Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Simple solution, Russia ends its illegal invasion or is beaten out of Ukraine.

In anticipation of your next half baked argument that they stop where they are now, the answer is the Massacre of Ukrainians will not stop with an end of hostilities today, they will continue in areas occupied by Russia as evidenced by the testimony of the medic in the US congress yesterday. A medic who treated both Russian and Ukrainians in Mariopol and as a reward for her unbiased medical ethics was tortured for 2 months by Russians during which time she witnessed the murder of Ukrainian soldiers civilians and children.

This is a one sided war of aggressive invasion Sean, and you may delude yourself all you like and try blame it on Ukraine, NATO, US, Eu but the fact is it is all about Russia and their aggression. The murder will not stop until they are beaten.

The Germans have commandered the Rosneft subsidiary in Germany and all of it's assets. This is utterly delicious. They will now use the Rosneft refineries to refine non-Russian oil.

The Irish governements obstinate refusal to kick the Russian embassy out, still sickens me. Allowing a significant Russian spy base to continue to operate when it's main effort at the moment would be to help Russia with it's heinous actions in ukraine, is attrocious. Drop this scummy neutrality stuff as it is not principled and has no moral rectitude to it, quite the contrary, it stinks on all levels.

"Berlin on Friday took control of the German operations of Russian oil firm Rosneft"

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220916-germany-seizes-russian-energy-firm-s-subsidiaries

OT : This conflict just confirms my opinion that various airforces obsession with swept wing fast jets is badly misplaced. The SU-25s are far more important and useful than $100 million mach 2 capable prima donnas like the SU-34.

The US has made a grave mistake in allowing the airforce to rid itself of the A-10 with the incomprehensible argument that the F-35 can fulfill the same role. CAS is not a job for a brick that always has to move fast to stay aloft and that costs $148m a pop. If one F-35 gets downed, the troops can kiss goodby to CAS as they will instantly stop using them in that conflict. You can build 3 to10 A-10s for the cost of a single f-35, and they only cost $6,273 per hour to opertate vs the F-35s $29,685 per hour.

Having swept wing jets designed for supersonic flight, carrying bombs, is madness, drones have proved that, in a way, by having lift efficient long thin wings more closely resembling a glider than an F-35.

Is there actually doubt about kinetic weapons or was someone being facetious? There are multiple kinetic weapon systems:

A-10 depleted uranium munitions. Israels air defence Iron Dome, The US PAC-3 Patriot missile, Hellfire R9X that took out yman al-Zawahiri.

Then theres the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)

"   Land-based element capable of shooting down a ballistic missile both inside and just outside the atmosphere.

   Highly effective against the ballistic missile threats.

   Uses hit-to-kill technology whereby kinetic energy destroys the incoming warhead."

Then there's the RIM-161 Standard Missile (SM-3) which is part of the AEGIS system and can shoot down balistic missiles and satellites.

Had the railgun not been cancelled, that too would have been kinetic with the projectils travelling at hypersonic speeds of mach 7 and still travelling supersonic when impacting tagets at 100km away.

Are you for real ?

You're pretending to think that being pro citizens' lives equates to being pro war. Did you read that on the back of your Comrade Cornflakes cereal box ?

How come the syntax/language employed by you guys is ALWAYS just that little bit off ? - "upper surface of the morning to you, begorrah"

One of the best downfalls in awhile. Had me doubled over with laughter especially "Don't worry, Tulsi!"

Watch the downfall parody. The RuSSians control Fox news!

"I was murdering civilians for the money, because I'm poor" doesn't cut it.

Absolutely! In the Russian Caucasus you have the highest peak in Europe, Mt El-Brus. Its 5'642 mtrs high. A few years ago, when all of Russia would be blanketed in snow, including the roads leading to it. Not anymore though, according to my friends. You can travel all the way into the foot hills now before you start to meet the snow. It's still on the peaks, and the skiing is still there, but each year, the snow seems to be retreating higher and higher up the mountain. And as for Belgrade in Serbia.....its pretty much like Ireland now. A few days of slushy snow, which soon vanishes, and that's it. But the mud......thats the real killer of transport. In Africa, I remember seeing trucks buried to their roofs ( Literally, to their roofs ) in the mud, and all transport stopped in its track's until they were winched out. You got out your winch, hooked it up to the nearest heavy tree, and started pulling. I would not like to be trying to winch or drag any vehicles out of mud holes on the front lines in Ukraine.

I assume both sides' commanders will be basing their winter planning on what 2021 into 2022 was like and what the general winter trends have been for the last decade. No point going by what it may be like, but rather what it has been like. If the conflict continues into the depths of Ukrainian winter, it at least means a freezing of the battle lines and you'd have to say a complete Russian failure to achieve their objectives as of Feb 24th 2022, which was to take over the entirety of Ukraine.