weakness to push its own agenda.

The people of russia are signed up for a sub-par life that will get worse the longer this goes on.

Hopefully the west supplies Ukraine all that it wants to rebuild and become a flourishing democracy.

And you think that someone 'close to Putin' is credible? One thing we have observed is that the Russian playbook is based on lies and false promises. So only time will tell, you wouldn't trust them an inch.

We must suspect that the Russian military will be very wary of using WMD, because the implications of drawing in other conventional forces is very real and they are in no great condition to continue if that happens. An all out offensive using conventional weapons to take the full Donbas region seems the most likely course.

One thing that fascinates me about all this is how the regime, the state propaganda machine and the legions of Putin groupies would be able to handle a defeat for Russia at the hands of the Ukrainian military. The whole affair and justification for the invasion and war is that is predicated on a Russian victory. A defeat for the regime would surely send all the above into nervous breakdown / straightjacket territory.