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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,091 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    The EU needs some seriously tough, binding laws on media ownership that are part of basic qualification for EU membership. Hungary would need to be put on notice to comply or have accelerated measures to eject them from the EU.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    The whole Nato /Ukraine has been dragging on since 1991 there is no fast tracking them into NATO ,it should have happened 20 years ago the same with the eu membership it was suggested in 91 as well , yeah they have issues around corruption which stems from the Communist regimes , even after invaded 8 year a lot of the political people , Police and military had commanders who were both Russian citizens but were only loyal to Moscow



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,091 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Speaking of losses, the Russians have lost 22 tanks and 27 APCs in one day. Total tank losses are now 1,008.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Those loses cannot be sustainable in the long run



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,049 ✭✭✭Mecanudo


    I am just commenting on the motives.

    Like hell you are

    There are plenty of countries in the world now being ethnically cleansed and getting zero support from the west.

    Not this shite again.

    There are plenty of countries in the world being ethnically cleansed which are getting support from the West. The West however is not and can never be the entires world's Watchdog. Where are all the wealthy Asian and middle Eastern countries in these wars? Why are the "west" constantly expected to clean up the **** of despots and dictators killing their own and each other in places millions of miles from the "West"?

    So why would the West support Ukraine and more importantly Ukrainian people as opposed to some other spot on the planet? Does that question even need to be answered ffs.

    The Ukraine is part of the West. It is part of Europe. The Russian invasion not only seeks to annihilate Ukraine and its people, it also threatens to destabilise the entire European region, with likley further "special operations" by Russia and ultimately the threat of nuclear war which will not just impact the "west" but the entire world.

    Meanwhile many many countries in the West has taken in millions of fleeing Ukrainians and are doing what they can for those who are fighting for their countries and their own survival. And what again of all those wealthy Asian and Middle Eastern countries? Nada.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,091 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Sorry, but you are a victim of Russian misinformation and this Russian SPEAKERS in Crimea would prefer to be part of Russia is dung. Zelenskyy is a native Russian, speaker, as are many in Ukraine's military.

    A 2013 poll in Crimea had only 23% of the population of Crimea wanting to be part of Russia, "down from 33% in 2011."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    And at the same time they turned down free Russian passports and citizenship to the point Russia stopped offering free passports in Crimea ,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,091 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Looks like a Japanese fisherman was a bit careless with the barbie after pulling up on the beach for lunch.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,411 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    This crap and I mean that kindly is root and branch Wallace Daly nonsense.

    The notion that peace can be achieved , by what giving Russia 30 percent of Ukraine and sending zelensky off to another country so a Russian sanctioned government can be instilled in Ukraine.

    It's hog wash on any metric.

    And I'd say you subscribe to the notion that Ukrainian people could never have possibly wanted to join the EU and it all must be some dastardly EU plan to disrupt Russia.

    And NATO were the core of the problem.


    None of this has any relation to one man's insane views of owning and entire land and restoring some dream of a block from times gone by.


    These views can be deconstructed even on the most fundamental level.


    But Biden. But America, but why didn't they try. Zzzz



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,811 ✭✭✭threeball


    I think the Ukrainians aren't blowing it as they fully intend taking Crimea back and blowing the bridge makes that 10 times more difficult.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,411 ✭✭✭✭listermint




  • Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What makes you think that there isn't a lot of diplomacy happening in the background? I imagine there's been a pretty **** huge amount of overtime being worked in bureaucracies across the world (even food/agriculture will be affected, I assume all countries are preparing for it) and there's been plenty of effort in the background to prevent the invasion and to scale everything down.

    You mention alternatives but not what those alternatives are. We can only go by what we see. We see Putin lie and smirk at the world. He does the same to Macron's face, the same to the head of the UN and then does a missile strike on Kyiv while he's there. I haven't heard realistic "alternatives" from Russia either.

    FWIW I praise the yanks because they're the ones who have been behind the push for more international support. I think they should have acted more quickly but unlike Russia they are constrained to some extent by what the rest of the world thinks of them. That's how they've become the superpower, they maintain positive relations with as many places as possible. Had they flooded Ukraine with weapons from November (and Ukraine were keen not to escalate right up until the invasion so there's no guarantee they would have accepted) then the world would have seen that as being a war at least partly started by America, no amount of claimed intelligence that early would convince many people otherwise. Germany would have happily done nothing, let's be honest. The Brits likely would have grumbled but not really fussed too much had it been over in a week. The Poles would be doing everything to get NATO deployments increased.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    Is that the only way you can understand people ? By comparing them with politicians or people you don’t like? Doesn’t really say a lot about your capacity for engaging or understanding a point being made.

    I can think have a position about one variable/topic and another position on another.

    Why did you make up words ahoy me susbscribing to what the Ukraine people want to do? Is it because you didn’t like some things I have said and have now decided I obviously share all the views of somebody else you dont like that will allow you some sense of righteous superiority in the discussion?

    If you want to engage me in discussion , talk about what I’ve written , not about what you imagine I think and believe.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,091 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Crimea is connected to Ukraine by land to the north, the bridge in question connects the Eastern end of Crimea to Russia, so blowing the bridge inconveniences Russias military. The bridge was built after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭uptherebels


    Not really, there is a bit more nuance to it than that. Issues around the EU/German gas supply was voiced before trump so he didn't "predict" anything.

    Trump wanted the EU to buy more US gas, despite the US export processing being maxed out and there being issue with EU infrastructure to take delivery of LNG and transport it around the EU.

    With US cracked gas being more expensive.

    Then there is his stance on NATO funding.

    There is also the concern of being energy dependent on the US under Trump.

    He was laughed at, because people can see through his fake concern for the EU being dependent on his pal Putin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    That’s fair but alot of this is playing out on stage and the war is faught on tv aswell. I had said before that even during Cold War there was always dialogue in background so I’d be very disappointed if there wasn’t some sort of conversations

    I don’t know how the UN general or Macron or anybody can stomach being in same room as Putin but it’s a necessary evil if something can come of it. I suppose Part of the problem appears to be that Biden has more to lose by trying to be a peacemaker and it failing then sending them weapons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,091 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Heart warming to see how Russian 'troops' go to such efforts to help their wounded and striken comrades.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,411 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Il respond to you here on thread and not be dealing with you via PM where you threaten me.

    Your blaming america for not bringing peace.


    The end.



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


    There was video early on which showed Ukraine training where they had broomsticks instead of guns, some didn't even have that though and were just holding their arms in a pointy shape and going pew pew.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    You have to be able to understand what the person is saying to respond to them. Not make up lies and write what you imagine they think and believe. Stop writing what you think you know about me as if it’s a fact, respond to my posts not your imagination.

    I didn’t threaten you , I threatened to report you, just so you can’t misrepresent what I said yet again.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,073 ✭✭✭JoChervil





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,411 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    "I didn't threaten you. I threatened you..."


    Yet I have to be able to understand what you write before I respond....


    Lad. Your having a nightmare today.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    What timeframe do you see Putins demise , months or years?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,057 ✭✭✭✭briany


    The last Russian leader to meet a sticky end at the hands of his people was Nicholas II. Putin probably fancies his chances of getting away with doing Putin stuff. Just blame Russia's woes on the West, be grand.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    yeh, “you threatened me” has the exact same sort of menace as “you threatened to report me”. Context is everything

    But well done on avoiding your lies and making sh*t up about me. Don’t know why people thanked it as there’s absolutely no proof or evidence I support daly/Wallace thinking or don’t want Ukraine having choices.

    Can I make up fake things about you ? Is that ok? For me to lie about what I think you believe in? Because that’s what you did and what you are doing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,445 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    It is what you were implying, which means owning up to an answer and correct your stance rather than giving out about misquoting. Words convey meaning.

    I read your passage to mean that you don't want countries to defend themselves against Russia as well.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,411 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    Are you actually annoyed because people thanked a post pulling apart your 'americans aren't doing peace to save Ukraine' speel.

    It's the same stuff Mick and Claire are parroting. If you don't like the comparison then don't repeat their talking points. It really is that simple.

    The absolute destruction you are seeing in Ukraine right now. There is one origin and he's hiding in a bunker. Let's not have people apologizing other countries aren't trying to end it. Yes ? ....



    Oh and final point here for you.

    A threat is a statement indicating that you will cause harm to or create some other kind of negative consequences for someone, especially to pressure them to do something or not to do something.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Zelenskyy receiving his official St Javelin tshirts yesterday




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,325 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    But what Putin bots are posting is propganda. When it is you have to call it as such.

    I do not just mildly disagree I find it untrue and vehemently disagree with it. As well some posting here try to deflect blame onto western democracies which is wrong.

    Slava Ukrainii

    Slava Ukrainii



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,049 ✭✭✭Mecanudo




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