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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,443 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Belarus attacking also brings Belarus itself into play, Ukraine will be able to retaliate directly against a non-nuclear armed country. Poland could have the tanks outside Lukashenko's office by the next morning.

    It's why Belarus attacking won't happen and isn't being taken seriously bar a few wish-casters.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Well they attacked from Belarus in Feb, so can potentially do so again now, without it dragging Belarus into the war.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Reports of Liga(Wagner) mercenaries being deployed near Krupeyki village in Belarus to stage a provocation on the border

    we may be looking at some sinister actions to....


    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,063 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    To some extent the provocation stuff Is kind of bullshit ,

    Ukraine and Russia are at war , Belarus has been assisting and allowing Russian attacks on Ukraine , Ukraine will have no problem going for a first strike if it suits them , it's not like in February when Ukraine was doing everything ( prob too much ) to not escalate and inflame the situation ,Ukraine wasn't mobilizing ,wasn't mining the borders ,wasn't deploying troops to the border..

    At this stage what are the Russians going to do that they're not already doing ,

    At the most they allow the Belarussians to spread the we were attacked narative - theyll spread that anyway if it suits ,

    If there are Russian troop and armour build ups near the Ukrainian border there'll be hi-mars strikes in response..

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭farmingquestion



    But now, after months of investigation, numerous officials privately say that Russia may not be to blame after all for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.

    “There is no evidence at this point that Russia was behind the sabotage,” said one European official, echoing the assessment of 23 diplomatic and intelligence officials in nine countries interviewed in recent weeks.

    Some went so far as to say they didn’t think Russia was responsible. Others who still consider Russia a prime suspect said positively attributing the attack — to any country — may be impossible.

    So no evidence the Russians blew up Nord Stream. It made no sense for them to do so. It makes far more sense that the US did it, they had far more to gain than Russia.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,790 ✭✭✭✭josip


    But the US also had far more to lose. So it doesn't make sense.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,089 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,089 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    ⚡️The United States allocates $1.85 billion in additional military assistance to Ukraine, it includes Patriot air defense systems, - Blinken

    Finally, great news.

    Shout out to Israel for its consistency; 17 generators. The UK is only providing 900.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    So we all know about the forced deportations of Ukrainans especially Ukrainian children to Russia to be forcibly adopted,

    Here's a report showing Russian soldiers searching orphanages to steal children from so they can be taken back to Russia to be indoctrinated to fight for Russia...


    How the hell is the International community and the UN staying silent .





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,089 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Russia's Oil Exports Collapsed Since G-7 Sanctions Began

    Country’s volumes plunged by more than half in week to Dec. 16

    (I'd post a link, but Bloomberg...)

    Meanwhile, it looks like no one is brave enough to tell Putrid.

    Putin Pledges Unlimited Spending to Ensure Victory in Ukraine

    Russian president tells military to achieve results in Ukraine

    Defense minister calls for expanding army to 1.5 million

    Unlimited spending based on unlimited income, not to mention unlimited amounts of cannon fodder.

    The cold war concluded with a ratcheted up arms race which the US could afford, but which broke the USSR financially. How's it go?: 'Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.'

    That applies equally to the west, this time we need to put the boot in and finish them off. They clearly aren't fit to run their country so it needs to be run for them, like Japan post WW2.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Imagine the look on Putins face if the Ukrainans went into Belarus and announced they were annexating half of Belarus to protect ukraine



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,089 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    I think it's a matter of priorities and solving one problem at a time. It can only be addressed once the active fighting has ended and the return of the children can be made part of some agreement such as the kidnapped being used as currency to pay for the lifting of sanctions. Unfortunately I think it highly likely those children will mostly be abused in the meantime, such is the base nature of Orcs. I don't really want to to think about it as it's an utterly terrible situation where nothing can be done about the suffering at the moment.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,534 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Stephen Fry and John Boyne 🤣

    Nice one Vlad, you'll do wonders for their Kindle sales.

    And yet '1984' is still the most read title in Russia at the moment. If Putin isn't worried, well, he ought to be.

    He's probably banned Margaret Attwood as well, but I can see a scenario develop which ends with Putin hanging by his neck from the wall of the Kremlin by this time next year, just like in 'The Handmaid's Tale'.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    President Zelensky arrived in U.S.


    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,018 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    There'll be someone on shortly whinging about him not wearing a suit



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,395 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    I presume Solovyov has an escape plan too, for when inevitably he needs it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,719 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    I feel a tear or two listening to Zelensky at the moment



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,534 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Joe Biden failing to know that Time Magazine is a global publication is peak Grandad Joe.

    But you're right about Zelensky.

    It occurs to me, that all these windbags around the World spend their lives ass-kissing and shilling and working grimey junior jobs, with the aim of leading their Countries. When in fact, all it takes, is for a person to be utterly selfless, to put the people first, to put the Constitution and the integrity of the Country first and to never say die.

    Slava.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Probably the first time in 300 + days he's felt safe from attacks and assassinations



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 545 ✭✭✭Crocodile Booze


    Right...... so they can't take a few dusty towns a few km from their own borders and they're going to take Paris. I imagine the French are trembling alright.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    I love how they flew him to American via a US airforce aircraft from Poland,

    No chance anyone would have interfered with that flight and it's likely escort of US F22 fighters



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭Hobgoblin11


    Biden receiving Zelensky: Putin has escalated his attacks against civilians and is trying to use winter as a weapon

    Putin is the ultimate white walker, the night king


    Dundalk, Co. Louth



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    Same old story from 3 months ago so nothing has changed,bar the mass influx of generators and floating power stations



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,026 ✭✭✭jmreire


    And to add salt to the wound, the Belarussians would welcome them with flower's and kisses'.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,464 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Good thing the Night King was slow as **** and an easy kill

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    No wonder Putin takes his rent a crowd at rallies very seriously and has the dubbed applause and cheering added in for the broadcast version.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,093 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    I talked about this just over a week ago.

    I said Melitopol is a clear hinge for the Russian defence in the south, but that the Russians aren't completely stupid and have realised this. I even drew a silly map. You can see I highlighted a few locations of the strategic road intersections where it's known the Russians are entrenching for months now. Some will laugh and joke about the Russian trenches, but at no stage during this war have heavily entreched enemy positions proved easy for the opposing force.

    This is not Kharkiv where Ukraine managed to break the single line of Russian defence and charge to Kupiansk with minimal resistance. There are multiple lines of defence here, there won't be an already shattered army defending it, and most importantly there will be no benefit of surprise. I don't think what is expected will be at all easy. I fear that what is expected might not even be possible. I especially worry that sending Ukrainian forces into an offensive in BMP1's and T-55's is not going to give them the best chance of success either.

    Unfortunately, I can easily see us being here this time next year talking about the next wave of fighting.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,135 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69




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