If Germany grants export licences for their tanks to go to Ukraine, I don't think anyone assumed Germany would be first to actually send them. Dither and delay is the order of the day with Scholz.
Imagine that, a war in Europe has been going on for close to a year and they never thought maybe just maybe we should make sure all our MBT's are ready to roll, just incase.
Russian tank storage seems to suffer from corruption, Germany's from incompetence.
If the tanks aren't in a working condition until a major overhaul, they can't be sent to Ukraine any time soon. Takes a long time to fix them, and it's very expensive.
i see your country ended it’s special visa programme for Ukrainians last july. At least Australia is consistent when it comes to people fleeing. Not being from Asia I imagine the Ukrainians probably avoid the detention camps. So I suppose that’s something.
I have an Irish passport. I'm working on leaving.
I was being sarcastic
The different fighting groups do have radio communication, with communication being a huge part of the over all war machine Ukraine have in action there, I think its pretty safe to say that most soldiers \ groups would have a pretty accurate idea of what state the other groups were in, theyre not all acting as single entites, just doing their own thing and hoping it all works out.
For an immigrant you have a serious case of hatred for your adopted home. Perhaps you should find a more suitable location that meets your needs in a fuller manner.
We don't provide weapons and we have no history of purchasing large amounts of weapons. As I said in my past, there's plenty we can provide that are every bit as valuable. All the weapons in the world mean nothing if you're half starved and sopping wet.
Ukraine had a population of 37 million, over 7 million of whom have fled as refugees. There is a massive amount of bitching in Ireland over the intake of refugees, and you know it. If everyone was neutral, Ukraine could thoretically empty - if they were allowed to leave - so proprtionally, Ireland could have over 5 times as many refugees as it currently is complaining about.
That is not realistic or sustanable. It's not an outcome anyone should view positively, but it's what scaled up neutrality would deliver.
Being neutral is to take the side of the agressor - there is no positivity to it.
You know what I think? That hack of the HSE was done by the Russian government and they have all the health records of the population of this country and are using the release of that info as blackmail to stop the Irish government lifting a finger they don't like.
Nothing to do with neutrality.
Ireland hosts companies like Intel, HP, Qualcom and more. They all manufacture chipsets / CPU's. These are manufactured for multiple countries around the world.
Anyone can simply hop on a website or Amazon etc and order chips, ship them to a European country and then have them smuggled to Russia.
What happens to them afterwards is the question.
All of these companies have regulations in place to ensure that during the sales cycle "that they have control of" that they do not sell to certain sanctioned countries.
This story is behind a paywall. But nevertheless it's a non-story.
Considering what has been done so far by the Russians in terms of genocide, i would 100% favour the likes of Nestle ceasing All operations in Russia.
Only to Russians. And morons. Russia has always tried to frame their narratives, even more than most, and Russians went along with it, at least publicly. That'll take a huge, in the Russian sense, loss of lives, or another generation to filter out. Or both.
Either way Russia as we/they knew it is done. Even if they took Kyiv in the morning. They're in terminal demographic collapse and are piling on that collapse with every cardboard coffin that goes home. Militarily they look like something from the Great War. Their arms industry? Well who will want to buy any of their kit again? Economically they're doomed. They've lost access to pretty much all international leasing, insurance and financing. They have huge natural resources but few takers anymore and what there are want firesale prices. Their gas fund from Europe is gone and they don't have gas lines to their apparent "friends". "Friends" who are far more invested in the West anyway. They're selling their oil at below cost to nations who are only too happy to take that deal and whatever else they can take down the line. In BRICS they're now falling down the pecking order. Internal fracture isn't unlikely and with every month of this war more likely. When amoral mega investment corporations have placed their huge pile of chips on the Ukraine pot, that's all you and they need to know. Stick a fork in them, they're done. But like the huge dinosaur they are, it'll likely take some time before all those fatal wounds are felt in the brain. Their mortal thrashings are going to be the dangerous bit.
Is there any way out for them? Maybe if they called an actual ceasefire and left the south and returned to the lines of their "independent republics"(and Crimea) they claimed they went in to protect and ran to the UN to try and sell that. Even then... and no way would the hawks in Moscow swallow that anyway. Maybe if Putin fell out of a window drinking a nice cup of tea all the way down...
We have a government that just posted a €12 billion surplus for novemeber, we could buy ammunition and weapons and deliver them. Mark Hamill is trying to raise money for drones for Ukraine, after he's already bought over 50 himself.
A tiny fraction of €12 billion would buy all the drones Ukraine needs. These are non lethal items that are not weapons, so some some could salve their gangrene infested consciences with that thought.
This 'oh we don't have any weapons BS' is just that. Money can be turned into weapons very readily.
Ireland could close the Russian embassy, which is one of the largest Russian espionage centres in Europe and is known to have even run espionage ops in the US. Hosting that fucking thing is not being neutral, it's helping the Orcs - a lot!
You know what I think? That hack of the HSE was done by the Russian government and they have all the health records of the population of this country and are using the release of that info as blackmail to stop the Irish government lifting a finger they don't like. The Irish government is dealing with terrorists and giving into blackmailers. But boy does the Irish government have form for moral cowardice and giving succour to perpetrators of evil - burying the catholic church's abuses and hiding them under a smokescreen of legislation that didn't even include any financial penalties, the Irish tax payer was put on the hook for paying for those sins.
We'll happily pay for the CC's sins and sexual deviance, but not weapons for Ukraine to help them face up to evil. What a bunch of mealy mouthed sickos.
They are hedging their bets. I'd say a lot of the main western players privately still do not believe Ukraine can win the war despite the successes until now and don't want any advanced expensive weaponry falling in to Russian hands.
German efficiency is a self propagated myth. A story they developed in order to sell more goods. I deal with loads of German companies and they are no more efficient than any country and often a good deal worse. They also believe their own infallibility which is worse.
The Russian scum strike again.
Problems on the battlefield.
Solution: attack apartment blocks and kill civilians.
F*cking nauseating, no matter how often it repeats
But they're not accompanied by Russian investigators so it's all a big western conspiracy.
She could have gotten the exact same treatment in a neutral nation. We've treated Ukrainian casualties here and have one of the highest per capita of Ukrainian refugees, with among the fewest restrictions. We're neutral. Neutral doesn't mean you don't do anything.
Time to jettison these fcuks from the EU. A warning to any other members that if you cosy up to regimes that are contrary to our beliefs and standards that you'll be out on your ear. Orban would be hanging off a lamppost by tea time.
Providing weapons isn't our forte so I don't see any point in us sending a miniscule amount of arms.
We produce the best food quality in the world. We should be providing ration packs and quality clothing/shelters. These things are equality as important as weapons. No point in a miserable, undernourished solider operating the finest of weapons as he'll be working at sub par levels. This is where ireland can provide real value.
Ask a Russian up to his neck in shít in a trench whether he'd prefer a nice meal and a change of clothes or a stinger and you'll find it's not the later.
Sniper rifles, vehicles, ammunition, ATG-4s, a few Javelins, off the top of my head. **** neutrality, it's for moral degenerates and cowards. Wibbs accuses me of being emotive - damn right, along with all those peole whose quotes I posted. I'll wear that accusation with pride.
Several days after Sasha’s birthday (9th), her family was forced to flee from Russian invaders. As Gostomel was evacuated, the child’s stepfather died as he tried to drive the family to safety. The girl was wounded, but the shelling of the invading force prevented her from immediately reaching a hospital. Consequently, Sasha and her mother undertook several days of hiding in the cellar of a house in Bucha. The girl underwent surgery at the hospital after they were miraculously saved a few days later. Unfortunately, her arm had to be amputated.
I believe she had gangrene. She wasn't just injured in a blast - she was shot in the arm by someone looking down the sights of a weapon at a child who pulled the trigger to try and kill her. It wasn't an accident or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, she was targeted with deliberation.
She has since travelled to the US where she has received a hi-tech prosethitic arm from a country that isn't neutral.
Largest theft of art since the Nazis in world war 2!!
But,iT's tHE UrAINiaNs ThAT aRE thE NaZIs🙄
The fact they're "wasting" missiles on non military targets should tell us all we need to know. They're twats, and they're desperate.
Russian serviceman has blown up RGD-5 grenade at his military unit in Belgorod region, killing 3, wounding 10 and blowing up the ammunition storage
FFS!!
Where is all this German efficiency that they have built their reputation on!
Get your finger out Germany!!
Since when is Putin or any of his cnuts of generals worried about accuracy of missiles. Once the weapon / missle makes it across Ukraine territory is all they care about
Bollocks. Emotive and oft warmongering bollocks, but bollocks nonetheless. You do seem prone to it, though you're hardly alone in this thread on that score. For a start neutral and independent parties can serve as arbitrators, investigators and peacemakers because they have no dog in the fight. A sure sign that Bucha is a Russian atrocity is that Ukraine have many non Ukrainian eyes on it, as you noted above. If it were just Ukraine investigating only the naive would be quick to believe them. If it were just Russia only a moron would be.
Orcs using Ukrainian uniforms to try and cause chaos to the defenders.
All depends on what year of the Lord the items were supplied in, and if recent, were they supplied direct?
Neutrality is a moral sickness and an outright evil, in my opinion.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu
With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri
“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
― Paulo Freire
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Elie Wiesel
You are so ill informed it's not worth discussing.
A team of 18 French forensic experts has arrived in Kyiv to investigate the killings in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
It aims to help Ukraine with the investigation that Russia committed war crimes in the city.
Investigators from the Institut de recherche criminelle de la gendarmerie nationale (IRCGN) are using
ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan QC announces deployment of forensics and investigative team to Ukraine, welcomes strong cooperation with the Government of the Netherlands
I can confirm that today my Office has deployed a team of 42 investigators, forensic experts and support personnel to Ukraine to advance our investigations into crimes falling into the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or the “Court”) and provide support to Ukrainian national authorities. This represents the largest ever single field deployment by my Office since its establishment.
The first Lithuanian law enforcement team has arrived in Ukraine to help investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Russian army, Lithuania's Prosecutor General's Office said on Thursday. The team of 40 people includes representatives of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General's Office, the police, the Lithuanian Police Forensic Science Centre and the State Forensic Medical Service.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — An international organization formed to identify the dead and missing from the 1990s Balkan conflicts is preparing to send a team of forensics experts to Ukraine as the death toll mounts more than six weeks into the war caused by Russia's invasion.
Authorities in Kyiv have reached out to the International Commission on Missing Persons to help put names to bodies that might otherwise remain anonymous amid the fog of war...The organization's laboratory in an office block on a busy street in The Hague will build a central database cataloging evidence and the identities of the missing.
British counter-terrorism police are gathering evidence of potential war crimes after receiving over 50 reports following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Metropolitan Police’s War Crimes Team, a unit within its counter-terrorism command, said Friday it already received dozens of referrals from people with a link to the UK.
Many of the referrals came from those who have directly fled the conflict unfolding in their homeland.
Metropolitan Police’s headquarters, Scotland Yard, announced last month it was supporting the International Criminal Court probe into alleged war crimes.
Britain will send investigators to Ukraine to help gather evidence of war crimes, including sexual violence, the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has said.
Then Ukraine recaptured Izium:
Torture, Executions, Rape Among Russian War Crimes In Ukraine, UN Reports: Sep 23, 2022,07:44am EDT
A group of United Nations investigators tasked with reviewing suspected war crimes Ukraine announced Friday they found extensive evidence of Russian atrocities against both military and civilian targets, marking the latest inquiry to claim proof of Russian offenses.
...Evidence of sexual and gender-based violence has also been found in victims, who range in age from 4 to 82.
...“The Commission has documented cases in which children have been raped, tortured and unlawfully confined,” Møse said. “Children have also been killed and injured in indiscriminate attacks with explosive weapons.”
The exhumation of graves found in Izium was done with multiple international news and camera crews filming everything and acting as independent witnesses to verify everything. Some of the forensic people were not from Ukraine:
I could go on... As for setting any record straight, you are not capable.
Crawl back into your UFO with your lizard people friends and fly away for good, would you, before I throw up. And you can take any upvoters with you.
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