It's clearly a joke, don't be so gullible :-)
I like your comment more but….
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There was some talk about oligarch Oleg Deripaska when this conflict started and that we have one of his businesses running here at Aughinish Alumina.
How involved is this man in the Russian war effort do we know? And if is playing a prominent role, should the government here look again at sanctions/ closure of his businesses here?
As someone else said, Putin could do the same thing by pressing a button.
However someone who replaced Putin could press that button back on.
Now, even if he is replaced, you can't just switch on the button.
It was also showing "look what we are going to do" in relation to attacking other infrastructure which they don't have any connection with.
It didn't happen, it's satire FFS 🤣 , similar to the bad lip reading videos on YouTube
Now the fleeing Russians that arrived in Turkey this week will find they can't access their Russian held money, Turkey putting the boot in
Have the whereabouts of these two this past week been accounted for.
Anyone that thinks this is America's doing need to give their heads a shake. They would risk a complete disintegrating of NATO.
Right now I see no downside to Russia doing this. Great propaganda, and all Putin needs it.
Too be fair, the idea of sending Arts Students does have some merit. Anyone reading from government here who might be able to organise it for us?
Here, I dont have 15 rubles to give you, will you take 1,5 EUR money from damn west?
lol did we not pay them to clean it up ?
Oh I'm sure there were no doubt other issues of concern. But the "it's Russia" angle (while simplistic), should not be discounted either.
And as I stated to @Gatling, it is incorrect to suggest that Putin only started to talk in this manner very recently. It pre-dates the tensions with the separatists in the east, and even the annexation of Crimea.
This aggressive rhetoric seems to have become more prevalent towards the end of the Bush administration.
At the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, Vladimir Putin told a surprised George W. Bush, “You have to understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a country. Part of its territory is in Eastern Europe and the greater part was given to us.”
It's interesting (although not particularly surprising), that Clinton seemed to be doing a decent job of keeping Russia on side while still actively expanding NATO. But then Bush gets into power, and towards the end of his second term everything seems to turn to sh!t with regard to Putin and Russia.
While I'm not a fan of everything his administration did, there is no doubt to me that Clinton had vastly superior diplomatic skills when compared to George Bush.
That's an opinion piece .....
"Opinion"
Where is your lack of knowledge of Ukraine and the war in Ukraine is not opinion
That reconfirms my opinion that the end to this can't and won't be a magic moment when some platinum tongued fan of 'diplomacy' convinces Putin to stop or Ukrainians to reward Putin's agression and to give large chunks of their land to him, but that Russia is in deep financial distress and this will end like the USSR, with a catastrophic financial collapse and a complete inability of Russia to function.
The sanctions are working and should be doubled down on.
A lot divides the world's religions. One thing unites them: stupidity, and false promises to the gullible and desperate
It's hard to know what effect the sanctions might have.
Really, you won't probably know one way or the other for many years. As has been stated by many experts, these sanctions were designed to cause long term damage to Russia. They weren't really designed as a short term solution. But it is debatable just how effective they may prove to be.
Right now, it seems like a bit of a mixed bag. Some things are certainly getting expensive, while other things are largely staying the same or in some cases even dropping in price.
This video is quite interesting with regard to the effects from the first 6 months in rural Russia:
Its the same crack the Red Army did in WW2 and in the latter years of Afghanistan. Recruits sent to Chechnya were often only given 2 weeks training and very basic at that.
It may be a softer version of the Soviet Union but this Regime is still cold and brutal.
my favourite bit was about prioritising street musicians and perverts to draft to the frontline
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Yes, but they cut a far better deal and get virgins.
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Not sure if this has previously been posted.
Have such messages not previously been issues for US citizens?
I twigged when she supposedly said 'meat grinder'.
US Military going around Kalingrad…
Unfortunately the thread has become unreadable with the amount of propaganda.
In February
Im no bot. I just think it's a bit much blaming people because of their leadership. All good calling people name's from a smartphone or laptop whatever. But I'm alright Jack.
It is also destroying any future trade with Russia post Putin/ war. Who is going to work with a country that does that to their customers?
It's just plain stupid move to make, whoever did it... Other than some minor fringe terror group that is just trying to be noticed. Any of the parties involved in the current situation even vaguely would be idiots to blow the pipe.
Well perhaps the people at the top who are making decisions are more concerned about their immediate survival rather than the long-term international future interaction aspect
For sure, all this hi-grade info that the Ukrainians are getting ( and which is a major contributor to the their successes' ) is coming from somewhere....🙂
Rural folks used to less, don't notice the sanctions to the same degree(or economic booms for that matter). In other news; water is wet.
And yer man goes to meet Lars Agerbak, the ex leader of the Danish far right National Front. Oul Lars got weapons training in Mother Russia, then when caught and charged by the Danes for firearm offences legged it from Denmark to be welcomed into the arms of Mother Russia. Well the nationalist, anti Jew, sorry anti "corporate interests", anti gay, anti feminist, "christian traditionalism" appeals to such as him and Mother Russia gets a few hotheads to add to their own homegrown types that they can use both inside Mother Russia and beyond.
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