It's reductivist nonsense really, masquerading a binary fiction as analysis. But you know that.
The person interviewed after the 1 o clock news today was a retired army intelligence officer is a Michael Murphy. He used short sentences - I felt that he was a bit of a lightweight. I would not employ him as an intelligence officer. Three things jumped out for me
(1) He used the interview to say that the army intelligence section needs more money to do a good job on counter intelligence ie to counteract/track what the 40 odd eRu embassy staff are up to
(2) he never thought about the idea of reducing Ru staff numbers. After all 40 Ru embassy staff can garner a whole lot more information/ cause a whole lot more conflict/ etc/etc than , say, 4 embassy staff. Therefor the Irish army intelligence section would have a much reduced ‘work load’
(3) He said that all embassies have staff acting on areas that it is illegal for them to be engaged in. I assume that all embassy staff in all embassies are first vetted by the respective governments and the reason for their rolls are given when applying for a visa. So ‘undercover ‘ staff should not be getting through in theory and if found out to be doing something not in their ‘job specification they are expelled. Mr Murphy gave the clear impression that it is the norm and you just have to manage it - BY GIVING US MORE MONEY
In Grozny in particular, but Chechnya in general this was a regular occurrence. I once saw a crowd of angry Chechens storm a tank that had killed some people in a car incident like the one above. Russian driver out of his tree on vodka. They had to stay locked inside the tank until their military came to rescue them. If the crowd had managed to get at them, they would have torn them to bits.
Ireland are the hamster Hammond in Stuart lees top gear joke
I would imagine the local authorities were contacted and notified and I wouldn't be surprised if they gave an escort.
Solovyov does not believe a word he is saying. He is just playing the game.
I like how you guys lined up according to height and in line with the barrel so were it fired, not a head would be left unscathed. ;-)
(yes I do get the barrel likely was pointed elsewhere.)
Dublin buses are more lethal than any Russian tank.
Ya wouldn't see a T-80 skipping traffic on a footpath in Rathfarnham
I posted this 2 days ago. If it was s300 with the range of 300kms, there are no russian occupied territories there, the only option it came from Belarus. See attached
General staff of armed forces of Ukraine: with control of river Dnipro banks Ukrainian artillery have fire control over territories near occupied Crimea
...except that both US, Poland and even NATO general all acknowledged it was a Ukrainian S300??
ergo it originated in Ukraine?
Proof for that ?
The S-300 is being used by Russia by all accounts. How have then then figured out it was a Ukrainian one ?
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-we-know-about-missile-blast-poland-2022-11-16/
"Russia has appeared to use repurposed S-300 missiles to strike ground targets during the war in Ukraine - a sign of potentially dwindling missile supplies, military analysts say."
"Russia has deployed S-300 missiles in Syria and stationed them on the peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014."
How come that that point was missed. Even if the missile had Ukr markings that does not mean that it was fired by Ukr. And for that matter the Russians could have got the shell/ other bits of an S- 300 that Ukr fired into Ru held areas and banged it together as a missile and fired it. So when it exploded it would be very challenging to establish if it was original or a repurposed one
so maybe Zalensky has been right all along. I wonder did NATO check with The Ukr missile firing generals to get their side of the story
It would not have to, everyone would get out of its way.....😂
I think the only confirmed details was it was a Russian (Soviet) built missile built in the 1970's.
Which doesn't clear anything up. Both Russian and Ukrainian positions have been overrun and missiles could have changed hands etc...
Ukraine have stated they have radar tracks of a Russian launched missile (I presume they show it entering Poland)
The NATO evidence, I'm not sure, I may have missed what they presented (although it's still being investigated)
If they have the radar tracks (physical missile means jack) they can tell Ukraine it was launched from xyz location in Ukraine etc...
A NATO plane flying over Poland at the time reportedly tracked the missile. If so, they'll have data as to it's trajectory.
Substation was damaged as result of shelling in Belgorod district
Sounds like if both NATO and Ukraine shared their radar tracks, they could clear up the confusion right away.
RTE Six One had a professor on from DCU this evening challenging this narrative, saying Ireland is not being hawkish and is simply trying to be "on the right side of history".
banks? Does that mean that they are confirmed to have control over the Eastern/Southern bank now?
Id imagine its lost in translation and they only have fire control over one side and complete control over the other
You do know that there 2 missiles, even if it was a Ukrainian s300 that landed in Poland, obviously it was shooting down another one. And that other one was prob launched from Belarus but landed in Ukraine (note: i dont know if it landed in Ukraine or Poland, but for some reasons lately USA, nato and Poland only talk about one missile when it was claimed at first that there were 2 and thats something for the conspiracy theorists. Why did they stop talking about another one and dont want Ukrainians to examine the site??)
Or it could be that both the US and Ukraine are both correct.
Original reports stated there were 2 missiles.
That first part was very good. Especially about that convoy ran out of petrol because their own soldiers sold it all. Corruption may have saved Kiev.
Doesn't seem to be any physical evidence of a second missile. I was expecting in daylight the following day they would have found the second one's impact site.
Maybe people seen the initial explosion followed by hearing the sonic boom and assumed it must have been 2 explosions, therefore assumed 2 missiles?
Russian society is utterly corrupt from top to bottom. I can't see any hope for them at all because they have no interest in bettering themselves.
That's a valid point to be honest.
More accurately "некультурный"
This is the shite he retweets. Another useful idiot.
The explanation of why the US voted against it. It's worrying how many countries took it at face value and couldn't be bothered to investigate the draft especially when it was the Russians that tabled it.
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