Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Every other day at this stage a new one arrives.... The troll farm must be mobilising early

"ore of a peacemaker and less of an invader than any major European nation". More than?

You read? Do or desist! No major European nation was peaceful or it wouldn't be a nation, never even mind "major". OK? MORE THAN!

Look at the environmental record of NATO members! The empire, our democratic role model, leads the way to not just mass suicide, but a complete destruction of life as we know it through chemical pollution.

Stop blaming the Russians! You are your own worst enemy! Your greed, your righteousness, your anxiety, fake sense of belonging, entitlement and more greed is what poisons your mind. You will win nothing by debating with me. And I will not debate for it solves nothing. It's either dialectics, violence or deceit. Debate is only a part of the latter: mainly self-deceit in fact. Once you twist my words, it is no longer dialectics. So I won't waste my time, unless of course you learn.

"You will win nothing by debating with me. "

Yep.

"If the Brits keep provoking Putin, he can fire one on London from a sub right in Dublin bay. There will be no one left to write "he wrote 60000 posts on boards.ie" on your tombstone."

Or no one left to write on yours for that matter.

The idea that Russia can use nuclear weapons as an offensive threat, as a weapon of war against other nations is so totally abhorrent, that it must surely reveal the depravity of your thinking. The whole idea of nuclear weapons is as a defensive deterrent, a last resort. And no one, no one is threatening Russian territory at the moment. Unless you have a Putin view of the world, in which all your neighbours are really Russian. In which case, f**k off.

You get awful annoyed about what we discuss on here . For someone claiming to not really care at all.

Ive never come across a poster claiming to be so chill about the subject give out so much. Oh wait, no I have it's as common as trousers .

If true it’s shameful.

We swore concentration camps would never happen again after the bastard nazis.

Just go in and finish Putin and his shower of evil **** now.

Really ? Which station. That's good news. Amazed that it could occur though giving Putin ignoring pretty much everyone.

The extent of environmental damage in China is beyond belief. I read this book recently - When a Billion Chinese Jump by Jonathan Watts | Books | The Guardian

Another day.

Another General gone.

Well into double digits now.

It has been a good resource because not only do you get some interesting and informative analysis of events in Ukraine, but you also get plenty of links to news articles about the war from a diverse range of sources of which the BBC would be one. There's not a thread on the front page CA forum which comes remotely close in terms of view count, so it suffices to say that it is more than a bunch of armchair generals in it.

It's not going to change the world. I doubt too many are under the impression that it will. However, nor is it exactly p*ssing into the wind because trolls wouldn't make such an effort to spread misinformation in threads such as this, and the rest of the Internet, if that were so. People read that misinformation and take it with them and they spread it to other people and that can eventually lead to informing actions of real consequence, like voting, and we have seen that in recent history. This is at least one corner of the Internet where trolls will get well called on their bullsh*t. For that alone, the thread is worthwhile.

That cannot possibly be real??!!?

There are no nuances to this situation. It's as black and white as it ever gets in world affairs. There are no subtleties with which to attempt to play mental gymnastics and to try and concoct possibilities that there are shades of grey from. It's binary, left and right, up down, on or off.

You want it to be other than it is so you can game it for some verbal sparring and entertainment. That dog don't hunt 'round here.

This is not a situation or place to make any attempt at playing devil's advocate, unless you want to be tied to a stake and immolated.