Russia - threadbanned users in OP

This is class and the backing music is appropriate 💣️

Serious question. Is it time to start boycotting those suppliers who are providing goods and services such as heating, gas,electricity, broadband etc to the Russian embass. That crowd in Orwell Road are pretty much giving the finger to Ireland and promoting that mass murderer putin.

It's been reported again today. Hoping it's true. If the UK sends the Challengers, it will probably force Scholz Treebeard to send the tanks.

It will probably depend on what part of Russia the next mobilised come from.

Ukaine thinks they are aiming for a military of 2 million and that they are preparing to shift to a wartime economy.

It's a good question but I suppose the providers, suppliers etc would say it's up to the Irish government to make a definitive decision whether that embassy should be on Orwell Road or not and it's a little unfair to expect them to intervene off their own bat.

Sky News confirming UK to send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine.

Fair fcuks to them.

Few posters here have experience with tanks. Maybe they'd be able to give an honest assessment if this will make any substantial difference at all. Or how they will fair against Russian T tanks.

More confirmation from BBC

www.bbc.com/news/uk-64274755.amp

On Poland, alot of the stuff the govt. say is I think theatre to please their voting base. They actually quite like antagonising Germany (within certain limits).

It is very like how the govt. periodically raise Polish WW2 dead + claim (modern) German culpability, wave shrouds and make crazy demands for multi-trillions of Euro in reparations (but [mostly] just talk and don't really do much concrete about it).

Now (since invasion) they are doing a similar kind of politicking around supply of weapons to Ukraine.

IMO no matter what they say, Polish govt. would never stick their neck out and send any new classes of weaponry until there is some NATO/collective decision on it. Poland also will not wish to deplete the strength of their own military by sending off their own top of the line/in service equipment (as you say they are very nervous of Russia) unless they are guaranteed replacements/alternatives are coming quickly.

Said it before but must say it again, occasional extreme outbursts of anger, hysteria, and invective on the thread against countries judged as falling short and not providing either sufficient or sufficiently powerful weaponry to Ukraine is kind of (darkly) funny (to me) coming from this direction ("neutral" Ireland!).

As mentioned.

If the west would just stop needlessly sacrificing Ukrainian lives and just supply the 400 tanks they need, this won't be a long drawn-out war.

For sure, that would be democracy and freedom of expression in action.

murderous orc scum at it again

I thought all Ikea stores were closed in Russia and they were looking at options of selling them.

The MEGA brand is shopping malls, not the Ikea stores. Not sure how they could close the malls when Tennant's have contracts etc... But they could certainly try sell the malls on to someone else.

Unless they reopened the Ikea stores under the MEGA brand, which would be pretty **** of them.

You could debate what Russian morale is actually like.

I suppose many of the mobilised won't be there for very long and have been subject to extreme Russian propaganda until very recently.

However I can't imagine that lasts very long. Even Russian forces in Soledar who have successfully advanced will see the quantity of fellow Russian soldiers who lie dead on the battlefield. It's impossible to expect the majority of those won't be questioning their own mortality right now.

Sure some will fight with renewed vigour with success, but most will try to prioritise their own survival above all else going forward, not progression of their army.

As for supplies, it's been well substantiated how many Russian soldiers do not have appropriate body armour, tourniquets and often weapons. There's a reason underwear is so frequently looted from Ukrainian homes. Of course this isn't all of the Russian army, many will be well equipped, but a vast number are not.

Also add in the fact their missile supplies are starting to run low. Which is probably why they have changed the head of their army again, as trying to target Ukrainian civilians and their energy supply with missiles hasn't really worked.

You have to say without question they are short of supplies. Also if the previous mobilisation had worked so well, would they really need another one ?

If anything, another mobilisation will only highlight the fact of how poorly things are going for the Russians as things stand.

No way could that be construed as 'collateral damage' or a military target. They just fire cruise missiles straight into city centres.