Nope. I gather my information from reputable sources.
Is that all you got? Accusing me of watching a Putin propaganda channel. You seem to drift around the site making accusations up in your head that posters support Russia or the Russian actions in Ukraine without any evidence whatsoever to back it up.
I'm going to give you another chance to find a single post from myself that is in support of Putin.
Find one post from me from the past few days. I'll wait...
No I do not, you have been posting drivel about the mighty Russia for 2 days now, and drifted into barely contempt for the west, when trying to conceal blame for their actions on NATO.
Treats to Russia from NATO expansion eastwards, you brought it up.
Mighty Russian industrial capacity, you mentioned it - does not exist.
Ah right, the war crimes representative along with Ukrainian police and army staged the footage I take it?
He's right though. CNN is the other side of the coin from Fox News.
Has this thread descended so much that any criticism of anything western gets you labeled as some shill or Putinbot?
Looks like it...
Just reading some comments here and all seem to apply to Ukraine too (e.g. casualties of war, mass conscription, inadequate supplies) but the Ukrainians haven't stopped fighting.
This war could drag on. I hope not.
Wait till he learns that Irish economy is 3 smaller (before the war) than Russia but has 30x less population
His mind will be blown faster than a suborbital t80 turret ejection 🤯
Ah you are one of those , only Russia Today for you
You must have me confused with someone else. I didn't make any claims, just asked a question.
As for my glib remark, Ireland exports a sizeable amount of the world supply of viagra, botox, and cholesterol medication. Have a nice day.
Suitable for a cavalry unit then, perhaps? 😁
Sorry have been avoiding the mainstream media the last couple of days, when I didn’t see anything here I presumed it wasn’t happening, going on their past record it is not surprising.
Stop being facetious, you made a claim that was easily rebutted and offer nothing to counter it. Ireland produces multiple times what Russia does in vital medical equipment, medicines and chemicals used in medicine, and snide jokes about botox do not change that.
You can fanboy the capabilities of Russia, their army, their industrial capacity, their economy all you like but all your snide jokes, copy paste articles does not hide that this is Russia, not the Soviet union and it is 2022 not 1954.
Russia is a mid range regional European power and a minnow on the world stage.
The Allies commented after WW2 that it was amazing how they couldn't find a single Nazi supporter in all Germany.
Pal CNN isn't a reputable news network come on it's a step above Twitter just. You might as well be watching fox news. Reuters would be my go to source of news gathering.
I guess that's the only way that the Russians will be able to smooth out the frontlines and put up a stiff resistance in the current situation...
I really don't think we should be sending botox and viagra to the front lines
Yes CNN. Showed bodies being dug up from mass graves.
Anything from reputable news networks?
There is nothing particularly wrong with a Moisin 1898 rifle. In some units it might by a good auxilary sniper rifle, however it appears to the only weapon issued to entire units of conscripts from LPR and DPR, making them completely ineffective.
I think that's the key point here.
Mass conscription and then what.
No equipment or kit for those resentful and unwilling conscripts?
Because they will be resentful and unwilling.
Conscription is an admission of humiliating defeat for Putin.
But maybe even more important by now is the amount of information available from Russian survivors coming home and bringing their horror stories with them. And their families and friends will believe them over the Kremlin propaganda anytime. And of course even more effective, the bodies of the dead, and the growing lists of the missing. the Kremlin can say what it likes, but the story on the ground will be far different.
That’s not true.
Loads on CNN yesterday
I think this is what may forget. They are giving soldiers on duty at the rear of the battle line Moisin Nagent bolt action rifles. The FCA or what ever the Irish reserve is called not have FN rifles.
There is rumours of soldiers refusing to move from Russia. If I was poorly equipped ( no flak jacket, a bolt action rifle very little ammunition, maybe no proper army clothing or boots etc) I be slow going as well.
Not as much as Germany, Italy. In fact Irelands Pharma industrial capacity is multiple times larger than Russias.
It's not just weapons.
Bullets and bandages. Does Russia have indigenous medical manufacturing to meet the demand such a war would bring?
Who can rapidly expand military production? And you list a Sanctioned Russia behind the US.
The reality is, US, France, Britain, Germany, Japan, India, South Korea, Italy, Sweden and numerous others (Isreal, Pakistan, Turkey) can all rapidly expand military production faster than Russia.
Russia is an economy based on fossil fuel extraction, their arms industry is based on imported tech. They have no other industrial capacity to transfer. Western Europe has enormous industrial capacity that can transfer to Military and it has a trained workforce. Claiming Russia can outproduce even moderate industrial powers like Italy of Spain is highly debatable, outproducing Germany France or Britain is pure fantasy.
That could be calculated to stir up anti Putin sentiment.
Well earlier on, he sent conscripts to Ukraine even though by law, conscripts cannot be sent to a war zone ( or special military operation either) only contracted soldiers. Yet many were sent there.. so when push comes to shove, Putin shows scant regard for the Law of the Land.
It’ll just be like the opening scene in ‘Enemy at the Gates’. A line of people getting off the train, being handed a kalashnikov, and directed toward where all the explosions were
a scene which, according to the guys on ‘The Rest is History’ podcast is completely historically accurate
edit: this is the Stalingrad episode if anyone is interested. It’s a fascinating listen
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0pWH0jCFNLY0PgDUKsnWLy?si=Z8wuvWxbSEe4j19_Nx3sRg
How does that work?
Russian population (assuming for a second Russian statistics are not the usual fake) is only 3.5 larger.
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