Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Russians: (Forced to subsist on a thin grey soup made from the ashes and bones of those who died at Stalingrad) "Yeah, this fine. We love misery."

Russia supplies very little food to the EU. Gas and fertilizer yes, but we have options to pivot away on both fronts and being quite honest we're only cutting our own throats with the amounts of fertilizer we splash about willy nilly so we need to move away from that soon or we'll have a real food crisis on our hands as the land can't keep being pushed the way it is. In Britain they reckon there's about 30 harvests left before a lot of the yields start falling off a cliff from over farming.

Russia has an economy the same size as Spain or around €1.65tn. The EU gives them about €110bn per annum for Gas alone. I somehow doubt that they'll muddle along just fine when 10% of their economy disappears overnight on top of the billions lost in other trades that cannot happen either.

Or shot at for no reason or fed ‘ flavoured food’ that you did not like or ‘ rumbled up’ because something you said - in private- that was reported up the line, etc, etc, etc, etc.

I'm probably way of the mark here but I wonder if this is a way to supply actual planes to Ukraine covertly, some which would have been maintained with US parts in them.

So now if Russia shoots down said planes and finds the US parts in them, then they can just say yeah sure didn't we supply the parts to the Ukrainians as we already reported.

Yeah I think California would be in g7 if it declared independence tomorrow. The us economy is monstrous.

Correction California has a higher GDP than Germany, it would have the 4th largest economy in the world.

Texas and New York would also be in the top 10.

US imperialism thread is leaking again I see

Usually when someone mentions the wests 4th gen jets vs Russias someone usually starts bringing up but they thrust vectoring and the cobra manoeuvre ,they will hit the breaks and the Americans or others will just fly by ,

All great in slow and steady preforming in an airshow but not so great when your flying against multiple ship formations with wingmen who cover their leads if you get close enough for an actual dog fight but as you pointed out there's been a shift to bvr engagements when it comes to air combat, where advanced radar and target acquisition is king

Interesting to read the views of posters on here regarding the respective Irish and Russian embassies.

I've no wish to become embroiled in the discussion on whether the Irish Embassy in Moscow should be pulled but I will say that Irish people throughout the world have a choice, as do we all. Personally I'd rather lose everything and be somewhere safe than live in Russia permanently in fear of tit-for-tat reprisals. Putin wont respect whether you're married to a Russian or however long you've lived in their country when he next chooses to vent his anger on anyone or anything Western.

The Russian Embassy at Orwell Road is nothing but a huge spies nest. As others have said, exactly what reason could Russia have that warrants the huge staffing numbers at Orwell Road? And more to the point why does the Irish Government allow this?

Whilst most foreign embassies go about their normal day to day work they are intended to do, I've absolutely no doubt in my mind that all Russian embassies are nothing but excellent cover for extensive espionage and hubs for plotting future assassinations against Russian dissidents worldwide and other perceived enemies of the Russian state. As we've now clearly seen with our own eyes what a totally depraved nation Russia has become, I think all Russian embassy staff should be immediately kicked out, not only in Ireland but worldwide. They are now a complete pariah.

Incidentally, the Russian Embassy at Kensington Palace Gardens, London, is another hornets nest located in prime real estate and able to conduct their illicit operations right in the heart of the capital. Their website is nothing but Putin's mouthpiece, full of denial and propaganda. Why we allow them this freedom of speech when they've terminated all of their own free press is disgraceful.

And apparently, it's a job for life....how long that life might be is a different matter though!

I think you have to earn freedom of speech. If you're not willing to give it to others, then yours likewise should be restricted.

I'm fully aware of that. I wasn't born yesterday. My point was that only Russian embassies would be complicit it assassination plots, poisoning, and actively seeking to undermine Western nations in everything they do.

That's the answer.

That, genocide, the UK poisonings and a hundred and one other reasons for expelling them.

Putin may be totally wrong on most everything, but his view of the West as being weak is pretty much spot on. The more rope we continue to give him, the greater the damage that will ultimately unfold.