My mistake, I thought they had been for a short period right at the beginning before Tito and Stalin fell out.
I think its status with respect to the current conflict would be pro-Ukraine, anti-NATO.
Although internally there would be a wide variety of opinions and stances.
Australia is missing from that list, which is a fairly big miss given they have been far more helpful than France, despite being half a world away.
This would have taken 14 years to do in Ireland.
A rather interesting train was spotted heading eastwards in Poland today.
The train appears to contain vehicles painted in the style of the German Bundeswehr; however the vehicle types are not currently in service with the Bundeswehr (they were phased out from 2007-2011). Not saying these are necessarily going to Ukraine directly but it's an interesting development:
I know it's been asked already, but what is the substance of Daly's and Wallace's lawsuit against RTE?
I suppose we need some entertainment in these trying times.
The Brits inf fairness to them have given massive amounts and the best quality and especially in the run up to the start. As have the yanks
Poorer and smaller countries like the Baltics, Poland etc gave what they could.
If it was up to Berlin, Vienna, The Hague, Paris they would be taking a lead role now in negotiating with the new Govt in Kiev and talking about the importance of solidarity and human rights.
The inconvenience of the Ukrainian forces has been a major headache to them.
I forgot about Ukraine alright, Serbia would be quite close to them too historically as they would with Greece
It's naturally going to be some form of defamation and they'll be looking for damages. Sure what else would it be with that pair? They'll probably claim some commentary about their decisions is undemocratic and defamatory because they're duly elected blah blah Palestine blah Israel or some other nonsense.
Yugoslavia was completely separate from the USSR, in fact it wasn't even a proper member of the Warsaw pact either.
I'm more surprised that you reckon there's that much of a moral compass going on among the movers and shakers at the top and behind the scenes at the top. The business interests the military interests and quite the number of the poiltical interests with it(the military interests are likely the most "honest"). Look at Germany's ex PM Schröder ensconced in luxury and millions in Moscow, Johnson pressing the flesh in Kyiv while his cronies were and remain only too happy to handle dirty Russian and welcome their owners into British "high society". As MEP Guy Verhofstadt pointed out last week Swift may be closed, but that leaves 50% of banking access fo Russia still open. The politicans and business owners in France and Germany looking to the future ballot box and profit margins, knowing full well that the French and German peoples will clamour for sanctions now, but won't be nearly so robust in the months to come as the headlines move further down the twitter feed, misery fatigue sets and in the face of long term job losses and being cold next winter. It won't be the movers and shakers kids dying even if NATO went full in and its not their kids dying now.
Russian mother's must be really proud of their sons. Savages.
That's a glass half empty, whatever you say ~ say nothing type of analysis. Which just leaves matters in limbo. Best is either that Russian forces are roundly defeated and driven from Ukraine as speedily as possible or that Putin prevails and takes the whole state quickly.
Seems to be part of their culture, the little russians - ie. Serbs are well known for having it imbedded in their culture too.
Not sure if they're German but that's definitely a NATO camo scheme. The vehicles on the trains are M109 howitzers and what looks like M577 tracked command post vehicles. Both of these vehicles were used both by the Bundeswehr and by the US Army, so these could either be surplus Bundeswehr vehicles or NATO reserve stocks from one of the US depots around Mannheim and Germersheim.
Lithuania bought both M109Gs and M577 from Germany in the mid 2010s, so I wouldn't be too surprised if this train was heading up to Lithuania, rather than Ukraine. Gniezno, the town where this was taken, also would suggest a delivery to one of the Baltic countries rather than Ukraine, as the railway line running through Gniezno generally runs in a northeasterly direction until Torun.
They seem to be the triangle of Genocide,Russia,Serbia and China
They are really made for eachother
There was a court ruling some time ago that because RTÉ was a public broadcaster they were obliged to give equal time for both sides of the argument. I'm guessing that's going to be the gist of their warped legal case. 'And now the case for psychopaths to be allowed to be megalomaniacs.' or 'the case for Russians to be allowed to be a little paedophile'.
A couple of weeks ago there was a lot of talk about this being "one man's war" and how those poor Russian lads didn't want to be there at all, at all. Sure they just wanted to go home to their mammies.
madness - Russian propaganda is insane
BREAKING NEWS - REPORT FROM KREMLIN SOURCE ON UKRAINE - UKRAINIAN LOSSES
That's because she and her partie are funded by low interest loans from the bank of Putin
Indeed. There’s an obvious cultural savagery hardwired here. The holier than thou brigade don’t like it being mentioned as it doesn’t fit with their one human family kumbajah world view but it’s the truth
To add to this back in 2007 Putin sent two mini submarines down 4,200 metres to the sea bed of the Arctic Circle to plant a Russian flag and claim it for Russia. There is supposedly a lot of oil & gas down there and it is getting easier to access with the ice cap melting. Norway, Canada and Denmark (through Greenland)all complained to the UN about it at the time, a Canadian minister said its not the 15th century you cant just go around planting flags to claim territory.
They didn't lick it off the ground. The mothers wouldn't be much better themselves. Savagery begets savagery
Yep the Lithuania direction seems the most plausible when you look at the rail links. However it's interesting even if that is the case since Lithuania announced it would be training more Ukrainian troops there just yesterday:
I do still think it's unlikely to be equipment earmarked for Ukraine in any case; I can't really imagine the US or NATO supplying howitzers based on everything that has been said and done until this point.
Rape and sexual violence are used as weapons of war in all conflicts, unfortunately.
RE: Marine LE Pen: I saw her speech the other night and thought there was a very interesting line that none of the media picked up on. She has decided to cool the rhetoric a bit this time round in order to invite a few more gibbons to vote for her. She said I want the voters to know that I have listened to up to the first vote and I will listen to then until the day after the second vote. Subtext I thought, was after that its back to business as usual.
It seems to be a defamation case, so I'd assume it's about something allegedly said about them, rather than them not getting a say themselves.
Excellent piece here on Ukraine's current general
“Their infantry, artillery, innovative skill and being able to use drones and synchronize them was pretty impressive,” said a former U.S. officer who has made multiple trips to Ukraine to advise the military, and who requested anonymity to speak about the training mission. “Their special forces and airborne forces were excellent. There was a part of me, that when I first got there, that made me think they were more Soviet than even the Russian army. But over time, you could see the change.”
Melnyk, the air force officer turned analyst, said the battlefield successes, including in the northern suburbs of Kyiv, were a direct result of the military modernization.
“NATO tactics [and] the training were adjusted to the Ukrainian realities — and that’s why it has produced quite an impressive result,” Melnyk said. “We saw Russians moving these huge columns … it looks like World War II tactics. Instead, Ukrainians used the advantage — they knew the terrain. They have these mobile units and strike and hit.”
14 years? I admire your optimism.
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