Russia - threadbanned users in OP

I hate to break it to you, but here in Ireland we didn't get cheap gas from Russia. It comes from the Corrib field and the UK, which in turn gets it from Norway and their own stock.

Because I know a couple of pro Russian folks I hear this a lot and have done for months. Though the figure varies. That and Germany is crippled, companies are shutting down/leaving Germany in droves and so forth.

And a more recent one is that the US are planning for a war with China in 2024(they're remarkably clued into US military intelligence and precise about this) over Taiwan and are war gaming it and expect to lose at least a couple of carriers. "Experts" from the usual Russian sources tell them this(for the English speakers from what I can gather this would be a bald American chap who speaks in a monotone living in SE Asia and a couple of Greek guys, some US ex general or other and Scott Ritter of course, though he's faded a bit into the background). And talk of "One China" when previously I suspect they would find difficulty in placing even huge China on a map, never mind the minutiae of Chinese geopolitics. That this will soon make the US pivot from Ukraine as it's costing them too much to see them/NATO losing. When I bring up the 50% of land Russia took and then lost, these were "tactical withdrawals" so another flavour of the Kiev "feint". And "just you wait and see".

Others are the EU won't be around in ten years, Poland wants to take half of Ukraine and have planned this for decades(they seem obsessed with this point actually and from the start), so Ukraine will be "Russian" up to the Dnieper, "Polish" for much of the west of the country with only Kiev and a bit around it "Ukrainian". That Russia has only been sending their old out of date military stuff and are holding the really good kit in reserve for when the push comes. Oh and that Russia has air superiority and fly heavy bomber runs daily, but the reason they don't use these to bomb Bakhmut - and this cracks me up - is because they're trying to save the people of Bakhmut hiding in the tunnels/salt mines. They also have hypersonic "bunker busters" but don't use these for the same reasons. That they buy this after the rubble of Mariupol and everything else, the slaughter of not just their enemy, but the tens of thousands of their own people, including the people Russia claims to have started this shítshow to protect, quite simply beggars belief. Though I have noted a difference between Russian speakers and English speakers on this point. The latter choose to ignore it, the former seem to view it moe as a necessary "sacrifice" for the Greater Good(tm) against the Evils of the West(c).

For me anyway, and maybe I'm wired funnily(no maybe about it), but I find it horrifically fascinating how sides and lines are so very easily drawn all over the place. TBH I would prefer if a couple more Russian "voices" were present on this thread, rather than the all too juvenile Orcs stuff as a given. Yes, I do prefer "two sides" even and especially if I vehemently disagree with one on the vast majority of points. I have an allergy to cock sure echo chambers of any stripe. But that's just me. 🤷‍♂️

Our nazis are better than your nazis!!