Russia - threadbanned users in OP

No way will these forced draftees fight , they will deflect to Ukrainian side for sure, 300k more soldiers for Ukraine.

The ultimate face palm for Putin, can't wait to see it .

Wibbs I understand your position and under other circumstances I'd agree with you.

However this is involving a nation that has and is interfering with European politics, which has ignored international law an initially annexed another sovereign nations territory, initially carried out a "proxy" war and then invaded them earlier this year. It has committed war crimes and breached law governing pows.

Until the regime falls we should not be hosting their representatives here at all. At the very minimum we should expel most of the 28 staff and let them have 5 like our representatives in Moscow. Again personally I believe we should shut our Embassy down, bring our people home and turf the lot of them out. With Putin's regime there should be no grey areas.

I know, I know, I know. Some on on here will have a fit when they see another link to CNN. - slaps my own wrist- bad boy Dan, bad boy.

Ukraine and Kyiv have out smarted Putin and Russia. Makes sense when you think about the way Putin is currently behaving.

Can Manic or someone explain what it would be like to be inside a tank when hit by a missile like that. How much of a difference does reactive armour make? Are there burst ear drums, g-forces, shock waves, ptsd, ? In Irish terms, I'd imagine that even if you did survive unscathed, that you'd be 'fierce shook' after something like that.

The only ones I hear talking about nukes is Russia. Every single bloody day on their primetime tv propaganda shows. They threaten us with obliteration. You would nearly think they are the only ones with nukes.

And there I respectfully disagree with you. Our supposed neutrality is just a meaningless fig leaf that we wave around in a display of virtue signalling. We do this from the relative comfort of our position on the west coast of Europe and hiding behind the skirts of the UK and USA on either side. It's a national self delusion and meant nothing in the last great European conflict when we were 'neutral' on the side of the Allies.

So I believe our Taoiseach was quite right to stand up and state that Russia is now a rogue state, even if it was at a meeting of a body that has shown itself to have fundamental flaws when it comes to managing a 'big rogue state'.

At some point this conflict will end and that point has been set by Ukraine as when Russian troops are removed from all the territory that is recognised internationally as Ukraine.

We don't need a Russian embassy here for this, we are part of the EU and have already established that we'll follow what the EU decides collectively in these matters. Let them be gone and good riddance. Or at the very least as suggested, reduced to bare min of ambassador, cook & secretary.

Lol if it's immature for the Americans to threaten to respond to a WMD attack on Ukraine what is the repeated threats from Putin, other politicians and state sponsored TV personalities of nuclear assault on numerous countries. In fact is it mature for one nation to attack another sovereign nation under false pretences, I don't think it is.

Yes they are horrendous. The Ukrainians are losing about 100 troops a day while the Orcs are losing 366. But a significant difference is that the Ukrainians seem more focused on saving and protecting their personnel as a priority.

Earlier I was doing some research, wondering how a certain donated vehicle was performing, and the driver of one said:

'‘If we had more vehicles like this, we would save more lives – and the lives of our soldiers are the most important thing.’"

If Russia detonated a small nuclear device in Ukraine, there would be no particular need for the West to respond in kind with a similar nuclear weapon - they have numerous ways they could respond strongly without having to resort to such drastic action.

What would you say a strong and effective western response would be to Russia detonating a small nuclear device in Ukraine that doesn't involve similar weaponry? I think a coordinated coup and synchronised assassination of Putin and his close advisors would be a good start.

If Putin is genuinely crazy to let off any kind of nuclear weapon in Ukraine, we'd be in a pretty much unknown frontier of military engagement. NATO may threaten a conventional military response, but given the danger of deploying forces to a region that a madman had already let off one nuke in, unconventional solutions may have to be considered if similar retaliation is off the table.

Anyway, I'm sure that U.S. intelligence has been working overtime to assess if Putin is bluffing or not. Do we know if the U.S. got anything in the way of portable hypersonic missile defence systems?

That is what this thought provoking article conveys: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/russia-ukraine-nuclear-weapon-us-response/661315/

It's deeply disturbing and only serves to increase my conviction that limited nuclear proliferation is probably the safest move, as counter intuitive as that may seem.

Number of facts in article: zero

Things hotting up in Dagestan?

Maybe even St.petersburg and moscow now as per thread below.

I won't be putting a poster of him in my bedroom either and I think the UN is a joke.

But at least he went on record and labelled Putin's Russia for what it is.

Zelensky has apparently addressed Russian soldiers in Russian to say that:

• Ukraine will follow the rules regarding POWs
• Ukraine will not broadcast information about who has surrendered
• Ukraine will allow anyone to stay who doesn't want to return to Russia

I suspect that those conscripts may need a lot of heavily-armed babysitters.