The Russian world, as they say-
boards.ie is their training and testing grounds
🤣 Apparently some were at the vodka last night, well after reading that the funny smelling tobacco is in play. Any spare? Because that's some good stuff.
Whataboutery.
Ukraine has alot of resources with great potential if corruption was reduced. I can see it eventually joining the EU to transition towards a more western european ecomony. This is what Russia fears, a strong democrate Ukraine that they can't control. Russia will end up with bits of Eastern Ukraine but that will just bleed away their resources over the years while the rest of the Ukraine can rebuild and move on. The Russians utterly failed in Ukraine but getting them out of all together is a different matter. Calling people Russia bots because they dont have the same option as yourself is pointless. Everyone has a different viewpoint, no one here is defending the Russians they are callous scumbags, but there will come a point in the any conflict when talks must happen. I wouldn't trust the Russia one bit, the UN or some neutral force will need to patrol any future boarder.
Right putting aside the fact that I did address those points let's go through them and hold your hand.
Your argument, again, is for reasons unknown speculating the absolutely best and most ridiculously unlikely possible outcome for Russia, while simultaneously predicting the equally most far-fetched pessimistic outcome for Ukraine. It basically amounts to the classic "Ukraine should surrender because they can't win", despite the fact that the entire world is watching Russia lose.....and it is absolutely their war to lose.
Well that's the answer why they have so many people at the embassy - it's a training camp for trolls and unfortunately boards.ie is their training and testing grounds. If there is a positive response here they will spread it to the wider audience.
Yep but current and newly found jingoism trumps the recent past and facts. Doesn't do much for objective reasoning to boot.
Ukraine was one of the poorest and most corrupt nations in Europe and was widely seen and reported as such before the Russian invasion. However unlike Russia it was also reported and seen that Ukraine was trying to improve and was doing so.
It was also seen and reported to be a hotbed of Far Right wing "nazis" particularly in the east and the civil war there. However as that's the current boogyman of some in Western "liberal" thought that was exaggerated(QV outlets like the BBC). Now it's pretty much ignored because it suits(QV the very same BBC). Never mind that there are more and more organised and fully government backed "nazis" in Russia and mainstream Russian politics and culture to a large degree would have the average right on pride flags in their bio suburban westerner crying into their ethically sourced vegan burgers.
Most of all, and regardless of which flag one wants to wave, or which reality one wants to believe; the actual reality is millions wouldn't be displaced, many tens of thousands wouldn't be dead or crippled, Ukrainains and Russians and a host of other negatives, if Russia hadn't invaded. There are many reasons for this conflict, but the conflict itself and the misery of it are all on Russia.
A compromise is a near certainty. How much of one and when are the questions. Way back in this thread, after Russia was chased back from Kyiv my take was that when the dust settled and papers were signed Crimea would stay Russian, Donbas too and that the part still up in the air is the land bridge between them. Not a lot has changed to make me think so differently. Crimea has been "Russified" for nearly a decade and would be their hard line in the sand. Donbas is and was a clusterfúck and now since this invasion many if not most of those who would be loyal to Ukraine have either fled or been killed. IMHO leave the Russians to it. Set it up as a demilitarised buffer zone. It'll bleed Russian resources.
Thanks for the brief version 🤗😀
The Ukrainians are very capable people, and were some of the best scientists etc. during the USSR… I can see Ukraine thriving more and more as it embraces the West… which of course is what Putin detests, as it shows up his corrupt/mafia state.
Yes Ireland is now in ruins because of Russia invading Ukraine.
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What are you on about you absolute space cadet?
Funny how you speak for the west, when were you appointed?
“I don't support russia but…”
Lads, ye are posting on an Irish forum, that’s low level stuff for flunkies… ye’ll surely be first on the list for repatriation when Russia’s embassy gets downsized… Hope ye didn’t get too acclimatised to a ‘decadent pig dog’ Western lifestyle.
As for Russophile’s in Ukrainian Oblasts that welcomed Russian advances - I’d say they are sorely ruing that support now they’ve had a taste of ‘Russian Love’ - often forcibly.
Anyone thinking Ukraine should look for peace with the animals from Russia are clueless. Will tens of thousands more Ukrainians die to preserve Ukraine from Russian tyranny… yes, that’s the price Ukraine knows it has to pay… simply because the alternative is clearly worse. Under Russia’s “protection” much worse would befall them. Anyone like to counter that argument, thinking Russia would be benevolent masters… anyone?
I don't normally say this,but bloody hell, the Putin bots are out in force here the last couple of pages...claims so ridiculous they don't even bear engaging with...
How many of these politicians were intending go to to Russia in the near future, none I would suggest. Funny daly and Wallace not on the list alright
Repeating the same nonsense does not make it true. Why would Ukraine compromise? The tide has turned against Russia and the West continues to back Ukraine.
Not as much as the Kremlin but close ... 122th vs 136 in the corruption index
To corrupt to join the EU in the past
The full banned list is in. I'm shocked that Wallace and Daly are not on it. 🤣
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Ukrainian man power without the weapons means nothing. They will have to compromise for now. The west just wants the war over and doesn't t really care if Russia holds on to the east of Ukraine. Its amazing how important air defence has become, it almost neutralise a large air force
A positive show of strength 5 NATO carrier groups and escorts patrolling the waters around Europe.
The Gerald R Ford is the newest US carrier.
Unity against 1 brutal and thankfully weakened enemy.
I live in an area where many Russians have arrived for holidays they are cold creatures its in their eyes.
Personal insults and jibes asides,(quite what yous hope to achieve accusing others of smoking crack is beyond me🤷)you have failed to address any actual points?
Just posted some dogma about Russia being an out of date army & corrupt,which they may well be 🤷,but one that rains bombs down on Ukraine infrastructure and is crippling it's economy.....and have dismissed quite clear issues about a likely build up of russian defences on ground as irrelevant??
When it would seem to me,the obvious issue that will happen,while society there collapsed and attacks each other and fractures develop.....the notion that peace talks are unnecessary & this war isn't going to cost 100s of thousands of lives next year is pure head in the sand stuff,
25% of Ukraine's population either dead or fled,while another 25% internally displaced....and lads cheering on an even worse blood bath next year,and dismissing out of hand the potential for this to be multiples worse seemingly based entirely on dogma and rethoric...unless Ukraine has the ability to strike back at Russia internally,or gets a massive deployment international troops to turn the tide,this war could drag on for years on end....while seemingly anyone suggesting peace talks is to be accused/insinuated of smoking class A drugs🤔
Just stop posting this nonsense.
Fighting an insurgency for 8 years? An "insurgency" only made viable by Russia. Without Russia intervention the "insurgency" would have collapsed within weeks. The irony is that Russian intervention achieved very little, hence this current war, BECAUSE Ukraine was united against it.
Russia pounding civilian targets, cities, will not win them the war. That's been proven time and time again in history. Countless countries have been hit far, FAR, harder and failed to break in historical conflicts, what Ukraine is suffering is horrendous, but nowhere near breaking point. Russia is doing this because it's floundered on the actual battlefield and continues to do so, and is resorting to Nazi Germany terror tactics.
It didn't work then, it won't ultimately work now.
Who would have thought it. A modern Ukrainian army trained by the west, trouncing the antiquated Russian army with a fraction of the annual budget. How embarrassing.
The point about strikebacks on Russia soil is irrelevant. It doesn't matter. Russia is the aggressor, Russia is the one that needs to feed a war machine that's not officially at war, fighting against an entire nation, and frankly, proven to not be capable of waging a real war after losing their opening gamble.
I don't know what your obsession is with these mythical Russian defenses. Smacks of Hitler ranting about the impenetrable Atlantic Wall. We had posters here claiming that Ukraine could never take Kherson because of the topography. Sorry to rain on your parade but the Russian army is a rotten, corrupt disaster and it's being exposed by an army minuscule in size with very limited western support.
And now Ukraine needs nuclear weapons to break the deadlock in your imaginary campaign? Ukraine should surrender because of the danger of civil war, despite the fact there's absolutely zero fracture within Ukraine, because the entire country is united against Russia? Seems impartial.
Finally, Belarus. Ukraine should surrender because your vague, erotic, far-flung fantasy of civil war in Ukraine, might affect the dictatorship in Belarus, thus causing a refugee crisis.
Seriously, put down the crack pipe.
Hard to bate the auld Russian Standard wodka......for a headache to remember !!!😎
Hats off that made me laugh. Probably hazzar or what ever it was called back in the day.
Edit googled huzzar lol I remember that drain cleaner.
Nah, they're only fit for naggins 😁
Bottles I wager 😂
If you want to be brief point one covers it all (but needs capitalization and an exclamation mark)
Eeehh,,,, NO! Only in Putin's corrupt mind. Time for someone to put down the vodka bottle and go to bed. Actually there are a few here tonight that seem to be vodka posting.
lol Ukraine would last 2 day. New russian territory taken within weeks.
Briefly, (unlike my last post, where I went into detail)
(1) Russia is not to be trusted...ever.
(2) as I mentioned earlier, Russia speaking about peace talks, is a scam. They are feeling the pressure, at every level. Getting weapons from Iran, N Korea, etc, Recruiting men from Syria, Africa, Afghanistan ( ?? ) prisons.etc. Scraping the bottom of a very deep barrel. This winter is Putins last shot, and he knows it. All your thought's about what Putin will do during the winter....maybe he will, but I cannot see it. The hi-tec equipment you mention considering he is having to cannibalize his aircraft to keep them in the air, tanks which saw service in ww2...and the list goes on. Cracks are starting to appear in Putins Russia, cracks which do not bode well for Vladimir. Zelensky is not Putins only worry now, he has ones closer to home. A rapidly developing unhappy home population is another one.
(3) Ukraine has no manpower shortages, on the contrary, they as many as they will need to get the job done, Even if that figure is a million, they have the Nrs. They have the weapons suppliers, and the quantities and quality, with more and more even higher tec weapons on the way. Plus, the logistics to put the whole package together. And they are being financed to a high level. Most important, morale, they are fighting for their families and Country. There is no stronger incentive
(4) Why would the west give Zelensky nuclear weapons? Why would they need too? Putin is the only one talking about nuclear weapons, and even his friend (supposedly) China, has told him to turn down the rhetoric. The west has more than enough conventional weapons to sort out Putin, and very quickly at that.
I'm sure we have a link. Probably not as it takes 100 posts.
Were hosting the largest russian embassy outside the USA. What do you think they are here for ?
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