I am old enough, I don't recall Irish citizens in other countries going on air condemning the IRA, I don't recall any outrage the likes of which others are asking for now.
Did you say the same about the Irish when the IRA were blowing up kids?
If you want to use that whataboutery as an analogy, you are leaving yourself open to the response that the IRA were fighting against colonial invaders and oppressors and can claim that their position was closer to that of the Ukrainians than the Russians.
Most people wouldn't agree with such a simplistic comparison. But if you make it on one side, you would want to expect similar to be coming back at you.
No.
You don't have a clue what you're talking about.
This ends your whataboutery. Not debating this off topic nonsense any further given that it is demonstrably false.
I'm pointing out that terrorists from any country should be condemned but it seems our resident keyboard warriors don't like when you shine a light on their hypocrisy.
And maybe they are or maybe they're not contacting family as you suggest yourself "Would you do it knowing you were putting your family back home at risk? Again it seems the ones who shout loudest are the ones who are in the safest places 🙄"
I don't understand the rest of your point. This is the largest war occurring on the edge of Europe since WW2 and threatens to spill over. It is having an impact one way or another on the vast majority of other European citizens and the peoples of neighbouring Asian states.
Russian citizens here have a moral duty to do what they can to counter the internal Russian propaganda. Yet we see casual reports from Irish people who work with Russians here and observe that they do not engage about the war, just shrug. Not good enough.
As for 'Resident Russian' that is a term for those who populate this thread and who defend or deflect from the actions of the state of Russia.
The same folk who fight such a good fight here. 50 posts a day in some cases and not one of them will go off and actually fight "the orcs" themselves, though the Ukrainians would gladly accept and train and equip them.
Easier to sit at home collecting the dole in Ireland and post twitter rumours all day .
Bono
I'm talking about the average citizen who was living abroad in Australia, Canada, US etc the same way the warriors here are saying Russian citizens should be loudly protesting against the Russian regime even if it gets their families killed.
I'm not going down the rabbit hole of IRA atrocities but I did live through the daily news of the 1970s/ 80s and early 90s. All I ever heard was total disgust at the murders, disappearing of people and bombings. The only place you'd have heard Up the Ra was in drunken bar room talk.
Yes I think it is entirely proper for resident Russians to speak up and take the risk of attention from the FSB.
Can you show me a single post where I have "defended or deflected from the actions of the Russian state"?
Me pointing out the kids in here calling for WW3 or making idiotic suggestions isn't defending or deflecting from anything, it's me pointing out that they have no clue what they are talking about and they really should hope that they don't get what they seemingly dream about because if this does escalate then it will affect every single life on this planet.
People have a right to fight back against aggressive foreign armies, indeed they have an obligation to do so.
I hope that the Ukrainian version of the PIRA is as successful in mostly taking out enemy combatants.
Have you condemned the Ukrainian actors who have performed acts of sabotage and destruction on Russian soil?
There would be very few other people on here who'd stand with you condemning those as terrorists. The Russians definitely consider them as such. You're not a hypocrite like the rest of us - right?
Another day, more nonsense.
Ukraine needs to be trained to use the Marder. That will take a couple of months hence end of Q1.
No different to the Bradley or Patriot systems that also require training.
This is the opinion of a non-Irish person speaking to Irish people that weren't in Ireland vs the opinion of an Irish person, speaking to Irish people while in Ireland.
It was a stupid analogy.
Not all of them sit at home. Some of them actually go on russian support rallies.
Do you mean attacks on Ukraine? Who warned them?
it was a stupid analogy alright - however the idea that Irish people universally condemned the provos is also totally false
many supported them and many irish americans, funded them
nothing much to do with russia though
They were ready to go early last year, they could have been long trained in them this stage, as the Ukrainian Foreign Minister said "it’s always a similar pattern: First they say ‘no,’ then they fiercely defend their decision, only to say ‘yes’ in the end. We are still trying to understand why the German government is doing this to itself."
It's a political issue, not a technical one. The Brits send their tanks and no drama or consternation, Germany a short distance from the Ukraine begrudges any thing that can help.
Germany not sending it's own is one thing and open to your excuses, it's repeated blocking of others sending German manufactured heavy weapons is a much more serious issue.
Berlin thinks it's solidarity will be rewarded by the Kremlin, it is deeply mistaken in that.
Commentator on tv this morning said the Ukrainians are breaking all predictions about learning tech. and getting savvy with it in a very short time.
The Ukrainians aren't smart enough is a line that only Germany use, the British and Americans say that they are incredibly eager to learn and fast at doing so.
It's all a game, the pressure on Germany will force them to accede eventually and they will give the equipment, the Ukrainians will be very effective in using them and it will be on to the next weaponry and Germany will say no again, block others and eventually give in.
The Polacks are increasing their military budget to 3% this year, and likely more next year. They have a lot of small allies around them but a Very big threat on the border and a country behind them that is giving Russia every chance and also deferring defense spending despite the circus last year about 100bn.
If Belarus was annexed by Russia, which is likely, will Germany help Poland with a maintained supply chain as they build up defenses or will it continue as is and undermine any opposition to Russia?
The severity of this crisis is only likely to increase, it's very hard to see the conflict end this year, who would be surprised if it didn't end next year either.
To be honest I don't think Russia is remotely capable of opening another front against Poland. They are getting depleted by all accounts.
So how many Ukrainians have been trained to use the UK Warrior/Challenger, US Bradley/Abrams or f16 for that matter? I will give you a clue - it's starts with 0.
Since the war began what has Germany blocked that other countries have sent?
Germany are certainly not doing themselves any favours with how they are handling the PR side(always wanting to follow, but not lead) but they seem to get an irrational amount of anger for doing exactly the same thing as other countries that receive nothing but praise.
That's unbelievable really !!! So had Putins 3 day war been a success, he could have driven all the way to Berlin, never mid east Germany virtually unopposed. I guess Angela forgot the one basic rule,, " Speak softly, but carry a big stick". Maybe this explains Sholzs's reluctance to green light tank transfers to Ukraine.
Russia isn't capable of it but it would be bordering Poland and it would be an as5h9le neighbour that Poland would have to treat as an active hostile threat.
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"So how many Ukrainians have been trained to use the UK Warrior/Challenger, US Bradley/Abrams or f16 for that matter? I will give you a clue - it's starts with 0."
The British have been training Ukrainians on the use of the Challenger 2 in Estonia for several months now.
New video has emerged where Wagnerites stab a Ukrainian soldier to death, for fun. Animals.
If Russia attacks any of those countries then they are attacking all NATO countries and that would require a response from NATO.
And for everyone calling for Russia's exclusion from the UN as a symbolic gesture: no, that's a shambolic gesture, the proper gesture for western countries would be to withdraw themselves from all these useless spineless organizations. There's no unity to be found between enemy nations.
Source? UK government says otherwise.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-accelerates-ukraine-support-ahead-of-anniversary-of-putins-war
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