Russia should but it won't, at least that's what the serious commentators say. I posted former UN weapons inspector interview .who tried to stop the Iraq war..
Listen to it. He talks about Ukraine. Russia should leave and not feel threatened by Ukrainian ambitions too join NATO. What should happen did not and is not happening.
Aye, I don't know why Ukraine won't just surrender either.
Take the patter around to Commie Clare and Moscow Micks facebook pages, you'll find a welcoming audience
None of us are in favour of the senseless slaughter. It's why we think Russia should fcuk off out of Ukraine.
You do realise that Ukraine had little control over Donbas/ luhansk before the war, hence the semi autonomous regions? Who's to say they're not enlisting?
As for Geneva convention, Ukraine broke the rules early in the war. Obviously forcing people to enlist would be appalling but hard to believe a patriot would not open fire on his 'comrades' so have to wonder a bit about the enforced idea.
I do not know what is going on in Ukraine but it seems according to the general on CNN that Russia has the east.
https://youtu.be/hWfHhSg4HXg
It's unbelievable that two grown adults cannot sit down and agree a ceasefire to stop killing real people.
Anyway, shouldn't you be in conspiracies insisting that viruses never escape from laboratories in spite of evidence to the contrary published in nature? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7096887/
Yep, not in favour of senseless slaughter. The nonsense spouted here would be dangerous if boards had any real world influence.
Another 340 civilians out of Mariupol today. Russians offering more corridors out until the 7th. While they assault the plant itself. Looks like they are really desperate to parade the city for domestic propaganda on the 9th.
Not so much who would want to attack us but rather our own ability to defend key infrastructure etc until the cavalry arrived. This idea is described in better detail in the article.
I'd say that its the less enthusiastic Russian citizens of Donbas that will be first to be "invited" to enlist......
Communism may have a bigger death toll than fascism, but that was only down to duration and being obsessed with a banality of murder, communism doesn't need an *other" or a war or reason to kill. It's so dysfunctional that that is it's inevitable conclusion. Putin is just another evolution.
And redoing his name to "Bryan MacDonald" is stars in their eyes code for a muppet
If Ukraine has taught us anything its that relying on your neigbours to step in is the height of foolishness. The country needs to understand that a capable defence force is a minimum requirement.
I would agree on the Defence forces, like most Irish government institutions you might as well piss the money up against the wall for all the good it will do, completely beyond reform.
How many useful ports and airports do we have? The Brits would have them wiped in an hour if they felt under any threat from this direction.
This would be nothing but a waste of money for so many reasons.
Firstly, there is no impending or genuine threat to our sovereignty unlike Ukraine has been dealing with since 2014.
Secondly, we are basically protected by allies on either side, with the UK and EU to our east and America to our west, you can be absolutely sure, whether we would like it or not, these countries would be stepping in if even something as close as an army build up happened outside our borders. That is not because they care so much about their good Irish pals, but because they absolutely would not allow an enemy base in Ireland.
Thirdly, it would basically be short sighted almost bandwagon like spending because of whats going on in Ukraine. Spending we'd possibly question after 5 years.
Fourthly and most importantly, as someone who has close friends and direct family who are either in the army or were, I would say the organisation needs to be completely overhauled from a cultural point of view from the very top before even another cent is put in. Money wont fix our current defense force problems.
Bear in mind that our GDP is completely bonkers. If we spent 2% or GDP on defence :
Our GDP was in USD 425.89 billion in 2021, so roughly $8.5 billion on defence, which would be absolutely ludicrously huge.
It's not so much a question of who would want to attack us but why they'd want to attack us. It wouldn't be high on the list as a strategic imperative for the likes of Russia or China, IMO. If Russia wanted to slam a nuke into Shannon, okay, but that renders the idea of defence forces a bit moot.
It seems to me that a world in which Ireland is undergoing a conventional military attack of some sort is one quite changed from the current. I suppose that logically speaking, the biggest threat remains from our nearest neighbour, only because it would be the most logistically-feasible to mount an invasion. In that case, even with increased military spend, we'd still be outmatched.
If this is Finns giving us advice, though, maybe take a leaf out of their book and bring in national service and have plans for the formation of civil militias for guerrilla warfare in the event of an invasion. Outside of that, I'm not in principal to increased military spend, but think it would best go on aerial defence systems, a few jets to patrol our own skies, and maybe some of those Neptune rockets as well.
We'd be a fairly handy target to make a strong point, that's for sure.
Ukrainian men have been mobilised to defend their country.
Russia is using men from conquered territory to kill their own countrymen as part of Russia's invasion of that country, which is very different and breaches the Geneva convention.
Right now we spend a paltry 0.3% of gdp on defense. As recently as the early 1980's that figure was 1.5% we need to work our way back up to that so we can build a creditable and functional defense force.
"but sure who would want to attack us"
From an Irish Times article today
"Finnish officials highly sceptical about Ireland’s ability to defend its territory. State needs to triple military spending to stand chance of defending itself"
Lieut Gen Pulkkinen is quietly confident Finland is ready for whatever Russia has planned when Helsinki applies to join Nato. But he is not so sure what the future holds for Ireland
For 20 years the soft-spoken Finnish military man has worked closely with Irish officials and, in 2020, was invited to be a member of the Commission on the Irish Defence Forces.
Two weeks after the commission’s 183-page report was published in February, Russia invaded Ukraine. “The report was quite revolutionary in Irish terms but, given the situation today [with Russia], we would have been even more ambitious,” said Lieut Gen Pulkkinen. “Your defence forces are seriously underfunded; I said in webinars that you would have to triple spending. The Irish people –and your defence forces – deserve that.”
Better to lose a park and to have less bombs to use on civilians - they're so stupid they don't even realise they have an ever dwindling supply of ammunitions to call on
Some recent twitter feed.
No comment needed. But that old man survived and his pup rescued by firefighters 😔
Russians attacking Ukrainian Military instalation Children's theme park in Kharkiv
Dirty rotten cnuts. I hope they rot in hell for eternity 😡
It's completely bizarre the continuous references to Russia being Nazis.
They are putting up statues of Lenin, most of the senior leadership have had Communist party membership and Russia actions against Ukraine have a long way to go savagery wise. before they come close to Communist Russia's actions there.
Sure what was fascism but Communism's younger brother.
We've got a live one
This is Putins worst nightmare...street protests, he can handle, flood the place with police / military, etc, crack plenty of heads, men women and children, bundle them into vans, and remove them for "processing". But this urban guerilla warfare, is something else. I would not like to be assigned to work in any of these centres....
Payback time I guess for pro Russian citizens in the Donbas. Putin has blazed in to 'help them' - now they may realise this comes at a serious cost. What you get when you get into bed with the devil.
8 enlistment centres have been torched so far in Moscow.
Bonkers. Serious echo chamber here.
Same as the Ukrainians so, except omitted the 55-60 category.
Interesting perspective from former UN weapons inspector.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6a0YT17R6dulyYtH1m9YN8
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