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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,844 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Potentially lobbing ballistic missiles.... Russia have already attacked Ukraine with over 200 ballistic missiles and none have been downed yet. Obviously Patriot systems can down them, but Russia have thousands of s300/400 missiles they can still launch in a ground attack config (once modified... I'm not sure how many have been modified so far)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,569 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    This claim from very pro Russian channels

    Lads on the Ukrainian subreddits say this source is very pro Russian but has been accurate in the past.

    Wonder will tomorrow be a formal declaration of war?


    Going to do some more digging.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Pity to see that he is a Social Democrat and not one of the smaller members, but that is what happens when you are smaller.

    While he is not an out and out Socialist he still has a history of being very soft on Russia, on Putin and on Russian crimes, how much of that was going along to get along in his party.

    If he was too Pro Ukraine he wouldn't have been picked, hopefully he is an improvement in general.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    You would expect it to be declared a war and full mobilization, war economy.


    All in .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,965 ✭✭✭rogber


    Isn't that the "dissenting voice" guy who occasionally pops up to give the illusion of free debate? He certainly hits the nail on the head in those comments but he's been there before and is a very quiet voice among the chorus of cheerleaders



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,692 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    You certainly don’t make me doubt my preconceived maybe bigotted notion that Aussies are inherently racist. Was genuinely shocked at some of the comments I heard when I lived for a while on the Sunshine Coast.

    i dont think you really have any idea about German, Austrian, Swiss culture which is completely different from Australian (and Irish). The way you express yourself on here would be considered extremely ill-mannered in Switzerland. Not everything is black and white it’s more nuanced. Swiss people don’t generally take unilateral absolute positions on things. There’s generally interminable discussion followed by a consensus where no-one really gets all their own way. Less time posting and more time acquiring some culture.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭jmreire


    So Putin is to make a statement, and it's expected to be a declaration of war. For Ukraine, I can't see it making much difference,,,, they've been fighting a war since Feb 2022. So this is all for Putins home audience,,, he's starting to meet resistance and an official declaration of war will help him overcome it? The introduction of "special War Powers".?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,431 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Yes, I'm sure I read that declaration of war against Ukraine would give him a whole raft of new powers, including the ability to mobilise millions of ordinary Russian citizens if he felt like it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,852 ✭✭✭zv2


    I wonder when people say this war will go on for years. Russia will reach a critical mass of losses and thereafter it is game over.

    It looks like history is starting up again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,852 ✭✭✭zv2


    Apparently those 600 were herded into the building to listen to Putin's speech.

    It looks like history is starting up again.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,852 ✭✭✭zv2


    It looks like history is starting up again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,242 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    I think it could go on well into 24, but at a largely static phase. Dug in and artillery fire across the line.


    If the Russian line collapsed I wouldn't be surprised.


    I think Putin is correct in that Russian people are much tougher than the West, no comparison really but that's not much use when you are fighting a war you don't believe in, short of clothes, ammunition, food etc because it has all been stolen and the officer sending you in to a wall of fire is pissed.


    Long way to go yet to eventual Russian defeat.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭riddles


    Russia have already been defeated - they are battling over small towns in the east of the Ukraine. The end of winter is on the horizon and alternative gas supply chains developed.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,852 ✭✭✭zv2


    Russian soldiers shot down a bomb that was dropped from a helicopter of Ukrainian forces.


    It looks like history is starting up again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭vixdname


    Your presumption is correct, of course we should act, as much weaponry as is needed to get this finished with as soon as possible and send the orcs back over the border with their tails between their legs is needed

    Post edited by vixdname on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭vixdname


    It all depends on how putin deciphers their nuclear doctrine.

    If and granted its a big "If", Putin, in his head, actually sees the likes of Crimea as being an actual integral part of russia, he could see any attack by Ukraine as a direct attack on mainland russia, which, according to russian nuclear doctrine, is a legitimate excuse for using its nuclear deterrent.

    Of course, the odds of him being that dumb as to ensure his own, his regime and his countries destruction are slim, but this world has thrown up plenty of unforeseen surprises throughout history.



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


    Looks more like an accidental explosion rather than a single shot,

    Not a hope a single shot or a sniper hit the ied as it was dropped from a drone or helicopter



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,502 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Perchance a Swiss discussion board would be more to one's liking?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,852 ✭✭✭zv2


    Could have been a fluke. I once saw two bullets fused together - they collided in mid air! (I think it was from WW1)

    It looks like history is starting up again.



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


    Hmm.. if he does formally declare war it won't just be aimed at his domestic audience. As you say it will have little or no effect on Ukraine.

    But he'll be targeting Europe and 'the west' with the message. If it happens, expect to see a raft of commentary that 'the west' needs to be cautious now as regards supplies to Ukraine for fear of escalating etc. We'll see the usual posters here throwing their hands up in the air and warning of nuclear armageddon etc

    So it will be just as much a response to the growing calls to send tanks and more advanced military equipment to Ukraine, to try and frighten the horses. Will it work? Probably already incorporated in decision making.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,569 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Tomorrow is also the 80th anniversary of Stalingrad. It could be another bullsh1t speech this time comparing Bakhmut to Stalingrad.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,764 ✭✭✭storker


    The losses will register even more sharply if the Russians are lumping new soldiers from the same districts together in the same units like the "Pals" Battalions of the Somme. One bad day at the front and an entire community is shattered. If that starts to happen in urban areas even Putin might not be able to keep a lid on it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,852 ✭✭✭zv2


    It looks like history is starting up again.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,927 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Russia has used up something like 60% of its missiles already. It's now using ballistic missiles as a bombing tactic as it's cannot use either its air force or its smaller missiles for tactical bombing. Russia cannot replace any missile it fires. At some stage it will have to start to consider what will happen as it's stock is depleted

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭vixdname


    Hes going to put his weapon in his hand and bate them with it man !

    When those Orcs see Pcardin pelting across over the frontline with his weapon swinging in his hand, theyll know for sure theyre in for it....make no mistake !!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,844 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    The point I was making that Russia potentially using ballistic missiles is incorrect as they have fired over 200 at Ukraine so far. It's not a new tactic.

    As for missiles, even Ukraine acknowledge that Russia is still producing scores of each type of missiles each month. So I don't know where you're getting that Russia cannot replace any missile it fires. They can, but if they fire more than they produce, they eat into their stockpile. Hence why the mass attacks are getting further spaced out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,973 ✭✭✭Asdfgh2020



    do you actually think Russia/Putin gives one fcuk about the Geneva convention……😡😡



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,569 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    To be fair......

    A lad running towards you while wa.nking would definitely give you a moments pause.

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭jmreire


    More like the boy who cried wolf at this stage with Vladimir and his Nuclear Weapons...what new threat can he pose? And if he has not learned by now ( or should have) threatening the West has usually had the opposite effect of the one he intends. Putin threatens the west with a new technology super unstoppable weapon, and the west thinks " Hmmnn, maybe its time to call his bluff....and show him what happens if he ever decides to use his new super weapon?" Previously when he was mouthing off about nuclear strikes, not only did Xi Jinping tell him to calm down the nuclear rhetoric, but Biden also warned him in no uncertain terms what would happen if he ever did carry out even a so called nuclear strike, and it would be with conventional weapons, but when it finished, Putin would not have a military worthy of the name.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭pcardin


    I came back from 2 weeks military refresh training as I fall in the military age category and will be enlisted if my country is attakced. And yes, with the weapon in my hands. For sure, I might not last long, but before I die I will try to cut down as many fascist orcs as possible. As for 'my weapon'...perhaps stop watching porn so much. Ah, and of course, lets stick here 'your ma'joke too.



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