Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I vaguely remember reading a "buzzfeed news" story (really) connecting a number of odd deaths of people with links back to Russia (incl. those you mention) in the UK a few years ago (when I googled I see it is dated 2017). May as well post it I suppose.

They really are using the drone tech to turn artillery pieces on the ground into almost sniper units. Literal pin point accuracy in many cases.

Drones have completely changed modern war.

Why Russian public must see a disaster when there are plenty of independent telegram channels which show everyday hundreds of Ukrainian KiAs and PoWs? Some of these channels are publishing documents taken from KiA, some specializing in videos with PoW - the main goal is to let relatives know what happened to them, demoralizing the Ukrainian public is a free bonus. The westerners are spared from the truth by total censorship on social networks and media, while Russian people more rely on telegram as the last outpost of free speech in the Internet. And nothing is stopping Russian people to visit similar Ukrainian channels and make judgment themselves

This is why I made the earlier suggestion that the US should supply Ukraine with 8 nuclear armed cruise missiles, and 95% attempts to keep it a secret, because you want the FSB to find out.

I just don't see how the west responds appropriately to Russia using nukes on Ukraine - just imagine you wake up one morning to the news that Kyiv is gone, along with Zelenskyy and most of Ukraines leadership and C&C and of course the population - what is a remotely adequate response to that? I don't see one that comes close to being impactful enough to bother Putrid.

Are we going to wake up one horrible morning to that near incomprehensibly awful scenario if Russia learns that Ukraine can nuke St Petersburg and Moscow in retalliation?

I don't think so.

Keep it on the quiet so there is no public knowledge of this so Russia doesn't feel that it has to save face in light of it's unimaginable consequences threat.

Don't ban the rallies, but do have RTE do a blood and guts history program about Russian attrocities commited against Ukrainians. That might embarrass the Horde embassy into not organising these events due to them being massively counter productive.

Subs are probably the single most complicated to operate military system. The time needed to train the crew would be in years. Also, one hit and your sunk. 8 cruise missiles can be dispersed and concealed in the same way they did with the Neptune launcher in Odessa.

On pro Russia rallies:

I think rallying to show support for an invasion, and possibly a fresh genocide being done in Europe yet again, is a bit...on the nose right now (putting it mildly).

There's limits to freedom of speech. Seems like it is risk to public order + decency (that sounds old fashioned, but 🤷‍♀️) and should be shut down, possibly for participants' own health if we have 25-30 k or so Ukrainian refugees (fleeing the same war the "Z" fans would be celebrating) in Ireland now.

Some of the "this is Ireland" (yes, and not the USA) and "we have freedom of speech here" notions strike me as idealistic and detached from reality. Hopefully nothing violent happens if pro war rallies take place.

Rumors of a coup. I'd take it with a pinch of salt Kremlin on high alert as coup rumours grow in Moscow: Disgruntled generals join FSB looking to oust Putin and end Ukraine war (cityam.com)

Of course there will be trouble if the 'Z' rallies happen. And then that kind of stuff will be used by the Kremlin as 'proof' about anti-Russian discrimination in the west.

Absolutely. The lack of nuclear weapons is the root cause of this disaster.

Or nuclear weapons are the problem………….

Also get your point on it. Just think myself that not only is it revolting (akin to a Nazi rally - I mean a real, live, full on Nazi rally, not just some far right types marching) but if this is being announced quite far in advance, there is potential for trouble. May not be ideologically sound as regards perfect freedom of speech, but perhaps better and safer in this case just to tell organisers it is not wanted here, and for the guards to be ready to disperse (or arrest if they won't go) those showing up to hold it.

What line of common sense can you offer that supports your view that an invading army that rapes, tortures, murders and displaces over 10 million people, can have their nuclear weapons pointed at all corners of the globe - yet a country such as Ukraine, subjected for months to the most barbaric of crimes against countless children and civilians, and fighting for its very existence, yet you think its a crazy suggestion for them to have a few nukes.

I would think that if the threat were there, right on their doorstep, that if they don't get the hell out of Ukraine in 24 hours then Ukraine would obliterate Moscow and St.Petersburg, there's a reasonable chance of an end to the war. While Putin is allowed to carry on with his total destruction of Ukraine, with no fear of military reprisals on Russian territory, then there's none.

If Putin can have nuclear weapons, and threaten to use them, then a country that has just been invaded by this madman is equally entitled to them.

Tom Clonan was on RTE News this evening pointing out that that Kremlin TV nut was effectively talking b*****ks and he doubts they have the capacity to launch even one of their undersea missiles. He also said the idea that they could set off a super tsunami with a single missile is beyond laughable, they would need thousands of them...they've been watching too many James Bond movies. Spoofers and playground school bullies, that's what we're dealing with.